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- Humanity is a new-ish term and concept. We are just getting our feet under us as humanity, thinking of ourselves as humanity, speaking and acting as humanity, at the level of humanity.
from Humanity, the Ecosystem by Medium
Keely Adler added
- A humanism that responds to the collapse of Big Authenticity will be sexier . As Magdalene Taylor recently wrote, “Real things and actual human experiences are hot, even in the written form. They have a libidinal energy that’s been drained from us in the current technological era. And we’re going to want to get that energy back.”
from Yearn in Review by Daisy Alioto
Alex Dobrenko and added
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- Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:
- We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.
- We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed flavor-of
from The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College by Ted Gioia
Max Beauroyre and added
The Enlightenment principle that we can apply reason and sympathy to enhance human flourishing may seem obvious, trite, old-fashioned. I wrote this book because I have come to realize that it is not. More than ever, the ideals of reason, science, humanism, and progress need a wholehearted defense.
from Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
Debbie Foster added
- What we all unequivocally value, readers and writers, all of us as enjoyers of creativity, is the mind-expanding energy that’s only found in art, in any of its forms, as a means to share the things that make our minds alike and the things that make them different. AI systems can do many things but they can’t — and never will be able to — expand our... See more
from How to Survive as a Human Creator in the AI Era
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- If humanity is not about maximizing its potential as an exceptional species, the rightful and divinely appointed ruler of Earth — then what is humanity about?
from Humanity, the Ecosystem by Medium
Keely Adler added
