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Idle Reading List

Rafa Montoro

Some of the most interesting reads from across the web.

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📜 Introducing plan A

Why care about this weird sci-fi story?

For the past year or two, I’ve kind of been in despair. If AI 2027 is right, then we could get an uncontrolled intelligence explosion sometime in the late 2020s or early 2030s. Over the course...

11 days ago

📜 The rival theologies of AI

This personalist view illuminates several otherwise puzzling passages, wherein Leo XIV states that artificial intelligences do not “have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, [or] grasp the ultimate meaning of situati...

14 days ago

📜 What is it like to be a bat?

Conscious experience is a widespread phenomenon. It occurs at many levels of animal life, though we cannot be sure of its presence in the simpler organisms, and it is very difficult to say in general what provides evidence of it. (Some ex...

25 days ago

📜 The glory of low expectations

Low expectations, born of a low starting point, is most of the trick to happiness. The trouble is that, if I am right, almost nothing can be done. Britain cannot choose to have a Franco in its recent past to make it grateful for a well-me...

a month ago

📜 Mitochondria are alive

The precise definition of “life” has been debated since the inception of biology as a scientific field. Even today, researchers offer overlapping, but distinct, criteria. Molecular biologists tend to focus on characteristics like metaboli...

a month ago

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