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If one wishes to argue that men and women do not fit neatly into boxes—and therefore should not be limited by the traits, abilities, and roles traditionally assigned to their sex—one can use science to show that they do not and liberalism to argue that they should not, and reason will employ the former in the service of the latter. An understanding
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Who Gets to Live Forever? A Conversation about Biotechno-solutionism with Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Indeed, I will argue that liberty in the broad sense requires judges and officials, when applying legal principles, to assert norms of reasonableness. Otherwise, self-interested people will use law to claim almost anything.
Philip K. Howard • Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society
“profiling on higher past, present or future offending may be entirely counterproductive with regard to the central aim of law enforcement
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
Il apparaît nécessaire de revoir les fondements de la réglementation concernant ces substances. Plutôt que de rechercher une valeur seuil, comme cela est prévu dans le cadre de l’ancien paradigme selon lequel « c’est la dose qui fait le poison », il est préférable, dans le cadre du nouveau paradigme des perturbateurs endocriniens, de limiter au max
... See moreSerge Volkoff • Les risques du travail (French Edition)
Comment lire et stimuler le cerveau devient accessible à tous… pour le meilleur et pour le pire
Most of the potential benefits that brain implants could provide in healthy subjects could be obtained at far less risk, expense, and inconvenience by using our regular motor and sensory organs to interact with computers located outside of our bodies. We do not need to plug a fiber optic cable into our brains in order to access the internet. Not on
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