Category: Insight
Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness
There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness,…
Random Thoughts: About a Cool Check, POI, Etc.
Irshad Salim: 20+ years ago in the early 2000s, my neighbor Narku from Ghana who…
AI: A Bridge Toward Diverse Intelligence
Today’s debates about artificial intelligence (AI) fail to grapple with deeper questions about who we…
The Crucial Building Blocks of Life on Earth Form More Easily in Outer Space
by Christian Schroeder at Singularity Hub: The origin of life on Earth is still enigmatic,…
Exploding Stars Are Rare—but if One Was Close Enough, It Could Threaten Life on Earth
Johannes Kepler observed the last supernova in the Milky Way in 1604, so in a…
How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data?
Anil Ananthaswamy in Quanta: In January 2022, researchers at OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, reported that these…
“I Watched 15 Hours of COVID Origins Arguments So You Don’t Have to”
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: Saar Wilf is an ex-Israeli entrepreneur. Since 2016, he’s…
Viruses Finally Reveal Their Complex Social Life
Carl Zimmer in Quanta: Ever since viruses came to light in the late 1800s, scientists…
Inspiring Quotes From Famous Visual Artists
From cave art to contemporary art, humans have created the most outstanding works of art…
What We Get Wrong About Poverty
Nathan Cheek at Psyche: Imagine this upsetting scenario: two women are both suffering physical abuse…
Habsora: Israel Military AI System “a Mass Assassination Factory”
A recent report claims another system called Where’s Daddy? monitors targets and alerts the military…
Is the Universe Really a ‘Dark Forest’ Full of Hostile Aliens in Hiding?
By Tony Milligan at Singularity Hub: We have no good reason to believe that aliens…