Monday Microsofty 100: How To Win at Poker All the Time
Choose any hand you want and I will still win. But why?The solution to the puzzle about cutting the fan belt is to remember that there is only ever one side.
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Canada Backs Off Euthanasia for Mental Illness, Targets Dementia
The government is now promoting euthanasia for people with dementia
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 16
The entire Resistance remains on the base, it doesn’t even attempt an evacuation
The Human Brain: My, What a Well-Organized “Kludge”!
Looking back at a neuroscience book that was popular two decades ago is quite revealing in the light of new findings
A universe grounded in Mind rather than matter
When was the last time you heard or read the words ‘conscience’ or ‘sin’?
AI and the Spectrum Crisis: What You Need to Know
The spectrum crisis is NOT a metaphor. The frequencies everyone wants are finite, the physics will not budge, and the tools to fix the problem are available
Don’t Get Trapped in a Data Mine
It’s a common pitfall. Even Google played with the idea that a coincidental relationship between baseball and a full moon might be meaningful
Article in Top Science Journal Endorses ‘Nature Rights’
As the journal Nature joins the list of endorsers, the idea is becoming an establishment policy juggernaut
Computer Engineer Robert Marks Says AI will Never Match Humans
But do the sophisticated new chatbots prove Marks wrong? Turns out, he is writing a new book to address that
Socialism’s Most Pressing Problem: The Human Mind
Markets, prices, and profits do what socialist central planners cannot: coordinate millions of independent human minds
AI ‘Claude’ Can Never Be a Person
A rabbi noted that if Claude is a person, Anthropic is engaging in slavery that must stop
Microsofty 99: Fan Belt Cutting Technology
The world of geometry features some strange elements, even in everyday things
Seeing Chatbots as People Is Not New. Some See Cars That Way
It's actually a natural tendency but it certainly comes with risks
Our Minds Have Sparks of the Divine
Theatre of the Absurd was always seen as very French
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 15
Looking back at this a decade later, it’s amazing how rushed all of this is
Does a Decline in Reading Mean a Decline in Thinking?
Thinking is natural to humans. But the current decline in reading may signal a worrisome decline in a particular TYPE of thinking
Is writing really not important any more?
A New York Times op-ed claims writing isn't as essential as we might assume
Prize-Winning French Author Accused of Using AI; Furor Erupts
The questions the story raises are mostly not about the End of Writing
Why Do Market Economies Succeed? Minds Are the Key Driver
Millions of minds — and billions of choices, tradeoffs, and expectations, as people try to improve their situations
Are They Nuts Down in the Valley? Or Just Pretending?
Preaching the machine god apocalypse sounds a bit much when the real problem is serious security lapses
Monday Microsofty 98: A Puzzle for Fan Belt Engineers
How would you create a belt that allows both surfaces to share the wear equally?
Briefs
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
How much can the AI companies get away with before karma kicks in?
How long will the Superintelligence Accord last? Got a stopwatch?
The high risks of making a chatbot—or influencer—your doctor
Are AI detection tools fundamentally untrustworthy?
Fact-checking the pop science buzz that two brains evolved into one
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