Author: Peter Biles
Can Everything Be Reduced to Data?
“Dataism is at odds with human flourishing. It’s difficult to find a Renaissance moment in this ruinous reductionism.”
Human Exceptionalism — Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Tell a Story
The personal, communicative nature of storytelling rules out AI as a legitimate author. It can’t intend meaning.
Barbie’s Subtle Critique of Transhumanism?
The transhumanists want to escape the body into a dreamlike utopia. It will be fully artificial and completely boring.
Craig, Moreland: Two Philosophers Discuss Aliens and Artificial Intelligence
As an old professor of mine told me in an email recently: “Long live visceral proximity!”
Science for Insight or Science for Power?
What are the core purposes of science and math? Evaluating the idea of “knowledge as power” in the computer age.