Richards: “I think we ought to be more hopeful that in an information economy there will be a place where the human person is at the very center.”
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For last week’s puzzle, you may wish to take into account the fact that false positives can run in both directions.
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That Hideous Strength is, at bottom, a story about human beings working in concert to prevent a dreadful consolidation of power.
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Forbes’s greatest strength as a communicator is his ability to capture truths in unique formulas that are easy to remember.
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For most of history, the question “What makes a mind?” belonged to philosophers. And then one day, machines started talking back.
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History professor Jessica Riskin sees neo-Darwinism as starting to give way to awareness of a variety of paths for evolution.
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While working at Xerox, Metcalfe wrote a memo describing a new system, the “Ethernet,” which would enable faster and more reliable communications.
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The level of accuracy claimed by the newspaper in last week’s puzzle is an eye-opener in a way that was not, perhaps, intended.
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The main problem with the concept of the “meme” was that it did not explain anything that actually needed explaining.
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Mechanization creates a disruption in which anything that can be automated will be. But creative freedom is precisely the sort of thing that can’t be automated.
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Those who worry about AI eliminating jobs have failed to learn the lesson of history, which has seen countless jobs eliminated time and again, and each time more jobs created.
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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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For last week’s puzzle, what if Bob and Connie each had some assistance while walking?
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Without up-to-date technology, Gelsinger believes, money spent on ministry could largely be wasted.
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Scientific American notes that the human mind is the hardest problem in science, with no theory emerging as persuasive. COSM will offer a reality check.
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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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Could a modern writer come along and produce Orwell’s work, using AI? Possibly, but someone actually had to be Orwell first — to experience those events and write them down.
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We must put technology in its place, as with all works of human hands. And, as with all human works, when they become idols, we are called to topple them.
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Bahnsen sees attacks on capitalism as the denigration of hopes and dreams, of job opportunities and growth.
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The magician can show you something extraordinary. But only your mind can decide what you’ve seen, what it means, and whether it rises to Wow!
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