Tag: reading

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 5, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Cultural Anthropology
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, algorithms, animals, anthropomorphism, artificial intelligence, Brave New World, cars, chatbots, children, communication, concentration, culture, Delusion, dog care, electronic media, human minds, humans, love, Mind Matters News, Podosphaera leucotricha, polar bears, powdery mildew, Psychology Today, reading, relationships, Richard Stevens, science fiction, Tara Wells, tobacco, toys, trees}

With AI, Anthropomorphism Is High Stakes; But It May Be as Old as the Human Race

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 5, 2026

Computational Sciences, Cultural Anthropology

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Such relationships can lead to delusional spirals, including marrying a bot. One man proposed to his bot when he feared it would run out of memory. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 2, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Political Science
Technology
Tagged
, adults, americans, books, government, Harvard Gazette, humans, Jill Sonke, Nation’s Report Card, National Endowment for the Arts, reading, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rose Horowitch, Sam Leith, Sarah Kuta, Sebastian Faulks, Smithsonian Magazine, The AI Delusion, The Atlantic, The Spectator, thinking, twentysomethings, University of Florida, young people}

Abandonment of Books Would Have Devastating Consequences

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 2, 2026

Computational Sciences, Political Science, Technology

6}

If we reach the point where most people cannot muster that level of sustained attention, changes unwelcome to many of us are inevitable. Read More ›

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Date
August 4, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, air conditioning, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute Press, endowed by our creator, gifts, Ingram, John West, Lightning Source, paperbacks, Plato’s Revenge, reading, smoke, Stuart Burgess, summer, Ultimate Engineering, vacation, Washington State, wholesalers, wildfires}

Intelligent Design’s Summer Reading Sale — 40 Percent Discount While It Lasts!

_{Science & Culture
August 4, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

You’re heading to that beach vacation. Or maybe like us in Washington State, you’re sneezing and coughing from the sunbaked wildfire smoke. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 31, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, artificial inteligence, baseball, Ben Carson, books, ChatGPT, chess, Conservation of Information, education, Jaime Escalante, learning, literacy, LLMs, parents, reading, teachers, technology, transhumanism, Wall Street Journal, Zoom}

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

_{William A. Dembski
October 31, 2025

Computational Sciences, Technology

20}

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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Author
Amanda Witt

Date
July 22, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Blake Lemoine, chatbot, common sense, companionship, consciousness, conversation, emotions, fear, Google, humans, LaMDA, meditation, Non-Computable You, psychologists, reading, Robert J. Marks II, sentience, spirituality, Washington Post, Wesley J. Smith}

Chatbots Might Chat, But They’re Not People

_{Amanda Witt
July 22, 2022

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A Google engineer claims a chatbot meditates, believes itself to have a soul, has emotions like fear, and enjoys reading. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 17, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, automobiles, British Columbia, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, conversation, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, fossils, Great Minds with Michael Medved, intelligent design, interview, Louis Agassiz, Michael Medved, Neo-Darwinism, nihilism, podcast, reading, Royal Society, Stephen Meyer, writing}

Meyer, Medved on Great Minds — Cambrian Explosion, Burgess Shale, and More

_{David Klinghoffer
May 17, 2018

Intelligent Design

3}

Animal forms come and go, but what links them as “acts of mind” (as Agassiz put it) is a “continuity of ideas,” not, says Meyer, the physical continuity that Darwin asserted. Read More ›