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Edification vs. Enhancement — The Non-Transhumanist Vision of AI in Education

Edify your kids, don’t enhance them. We are organic beings, not gadgets to be improved with newer and better modules. Read More ›
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The War on 2 + 2 = 4

The people weighing in against 2 + 2 = 4 are not mathematicians but in education departments where they teach the teaching of mathematics. Read More ›
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Life as a Half-Full Glass

A 2018 book by biologist Nathan Lents is full of complaints about our bodies. Professor Lents has been answered in detail already. Read More ›
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“Are We Spiritual Machines?”

The event at which I moderated the discussion about Ray Kurzweil’s book was the 1998 George Gilder Telecosm conference. Read More ›
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Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger
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Adam and Eve and “Mainstream Science”

“The category ‘mainstream science’ sounds plausibly neutral, capturing the sort of objective knowledge to which any well-educated adult should assent.” Read More ›

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