Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 18
During the duel, the ground literally splits them apartAll the story beats are screaming that the heroes need saving, and the lightsaber in the snow is practically acting as Luke’s signature.
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Information?: Fake Pollster Offers a Real-Life Lesson
The tendency to err in a consistent direction is probably due to average industry bias. For that at least, the data seem reliable
Author Bites Bullet: What If AI Does Write Good Novels?
Without getting hung up on definitions, we need to start by establishing what we mean by a good novel. What are we trying to do?
Technology Won’t and Can’t Save Us — Not Even Close
Philosopher Douglas Groothuis reflects on what it can really do and what we should not ask it to do
Publishers Are Fighting Hard Against AI Slop — or Are They?
Recent news stories suggest that some are trying to sneak it in, hoping to cut staff and reduce dependence on writers
COSM 2026: What Does the Future Hold for Your Paycheck?
Economics and investment analyst David Bahnsen will be looking at where the US economy is headed after the midterm elections
Medical Journal Article Redefines ‘Infertility’
The redefinition appears to be for ideological reasons, not scientific ones
Magicians Do the Tricks. Minds Create the Magic
A Las Vegas close-up magician digs into creativity, human perception, and why no two people experience the same wonder
Monday Microsofty 101: Speed Is Relative
When two people holding hands show different distances on their fitness trackers, what is going on?
Is Christianity the Best Religion for an AI Sim World?
A game developer makes the case
Understanding the State of Afterlife Bliss
It’s certainly not an eternity playing harps while sitting on a cloud
If You Had To Pick a Doomsday, Which One Would It Be?
So many on offer now. Could the worst one be this: discovering that our entire universe is just a giant computer sim?
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 17
I’m ambivalent about Han Solo’s death
At COSM: AI Developer Predicts Jobs Boom — for Humans
Elon Musk thinks AI will produce mass unemployment. Chatbot developer Andrew Mayne predicts a jobs boom instead. Who's right?
Sally Rooney, Censorship, and the Purpose of True Art
Should art go beyond politics?
Concern Rises Over AI’s Hacking Incidents
Can AI really go off and "do its own thing"?
The Curse of ‘…Isms’ and the Woke Mind Virus
The Woke pest has more empathy for strangers (‘the other’) than for loyal friends or family members
A Philosopher Looks At the Roots of Modern Panpsychism
I’ve argued for years that panpsychism — the belief that everything is conscious — is slowly replacing materialism in science. There’s a logical reason for that
Will a Blanket Digital World Make Us Feel Metaphorically Naked?
It’s hard these days to get into a conversation without AI or DC being mentioned
AI Futurist — Who Abruptly Quit OpenAI — Will Speak at COSM
For most of his career there, Josh Achiam had been a safety officer. He is one of a number of personnel involved in sensitive issues who have left
Monday Microsofty 100: How To Win at Poker All the Time
Choose any hand you want and I will still win. But why?
Briefs
News agency notes rise in machine-driven attacks on “secure” data
MIT psychologist: Beware the chatbot’s artificial empathy
Spotted! Indie Canadian news outlet sniffs out phantom AI “writer”
The struggle to produce better social science
Parents enlist AI to monitor what goes on at school boards
Is AI really making us more productive? That’s unclear
Can machines reason? Depends on what you mean by “reason”
Nuclear doomsday mag says, AI Doomerism is bad science
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