Contra Chiang On Machine Consciousness

The Inventor of the Thinking Machine Didn’t Worry. Neither Should You

Aliens Probably Have Consciousness 

Open Thread

Neanderthal 1

Global Health Reform Must Bolster Innovation

Swift, Pope, and Gay gathered at Twickenham in 1726. They shared a villa, and a witty contempt for their age

The Left-Wing Case Against Anti-Zionism

Brickbat: Without a Prayer

If Only Trump Knew What Vance Is Doing

MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing builds momentum

Today in Supreme Court History: June 14, 1810

Today in Supreme Court History: June 15, 1804

What is this rock?

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AI may be sycophantic, but that is just one expression of its structural bias toward familiarity and averageness 

The Renaissance was a golden age invented by people who believed they were living through a dark one

Children’s literature used to get reviewed in serious outlets. That’s stopped — and has that turned the genre to “crud”?

Is a new academic report with a dry title a “diabolically evil” plot to undermine the humanities? Or will it save them?  

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Today in Supreme Court History: June 16, 1960