“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest — forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
The assisted dying bill would be strengthened by plans for cases to be signed off by experts rather than a judge, the MP behind the law change has said.…...
The proposed law for
The nation state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased…...
“This is what militaries do during coups: you capture the major targets, with government buildings high on the list, and you take over communications and other systems.”
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, historian on fascism and authoritarian leaders
“If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world. At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you’d have an immortal dictator from which we can never escape.”
Elon Musk (2018)
Benefit cheats could…...
“Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.”
Justice Neil Gorsuch
“This is what militaries do during coups: you capture the major targets, with government buildings high on the list, and you take over communications and other systems.”
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, historian on fascism and authoritarian leaders
The nation state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased…...
“If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world. At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you’d have an immortal dictator from which we can never escape.”
Elon Musk (2018)
“Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.”
Justice Neil Gorsuch
“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest — forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
The assisted dying bill would be strengthened by plans for cases to be signed off by experts rather than a judge, the MP behind the law change has said.…...
The proposed law for
