Sam Harris treats every lie as if it predictably spirals into atrocity. But most lies are judged against uncertain futures, not guaranteed horrors.
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If the physics establishment is only just now beginning to see that public funding depends on public legitimacy, well… it’s about time.
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If lying breeds chaos, so does truth-telling in the wrong contexts. Prudence, not absolutism, has to govern.
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The local elementary school went on lockdown due to the killer running, possibly in their direction, who was assumed to still be armed.
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When dictators adopt transhumanism, it won’t just be Ray Kurzweil trying to upload himself to digital immortality. There will be a very dark side.
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The transgender movement, like the teacher-driven war on math, has embraced the Skeptics’ own approach to reality and now uses it for ITS purposes.
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Materialism, Egnor says, is rarely defended explicitly; rather, objections are brushed off and prominent objectors may be Canceled.
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Science, as both Darwinian Jerry Coyne and his non-materialist opponents know it, is one forlorn casualty of late-stage materialism, the world of private truth.
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Hopefully, the growing hubris of bioethicists who think they can tackle the world’s most intractable problems — even war — will push them into irrelevance.
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The vaunted international community is going all-in on radical environmentalism that, if enacted widely, would gut human prosperity.
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Sidelsky, Larson tells us, thinks our problems stem not from the machines themselves but from the stories we’ve told about them.
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It’s imaginary because the clues that matter — why people starve, why peace fails, why the planet overheats — are not hidden in larger and larger datasets.
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Humans are terrible at crunching data but remarkably good at seeing clues. That’s why we still outmatch our machines in domains where meaning matters.
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His new book, co-authored with Nadine Strossen, offers ten arguments against free speech — and why they fail.
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Common sense says AI companies need to be responsible for their product — just as if it was created directly and disseminated by a human.
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Religious freedom includes the right to maintain sacred sites as well as to worship freely.
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The alternative to the First Amendment is a narratocracy in which a society’s commanding institutions determine what stories are allowed and disallowed.
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“Nature rights” are unnecessary for proper environmental protection. The point is to throttle human activities.
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After the 2016 election, Google leadership decided to prevent voters it saw as populist and low-information from deciding future presidential elections.
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Robert Epstein is the former editor of Psychology Today who, as I discussed yesterday, has studied the ways in which Google can manipulate public opinion.
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