Overcoming Bias: Why Not?
In a recent New Atlantis essay, “In Defense of Prejudice, Sort of,” I criticized what I call the new rationalism:...
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Civil Rights, Eugenics, and Why It’s “Being a Good Human” to Kill Your Daughters
As Adam very kindly described, I appeared on Al Jazeera’s The Stream last week to talk about transhumanism with...
Arguing with Transhumanists
Yesterday, our co-blogger and New Atlantis senior editor Ari Schulman discussed transhumanism on The Stream, a...
Robin Hanson, Proudly Fighting the Good War Against Baby Girls
A recent issue of The New Atlantis features the article “The Global War Against Baby Girls,” by Nicholas Eberstadt,...
Robin Hanson on Why We Should “Forget 9/11”
A few days ago, on the tenth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attack, George Mason University economics...
Robert Ettinger (1918-2011)
Robert Ettinger, whose 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality kicked off the cryonics movement, has died at the age of...
Are “Hostile Wives” Too Cool Toward Science?
I recently reviewed Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum’s book, Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy...
Make scientists cooperate to usher in the Singularity?
Day two of the 2009 Singularity Summit is back underway here in New York. They front-loaded the summit today with short...