Human civilization is only a few thousand years old (depending on how we count). So if civilization will ultimately last […]
111 | Nick Bostrom on Anthropic Selection and Living in a Simulation Read More
Physicists have traditionally simplified systems as much as possible, in order to shed light on fundamental properties. But small, simple
110 | Neil Johnson on Complexity, Conflict, and Infodemiology Read More
It’s easy to foresee that technological progress will change how we live; it’s much harder to anticipate exactly how. Self-driving
109 | Jason Torchinsky on Our Self-Driving Future Read More
We are living, in case you haven’t noticed, in a world full of bullshit. It’s hard to say whether the
108 | Carl Bergstrom on Information, Disinformation, and Bullshit Read More
Despite occasional and important disagreements, most people are in rough agreement about what it means to be moral, to do
107 | Russ Shafer-Landau on the Reality of Morality Read More
Someday, most likely, we will encounter life that is not as we know it. We might find it elsewhere in
106 | Stuart Bartlett on What “Life” Means Read More
We gather empirical evidence about the nature of the world through our senses, and use that evidence to construct an
105 | Ann-Sophie Barwich on the Science and Philosophy of Smell Read More
Creativity is one of those things that we all admire but struggle to define or make concrete. Music provides a
104 | David Rosen and Scott Miles on the Neuroscience of Music and Creativity Read More
Cooking is art, but it’s also very much science — mostly chemistry, but with important contributions from physics and biology.
103 | J. Kenji López-Alt on Cooking As and With Science Read More
The best chess and Go players in the world aren’t human beings any more; they’re artificially-intelligent computer programs. But the
102 | Maria Konnikova on Poker, Psychology, and Reason Read More