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Why Fake News Flourishes: Emitting Mere Information Is Easy, But Creating Actual Knowledge Is Hard

Digital media, by contrast, had hardly any paying customers and lured advertisers with fleeting “impressions” and “engagement,” launching a no-holds-barred race to attract eyeballs.

Jonathan Rauch

25 Jun 2021 · 9 min read

The Problem with the Effective Altruism Campaign

This critique by no means denounces meliorism, the belief that the world can be made better by human effort.

Christian O'Connor

27 Feb 2019 · 4 min read

Understanding China's Confucian Edge in the Global AI Race

China now stands poised to lead the world in the development of artificial-intelligence technologies, which rely, for their machine-learning algorithms.

Craig Smith

14 Feb 2019 · 5 min read

In Praise of Ignorance

To have a chance at solving our problems we must not condemn each other for openly stating our ignorance.

Simon Cullen

25 Dec 2016 · 5 min read