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Mind Enhancement, Sooner than You Think
I just read this amazing article at H+ magazine. It explains that there is a new family of cognition-enhancing drugs (nootropics) with no side-effects. You heard it right: more intelligence, better...
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Eating Is So 20th Century
I’ve found food to be quite a source of controversy. Some people take its entertainment value – its capacity to produce pleasant feelings – extremely seriously, going as far as calling cooking an...
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Do We Really Need to Work?
Unemployment has been on the rise lately, pretty much anywhere. We could attribute this to the economic crisis, but economies (except for some parts of Europe) have been growing. Even those parts of...
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Should We Ban Imports from Countries that Violate Human Rights?
As jobs continue to disappear in the industrialized world, many blame technology. They are partially right. However, there is another culprit: delocalization. Most of our products are now manufactured...
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Using Technology to Modify Desires
I recently ran into this article from Noahpinion, an economics blog with a penchant for science fiction that I highly recommend. He spoke about something he called D-Mod or “desire-modification...
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Mammoths and Chickenosaurus
I just read this very interesting article by Leonard Finkelman in Massimo Pigliucci’s blog “Rationally Speaking.” It is about de-extinction: bringing species back to life. If you’ve followed the...
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Looking for Aliens in the Wrong Place
We’ve been looking for aliens for 40 years now, with no success whatsoever. This could mean there are no aliens; it could also mean aliens are hiding from us because they know we’re dangerous. Or...
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Should You Freeze Yourself?
A number of scholars from Oxford University have recently signed up to be cryogenically frozen after their death, which has sparked some debate on the feasibility and morality of cryonics. As you may...
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A Mathematical Proof that Immortality is Moral
(Disclaimer: this is meant as a joke, not as serious proof.) Premise: 1. There is at least a number N such that living for N years is moral. 2. If living for M years is moral, then so is living for M...
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Is Artificial Intelligence Possible? Well, Yes
The debate on the possibility of artificial intelligence seems to rage on, despite the fact that one side’s position verges on the supernatural. In here I want to try to debunk once and for all the...
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