Category: Culture
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Thinking West: Oregon Founded as Racist Utopia (Gizmodo)
Gizmodo recently featured an interesting article concerning Oregon’s racist past. According to Matt Novak (and historical fact), Oregon was founded as a whites only, racist utopia. Check out the excerpt below: When Oregon was granted statehood in 1859, it was the only state in the Union admitted with a constitution that forbade black people from…
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When Superintelligent AI Arrives, Will Religions Try to Convert It? (Gizmodo)
Zoltan Istvan (Gizmodo) examines how the world’s religions might handle the creation of superintelligent artificial intelligences. It appears that, much like American corporations in a recent Supreme Court case, superintelligent AIs may find God, too, with a little help, of course…. Like it or not, we are nearing the age of humans creating autonomous, self-aware…
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Thinking West: Robo Novels
Technology and science now act as the modern world’s newest frontier. It is a frontier full of excitement, questions, and its share of dangers. The questions brought forth from this nebulous frontier could shape our world and how technological and scientific progress become part and parcel of our daily lives. As we approach the singularity…
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15 Words you never knew came from literature (Infographic)
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Influence and Homage: When Walt Whitman Met Oscar Wilde
It’s hard to imagine a meeting between two celebrities like Whitman and Wilde. However, history is full of surprises. During his stay in America, the youthful Wilde met with the aging poet Whitman. This meeting between Whitman and Wilde made a lasting impression on Wilde and how he handled his celebrity status. David M. Friedman’s…
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What are we now? Modernist? Postmodernist? How about metamodernist?
The Metamodernist Manifesto by Luke Turner 1. We recognise oscillation to be the natural order of the world. 2. We must liberate ourselves from the inertia resulting from a century of modernist ideological naivety and the cynical insincerity of its antonymous bastard child. 3. Movement shall henceforth be enabled by way of an oscillation between…
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