The Phantasmagorical Think Tank

You can sit there and let five innocent people die, or you can actively cause the death of one innocent person. What do you do?

Additional Resources

The Guardian on the Trolley Problem: https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2016/dec/12/the-trolley-problem-would-you-kill-one-person-to-save-many-others

Philippa Foot: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philippa-foot/

Consequentialism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/#ClaUti

Deontology: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/

Human cause more self-driving accidents than humans (proportionately): https://fortune.com/2018/08/29/self-driving-car-accidents/

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You could win infinite money from this game. Or could you?

Additional Resources

The Saint Petersburg Paradox: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-stpetersburg/

Pascal's Wager: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/

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The science and art of flag-making!

Good Flag, Bad Flag: https://nava.org/digital-library/design/GFBF_English.pdf

Artifexian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXan6Sw_okc

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If you've got ninety-nine problems, how does your brain choose what to do first?

CORRECTION! When Scott brings up Plato, he actually meant Epicurus.

Bibliography

Simply Psychology: https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

Very Well Mind: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-maslows-hierarchy-of-needs-4136760

PsycheTruth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM8SwZkvCIY&feature=youtu.be

More about Çatalhöyük: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1405/

Epicurus: https://daily-philosophy.com/daily-seeds/reading-epicurus-pleasure-and-pain/

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Did you know that some human languages are entirely whistled?

Bibliography

UNESCO (El Silbo Gomero): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgEmSb0cKBg

Scientific American (Sfyria): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTHzOag8msM

Deutsche Welle (Kus Dili): https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-whistling-instead-of-speaking/av-51108780

BBC (Sfyria): http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170731-greeces-disappearing-whistled-language

UCSD (Tonal vs. Non-Tonal languages): http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~rose/Whistled%20and%20drum%20languages.pdf

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You might be wrong about more than you think.

Common Historical Misconceptions: https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/12-common-historical-misconceptions

Collective False Memories: https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/collective-false-memories-whats-behind-the-mandela-effect

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The Library of Babel by Jorge Louis Borges: https://maskofreason.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/the-library-of-babel-by-jorge-luis-borges.pdf

The Library of Babel website: https://libraryofbabel.info/

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Can you tell the difference between a human and a computer algorithm? It might be harder than you think!

The Imitation Game (2014): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/

Eliza: https://www.eclecticenergies.com/ego/eliza

A short documentary about Eliza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMK9AphfLco

Mitsuku: https://www.pandorabots.com/mitsuku/

About the Loebner Prize: https://www.aisb.org.uk/events/loebner-prize

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A gameshow!

A huge thank you to Krystal, Selena, and Pei for participating.

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Where are all the aliens?

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Bibliography:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a24826/riddle-of-the-week-12/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNhhvQGsMEc