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Use values contribute in a direct fashion to good flourishing life. Profit introduces a foreign factor. For one, it entails unequal exchanges so it cannot be consonant with the overall flourishing of the whole community.
A San Francisco nonprofit’s rise illustrates the unaccountable growth of homeless services.
Consumer demand by America’s most affluent citizens is driving consumer spending, and consumer spending, in turn, is the main force keeping inflation so high.
Open statement says some technologies pose “existential threats” to humanity.
Rather than minimizing the power of the police state, the Trump administration appears to be doubling down on its commitment to police state tactics of fear, intimidation and brutality.
The Stargate Project is a clear sign of AI’s deepening influence on the modern zeitgeist. No longer is AI merely the subject of theoretical speculation, its technologies are now shaping the world in which we live.