AMA: Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute
Also: Against Altruism
AMA: Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute
By Allison Duettmann
Allison Duettman, president and CEO of Foresight Institute and coauthor of 'Gaming the Future: Technologies for Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation' with Christine Peterson and Mark S. Millar, will be joining us for an AMA on Monday, March 20. Be sure to get your questions in, and upvote others you would like to see answered.
Against Altruism
By Arjun Khemani
Arjun deliberates on the the inherent uncertainty of predicting the future, and the difficulties this poses to altruism aimed in some part on improving the wellbeing of future generations, whose goals and preferences we cannot know. An ethic of present day progress may be critical to bridge this uncertainty.
Technological Determinism and Identity
by avaa411
avaa probes the question of whether society and its cultural characteristics are deterministically downstream of technology. While this claim has existed since the Industrial Revolution, one observes an increasing role for technology in shaping subjective experiences at the social level.
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