In recent years, it has become hip to like Beckett, and I believe, in some ways, genuine admirers of ‘Godot’ believe it has suffered as a consequence of this due to its popularisation into the mainstream.
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The film seems to have a general idea what it wants to do, but it’s so impatient it can’t even be bothered to show Rey learning, let alone struggling, to use her powers.
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If we reach the point where most people cannot muster the level of sustained attention needed to read a book, political changes unwelcome to many of us are inevitable.
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For those who want to grow and develop as thinkers and communicators, writing is still a time-tested option.
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Why had no one tried using an AI detector on Orélien’s—and everyone else’s—work as a *condition of entry* into the writing contest?
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A market economy is like a universe-size system of interacting human minds weighing factors of present and future, making choices, and taking purposeful actions.
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In addition to the Doomers, there is the AI rights crowd, worried that we will reduce intelligent AI agents to slavery.
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To solve last week’s puzzle, don’t be so sure that you need a degree in probability theory. Study the situation described.
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Perhaps the endless theorizing with so little result reflects what chance can produce. If researchers ever felt they could risk trying design, we could see if more insight follows.
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As Steven Meyer shows, lines of evidence from cosmology, physics, and molecular biology point to a designing mind behind nature.
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Instead of claiming, like the eliminationist, that neither humans nor slime molds are really intelligent, the panpsychist will claim that they both are — and then minimize the difference between them.
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Special effects are not worthless but they are second-tier when it comes to storytelling.
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Not as a computer guy but as a litigation lawyer, I’m looking at the Hugging Face intrusion incident in July 2026.
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Understanding the human body and diseases, and identifying a target for a drug, is more important than designing a drug.
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Anyone who thinks AI can be sentient have to believe in panpsychism, as the chips for computers are made of silicon, derived from sand and some other minerals.
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Some researchers seem to think that communicating with animals via AI will show that they have minds like human ones. But their behavior does not suggest that.
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“More than human” implies being possessed of greater fundamental value, than humans, which illustrates the hatred of humans that is the foundation of the nature rights movement.
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Egnor offers a serious challenge to anyone who thinks the whole of a human being is purely material.
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Electronic messaging is now our default way to communicate, and very day, more than 360 billion emails are sent and 27 billion texts are exchanged.
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There is more than one solution to last week’s Queens Problem because the board can be rotated — but we present one here.
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