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1. The Rosenkreuzer Dream The Three Manifestos and Their Promise In 1614, an anonymous text appeared in Kassel, Germany, that would shake the intellectual foundations of Europe. The Fama Fraternitatis described a secret brotherhood founded by one Christian Rosenkreutz — a man who had traveled to the East, learned the hidden arts of nature, and returned to establish an invisible college of enlightened minds. A year later, the Confessio Fraternitatis followed, and in 1616, the allegorical Chymische Hochzeit (Chemical Wedding) completed the trilogy. These were not merely occult curiosities. They landed in the middle of Europe’s most turbulent intellectual transition — the bridge between Renaissance magic and Enlightenment science. The manifestos spoke to Kepler’s generation, to physicians frustrated by Galenic dogma, to natural philosophers who sensed that the “ Book of Nature ” could be read if only one had the right eyes. The core promises of the Rosenkreuzer brotherhood were breat...

Making AI ethical might be impossible, but AI can make us more ethical! I don’t think it will ever be possible to guarantee that AI will behave fully ethical. Marvin Minsky once said: “Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.” What he means is that because we made them, the robots will follow our ethical understanding and thus be ethically well-behaved - unfortunately there will always be unethical hackers, leading to unethical robots. Isaac Asimov defined the three law of robotics which say that (1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. (2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. (3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.  Looking at the military uses of AI, where both Russia and the US announced that they are working on self-guided missiles that use A...