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Inheritance Gambit

Is This The End Of Humanity As We Know It?

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The Value of Life

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One of the biggest changes to general human thought is the measure of the worth of a human life. In a world where people are more literally irreplaceable commodities than in times past, the loss of even a single life is keenly felt. There are still several billion humans running around, of course, ...more

One of the biggest changes to general human thought is the measure of the worth of a human life. In a world where people are more literally irreplaceable commodities than in times past, the loss of even a single life is keenly felt. There are still several billion humans running around, of course, it’s not […]

Facing the End

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Overall, people haven’t done so well coping with the prospect of extinction. In many places in the world, the strain of it caused a complete breakdown of social order, an infectious nihilism that made people impossible to govern or control. Large swaths of Africa, South America and Central Asia are ...more

Overall, people haven’t done so well coping with the prospect of extinction. In many places in the world, the strain of it caused a complete breakdown of social order, an infectious nihilism that made people impossible to govern or control. Large swaths of Africa, South America and Central Asia are completely lawless, or governed only […]

The Bright Dystopian Future

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In many ways this is the future mankind always wanted. Advances in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics have taken the drudge work and menial labor out of life. Jobs from taxi drivers to janitors to ‘burger flippers’ in café’s, secretaries and garbage collectors are performed by ...more

In many ways this is the future mankind always wanted. Advances in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics have taken the drudge work and menial labor out of life. Jobs from taxi drivers to janitors to ‘burger flippers’ in café’s, secretaries and garbage collectors are performed by automatons and virtual assistants from one of several popular […]

The Slow Moving Apocalypse

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Humanity is probably on its way out, but it’s not in a terrible hurry about it. This isn’t the kind of apocalypse that is over quickly. No fire has rained from the skies to bring about the end of civilization, no massive tide of death has swept the world. This is death by the smallest of degrees. ...more

Humanity is probably on its way out, but it’s not in a terrible hurry about it. This isn’t the kind of apocalypse that is over quickly. No fire has rained from the skies to bring about the end of civilization, no massive tide of death has swept the world. This is death by the smallest […]