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Mark O&x27Connell

Mark O&x27Connell

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A tech entrepreneur chases immortality: Bryan Johnson is 46. Soon, he plans to turn 18

If I had to choose a favourite tech guy, it would probably be Bryan Johnson. Johnson was, until fairly recently, best known as a venture capitalist...

04.05.2024 10

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Would even paradise itself be worth the suffering of a single tortured child?

There is a question in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov that has haunted me ever since I first read it in my 20s. The question is put by Ivan...

27.04.2024 50

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I bought into the idea that wellness guru Andrew Huberman could fix my life. Then I read about him

Early last year, I had a conversation with a friend about a spell of intractable insomnia I was going through at the time – a condition that has...

20.04.2024 10

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‘The machine does it coldly’: Artificial Intelligence can already kill people

Among the technological faithful of Silicon Valley, there is an ongoing debate about the risks inherent in the development of artificial intelligence....

13.04.2024 20

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