Tenth of December is a collection of short stories by American author George Saunders. It contains stories published in various magazines between 1995 and 2012. The book was published on January 8, 2013, by Random House. One of the stories, "Home", was a 2011 Bram Stoker Award finalist. Tenth of December was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. The collection also won The Story Prize (2013) for short-story collections and the inaugural Folio Prize (2014).

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'If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself' John Searle

Sir Roger Vernon Scruton is an English philosopher and writer who specialises in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views. In recent years he taught courses in Buckingham University, Oxford University and University of St. Andrews. In this clip, he talks about intellectuals and the left. Complete videos quoted under creative common: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iawSzFZg-vw -- This channel aims at extracting central points of presentations into short clips. The topics cover the problems of leftist ideology and the consequences for society. If you like the content, subscribe to the channel!

John Gray discusses why he believes liberals are turning their backs on tolerance.

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"Famine, Affluence, and Morality" is an essay written by Peter Singer in 1971 and published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1972. It argues that affluent persons are morally obligated to donate far more resources to humanitarian causes than is considered normal in Western cultures. The essay was inspired by the starvation of Bangladesh Liberation War refugees, and uses their situation as an example, although Singer's argument is general in scope and not limited to the example of Bangladesh. The essay is anthologized widely as an example of Western ethical thinking.[1]

David Chalmers philosophical analysis of the AI singularity

Thirty-eight dishonest tricks of argument (taken from 'Straight and Crooked Thinking' by Robert H. Thouless, Pan Books.

The strange, vast thoughts of Eliezer Yudkowsky

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An example of dangerous AI

I argue that AI alignment should focus on the possibility that we build AGI without learning anything fundamentally new about intelligence.

Free speech is the bedrock on which all our other freedoms rest, yet it is currently in greater peril than at any time since the Second World War. The Free Speech Union is a non-partisan, mass-membership public interest body that stands up for the speech rights of its members.

Much has been said about Fortnite’s revenue, users, business model, origin and availability. But these narratives are overhyped. What matters most is instead how these achievements will enable Epic Games and Fortnite to create something truly revolutionary.