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Stuart Whatley’s Biography

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Stuart Whatley is Senior Editor at Project Syndicate and the co-author of How to Think About Progress: A Skeptic's Guide to Technology (https://link.springer.com/book/9783031689376). He has written for CNN, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Baffler Blog, TruthDig, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The American Prospect, Free Inquiry, The Hedgehog Review, and other outlets.

Stuart Whatley’s Journalist Portfolio

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The West is bored to death

The West is bored to death

Our nihilistic politics are a product of the crushing ennui and spiritual vacancy of modern life.

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Speculative futurism sells us a lie

Speculative futurism sells us a lie

Silicon Valley has everything to gain from a public that is ready to believe anything. But whether a radica…

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The Techno-Realist Manifesto

The Techno-Realist Manifesto

Amid a confounding mix of hype and genuinely valuable innovation, today’s entrepreneurs, scientists, and othe…

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Praying for Rain (SSIR)

Praying for Rain (SSIR)

An excerpt from How to Think About Progress on the perils of technological futurism

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The delusion of having a meaningful job

The delusion of having a meaningful job

Now that we are in another wave of hype about technology and its potential to cause widespread job displaceme…

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Toward a Leisure Ethic

Toward a Leisure Ethic

How people spend their time is a fundamental mark of civilization.

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Opinie | Het Westen verveelt zich dood – en dat is een bedreiging

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By Stuart Whatley Verified
| NRC Handelsblad Verified
Stel dat Schopenhauer gelijk heeft en het leven één voortdurende slingerbeweging is tussen pijn en verveling. De enorme materiële overvloed van de rijke geïndustrialiseerde samenleving heeft weliswaar een pijnstillende werking (er is simpelweg minder fysieke pijn dan vroeger, toen we fluoride, anesthesie noch een zittend leven hadden), maar de oplossing van het ene probleem lijkt het andere alleen maar te verergeren.
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Will Big AI save the world?

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By Stuart Whatley Verified, Nicholas Agar
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aidogeElon MuskFuturismHG WellsSocietyUS “The government knows AGI is coming”, the New York Times’s Ezra Klein tells us, “and we’re not prepared in part because it’s not clear what it would mean to prepare”. We’ve all heard of these prognostications by now. On one end of the spectrum are “Doomers” who warn that “the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die”.
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Manifest tehnorealistov

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By Nicholas Agar, Stuart Whatley Verified
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»Preprečevanje staranja in zdravljenje raka bosta pravzaprav enostavna,« trdi David Sinclair, raziskovalec staranja na Univerzi Harvard. Podobno tudi Elon Musk še naprej zatrjuje, da bo kmalu peljal ljudi na Mars in da bodo robotski taksiji v množični uporabi. Velike korporacije so si zastavile cilje glede ogljične nevtralnosti, ki temeljijo na zelo optimističnih napovedih o tehnoloških možnostih odstranjevanja ogljika.
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#ShitholeShutdown

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Muckrack. I am deeply suspicious of all social networks, at least in their current form.

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Never coax yourself into thinking you know more than you do.