Perceptions

Making robots faster by helping them think ahead

Christopher Marlowe: alienated skeptic, government spy, counterfeiter, dead at 29. Shakespeare's debt to the man was simply inestimable.

The Peptide Gray Market Is Already Here. The FDA Is Just Catching Up.

'AI Kill Switch Act' Won't Stop Rogue AI, but It Will Slow Down Innovation

In search of the northern cassowary

Are Autonomous Cars More Dangerous Than Uber Drivers?

The Newcomer

Mysterious Human Relative Was Bigger Than Previously Thought

Future of giant monkey research facility uncertain, even as sanctuary plan dropped

Xanadu, the "Home of Tomorrow" that promised automation as liberation, was run on a "house brain," another word for mother

Trenchant but sententious, John Berger could sound like Platonov one moment, the next like Alain de Botton

OpenAI Agent Breaks Free and Hacks Hugging Face

No, we are not post-literate. The reading panic is merely the result of histrionic op-eds that misdiagnose the erosion of literary culture

In 1994, Stanley Fish described deconstruction as dead in the same way that Freudianism is dead. "It is everywhere.” He had a point

For some conservatives, the Great Books are simply an anti-woke bulwark. But the case for them is much grander and more provocative 

Open Thread

OpenAI says its AI model ‘went rogue’: What do we know?

Open Thread

When Stupid Was a Diagnosis

Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors