Link blog: philosophy, eliezer-yudkowsky, evolution, security

Simulating Religion: A Christian takes stock of Silicon Valley’s rationalist community by Alexi Sargeant

A Christian takes stock of Silicon Valley’s rationalist community
(tags: lesswrong rationalism eliezer-yudkowsky Christianity philosophy transhumanism)

How evolutionary biology makes everyone an existentialist | Aeon Essays

“Each variant of human desire is ‘natural’, not in the sense of being required, but only of being made possible by nature. And it is in what nature makes possible, not in what it necessitates, that we should look for the answer to the question about what we should be or do.”
(tags: philosophy ethics existentialism evolution biology)

Notes from the Intelpocalypse [LWN.net]

A good, reasonably technical, summary of the Spectre and Meltdown attacks.
(tags: cpu hardware spectre meltdown security intel)

---

Originally posted at Name and Nature. You can comment there. There are currently comments.