Tag Archives: Nietzsche

How our economy is like an out of control AI

Posted on September 13, 2019 by Warwick Smith

By Warwick Smith | 8 September 2019, 12:30pm First published at Independent Australia Humans, individually, can be incredibly brilliant but collectively we’re often puzzlingly stupid. To take a simple, uncontroversial example, we know that forests are critical for our survival. … Continue reading →

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The perils of the last human: flaws in modern economics

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Warwick Smith

By Warwick Smith, University of Melbourne This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Nietzsche’s much quoted line “God is dead” was not, as it is often presented, a statement of triumphant atheism but was a … Continue reading →

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The perils of the last human – by Warwick Smith in New Philosopher magazine

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Warwick Smith

Issue # 5 of New Philosopher is out today and in it is my piece about what we can learn from Nietzsche about modern political economy and climate change. For those of you who don’t know it, New Philosopher magazine … Continue reading →

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