What Are the Romulans Afraid Of? [Picard Spoilers]
One of the interesting new mysteries in Star Trek: Picard is why Romulan culture is hostile to artificial intelligence, so hostile that the secret society within the Tal Shiar, the Zhat Vash, have had a vendetta against artificial life for thousands of years. Why would this be? I’m not sure, but here are four possibilities: […]
Abortion, Fetal Personhood, and Artificial Intelligence
Part of the point of this blog is to make people with different perspectives more comprehensible to one another. That’s hard when it comes to abortion, so I tried to think up a case that would put each side in the other’s shoes. Here goes. Imagine, as many of you believe, that one day we […]