July 2, 2024
Open Wallets, Empty Hearts
Shouldn’t charity serve the needs of recipients, not givers? Isn’t it better to do more good than less? Shouldn’t...
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July 2, 2024
The Refs Are Working Us
“Not true, Governor Romney.” President Barack Obama, widely considered to have lost his first debate against Mitt...
July 2, 2024
Who Wants to Believe in UFOs?
Over the past several years, our relationship with the UFO menace has taken on the nervous, hopeful expectancy of a...
July 2, 2024
The Era of Predictive AI Is Almost Over
Artificial intelligence is a Rorschach test. When OpenAI’s GPT-4 was released in March 2023, Microsoft researchers...
July 2, 2024
Why We Need Amistics for AI
“The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.” We were doomed. All we could do was crash resources...
April 12, 2024
Narcissistic Depressive Technoscience
As far back as we look in history, we find man’s view of himself characterized by a deep ambivalence. “Much is...
April 12, 2024
AI Is a Hall of Mirrors
Today we launched ChatGPT,” a chirpy Sam Altman posted on Twitter one day in the fall of 2022. Altman went on to...
April 12, 2024
Taming IVF’s Wild West
For the first time since the Bush-era stem cell debates, reproductive technology has taken center stage in American...
April 12, 2024
Golden Eggs
It’s pretty simple. People want children who look like them, who will be healthy and succeed in life,” said Lillian...
April 12, 2024
Embryos as Schrödinger’s Persons
The fertility industry has put itself in the awkward position of selling persons as a product. That is the problem at...