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Deeply coded in our DNA are interesting survival mechanisms that have evolved over thousands of years. In an article by Elizabeth Kolbert featured in the magazine The New Yorker, she

The gladiator format isn’t always conducive to shared understanding, but alternatives are gaining ground.

What’s behind the dangerous new notion that democracy should be left to the well-educated.

From TPM Reader FP … I've worked for decades on language models, as a researcher in academia and industry, and as a research manager whose teams have brought…

OpenAI's conversational AI chatbot ChatGPT exposes some of our own failings when it comes to making arguments.

Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media

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The impetus for the creation of this blog, lo these 12+ years ago, was growing alarm at the rising tide of pseudoscience then, such as quackery, antivaccine misinformation, creationism, Holocaust denial, and many other forms of attacks on science, history, and reality itself. I had cut my teeth on deconstructing such antiscience and pseudoscience on Usenet, that vast, unfiltered, poorly organized mass of discussion forums that had been big in the 1990s but were dying by 12 years ago, having turn...

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