Nicholas Agar

I'm a philosopher at the University of Waikato

[Nicholas Agar @AgarNicholas]

Something on the War and social media https://t.co/bvjvNcnRKc

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If this is the First AI War, what will the next one be like?
https://t.co/7kMWoNbc7W

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Something on Anthropic, Australia, Drones and World War Three. https://t.co/e3Nj1k6PNf

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Get better value from medical specialists by bullying them with AI
https://t.co/ScxxR7f7tg

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Why not a Social Media ban for Kiwi under 16s?https://t.co/BvEPKHqtVf

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A TEDx talk on the future of the humanities. https://t.co/eUVP9cNaF0

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Something written for the New Zealand Post on a Supreme Court ruling sustaining four Uber drivers' request to counted as employees not contractors. Can New Zealand resist the enshittification of Uber? https://t.co/nzXdCvzXQY

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@PhilipLaughlin Thanks Phil. Don't worry I will be sure to purge typos in the book I'm writing for you!

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something published by ABC Religion and Ethics on the tension between writing for Big Academic Publishing and punishing students for using AI https://t.co/kaS13axone

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something on Big Tech, harming kids, and bad arguments that effectively evade responsibility. https://t.co/sshoCW65YR

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Just the opening for a fuller discussion on 11 and 12 June 2026,  “Existential Risks and Other Disasters,” in Paris  organized by the Center for the Study of Bioethics,  Hastings Center,  Centre for Bioethics at  Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Master of Bioethics Columbia.

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NEW LEVITY EPISODE! A conversation with philosopher NICHOLAS AGAR @AgarNicholas . We like to think that aging can be fixed, and death needs to be defeated; Agar throws a bucket of cold water over our enthusiasm.
https://t.co/jYeO30jApf

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Something on the advantage of a 65,000 year time-frame. https://t.co/4Upn2ws89l

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A philosopher looks at the decision-making process behind the decision to found New Zealand's third medical school.
https://t.co/yj1PvXiYCR

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Something on how Australia polices indigenous people
https://t.co/kDkXGRNBVY

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Something written for the ABC on how human frailty might be the only thing that saves us from nuclear apocalypse. Respect for Leonid Brezhnev's shaking hand!
https://t.co/Yd4JZqxCcA

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Something written for Aporia on the tragic error of conflating fluency and intelligence
https://t.co/3cEw5ew3rS

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@DrPatrickLinden @AporiaMagazine @KristerKauppi But you will agree that it's our safety culture that's at fault. The best data on anti-aging interventions comes at autopsy. That's the approach that gave us safe aviation. Elon will surely take that approach to settling Mars.

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The Immortality Gladiators, by @AporiaMagazine https://t.co/AUnTqRjxEn

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@KristerKauppi That's proper science. The next step would be to randomise and double blind. The biased self-reporting of longevity influencers is inherently bad for that. How might my self-report of the rejuvenating effect of an all M&M diet (only green ones!) go on Instagram?

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@DrPatrickLinden @AporiaMagazine If we are serious about progress in anti-aging medicine don't we want him to take more risks? How do we get him back on Rapamycin? If caution had dominated the thinking of aviation pioneers we'd probably still be flying propellor driven biplanes

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@DrPatrickLinden @AporiaMagazine I guess when he himself describes it as an "aggressive" protocol that was on the cards. Is he up for Musk-designed nanobots?