1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (646+ words) At Fast Company, we learn that “Bill Gates has a dire warning about AI,” publicized at the Telluride Film Festival. He prophesied “mass unemployment and major social, political, and economic upheaval across the globe.” His solution? In a 6000-word essay,…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (556+ words) Panpsychism has often appeared to be a strategy for rescuing materialism: We have minds, but so what? So do electrons! What about it? While Calvo now runs the Minimal Intelligence Lab at the University of Murcia in Spain, he started…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (617+ words) First, getting past the drama: Data centers have a huge energy footprint. But so do cars and planes, if we look at the total environment bill for each. And there is no serious move to abolish either of them on…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (525+ words) There has been a lot of buzz in the last few days that Anthropic’s chatbot Claude is making big breakthroughs in math. The most recent claim concerns Fermat’s Last Theorem. The Theorem1 says that it’s impossible to find three whole numbers…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (217+ words) We’ve been writing about AI companies buying rare books and destroying them in order to keep feeding more information to the AI chatbots. We learned a new word for it too, destructive scanning. At the The Guardian, last month, Kathryn…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (211+ words) The Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (ITEST) is sponsoring a webinar, “Revisiting ‘Computers, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality’ in Light of Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas,” on October 10, 2025, 11:00 am to noon EST. Magnifica Humanitas (25 May 2026), Leo’s first…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (736+ words) Exceptional nerds can uncover solutions that others overlook. Test yourself. When her husband needed to have his gallbladder removed, she refused to do the operation. I have actually told you her unusual name in the information above. What is it?...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (321+ words) Alex O’Connor, who describes himself as a former atheist/agnostic, appeared on Closer to Truth in a segment called “Why Emergence Cannot Explain Consciousness.” It is Part 2 in a series of 8. [1:50 min] Why Strong Emergence Cannot Explain Consciousness O’Connor: I…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (425+ words) Meta, the tech giant formerly known simply as Facebook, will pay upward of $17.1 billion in settlement funds to the 29 states that jointly sued the corporation back in 2023, per CBS. The suit was levied because of Meta’s disregard for the mental…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (386+ words) At The Eternally Radical Idea, academic freedom fighter Greg Lukianoff reminds us of how the printing press changed history, inviting comparison with the internet: But all the printing press really did was bring more people into the global conversation — not…...