Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Irfan, everything you said about speech in business is true in my experience. That is, concerning large firms. In the small firms, my experience was that you just don’t have, e.g., meetings asking employees to vent their criticisms. I do not have…

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In reply to Roderick T. Long. I agree, obviously. Speaking of unions, so to speak: Below are some of the common employer tactics that often turn overwhelming support for unions at the outset of a campaign into a “no” vote just weeks later. All of these…

In reply to mlyoung57. I think it’s worth considering a radical possibility: the Israeli presence in the West Bank is wholesale aggression in just the way that the Russian presence in Ukraine is wholesale aggression, except that while the Russian…

Amen. I would add that there IS supposed to be a business-world equivalent of FIRE. It’s called a union. LikeLike

What you say about an immediate aim of intimidation strikes me as likely true (I’m thinking list of usual/likely suspects, maybe or maybe not super-accurate in terms of terrorist activity, with some strategic or political need to intimidate or sh…

Many AI experts believe there is a real chance that human-level artificial intelligence will be developed within the next decades, and some believe that it will exist much sooner.