Orcas surprise researchers by exploding dead sunfish
While the orcas’ sunfish-exploding behavior is remarkable, it is consistent with their reputation as “wolves of the sea.”
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Neanderthals are still getting smarter…
Did Neanderthal man get smarter or is there a growing realization of the fact that the human mind has no history? We see it where and when we see it.
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Interoception: Is it really a new sixth sense?
Our bodies have all sorts of ways of giving us information that do not run through our senses – our senses are mostly aimed at getting information from the world outside ourselves anyway.
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Relax. You do NOT have a lizard brain
The cultural moment is changing if even McGill University does not see any need to hang onto that stuff.
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Authors be warned: AI scams are much cleverer today
Sophisticated AI tools can now tailor an email so that is sounds personal — a far cry from the junkmail that ends up in our recycle bins.
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It’s not that we don’t “trust media.” We’ve moved on
The internet fundamentally changed how people get news. A few words in the navbar about a recent event generate hundreds of links and an AI summary.
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Can a pagan religion thrive without a supernatural element?
The basis of a religion is not — as many think — assertions about the supernatural. It’s about how to understand our relationship to the universe.
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Who expected this? Luddites are Cool now?
Things have really gone south if people need to be taught how to flirt without technology.
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Did a bot retract Max Planck’s papers?
Maybe it was a bot and maybe it was a bot-adjacent advisor or employee.
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SpringerNature sells Scientific American to Canadian firm
A question hangs in the air: Is the traditional, time-governed, print-focused way of publishing news even relevant in the non-local, instantaneous age of the internet?
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Yes, someone now tracks outlandish AI claims daily
Ultimately, he wants more democratic control of AI though just what that might mean is unclear. Most of the AI apocalypses aren’t going to happen anyway because failure is the price people pay for divorcing reality.
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Where did a concept like “malinformation” even come from?
So far, the academics have not succeeded in getting people to incorporate concepts like disinformation and malinformation into the English language. But not for want of trying.
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Temporary setback in the U.S. for the information controllers
Based on worldwide trends, it is fair to say that the would-be disinformation police are not gone in the U.S.; they are more likely waiting for a favorable moment.
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TV’s long slide into the sunset
TV is a dying industry. The internet is not so timebound as TV and it is much more interactive.
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How the battle for freedom of thought is changing
Many people, for example, do not realize that age-verification laws, which sound virtuous, require monitoring everyone’s usage of AI at home, not just that of minors.
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Prenatal diagnosis: Egnor warns against jumping to conclusions
People who counsel families for children who have these central nervous system issues on prenatal imaging must be people who have taken care of these children.
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Truth be told, most humans do not want insect burgers at all
Most of us are hypocrites for social peace. But we tend to abandon hypocrisy when things start to really get out of hand.
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A new theory of consciousness can include AI
Panpsychism is definitely becoming more common in philosophy and science and it includes consciousness in non-living (inanimate) things.
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Michael Egnor: Three atheist scientists walk into a book
Egnor observes, “If there is no free will, “morality” is only an illusion projected by the meatware of our brains.
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Was the Washington Post Jeff Bezos’s worst investment?
The fundamental question is really this: Is the newspaper format still viable in the internet age?
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