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Being a Good Scientist Doesn’t Mean Being an Effective Leader
Francis Collins admits that they botched the COVID-19 response.You Can Be Social and Still Be Very Lonely
Machines can't meet our need to be known and understood.Andrew McDiarmid on Teens and Smartphones
We can mitigate the mental health crisis, but we have to act now.Let’s Dispose of Exploding Pie Charts
Pie charts are seldom a good idea. Here's why.This New Year, Resolve to Stay Human
This year, we will continue to declare that human beings are unique and exceptional.Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
What exactly is a human and how does a human differ from a computer?On December 27, The New York Times Company sued Microsoft and OpenAI for violations of their copyright. The Times contends that training chatbots on its content in order to create an information competitor is a violation of its copyright. This suit is sure to bring up a number of old copyright issues that were never resolved, plus some new that need to be worked through. The fact is, the big search engines have been violating copyright from the very beginning. All search engines are in fact derivative works of the sites that they crawl, index, and dish out. Most search engines even provide excerpts from the sites they scan. However, most copyright holders have turned a blind eye to this for two main Read More ›
ChatGPT: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
Reviewing the bot's progress (and problems) from over the last yearGreat Ideas, Like All Ideas, Are Immaterial in Principle
The main reasons we hear more ideas today is that we are building on basic past ideas plus there are many more human beings and communications systemsScience vs Religion Debate: Uselessness Cubed
Science no longer means anything like what Dr. Pierre hopes that it doesWhy Do People Who Want to Dumb Down Education Pick Math?
When right and wrong answers are clear, rewarding the wrong answer is an easier victory for them to celebrate.The Two Visions of AI Technology
Competing views of AI's potential comprise a new struggle in Silicon Valley.Alien 3 Review, Part 2
An attack on motherhood and logicLast time, we began with the opening scene, and already, the entire franchise is ruined. In this review, we’ll discuss why. I would recommend reading the previous article for clarity, but for now, I’ll simply list the sequence of events. The alien queen, somehow, managed to lay an egg inside the room where the cryobeds were kept in spite of the fact that she’d never been outside the hull of the ship. The egg hatched and the parasitic alien damaged Newt’s cryobed, then for no apparent reason, abandoned its attempt to latch onto Newt, and latched onto Ripley instead. But here’s the thing. Ripley’s bed wasn’t damaged in anyway. So, how did it break into the bed? Both the ship Read More ›