Hacker News
- Are coders worth it? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/james-somers-web-developer-money/ 305 comments
- David Deutsch on Artificial Intelligence http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/david-deutsch-artificial-intelligence/ 2 comments
- I, cockroach. Are insects conscious? Is being researched upon a fulfilling life for a roach? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/nature-and-cosmos/do-cockroaches-have-a-form-of-consciousness/ 35 comments philosophy
- The calibrated cosmos: is our universe fine-tuned for the existence of life – or does it just look that way from where we’re sitting? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/nature-and-cosmos/why-does-the-universe-appear-fine-tuned-for-life/ 56 comments philosophy
- Master of many trades: our age reveres the narrow specialist but humans are natural polymaths, at our best when we turn our minds to many things http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/anyone-can-learn-to-be-a-polymath/ 70 comments philosophy
- Kept women - Mistresses are big business in China, where no official is a real man without his own ernai. What’s in it for the girls? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/why-young-women-in-rural-china-become-the-mistresses-of-wealthy-older-men/ 43 comments worldnews
- The mental block: consciousness is the greatest, most troubling mystery in science and the Hard Problem is here to stay http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/will-we-ever-get-our-heads-round-consciousness/ 334 comments philosophy
- Talk with me: philosophy should be conversation, not dogma – face-to-face talk about our place in the cosmos and how we should live http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/without-conversation-philosophy-is-no-better-than-dogma/ 22 comments philosophy
- How play is integral to creating creative people, how society is depriving children of play. http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/children-today-are-suffering-a-severe-deficit-of-play/ 53 comments science
- I contradict myself -- I am an atheist and committed Quaker. Does it matter what I believe, when I recognise that religion is something I need? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/im-a-quaker-but-i-dont-believe-in-god/ 58 comments philosophy
- How consciousness works -- consciousness is the 'hard problem', the mystery that confounds scientists and philosophers. Has a new theory cracked it? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/how-consciousness-works/ 365 comments philosophy
- The visitor: solitude is enlightening but if it does not lead us back to society, it can become a spiritual dead end http://www.aeonmagazine.com/oceanic-feeling/john-burnside-thoreau-solitude/ 33 comments philosophy
- Lost civilisations under the waves: from Atlantis to Noah’s Ark, we have long been drawn to stories of submerged lands. What lies beneath the flood myths? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/lost-civilisations-under-the-waves-still-fascinate-us/ 13 comments history
- What if clock time no longer tracked the Sun? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/what-if-clock-time-no-longer-tracked-the-sun 94 comments programming
- Magic or medicine? If you were a poor Ugandan mother with a desperately ill baby, would you turn to Western medicine or the village healer? (x-post from AnomaliesUnleashed) http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/african-healers-and-western-medicine/ 5 comments indepthstories
- Animals have thoughts, feelings and personality, so why has science taken so long to catch up with animal consciousness? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/nature-and-cosmos/the-science-of-animal-consciousness/ 16 comments philosophy
- A good social Darwinism - Evolution has transformed all we know about how humans behave, compete and co-operate. When will economics catch up? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/how-evolution-can-reform-economics/ 3 comments philosophy
- Does life have a purpose? Nobody expects atoms and molecules to have purposes, so why do we still think of living things in this way? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/does-life-have-a-purpose/ 313 comments philosophy
- Why wonder is the most human of all emotions http://www.aeonmagazine.com/oceanic-feeling/why-wonder-is-the-most-human-of-all-emotions/ 4 comments philosophy
- It's not just people - over 20 years lab animals with strictly controlled diets have been gaining weight. A look into causes. http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/david-berreby-obesity-era/ 95 comments science
- The obesity era: As the American people got fatter, so did marmosets, vervet monkeys and mice... The previous belief of many lay people and health professionals that obesity is simply the result of a lack of willpower and an inability to discipline eating habits is no longer defensible. http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/david-berreby-obesity-era 46 comments science
- How to hobble religion. "Contrary to popular belief, migration from Muslim countries is one reason why Europe is becoming more secular, not less" http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/ronan-mccrea-secular-europe/ 36 comments europe
- Are coders worth it? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/james-somers-web-developer-money/ 121 comments webdev
- "In this particular gold rush, the shovel is me." http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/james-somers-web-developer-money/ 2 comments rails
- Which decisions should be left to algorithms? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/steven-poole-can-algorithms-ever-take-over-from-humans/ 11 comments technology
- The end of sleep? New technologies are emerging that could radically decrease our need to sleep--if we can bear to use them. http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/jessa-gamble-life-without-sleep/ 12 comments cogsci
- The end of sleep? New technologies are emerging that could radically decrease our need to sleep--if we can bear to use them. http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/jessa-gamble-life-without-sleep/ 3 comments technology
- How could a Russian Jew not hate the Germans? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/polina-aronson-siege-of-leningrad/ 13 comments history
- Humanity in a billion years? In a trillion years? It's never too early to speculate http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/ross-andersen-human-extinction/ 4 comments space
- Not to pile on Nagel's teleology, but... http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/steven-poole-teleology/ 3 comments philosophy
- Are fake ideas and fake emotions elbowing out truth and beauty? Roger Scruton says so. http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/roger-scruton-fake-culture/ 9 comments philosophy
- "The very laws of physics imply that artificial intelligence must be possible. What's holding us up?" An essay by David Deutsch. http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/david-deutsch-artificial-intelligence/ 74 comments philosophy
- What life wants: Dead matter has no goals of its own, yet life is constantly striving. That makes it a deep puzzle for physics. http://www.aeonmagazine.com/nature-and-cosmos/vlatko-vedral-evolution-quantum-physics/ 17 comments science
- Brian Thomas, fast asleep, strangled his wife. He awoke and remembered nothing. Are murderers responsible if they’re unconscious? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/steve-fleming-neuroscience-crime/ 8 comments worldnews
- The kindness of beasts: dogs rescue their friends and elephants care for injured kin – humans have no monopoly on moral behaviour http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/mark-rowlands-animal-morality/ 237 comments philosophy
- David Deutsh: The defining characteristic of an AGI is the ability to understand WTF is going on OR to do science http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/david-deutsch-artificial-intelligence/ 3 comments artificial
- Deutsch: The laws of physics imply that artificial intelligence must be possible. What's holding us up? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/david-deutsch-artificial-intelligence/ 49 comments compsci
- Creative blocks - the very laws of physics imply that artificial intelligence must be possible. What's holding us up? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/david-deutsch-artificial-intelligence/ 11 comments technology
- Neuroscience challenges criminal law http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/steve-fleming-neuroscience-crime/ 8 comments cogsci
- The golden age - The 15-hour working week predicted by Keynes may soon be within our grasp – but are we ready for freedom from toil? | John Quiggin (xpost from r/SocialDemocracy) http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/john-quiggin-keynesian-utopiav1/ 4 comments politics