Shermer’s coverage of issues like the design inference and irreducible complexity is embarrassingly shallow.
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LLMs’ impressive outputs demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithms; they do not demonstrate that the AI has invented new computational methods.
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The inventions that changed our lives for the better were usually accompanied by speculation bubbles and busts. LLM firms will likely attract the same fate.
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We continue to explore the way simple roles followed by unintelligent agents — even dumb bugs — can yield complex behavior.
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Lê’s essay offers a much more sober assessment of transhumanism, the war on human exceptionalism, and the idea that machines think like people.
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YouTubers are quickly replacing the A-list celebrities, and while I’m surprised to see the studios going along with this trend, I’m not at all disappointed, and, for the first time in a long time, I’m hopeful for the future of entertainment.
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It’s at the point now, nearly twenty years later, that many colleges and universities are seeing significant drops in enrollment simply because there aren’t enough college-aged students in the application pool.
Read More ›Michael Egnor comments that academics often hold such beliefs because they make them sound clever, not because they make sense.
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The moral stigma against suicide prevents many deaths — which is why assisted suicide activists don’t call it suicide.
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We don’t have a reason to expect the eliminative materialism Carlo Rovelli recommends, which has not helped in the past, to be more help in the future.
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A few of us suggest individual users should know the risks and make the choices, leaving both government agencies and multi-national computer servers out of the picture.
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To solve last week’s puzzle, keep in mind that every termite is doing the same thing.
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If we accept the idea of an underlying design in nature, we need not suppose that trees are conscious in order to understand their complex relationships.
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Where exactly is a popular song located? It lives in memory, human and recorded, in many forms. But it occupies no spatial location.
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Let’s say robots were to become sentient, humans would still be the cause of that consciousness, even when they began to self-replicate, their understanding of the world would still come from humanity.
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Biotech companies agree to ban or voluntarily refrain from doing that which can’t yet be done but conduct the very experiments necessary to learn how to do it.
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Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor agrees; the image of storing and erasing memories is popular due to computer technology but not relevant to memory.
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The calling is to be involved, to be on the site, with your hands in the work, and building with theological clarity and human dignity at the center.
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Neuroplasticity is a very interesting and important area of research. But the careless and casual attribution of unexpected mental states to it is junk science.
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In March of 2026, the horror novel Shy Girl was pulled from publication after the author was suspected of using AI to help her write it.
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