AI software startups should be required to release audited numbers so that we can at least understand the current state of the AI economy.
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There are actually two possible solutions to last week’s puzzle, depending on how you interpret the pattern of the arithmetic.
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If more scientists follow Anna Krylov’s lead in simply severing ties from journals that are being politicized, reform may follow.
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I also believe that their programmed tendency to lead to addictive relationships makes them unsuitable for adults as well but that’s another topic.
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Near-death experiences are challenging — not science — but the materialist presumption that has dominated for many decades in science.
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We seem a long way now from the once-dominant science view of eliminative materialism in which even human consciousness was not considered real.
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Time travel into the future is not as tricky as travel into the past because altering the future does not create so many complex story problems.
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All these intellectual worthies choose to miss the point: No life form other than humans writes books, reviews books, or contemplates any of the issues raised.
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A real-world example of such struggles is the poor performance, in general, of AI-powered mutual funds.
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We can learn a lot from fossil footprints — who went where, when, and why — that static artifacts don’t tell us by themselves.
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Facilitating drug abuse — which is what “harm reduction” does — causes terrible harm, often to the people it purports to help.
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There seems less interest today in maintaining a “subhuman” status for our Neanderthal ancestors. It’s good if that sort of thing makes people uncomfortable.
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Many people on social media pushed back against the claim that Atwood’s famous, bestselling book has in any way been “banned.”
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James Watson’s science legacy is for the ages. It would be fair if his ignoble thinking about faith and race faded into the background after some time.
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The problem with neuroscience today, Dr. Green says, isn’t lack of data, but lack of a unifying theory.
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Science is incompatible with the onslaught of post-modernism. A major rift in biology may be looming straight ahead.
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The country has increased life expectancy through orthodox means such lifestyle and healthcare improvement. But some of the research seeks more.
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I personally favor modernizing the civil laws against libel and defamation to take into account the type of injuries that chatbots can inflict.
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Last week’s puzzle is easy to solve if we recall how many parents a child needs and of what type…
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The reason medical researchers now take NDEs seriously is a growing body of evidence that can’t just be tossed off with a simple explanation.
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