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Devangshu Datta: The Stupidity of Groups

There are many aphorisms about the "Wisdom of Crowds". There are also (pseudo) zen koans about "Never underestimating the power of stupid people in large groups"

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Updated On : 24 Jun 2016 | 11:00 PM IST

Devangshu Datta: The problem with excluding worshippers

Arguments for upholding exclusion of women and Dalits, are specious. Beyond blind references to tradition, analogies are sometimes made between exclusionary PoWs, and housing societies

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Updated On : 13 May 2016 | 10:07 PM IST

Devangshu Datta: The permission meme

The compilers of the so-called dossier on Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) missed their calling

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Updated On : 01 May 2016 | 10:43 AM IST

Devangshu Datta: When the AIs win

The concept of machines that are self-aware, auto-didactic and capable of outthinking human beings have been standard elements of SF for a long while

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Updated On : 18 Mar 2016 | 9:43 PM IST