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Grok as Hitler 2.0 Reveals Hard Limits to AI

We mustn’t attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, incompetence, corruption, or blind ambition. Read More ›
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Photo: All Angels' Church pulpit stairs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Yair Haklai, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Undiscovered Country… Discovered?

Such cases may have been around since prehistoric times. Some researchers even suggest that they may have given rise to the popular artistic images of angels. Read More ›
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Photo: Sigmund Freud, by Max Halberstadt, via Wikimedia Commons.

Replace Psychiatrists with AI?

"A Belgian man, after weeks of dialogues with his chatbot 'confidante,' committed suicide after it encouraged him to sacrifice himself for climate change." Read More ›
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Getting “Intelligent Design” Backward

That framing is backwards, or perhaps upside-down, probably in order to make the paper by Granville Sewell sound unreasonable. Read More ›
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What Explains the “I Suck” Principle?

Writing at Mind Matters, Michael Egnor dissects another illustration of the “I Suck” impulse at work. It’s from his fellow neuroscientist Steven Novella. Read More ›
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A Strange Way of Speaking About the Brain

A peculiar habit of disassociation is widespread among many who study the brain. Read More ›

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