Hugh Hefner, Making Sense of His Life
Hugh Hefner died a year ago on September 27, 2017. For several years now, I imagined I would comment on Hefner’s life once he died. But then my Dad died that October of 2017, and it didn’t seem fitting to…
Bill Dembski
Freedom, Technology, Education
Bill Dembski
Freedom, Technology, Education
Only the educated are free — Epictetus
Light of the World Bible Memory Course
Back in the early 1980s, an organization called Light of the World Ministries put out a Bible memory course: Light of the World Scripture Memory Course. The basic course consisted of five cassettes with 100 Bible verses. The advanced course…
The Sidelining of Nike
Nike’s decision to enlist Colin Kaepernick as a spokesperson and then ascribe to him the words “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.” has elicited a large reaction, to which I’ll contribute here. Speaking for myself, I find…
Virtual Railroads and West Virginia Back Roads: AI’s Temptation to Theft Over Honest Toil
AI (artificial intelligence) poses a challenge to human work, threatening to usurp many human jobs in coming years. But a related question that’s too often ignored and needs to be addressed is whether this challenge will come from AI in…
Passing of My Mother
My Mom, Ursula Dembski, passed away around 11:30am on Sunday, July 15, 2018 at Comfort House, the hospice home in Pella, Iowa. She was 86. My Dad, William J. Dembski, preceded her in death by nine months (for my remembrance…
Launch of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence
The Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence was launched in Seattle the evening of July 11, 2018. The launch was streamed live, and here is the YouTube record of it: The new center has two websites: Center for…
Artificial Intelligence’s Homunculus Problem: Why AI Is Unlikely Ever to Match Human Intelligence
The other day, almost simultaneously, two colleagues emailed me with the same request, though worded differently — namely, to ask for a good argument to show that AI is no match, and indeed can be no match (however far it…
The Future of Meaningful Work
Here’s a reprint of an article I published at TheBestSchools.org in April 2017 on the challenge of artificial intelligence to meaningful human work: —————- In the last days of the Obama administration, on December 20, 2016, the White House published…
Granville Sewell’s Christianity for Doubters Available Online
My friend Granville Sewell published Christianity for Doubters in 2016. It remains available with Amazon here. Granville’s publisher, Wipf and Stock, is now permitting him to make the book available online for download on his website: www.math.utep.edu
Google’s Antitrust Future
Mark Steyn’s April 4, 2018 piece on the YouTube gunwoman Nasim Aghdam included two wonderful passages about the Internet as Google and its YouTube subsidiary are remaking it. Commenting on YouTube itself, Steyn writes: YouTube is a racket: industrial copyright…