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Brilliant post on a crucial topic: ‘Intelligence’ is a root concept, and as such, it informs all other concepts. If we counterfeit or distort it by pretending that machines ‘can be intelligent’ (something that is formally impossible unless we...

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To whom does it occur that stereotypes aren’t merely evidence of some cultural conspiracy, but might, at least in many cases, be ways of expressing something innate in the profound diversity of our humanity and enactments of it? There’s more than 2 sides...

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“Branding” is a term that has the connotation ‘to make a scar in an slave’s or animal’s flesh in order to declare ownership’. We would do well to question it as deeply as @[1051396398:2048:Krista] suggests… with and for each...

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“To give one example: when I first arrived to begin my fieldwork among the Kalahari hunter-gatherers, I expected to find them occasionally hunting giraffe. I had seen the film made in the far western Kalahari by John Marshall, a film called “The...

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‘The Drama Triangle’ is a model of an exceptionally common human tradition where people play the roles of Persecutor, Rescuer and Victim (the most prized role) in transactions that are generally catastrophically malformed. Youtube (and other social media...