but we arewilling to pay that price of not having successful pro- .secutions here.

Entrapment is one such restriction, the exclu-sionary rule being another, Miranda 18 being another,and also cases being dismissed under the right to aspeedy trial, strict double jeopardy, and confrontationrights.

A book entry, which summarizes my thoughts on a book I’ve recently finished reading (see #917 in the image below).

And each Christmas he sets aside two weeks to meticulously index that year’s diary – proudly claiming he can find anything within three minutes.

Have you ever had a meaningful conversation with Siri or Alexa or Cortana? Of course not.

rtificial intelligence is already everywhere

The past made us who we are today, and the future will make us into something new. And, if Bostrom is right, it’ll make us happier.

“Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program… I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from.”

“I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, and I want goodness. I want sin.”

“It generally becomes easier to be generous if you’re doing well and you have a big windfall, [because] when there isn’t enough for everybody, it’s just a question of who is going to starve, and then everything becomes much tougher,” Bostrom told Big Think.

erif concluded that scarcity was one of the main drivers of all human conflict. War, violence, invasion, and theft were all born of wanting a limited resource. The history of all humanity seems to support the hypothesis: We fight over water, cattle, arable land, ore deposits, oil, precious stones, and so on.

Teaching the Science of Learning

Today, we explore whether memory still has a practical place in the world of big data and computing. As a science writer, Lynne has written 18 books including The Memory Code. Her research showed that without writing, people used the most extraordinary suite of memory techniques to memorise massive amounts of practical information. This explains the purpose of monuments like Stonehenge, the Nazca Lines and the statues of Easter Island. Her next book, Unlocking The Memory Code explains the most effective memory methods from around the world and throughout time. Lynne shows how these can be invaluable in modern world.

The 20th-century German sociologist Niklas Luhmann managed to publish 70 books.

we too often forget that we’re actually swimming in water.

You cannot think without writing; at least not in a sophisticated, connectable way.