Humanitarian Communication in a Post-Truth World

NLP in a post-truth world

which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract We live in a post-truth world. It now matters more whether people think something is true than whether something really is true. This is dangerous, and technology is at least partly to blame. So, as technologists, how can we help to fix this? 1 The demise of fa...

The dangers of a post-truth world

Margaret McCartney: Evidence in a post-truth world.

Is the internet making us more stupid? The outcome of the US presidential election will be analysed as a caustic case study long after we’re all dead, but the internet must take at least some of the blame. We’re in a post-fact, post-truth, we’ve-had-enough-of-experts era. I remember realising that knowledge no longer meant a date with Index Medicus (young people: this was a multi-volume, paper—...

Chemical communication in a post-genomic world.

Philosophy and The Human Inheritance in a Post-Western World

The dissolution of the Western-dominated Postwar Order, and the Eurocentric myths that sustain it, presents a unique opportunity to ponder an old question posed by every new generation: How can philosophy, which Islamic and ancient Greek learning traditions have long defined as the pursuit of “wisdom,” resume its millennial civilizing role? This paper looks beyond passing political events to re...