Tag: Thomas Jefferson
We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident
On Independence Day, it’s appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens.
Don’t Fear the Robots; Fear the Robot Philosophers
Believe it or not, many officially smart people think that (1) we are just computers made of meat, (2) computers will soon become conscious, or (3) both.
University of Virginia Pushes Back Against Free Speech Abridgment
UVA, as one of America’s top public universities, can help set the trend for free speech.
Rights Are Not about “Feelings”
Thomas Hills argues that we will accord human-style rights to robots because we will come to empathize with them.
At the Foundations of Science: Respect and Seeking to Understand
I’ve been reading the correspondence of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams — with its interesting argument by Jefferson for design in nature as a scientific inference.