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Great Minds: How Darwinism and AI Are Oversold, Often at the Same Time

The Center for Science & Culture and the Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence share more than the commonality of being sponsored by Discovery Institute. Read More ›
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Lennox, Marks: Uploading the Mind Would Mean Eternal Death

Dreams of god-like immortality achieved through uploading the mind have a serious drawback, one among others. A computer operates algorithmically, strictly so, whereas the mind does not. Read More ›
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Transhumanism, the Lazy Way to Human “Improvement”

Peter Clarke claims that I was “clearly fearmongering,” but then admits, “this depiction is fairly accurate.” Okay, then. Read More ›
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Marks on the AI Church: “The Singularity Is Far”

New religions, including one centered on Artificial Intelligence, follow a stereotyped pattern. Read More ›
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Why We Don’t Evolve Software: A Computer Scientist Considers Darwinian Theory

Software engineers are trained in design principles, and also have real experience of how complex functional systems appear and change constructively. Read More ›
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Unbelievable: Science Fiction, Science Fact, and How to Tell the Difference

My box of books just arrived. Now you know what all of my family and best local friends are getting for Christmas this year. Read More ›
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Photo: Robert Marks and Michael Medved, by Nathan Jacobson.

Great Minds: Marks, Medved on Human Exceptionalism’s Two Frontiers

There are fundamental, unbridgeable chasms on either side, animal and machine. The capacity for creativity, for one thing, stands permanently outside the reach of algorithms. Read More ›
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Photo: Robert Marks and Michael Medved, by Nathan Jacobson.

Great Minds: Robert Marks, Michael Medved on the Limits of Computation

There’s no danger of computers ruling us, but there is a peril in employing them to greatly magnify the impact of our own errors. Read More ›
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Denton, Gilder: The Biology of Surprise

Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism is just a blunt recipe, an algorithm, and it can only select what is immediately functional. Read More ›
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Gilder on Surprise, Creativity, and Human Exceptionalism

It’s strikes me that this is a difference between design and Darwinian thinking. Read More ›

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