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SEMPER SINCERUS
ngnieva01
Nov 30, 20222 min read
Elon's Concerning Innovation
On November 30, Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk did a showcase on his far more interesting recent endeavor, Neuralink. Lately, he’s been...
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ngnieva01
Nov 17, 20223 min read
Op-Ed: Trump's Candidacy Spells Disaster for Republicans
Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the presidency on Tuesday. Some Republicans have been rejoicing, seemingly convinced that he’ll...
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ngnieva01
Nov 10, 20223 min read
The Abortion Question: How Philosophy can Help
Over the summer, Dobbs v. Jackson overturned Roe v. Wade, which forbade states from illegalizing abortion. Naturally, this put abortion...
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ngnieva01
Nov 5, 20222 min read
Paul Pelosi: Are Republicans to Blame?
On October 28, Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi was assaulted in his home. David DePape, the assaulter, used a hammer in what seems to...
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ngnieva01
Oct 22, 20223 min read
Is the Death Penalty Necessary?
Benjamin Cole, a death row inmate in Oklahoma, received a lethal injection on October 20 for the 2002 murder of his 9-month-old daughter....
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ngnieva01
Oct 15, 20228 min read
The Trolley Problem: Deontology, Consequentialism, and Moral Intuition
Introduction In philosophy, ethics is the study of what one ought or ought not to do. Ethics have been ingrained in our everyday life....
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ngnieva01
Oct 7, 20223 min read
A Bill of Rights for Pets?
In 1791, James Madison wrote the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution. They enumerated specific basic human...
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ngnieva01
Oct 1, 20222 min read
If AI Became Sentient, Would We Be Able to Tell?
A few months ago, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine claimed that Google’s AI chatbox (called LaMDA) had become sentient. For context,...
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ngnieva01
Sep 25, 20222 min read
Public Safety vs. Childhood Well-Being
2020 was a tough year for everyone. Many people lost family and loved ones to the pandemic or suffered from declining mental health. In...
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ngnieva01
Sep 17, 20227 min read
Peter Singer and the Dangers of Utilitarianism
For this post, I wanted to focus on a public intellectual who has greatly influenced the landscape of public opinion. It didn’t take me...
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ngnieva01
Sep 6, 20222 min read
Down syndrome: A Life Worth Living?
With the increased availability of prenatal testing across the United States and Europe, the birthrate of children with Down syndrome has...
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