Documentary fimmakers Misha Votruba and Vaclav Dejcmar present a seminal movie on how psychopaths operate in today’s world. Featuring interviews with world-renowned psychopathologists Robert Hare and Paul Babiak, it’s a must see for anyone who thinks a college education taught you everything you need to know about working in Corporate America.
The statistics commonly published on the demographics of psychopaths do not provide practical guidance of interest to public safety, but we can extract such information with a few algebraic computations. Published Statistics The statistics commonly published on the demographics of psychopaths: Pgp (1.2% in 2008) is the percentage of the general population who are psychopathic…
Personally, I’m an AI skeptic. Humans by nature tend to personify things. Show them a wind-up toy and their first impression is “Look! A little person!”. The more human a robot looks, the more human we assume it to be, regardless of its internal sophistication or lack thereof. The appearance itself sets our imagination in…
Dr. Bandy Xenobia Lee is an American psychiatrist whose scholarly work includes a textbook on violence. She is a specialist in public health approaches to violence prevention who consulted with the World Health Organization and initiated reforms at New York’s Rikers Island Correctional Facility. She helped draft the United Nations chapter on “Violence Against Children”,…
13 Assassins (2010), directed by Takashi Miike. The rumors swirled while the production was still in development. According to the rumors, it was to be a remake of 7 Samurai (1954), directed by Akira Kurosawa. It wasn’t, but like 7 Samurai, it was a story of ordinary people overcoming extraordinary criminals. Psychopathy was not a…
