The term “sealioning” refers to a type of online harassment where a person persistently asks for evidence or explanations in a way that appears polite and civil but is actually meant to frustrate, derail, or exhaust the target. The questions…
Here’s how science fiction novels and movies imagined the year 2025. Science fiction vs reality: what actually happened?
Let’s say you’re a highly skilled robot engineer who has just created a robot capable of thinking, feeling emotions, and experiencing pain. However, there’s a small problem: it stubbornly denies that you created it. Would you torture it just for…
The title explains itself… I just typed “Can you draw a picture of Dors Venabili?” Dors Venabili is a character from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. Here’s what it produced (pretty good, I think). What do you think?
In an era long before satellites and advanced technology, an ancient Greek mathematician named Eratosthenes accomplished an extraordinary feat – he calculated the Earth’s circumference with remarkable accuracy, even without leaving Egypt. Armed only with a stick, the angle of…
Are we alone in the Universe? The American cartoonist Matthew Inman published a brilliant comic titled “The Oracle” on his website “The Oatmeal”. Inman’s comic gives the most probable answer (IMHO) to the Fermi Paradox, which can be summarized in…
![By altering the hierarchy of Three Laws of Robotics [Asimov], we venture into uncharted territories of ethical conundrums.](https://ozgurnevres.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Asimov-Three-laws-of-robotics-robot-human-header-768x432.jpg)
In science fiction, few concepts have sparked as much intrigue and debate as Isaac Asimov‘s Three Laws of Robotics. These laws, designed to govern the behavior of artificial intelligence, have stood as a cornerstone in the discussion of robotic ethics.…
Dr. Isaac Asimov was a renowned science fiction author and is also known for his contributions to the field of robotics. In a video that has now become a classic, Dr. Asimov explains the Three Laws of Robotics that he…
In 1964, Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev (April 25, 1932 – August 3, 2019) defined three levels of civilizations, based on the order of magnitude of power available to them (known as the Kardashev scale):
![Galileo Gambit [Galileo Fallacy] explained. A portraiit of Galileo Galilei.](https://ozgurnevres.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Galileo-Galilei-768x432.jpg)
The “Galileo Gambit” (also known as the “Galileo Fallacy”) refers to a rhetorical strategy or logical fallacy where someone claims that if their ideas or theories are ridiculed or rejected by the mainstream, then they must be correct, or at…
Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton, and Blaise Pascal are hanging out one afternoon. Einstein is bored, so he suggests, “Let’s play hide and seek! I’ll be it!”.
Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and Georg Ohm are in a car and they get pulled over. Heisenberg is the driver and the police officer asks him: “Do you know how fast you were going?”