Stuart Whatley

2 weeks ago | newstatesman.com | Stuart Whatley

Suppose Schopenhauer is right that life boils down to a flight from either boredom or pain. Insofar as the vast material abundance of wealthy, industrialised society has had an analgesic effect (there is simply less physical pain than in the past, before fluoride and anaesthesia and sedentary lives), it would seem to have solved one problem only to amplify the other. In place of pain, we have ennui, the quintessential modern condition.

1 month ago | unherd.com | Stuart Whatley |Nicholas Agar

aidogeElon MuskFuturismHG WellsSocietyUS “The government knows AGI is coming”, the New York Times’s Ezra Klein tells us, “and we’re not prepared in part because it’s not clear what it would mean to prepare”. We’ve all heard of these prognostications by now.

Dec 8, 2024 | delo.si | Nicholas Agar |Stuart Whatley

»Preprečevanje staranja in zdravljenje raka bosta pravzaprav enostavna,« trdi David Sinclair, raziskovalec staranja na Univerzi Harvard. Podobno tudi Elon Musk še naprej zatrjuje, da bo kmalu peljal ljudi na Mars in da bodo robotski taksiji v množični uporabi. Velike korporacije so si zastavile cilje glede ogljične nevtralnosti, ki temeljijo na zelo optimističnih napovedih o tehnoloških možnostih odstranjevanja ogljika.

Dec 6, 2024 | thejakartapost.com | Nicholas Agar |Stuart Whatley

“It’s actually going to be easy to cure aging and cancer,” insists David Sinclair, a researcher on aging at Harvard University. Similarly, Elon Musk continues to claim that he will soon land humans on Mars and deploy robotaxis en masse. Major corporations have set carbon-neutrality targets based on highly optimistic forecasts about the potential of carbon-removal technologies.

Dec 6, 2024 | manilatimes.net | Stuart Whatley |Nicholas Agar

HAMILTON — "It's actually going to be easy to cure aging and cancer," insists David Sinclair, a researcher on aging at Harvard University. Similarly, Elon Musk continues to claim that he will soon land humans on Mars and deploy robotaxis en masse. Major corporations have set carbon-neutrality targets based on highly optimistic forecasts about the potential of carbon-removal technologies.