by Peter Harrison | Apr 21, 2019 | News
Today the people of Sri Lanka experienced terror on attacks on Christian churches leaving more than one hundred innocent people dead and hundreds more injured. Our hearts go out to the victims and their families. As with the Christchurch shootings last month there are...
by Peter Harrison | Mar 24, 2019 | Blog, Journal
Nick Bostrom described a thought experiment in 2003 about a paperclip maximiser, an artificially general intelligent system whose utility function is to maximise paper clip production. The paperclip maximiser would lack the social values of humans, and so would...
by Peter Harrison | Mar 15, 2019 | Journal, News
New Zealand is a country built on principles of an open and free society, where people are free to believe and worship as they please. The New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists stand fast to this principle as it is the cornerstone of an enlightened...
by Peter Harrison | Jan 13, 2019 | Blog, Journal, News
In November Mike Hosking published his opinion of electric cars titled ‘Environmentalists have no grasp on reality’, concluding that “no matter how hard the media, the spin doctors, and the environmentalists tell us that EVs are here and the future,...
by Peter Harrison | Dec 29, 2018 | Journal, News
Is Christianity really a religion of peace, love and tolerance? Or does its doctrine poison it with intolerance and hared? I listened to a old Catholic Priest lecture the Commissioners on how terrible it is that the youth are leaving the church. Not even his own...
