Serious research on terminal lucidity will immensely damage the sort of materialism that Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker champions.
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A shabbily dressed man with an unkept beard held up a cardboard sign saying, “Can you help? Please!”
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Rosenberg purports to cite pundits saying chatbot outputs are “AI slop,” that “the era of rapid AI advancement is ending,” that “AI scaling has hit the wall,” and the AI boom is just another “tech bubble.” No human is cited for these remarks.
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This stuff is likely harmless except that a troubling element is introduced if the imagined aliens are supposed to be evidence of our own insignificance.
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The relational model has practical consequences. It considers flourishing as less about “me” and more about “we.”
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If informed consent and “choice” are to mean anything, abortionists should be duty-bound to inform pregnant women about this risk.
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While the observed effect was small, any actual effect is a tool in the box and this one does not come with the risks associated with medications.
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Harold Koenig and colleagues are confident that improving the quality of research will strengthen the usefulness of the overall database.
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One change is that Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT-5, seems to be acknowledging that the AI bubble might soon burst.
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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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In our minds, as in our cells, we can see the clear signature of a Mind beyond this universe.
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The people who flunked the Linda problem were not biased; they just assumed there was some POINT to telling them that Linda was active in social justice issues.
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Via the “Linda Problem,” Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky convinced generations that we don’t grasp probability. They’re wrong.
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Perhaps it is worth keeping in mind that bots not only don’t buy things themselves but may be chasing away humans who do.
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The biologists who would pride themselves on enthroning Darwinism as a public truth a century ago find that what is publicly true no long even matters the way it used to.
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Beware of wildly popular sociology that tells us that our public policy preferences are somehow embedded in human nature. Life was never as simple as that.
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Hopefully the McDonald’s corporation will realize that the PlayPlace is a big part of what makes its restaurants so appealing.
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It’s no wonder that techno-futurists trumpet a coming machine intelligence with such ease — they’ve lowered the standards so much to begin with.
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Cognitive scientist Dr. Joe McDonald notes that AI is not able to contextualize information, which limits its use in psychological tests.
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Pearcey argues that the biblical view of manhood offers men far greater dignity than any secular view, especially the Darwinian one.
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