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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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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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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If information consumers allow a modest correction for consistent pollster bias, we might get a fairly good idea of what might happen in an election.
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Even when the pranksters who create the often elaborate crop circles are identified, “croppies” insist that only ET could have done it.
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He documented the chaos and drama of our political life from the rare perspective of a conservative addressing a largely liberal audience.
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The real concern is that AI can find, combine, and carry out existing malicious techniques much faster and on a much larger scale than the human one.
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Science writer Matt Ridley offers some helpful information about why the “furin cleavage site” was a smoking gun for top scientists for a lab origin for Covid.
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If you don’t want conflict or controversy, don’t pretend you want to be where the news is. And don’t be surprised if your platform mostly appeals to conventional people who all agree with each other.
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As an editor, I have often quietly substituted more reliable sources for information than Wikipedia when preparing various authors’ work for publication.
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Thanks to AI chatbots, a phrase I probably coined phrase has become so recognizable that most people think C. S. Lewis himself said it!
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In effect, therefore, this book is a call for a return to the medieval vision of a rational God who created rational creatures equipped to discover the verities of nature. In other words, to do science.
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Here are a dozen tips for detecting fake and misleading articles about artificial intelligence.
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On Saturday, I looked at Matt Johnson’s thoughts on George Orwell’s vital but comparatively unknown 1946 essay, “The Prevention of Literature.” Orwell, famous for Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), wanted to “make political writing into an art.” He was well aware that most competitors for public attention simply wanted to make political writing a reliable form of mass brainwashing. He hoped to find a public that sought an alternative. He published “Prevention” (longish, at 5500 words) in Polemic, a short-lived British intellectual magazine (1945–47), which featured work by such notables as Henry Miller, Bertrand Russell, A. J. Ayer, and Dylan Thomas. Intellectual freedom as “violence” Intellectual freedom, as we have always been told, is only ever one generation Read More ›
Owner Jeff Bezos has not yet succeeded in making the company financially viable in a time when so much media and journalism is now being independently created.
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On ID, it sounds like Grokipedia, unlike Wikipedia, follows the time-honored rule of letting people explain themselves and saving the commentary for later.
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Surprised? Joel Kotkin points out that the conventional picture many people have of the religious vs. the non-religious population is gravely distorted.
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Shows like Kimmel’s and Colbert’s have long abandoned the usual attempts at humor, which has historically included taking jabs at both sides of the aisle.
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Kirk openly invited dialogue and debate among people with different views and backgrounds. He always fought for others’ right to speak their minds.
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