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- Beware technology that makes us less human https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/ai-dating-algorithms-relationships/678422/ 2 comments
- What makes us humans https://medium.com/illumination/what-makes-us-humans-6762ff29f2f5 23 comments philosophy
- Hatred, Conspiracy Theory, and the Human Brain: Fear and hatred can make us both more credulous and more confident than we should be http://www.rewireme.com/explorations/hatred-conspiracy-theory-and-the-human-brain/ 9 comments science
- Missing DNA helps make us human http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-dna-human.html 4 comments science
- Politics doesn't just connect us to the past and the future – it's what makes us human http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/12/politics-doesnt-just-connect-us-past-and-future-its-what-makes-us-human 12 comments politics
- Automation Makes Us Dumb: "Human intelligence is withering as computers do more, but there's a solution." http://online.wsj.com/articles/automation-makes-us-dumb-1416589342 7 comments technology
- What Makes Us Human? ABC TV (talk) http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2014/06/19/4029072.htm 4 comments philosophy
- An unusually good article: Dads Are Key to Making Us Human http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090619/sc_livescience/dadsarekeytomakingushuman;_ylt=aonxjpxsq0invur.mngdleadw7of 19 comments cogsci
- Trump makes US a hypocrite on human rights https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/14/opinions/trump-record-human-rights-abuse-vinograd/index.html 22 comments politics
- Seriously good article on how technology is making us less human http://www.brandonmuth.com/we/are-not-machines/ 6 comments reddit.com
- US scientists report whale making human voice sounds http://www.france24.com/en/20121022-us-scientists-report-whale-making-human-voice-sounds 7 comments science
- Building the "Everything Machine": Nanotechnology and exponential manufacturing could help us make whatever humanity needs, atom by atom http://www.good.is/post/building-the-everything-machine 4 comments technology
- What Makes us Human? (Introducing the 'Rat People' of Pakistan) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/content/displayprintable.jhtml?xml=/connected/2006/08/01/echuman01.xml&site=17&page=0 21 comments reddit.com
- The fact that the US can do this makes me proud to be human. It also makes me a little jealous of Americans and a little sad that it's being given up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwd31l2ip34 91 comments technology
- So Human, So Chimp; watch online PBS special about what makes us so much the same and so different from other apes. http://video.pbs.org/video/1383599160/ 5 comments cogsci
- What is consciousness? Philosophers like Daniel Dennett and neuroscientists discuss theory of mind and what makes us human http://www.economist.com/node/21664284 393 comments philosophy
- How Awe Makes Us Generous - "A new study finds that feeling small in nature makes us more generous to other humans." http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_awe_makes_us_generous 59 comments science
- "Corporations are deathless and faceless machines and have no soul or human emotions. That we look to them for so much makes us a corporate cult and makes corporations a fetish of our culture. Yet to us, they are like the weather -- just there." http://www.alternet.org/story/135162/bageant:_we've_let_corporations_and_media_rob_our_souls_--_it's_time_to_do_something_meaningful/?page=entire 9 comments politics
- US seeks to allay fears over killer robots - Humans will always make the final decision on whether armed robots can shoot, the US Department of Defense has said. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47524768 7 comments technology
- How Posture Makes Us Human: The philosophy and science of standing up straight. http://nautil.us/issue/60/searches/how-posture-makes-us-human 100 comments philosophy
- "Our ability to think has long been considered central to what makes us human. Now research suggests that our bodies and their relationship with the environment govern even our most abstract thoughts" http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527535.100-mind-over-matter-how-your-body-does-your-thinking.html?full=true 13 comments science
- Why Stories Make Us Feel: Colin Radford’s So-called “Paradox of Fiction” and How Art Prompts Human Emotion http://thegemsbok.com/art-reviews-and-articles/philosophy-articles-friday-phil-colin-radford-paradox-of-fiction/ 44 comments philosophy
- On “The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human” http://ieet.org/index.php/ieet/more/scaruffi20141201 5 comments cogsci
- The US Dept. of Interior: "If hemp had not been outlawed, it could have supplied enough of humanity’s need for paper to make unnecessary the cutting of vast tracts of forest." http://www.nps.gov/applications/parks/gwca/ppdocuments/special%20history%20study.pdf 348 comments politics
- Why the future doesn't need us - Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html 5 comments science
- Don't let the Tiananmen Square victims' sacrifice be forgotten, they stood up for logic and basic human freedom, and had far less hope of making a change than us. https://memo.cash/post/0534a4383a9238a0a6e9e860be64d7c985760be33a73c22038b3c3da19e446eb 23 comments btc
- 1.1 Billion humans lack access to clean water, directly causing 2 million deaths per annum (mostly kids). If 0.000000001g/L trace pharamceuticals in US water make reddit headlines, why not this also? http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v2/n11/full/nnano.2007.350.html 185 comments science
- Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time - Doctors have placed humans in suspended animation for the first time, as part of a trial in the US that aims to make it possible to fix traumatic injuries that would otherwise cause death. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2224004-exclusive-humans-placed-in-suspended-animation-for-the-first-time/ 12 comments worldnews
- Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice. New South Wales professor in US rolled back the key indicators of ageing to make two-year-old mice appear six months old http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/20/anti-ageing-human-trials 19 comments worldnews
- Julian Assange asylum: Ecuador is right to stand up to the US — The United States would paint itself as a promoter of human rights, but any right to make that claim is long gone http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/16/julian-assange-asylum-ecuador 3 comments politics
- Study reveals there is a general mechanism deep in the human brain that alerts us almost instantaneously when we make an error. The neurons involved in this, retain specific details related to the event, making it possible for the brain to access that information, and quickly correct the mistake https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/to-err-is-human 45 comments science
- According to science, what humans need to sustain climate action, including climate action, is a story that makes us feel good. So, what is the better—or cooler—world we’re building? History also tells us that reimagining the future is hard when the past lives all around us. So what do you imagine? https://hothouse.substack.com/p/a-message-from-the-future- 9 comments environment
- A Socrates-like AI can debate humans to help us "formulate and make sense of complex arguments" by providing "knowledge, arguments and counterarguments about a wide range of topics." Project Debator also forces its developers to further clarify theories of language, epistemology, and argumentation. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00539-5 8 comments philosophy
- Steven Pinker: Most of us are very happy with our lives, but the mainstream media’s ‘if it bleeds it leads’ ethos plays up to humanity’s negativity bias by making us miserable on behalf of other people https://iai.tv/video/why-things-get-better?access=all?utmsource=reddit 25 comments philosophy
- AI cannot be listed as inventor, says US patent office in latest guidance | The technology can be used, but humans must make a "significant contribution" to an invention https://www.techspot.com/news/101892-ai-cannot-listed-inventor-us-patent-office-latest.html 50 comments technology
- Belgian Archbishop Leonard : "AIDS is a kind of immanent justice", and makes an analogy to environment : "When we mistreat the environment, it eventually bully us in turn. And when we mistreat human love, maybe he finally revenge" http://www.actup.org/forum/content/aids-belgian-church-creates-controversy-2172/ 13 comments reddit.com
- Israel will do ANYTHING to prevent Iran from getting nuclear technology. So much for the human race. Most of us are going to die because a race of people who make up less than 1/2 of one percent of the entire human race has the US by the balls. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090727/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/ml_israel_us 77 comments reddit.com
- From Lack of Paid Maternity Leave to 'Hell' of Student Debt, North Korea Catalog of US Rights Violations Makes Convincing Case: US "can never camouflage its true identity as the gross violator of human rights," Pyongyang says. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/01/31/lack-paid-maternity-leave-hell-student-debt-north-korea-catalog-us-rights-violations 34 comments worldnews
- World’s Most Pristine Waters Polluted by US Navy Human Waste - American military has poured 100s of tons of sewage into protected coral lagoon on British-owned Diego Garcia. It's 1 of world's most isolated & controversial military installations since Brits removed islanders to make way for US. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/pollution/worlds-most-pristine-waters-are-polluted-by-us-navy-human-waste/articleshow/32068097.cms 308 comments worldnews
- SHIELD Act, introduced in Congress, would amend the Espionage Act of 1917 to make it a crime for any person knowingly and willfully to disseminate, in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the US,"any classified information... concerning the human intelligence activities of the US ..." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-r-stone/wikileaks-and-the-first-a_b_804381.html 30 comments politics