What Does it Mean to be Truly Good?
Reflections on reading Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory. Does the degree to which our motivations are intrinsic affect the morality of our actions?
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The Impossible Turing Test
Will we ever admit that AI has become smarter than us? Or is it a goal that will always be just out of reach…
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Finding Meaning in the Modern World
What is the meaning of life? Meaning is often discussed in a philosophical context, but in reality meaning is a feeling. Just like any other feeling, we can find reliable…
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The Gift of Language and the Hidden Existential Threat of Artificial Intelligence
Giving AI the ability to read and write is a turning point in the course of its development, going far beyond its ability to see and imagine. Will our life…
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The Pavlovian mind: why and when to tame our bias
Bias: can’t live with it, couldn’t survive without it. Bias is a word that has different connotations depending on who you are. In the common world, when we hear the…
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Authentic Matters
Recently, while perusing LinkedIn, I came across a post by a researcher celebrating their recent achievement. They claimed to have had a number of papers accepted into a conference. They…
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Activation Energy
Sometimes things need to get worse before they get better. Sometimes things need to get messier before they become clear. Sometimes you need an initial push to get the car…
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Why the population is aging
A recent article in the Times [1], shows that many countries are trying to decrease the average age in their country since demographic trends show that the average age is…
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Being Too Quick to Judge: A Necessary Evil?
Relatively recently, I wrote a review on Goodreads of the book \”The Secret Commonwealth\” by Philip Pullman. I initially knocked the book a star. I thought it was a 4-star…
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Learning out of curiosity: Bubbles of ignorance
The only way to learn is to learn out of curiosity, otherwise, there’s no motivation. If you learn due to an external drive, you’re not really learning. If you don’t…
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All the World’s a Stage: Dominic Cummings and the Hypocrisy of Politics
Barnard Castle: A sight for sore eyes? Credit: George Hodan If you’ve been following the UK news recently, you’ll be hard put to have missed the dominating headline: the fall…
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Can Money Buy Happiness?
A Sisyphean perspective sheds light on the age-old question of whether money can buy happiness. Photo by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash During this unusual time, many people, including myself, may…
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Cairo – More than One Wonder
Houses floating on the Nile (Awammas) – Photo courtesy Hanya El-Geresy (Insta @hanyaelgeresy) For all Cairo’s wonders, there are none that exceed the magnificence of the pyramids. Those are truly…
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The Undemocratic Rebellion
\”Mr Stop Brexit\” Steve Bray and a Leave campaigner. Credit: Reuters/Toby Melville. Reading about Brexit recently I encountered one leave supporter describing the current group of remainers and politicians who…
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What is opportunity cost? A matter of life and death.
Opportunity cost is simply the cost of producing a good with reference to what you could have instead produced in the meantime. You can understand it in terms of the…
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Charges of Geresy 