scientists at the frontier of artificial intelligence are pretty optimistic that it is not long till the day where we‚ humans‚ will be able to build human-level intelligence machines and even super-intelligence machines. In the book Superintelligence: Paths‚ Dangers and Strategies‚ Nick Bostrom aims to help mankind avoid existential catastrophe by exploring solutions to the challenges that we may face the day we successfully build superintelligence. Even before that happens‚ he forces us to deliberate on
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Rollo May‚ in his essay "Powerlessness Corrupts"‚ makes the assertion that a prolonged period of powerlessness corrupts kind‚ innocent people. He makes this connection based on his profound knowledge of psychology. He states that individuals need a sense of belonging to the human race. People that do not develop this belonging‚ this human attribute of society‚ tend to develop a timid personality that renders them powerlessness to face the challenges each new day brings forth. Unfortunately
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A SHADY PLOT Question 5-(a): What genre of stories does Jenkins want the narrator to write? Why? Answer 5-(a): Jenkins had always called upon Hallock whenever he wanted a ghost story to be published in his magazine. John’s ghosts were live propositions as Jenkins called them. This time again Jenkins wanted Hallock to come up with another supernatural thriller‚ which would give the readers horrors and that is what the public wanted too. Question 5-(b): Does the narrator like writing ghost stories
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A Property of the Clan " unravels the death of a teenage girl at an underage drinking party and explores how the youths handle the situation. "A Property of the Clan" is not light entertainment‚ or an easy play to read. It deals with an ugly and disturbing subject‚ but does so in a thoughtful and sensitive way‚ acknowledging the brutal reality of violence against women as an unfortunate experience in life. The plot of A Property of the Clan " is about teenage violence that existed within Australia
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WINTERBOURNE Panorama Report May 2011 Winterbourne View is a private hospital in Bristol that caters for people with learning difficulties and autism. Winterbourne View is owned by a company called Castlebeck who describe themselves on their website as being specialist providers of health care and support for people with learning difficulties‚ complex needs and challenging behaviour. The BBC sent an undercover reporter into the hospital after being approached by a former senior nurse – Terry
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To what extent do you sympathise with Marcus and the choices he has to make in About a Boy? Discuss the techniques the author has used and use examples from the text to support your answer. In the novel “About a Boy” by Nick Hornby‚ the character of Marcus has to make numerous choices which affect his life in a variety of different ways. Marcus is 12 years old and because of this‚ he is often naïve and hasty is his decisions but he makes them in order to protect himself. These choices that he makes
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The Long Day By Dorothy Richardson After reading‚ “The Long Day” the manner of which people lived and survived during the depression has astounded me. Where she first boarded with Miss Jameson she didn’t have any sense of home and bliss. She had shared with her friend Miss Plympton and described her sense of home and bliss as living in country side. And when she later boarded with Miss Pringle she had felt a sense of home when she saw her stove little Lottie. After receiving kind words from Miss
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One day‚ the story says‚ America’s great essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson saw a farmer trying to pull a reluctant calf into a barn. The farmer had a rope halter on the calf and was pulling with all his strength‚ but the calf had all four hooves dug into the barnyard mud and wouldn’t budge. To be helpful‚ Emerson got behind the calf‚ put his shoulder to its rump‚ and began pushing with all his might while the farmer continued to pull at the other end. The calf only planted itself more firmly. As these
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by Nick Carraway‚ a modest middle class man living amongst some of the richest people in the country‚ including his neighbor J. Gatsby. Nick became intertwined with Gatsby’s extravagant life and love affairs. It presented him with many interesting situations that built his character and brought him closer to Gatsby‚ and in the end Nick realized that he had become one of Gatsby’s only true friends. Nick learned many lessons from observing Gatsby and his companions. At the end of the novel Nick reflects
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O ’Neill 1 Warren O ’Neill Professor Scheckner CRWT 102-02 8 February 2013 Fighting Oppression in Immokalee‚ Florida: Days of Revolt Days of Destruction Days of Revolt was written by two war veterans‚ Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco. In this book‚ they basically describe and make readers feel like they are actually touring the most impoverished‚ physically and socially devastated areas in the United States. They offer very detailed and disturbing descriptions of life on the Pine Ridge Reservation
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