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Why AI Writing Is So Generic, Boring, and Dangerous: Semantic Ablation. âThe AI identifies high-entropy clusters â the precise points where unique insightsâŚreside â and systematically replaces them wi
Maarten Boudry at Persuasion: My doubts began when I was still in academia, teaching critical thinking to philosophy students and science majors alike. Fallacies are a favorite chapter in such courses
pretty much the opposite, in fact
The collapse of nuclear arms control is not returning the world to Cold War stability, but pushing it into a more complex and less governable nuclear order. As treaties lapse, latent up-arming capacit
Some sound baffling could give birds the reprieve they need from our noise pollution The post The World Is Becoming Too Loud for Birds appeared first on Nautilus.
Jesse Jackson on Sesame Street in 1971 doing a call-and-response with the kids of the poem I Am - Somebody.
Urmila Chadayammuri in Nature: âBetween the scale of atoms and the scale of stars,â Maria Popova writes in the prologue to her daring book Traversal, âbetween the time of mayflies and the time of moun
The 19 richest Americans hold more than 2% of the total US holdhold wealth. That figure has roughly doubled in the past 5-6 years. âThe pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply stagge
The post Our Emerging Planetary Nervous System appeared first on NOEMA.
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In 1964, legendary jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie ran for President as a write-in candidate. Some of the more interesting details about his campaign: If elected, heâd rename the White House to the Blue
Especially in your head
New research reveals the evolutionary accident that is the human chin The post Chins: The Evolutionary Accident Unique to Homo Sapiens appeared first on Nautilus.
Ski Jumping Pairs is my favorite Winter Olympics event. (Video by Riichiro Mashima.)
Tom Bellamy at Literary Hub: Desire is a curious thing. Some desires are easily satisfiedâthey pass quickly after they are successfully gratified, and rarely intrude into our consciousness. A lazy aft
The economics of clean energy âjust get better and betterâ, leaving opponents of the transition... The post Chris Stark: The economics of clean energy âjust get better and betterâ appeared first on Ca
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From designer Beth Mathews, a free âPrivate Property! No ICEâ sign you can print out for your shop or restaurant.
Statistical approximation â general intelligence
"Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels, no one swears by it, no one cites it... It appears wherever we take a close a
Religious ânonesâ may be less socially liberal than they used to be The post Does Belief in God, not Political Party, Drive Conservatism? appeared first on Nautilus.
The transatlantic alliance continues to fray
Why Private Market Investors Have Been Preparing for This Moment
What movies can you brag about seeing during their original run in the theater? Not big movies, more culty ones. Iâve got Iron Giant, American Movie, Run Lola Run, Hands on a Hardbody, and Breakinâ 2:
Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs arenât ordinary numbers. The post A New Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age first appea
Sheffield Made Plants gives advice on how to extend the life of cut flowers. I knew a third of these methods beforehand. Hoping I can make the bouquet from Valentineâs Day last a wee bit longer with n
âThe findings could save livesâ The post Scientists Create Map of Deadly Scorpion Hotspots  appeared first on Nautilus.
Tuesdays are all about academic (and practitioner) literature at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last weekâs edition including a look at...
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I have a new book coming out soon. The post Some Things That Didnât Happen appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
From a draft of the opening narration of Star Trek: âAssigned a five year patrol of our galaxy, the giant starship visits Earth colonies, regulates commerce, and explores strange new worldsâŚâ Iâm glad
A backer of Iran regime change efforts asked to have his ugly, misogynistic exchange with me published, and I am complying with his wishes.
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A universal childcare policy that ensures adequate care for all families will not means test or rely only on vouchers to subsidize private providers. It should be free for all, with government taking
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From PBS: Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme C
Kathryn Schulz at The New Yorker: The Romantics were Tennysonâs immediate predecessors, so perhaps it is unsurprising that Holmes returns to the theme in his new book, âThe Boundless Deep: Young Tenny
âŚ. The Most Of It He thought he kept the universe alone; For all the voice in answer he could wake Was but the mocking echo of his own From some tree-hidden cliff across the lake. Some morning from th
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