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Doctor’s Diary: I Couldn’t Put Plato’s Revenge Down

I rarely read a book as quickly as I read this text, and I virtually never read a book twice. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Human Nature of Neanderthals Supported Again

Extended caregiving for a strongly disabled child is a highly non-Darwinian behavior that indeeds suggests compassion on a level only found in humans. Read More ›
Neanderthal skull
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Fossil Friday: New Evidence for the Human Nature of Neanderthals

What is at stake is not just some esoteric species problem in the ivory tower, but the very question of human nature and human uniqueness. Read More ›
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Photo: Robert J. Marks and Walter Myers at COSM conference, by Nathan Jacobson.

Must AI Inevitably Degenerate into Nonsense, through “Model Collapse”?

AI works because humans are real creative beings, and AIs are built using gigantic amounts of diverse and creative datasets made by humans. Read More ›

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