Philosophy

When the Peace Prize Looks in the Mirror

• Martin Enlund
• 2/28/26

Awarded for promoting “ballots, not bullets,” the Nobel Peace Prize given to Venezuelan politician Marina Corina Machado in October 2025 was soon overshadowed by the very violence it decried.

How the Easter Parade Never Ended

• Martin Enlund
• 12/12/25

Using words to influence behaviour is not a new phenomenon. However, the scale, speed, and precision with which language can be used as a weapon IS new. Today, researchers using AI wish to use “well-formed linguistic input” to cure depression. But an algorithm that can formulates a cure can, just as easily, formulate a poison.

A child's laughter: an algorithmic product?

• Martin Enlund
• 10/5/25

Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and former chief scientist at OpenAI, said recently that the human brain is nothing but a biological computer. He was completely certain of this. But is that really the case?

In defence of conspiracy theories

• Martin Enlund
• 11/11/23

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