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| The Ethics and Politics of Super-Intelligent Machines However, whereas we must accept the competitive motives that humans evolved with, we can design the motives of intelligent machines 47.33 Kb. 1 | read |
 | Post-singularity and primitive intelligence The argument of post-singularity states that evolution can be hastened to advance towards a more desirable direction once it is released from its biological inhibitors. To hasten this process intelligence must be maximally pushed to its 48.81 Kb. 1 | read |
| Chapter 1 Political Thinking and Political Culture: Becoming a Responsible Citizen Chapter Outline Chapter 1: Political Thinking and Political Culture: Becoming a Responsible Citizen 65.98 Kb. 1 | read |
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| Essay 3 Civil Disobedience Literary Analysis/Research Essay English 102—150 Points After reading Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” perspectives, research and read one of the readings below to compare/contrast with Thoreau and King’s essays 15.85 Kb. 1 | read |
| Civil Disobedience Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) essay published in 1847 28.24 Kb. 1 | read |
| Anne Hutchinson English minister, well versed in the Bible and devoted to the teaching of the popular preacher John Cotton. In 1634, Anne and her family arrived in Boston 6.3 Kb. 1 | read |
| The dissenters william Bradford In 1609 he immigrated with the congregation, led by John Robinson, to the Netherlands. For the next eleven years he and his fellow religious dissenters lived in Leyden until their fear of assimilation into Dutch culture prompted them to embark on the Mayflower for 64.28 Kb. 1 | read |
 | Spring 1966 studies the significance of 1916 Ireland of today – and, if so, what is its relevance? It is right that we should ask these questions and not be content simply to be swept along on the tide of sentiment and patriotic piety -–or to react cynically against this tide 35.94 Kb. 1 | read |
| Bethany Stevens ph13100 Although the three differ quite a bit, they all expounded upon what would be necessary to achieve the telos of life. Despite the striking difference in their philosophies, they are all linked with the notion of exercising rational (logos) 9.95 Kb. 1 | read |
| The transatlantic slave trade and the liberian civil war Two Hundred Years after the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Issues and Perspectives 41.65 Kb. 1 | read |
| This research paper has been commissioned by the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, but reflects the views of the author and should not be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Commission T groups seem to have exhibited only limited desire and even less progress in going atomic. This may be because, after brief exploration of the possible routes, they, unlike generations of alarmists on the issue 141.01 Kb. 3 | read |
| This research paper has been commissioned by the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, but reflects the views of the author and should not be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Commission T groups seem to have exhibited only limited desire and even less progress in going atomic. This may be because, after brief exploration of the possible routes, they, unlike generations of alarmists on the issue 163.5 Kb. 3 | read |
| Ap european History Chapter 24: The Birth of Modern European Thought The faith in science that dominated thought in the second half of the nineteenth century 50.8 Kb. 1 | read |