Marks points out that model collapse means that AI can’t simply keep getting better by training itself until it becomes a superintelligence.
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A downloadable audio file is available from Humanize of an interview with Olivier Bonnassies, author with Michel-Yves Bolloré of God: the Science, the Evidence (2025).
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Facilitating drug abuse — which is what “harm reduction” does — causes terrible harm, often to the people it purports to help.
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The human soul has been understood as quite real but immaterial and non-local. It is instantiated in a body, which is material and local.
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In Canada, many stories attest that euthanasia is now routinely offered to those requesting medical care.
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Gilder offers a down-to-earth interpretation. Much has changed but reality hasn’t.
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A nihilist who believes there is no ultimate purpose or meaning to life can only ever write one book, according to Koontz.
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Insisting that there is no free will amounts to declaring “I’m a meat robot, so take seriously what I’m saying.” That’s self-refuting nonsense, Dr. Egnor says.
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Many philosophers have concluded both from experience and careful consideration that mental phenomena cannot be reduced to neural mechanisms.
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From a secular humanist perspective, he says roughly what Aristotle (384– 322 BC) and Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) would say about our unique human nature.
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FDA doesn’t want to release the safety data on the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines until 2026, Redfield says, because it may make people vaccine-reluctant.
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He talks about how Americans were sometimes misinformed on critical issues like whether the vaccines prevent Covid.
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How much good science would have seen the light in the last 600 years if “Institutional Voices” had been heard from even more often than they were?
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Sacred cows inhibit thinking because they have no straightforward relationship with the discipline in which they find pasture.
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I don’t smoke, but I am wary of efforts to prevent other people from so doing. Now, blue cities — and soon states, most likely — have hit upon a way to ban smoking known as “Tobacco Free Generation” (TFG). It’s Pretty Clever Allow people who can legally buy tobacco today to purchase it, but permanently outlaw the sale of tobacco products to people based on the date of their birth — even as they become adults — as described glowingly in the New England Journal of Medicine: The bylaw, passed by Brookline, Massachusetts, gradually phases out commercial tobacco by banning the sale of nicotine products to anyone born on or after January 1, 2000 (one of us cosponsored the bylaw). Read More ›
As we find out what really happened, the credibility of our public-health systems has been shattered and “Trust the science!” is becoming a joke.
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Indeed, it is our obligation as humans to benefit from the earth’s bounties in responsible ways. But nature rights would stifle our ability to thrive and shrivel the principle of human rights.
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Such reporting tells people with dementia that their lives are not worth living. This is very wrong. Politico’s editors should be ashamed.
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Collins’s recent admissions and overarching career illustrate why we should resist the current push to impose a regime of rule by experts.
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Physicist Rob Sheldon warns, when ridiculous inhumane ideas are routinely aired, we become more willing to accept inhumane ideas that are in fact quite viable.
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