To the skeptics and the willingly blind, Recently, a friend and I was talking about politics and current events and this phrase was uttered: “I think people are exaggerating. Well, it’s not like the world […]
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An Outlet for Inquisitive Minds
Philosophy Essay: Against Representation
Throughout much of our study and development of human cognition and its replication in the various forms of artificial intelligence, there has been an underlying assumption from which we have based our work…
“A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” -James Madison
[Repost] How to Test Your Emotional Maturity
When the world hurts us, we mustn’t first think of how to hurt it back.
"They were careless people[...]- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness [...], and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
- Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
