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Oxford anthropologists identify seven universal rules of morality

In the largest cross-cultural survey ever conducted, a team of anthropologists from the University of Oxford has determined seven moral rules they suggest are universal. Read full Article

Privacy is a commons

“The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society,” quoth Wikipedia, “held in common, not owned privately.” We live in an era of surveillance capitalism in a symbiotic relationship with advertising technology, quoth me. Read full Article

? The privacy commons; mirror world; AI and geopolitical competition; morality, π and conscious fish++ #205

Exponential View Azeem Azhar’s Weekly Wondermissive: Future, Tech & Society This issue has been supported by our partner: Ocean Protocol. Ocean Protocol is launching their network soon! See their exciting Roadmap ahead. You are reading the free version of Exponential View. Read full Article

World After Capital: Getting Over Privacy (Cont’d)

NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s post continues on the idea from last week that privacy is not compatible with technological progress (if you would rather watch a talk, you can find some of the same material in my Blockstack Berlin presentation). Read full Article

Google and Microsoft Warn That AI May Do Dumb Things

Google CEO Sundar Pichai brought good tidings to investors on parent company Alphabet’s earnings call last week. Alphabet reported $39.3 billion in revenue last quarter, up 22 percent from a year earlier. Read full Article