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The future of vice

The long arc of compulsion, moral depravity, and embracing the forbidden

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Deus in Machina

A Q&A with Professor of Digital Religions Beth Singler on AI-Jesus, haram LLMs, and a functional Turing Test for divinity.

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Rails Across Europe

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The Ambiguity of Utopia

Suspended between reality and fiction, the emancipatory and the fatal, two conflicting meanings have clung to the word utopia for centuries.

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The Prediction Problem

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Faith in Progress Has Lost its Footing

The idea of progress as an inevitable historical force was born in the Western world – now it may be drawing its last breath there, too.

Casper Skovgaard Petersen & Suus Hulsen

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Eight Questions for Two Futurists

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August Leo Liljenberg

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