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Reads tagged with “Samuel Butler”

A Victorian Visionary’s Prescient Case for Animal Rights and Vegetarianism
A Victorian Visionary’s Prescient Case for Animal Rights and Vegetarianism

“Once upon a time your fore-fathers made no scruple about not only killing, but also eating their relations.”

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Darwin Among the Machines: A Victorian Visionary’s Prophetic Admonition for Saving Ourselves from Enslavement by Artificial Intelligence
Darwin Among the Machines: A Victorian Visionary’s Prophetic Admonition for Saving Ourselves from Enslavement by Artificial Intelligence

“We are ourselves creating our own successors… We are daily giving them… that self-regulating, self-acting power which will be to them what intellect has been to the human race. In the course of ages we shall find ourselves the inferior race.”

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How to Make the Best of Life: A Visionary Victorian Recipe for Lasting Self-Actualization
How to Make the Best of Life: A Visionary Victorian Recipe for Lasting Self-Actualization

“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”

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