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The Philadelphia Experiment: Could a Warship Really Disappear?

In late October 1943, something extraordinary was said to have happened at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. According to one of the most enduring military legends of the twentieth century, a U.S. Navy destroyer escort simply… disappeared. Not beneath the waves. Not behind a curtain of fog. Not under the cover of darkness. It vanished. Witnesses […]

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The New Techno-Eschatology: AGI and Secular Religion

Some techies today fear hell—not from a god, but from a computer.  Human beings have a habit of wrapping up big unknowns in familiar stories. Even in our high-tech, secular age, the quest to create Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) often comes with a kind of religious or end-of-the-world fervor. Some communities of self-described rationalists speak […]

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