I can’t recall a single time where an entire movie, let alone a trilogy, is completely driven by such choices and coincidences.
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We can’t do more than wonder but the main thing to see here is that the special position of humans might enable it.
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If you don’t want conflict or controversy, don’t pretend you want to be where the news is. And don’t be surprised if your platform mostly appeals to conventional people who all agree with each other.
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Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors on a computer chip doubles about every two years. But Moore’s Law must eventually stop at the Planck length.
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As an editor, I have often quietly substituted more reliable sources for information than Wikipedia when preparing various authors’ work for publication.
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In the United States, the change plays out as a boom in centenarians. The population of persons aged 100 or more grew by 50% between 2010 and 2020.
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Thanks to AI chatbots, a phrase I probably coined phrase has become so recognizable that most people think C. S. Lewis himself said it!
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Meta and Google recently lost a bellwether case accusing them of exacerbating children’s mental health struggles by intentionally addicting them to unhealthy social media.
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The simulation argument quietly replaces one proposition with the other. It begins with evidence about the world we observe and ends with a conclusion about a world we can no longer observe.
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To solve last week’s puzzle, look up the definition of “calorie.” Are we using the word to mean the same thing?
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We’ve heard countless times that bigger brains evolved to allow for higher intelligence in our hominid ancestors – but not any more.
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Killing to harvest organs is now sufficiently mainstream for NPR to have featured one of the latest proposal’s authors in a respectful interview.
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Occam’s Razor is never raised as a critique of the multiverse that I’m aware of. But multiverse claims are an obvious contradiction of the Razor’s minimalist approach.
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Several ships are descending to this planet, and inside them are stormtroopers waiting to attack.
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Some animal behavior defies a purely mechanical explanation; as humans have an immortal mind, might some animals have such a mind beyond biology, too?
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The addiction of constantly scrolling is like we are forever searching for something in a kind of eternal loop to reach a perfected digital fix of some sort.
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Box office failures are a staple in the film industry, but every so often, a movie tanks so badly that it causes one to wonder whether Hollywood is drastically misjudging the country’s pulse and interests.
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The breakthroughs have come from human creativity. Computers have served as powerful tools for implementing innovations, but they did not invent them.
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To solve Micro Softie 85, ask yourself, when would a slightly smaller caliber bullet than the enemy uses be a definite advantage?
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Consciousness is an immaterial creation given only to human beings to enable us to have a relationship with a higher power and to understand our universe better.
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