The Wrong Question We keep asking whether artificial intelligence is becoming intelligent. The better question is what kind of intelligence […]
Someone I knew once said, with emphatic emotion, that Trump supporters do not deserve to live. What has struck me
Now that I have your attention with that title, let me be clear. I believe this declaration to be true
Evolution is not a directing force but a descriptive process of variation and differential survival. Social traits and capacities that
Every adult knows a particular kind of tiredness. It is not the tiredness of hard labor or too little sleep.
The reasoning we most need is the reasoning our institutions are built to remove. Start with the thing we get
The Epstein documents have broken a usual two-camp pattern. Not the political party camps, both of which had too many
A couple of months ago, I ran an experiment with large language models. The question I was holding was not
In my The Separated Mind post, I drew on the Buddhist / Jonathan Haidt image of the rider and the elephant to
For those of you who have tracked the tsunami of activity from me lately, you’ll know that I have been
