What we know of ourselves in a scientific age — and what we don’t
Christine Rosen’s The Extinction of Experience looks at how two decades of digital tech have alienated us from our bodies and the world
Why rationalists can’t answer the doomers or the boomers
The American dream has always meant living in our own fantasy worlds. Maybe it’s time to really go for it.
“Language models are just glorified autocomplete” has been the critics’ refrain — but reinforcement learning is proving them wrong. New breakthroughs could follow.
The boom in amateur therapists is hurting our children, a new book argues.
How psychedelics went from counterculture to grind culture