History professor Jessica Riskin sees neo-Darwinism as starting to give way to awareness of a variety of paths for evolution.
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While working at Xerox, Metcalfe wrote a memo describing a new system, the “Ethernet,” which would enable faster and more reliable communications.
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According to the Internet’s Mental Health Library, the disorder often traces back to punitive religious upbringing, traumatic experiences linked to religion, or anxious cognitive styles that amplify religious threat appraisals.
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The level of accuracy claimed by the newspaper in last week’s puzzle is an eye-opener in a way that was not, perhaps, intended.
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The internet is making location much less important than it used to be. The current decline in big urban centers is easier seen in that context.
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Signs and symbols enter our thoughts most of our everyday lives and can have a profound effect on our world views, theologically, politically, philosophically, and socially.
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The main problem with the concept of the “meme” was that it did not explain anything that actually needed explaining.
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The very least Disney could’ve done was tip its hat to the characters who were going to be their meal ticket before removing them in favor of new blood.
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It’s becoming clear that AI can become a serious social pest without rogue superagents or cyberDoomsday. Human vices will do the heavy lifting.
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Young people, whose intellectual and social capacities are still developing, should not be encouraged to see chatbots as friends or therapists.
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We live in a world permeated with alcohol, drugs, food preservatives, fluoridated water, 5G pylons from cell phones, microwaves, satanic messaging in music and movies, gender dysphoria, etc.
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Mechanization creates a disruption in which anything that can be automated will be. But creative freedom is precisely the sort of thing that can’t be automated.
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Dawkins’s Selfish Gene was a pillar of modern Darwinism. If it is tottering, there will be plenty of mopping up — and room for new ideas.
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Dealing with AI-related problems does not require assuming that AI will go off the rails on its own, become conscious, or develop a desire to take over the world.
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Those who worry about AI eliminating jobs have failed to learn the lesson of history, which has seen countless jobs eliminated time and again, and each time more jobs created.
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Aside from the Crucifixion of Jesus and His Resurrection spearheading Western Civilization, which is a given, most people are unaware of the profound overturning of culture The Beatles had on society.
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On the bright side, the fact that materialists feel threatened by all this that means that they really do believe that some things can be objectively true, not just politically convenient.
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For last week’s puzzle, what if Bob and Connie each had some assistance while walking?
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Without up-to-date technology, Gelsinger believes, money spent on ministry could largely be wasted.
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The editors of Nature are pushing back against the notion that a machine can be the moral equivalent of a human being.
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