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AI and the Future of Work
AI is changing the landscape of work, not necessarily by taking your jobs but by presenting an opportunity for a work utopia.

Anastasia Siapka
Jun 7, 20246 min read
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Artificial Intelligence: Choose Your Own Adventure
LLMs are not collaborators but more like role-playing tools to help you choose your own adventure.

Graeme Forbes
Feb 19, 20244 min read
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Why AI Transparency Is Important
AI transparency is essential for maintaining our human sense of trust. But the current state of AI is more about distrust.

Nicholas Barrow
Feb 6, 20245 min read
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AI Explainability: A Primer
Does generative AI genuinely foster understanding for human users? You might be surprised at what lurks underneath its responses to humans.

Anastasia Siapka
Jan 11, 20245 min read
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Protestant Work Ethic: Hustle Cult or Heavenly Calling?
Why a New Reformation Is Needed in Our Approach to Work "Work hard, and you shall be rewarded." Would you be surprised to know that this...
Todd Mei
Jan 4, 20248 min read
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Is Technological Incapacitation Making You Less Human?
Technology can slowly erode our basic human capabilities. Technological incapacitation is real but can be easily diagnosed and remedied.
Todd Mei
Sep 8, 202310 min read
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Getting Over Impostor Syndrome
Most people suffer from some form of impostor syndrome. It's not easy to overcome, but philosophy can help with self-belief and practice.
Todd Mei
May 7, 20237 min read
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Best Practice: What Can Philosophy Teach Us?
What is the purpose of best practices? It's often effectiveness about achieving specific ends. But is this really best for us?
Todd Mei
Apr 27, 20238 min read
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Can Money Fail?
A version of this blog was originally posted on Quora, March 5, 2022. With economic systems, there are at least two kinds of failure....
Todd Mei
Apr 1, 20225 min read
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The Myth about Marx
You don't have to like communism or Marxism to learn something valuable from Marx. Here it is . . .
Todd Mei
Mar 9, 20227 min read
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The Myth of Self-Sufficiency
The political notion of self-sufficiency that often informs aggressive claims to individual rights is more problematic than at first glance.
Todd Mei
Sep 13, 20218 min read
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Liberate Our Liberties!!! (Confusing Rights with the State of Nature)
Have you ever thought that understanding the idea of liberty involves understanding our relation to justice, peace, and the general welfare?

David Utsler
Aug 9, 20217 min read
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Do We Have It Wrong about Rights?
What if we got it wrong about rights? What if rights are not about individuals alone and instead require taking into account others?
Todd Mei
Aug 2, 20218 min read
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The Coded Life: The New “No Exit”
The "coded life" is one dominated and determined by internet coding and SEO. How? Should we be worried?
Todd Mei
May 11, 20217 min read
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The Aftermath of Slavery: Which Justice?
Don't confuse the issue of slavery in US history with reparation. Justice is multi-dimensional and can be achieved in different ways.
Todd Mei
Mar 6, 20214 min read
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Would Kant Have Worn a Face Mask?
Kant's moral philosophy can be employed to show why we should wear face masks and why the arguments about individual freedom are confused.
Todd Mei
Mar 3, 20214 min read
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Contradictions of the Pandemic
The pandemic has brought out several contradicting thoughts about what is essential and important.
Todd Mei
Jan 14, 20216 min read
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What’s So Good about Socialism?
Where socialism will differ from other political views is that public goods are best maintained and operated by public ownership.
Todd Mei
Nov 9, 20205 min read
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Do Americans Have a Word for “Socialism”?
Socialism has a long history and has taken many forms. It's easy to confuse what its current form is really about.
Todd Mei
Nov 5, 20205 min read
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Can You Be the Change? Love It or Lockdown Again
How can wearing a mask be a normal habit as opposed to an awkward imposition?
Todd Mei
Jul 17, 20204 min read
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