Category: Insight

2024 Solar Eclipse

The word “eclipse” actually comes from the Greek word meaning “abandonment”. A once-in-a-lifetime event, the…

AI and the Future of Work

The new Claude that was just released defines itself as self-aware. Tomas Pueyo in Uncharted…

The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé

Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim, and Daniel Boguslaw at The Intercept: Anat Schwartz had a problem….

The Voynich Manuscript (Video)

This manuscript from Middle Ages has not been decyphered since 400 years, and modern AI…

AI Is Everywhere—Including Countless Applications You’ve Likely Never Heard Of

By Niusha Shafiabady at Singularity Hub: Artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere. Right now, generative AI…

How Much Life Has Ever Existed on Earth, and How Much Ever Will?

Peter Crockford in Singularity Hub: All organisms are made of living cells. While it is difficult…

UFO Belief

Even when it’s not explicitly religious, belief in alien visitors resembles our oldest ways of…

Lessons From the Past on How to Beat Disinformation

The story of the British man who tricked Nazi Germany: Sefton Delmer took on Hitler’s…

‘Artificial Intelligence’ is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent

by Joseph Shieber: Discussions of artificial intelligence are hard to avoid. A recent Pew study,…

Scientists Will Never Find a Copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the Brain

Because your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your…

The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet

There’s this group of nerds called ICANN—the Internet. Its a non-profit Corporation for Assigned Names…

Inside the Crisis at Google

Culture war narratives give Google’s organizational coherence a bit too much credit. There’s more to…