Science / Tech - Quillette

A Declaration of Decadence

Mary Jane Rubenstein’s real target in “Astrotopia” is not the corporate space race, but the very ideas of humanism and progress.

Robert Zubrin

30 May 2023 · 6 min read

AI: Let’s Worry About the Right Things

There are valid concerns and there are unfounded fears. Let us separate the two.

Brendan Craig

12 May 2023 · 13 min read

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

The American Physical Society views the existence of White Privilege in physics as being both scientific and not scientific.

Lawrence M. Krauss

5 May 2023 · 5 min read

ChatGPT, Lobster Gizzards, and Intelligence

Chat knows more, gizzards are more complex, and you’re more intelligent.

Frederick R. Prete

1 May 2023 · 10 min read

The Horseless Comanche

The new world of AI promises great peril but also great potential.

Aidan Harte

20 Apr 2023 · 8 min read

How Do We Define ‘Life’?

An excerpt from 'The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos.'

Lawrence M. Krauss

17 Apr 2023 · 5 min read

What Are Reasonable AI Fears?

Although there are some valid concerns, an AI moratorium would be misguided.

Robin Hanson

14 Apr 2023 · 13 min read

Our New, Subscription-Based World

Like Substack, Quillette is hoping to provide readers with more engagement, and less anger.

The Quillette Editorial Board

10 Apr 2023 · 7 min read

Kazuo Ishiguro and the Uncanny Cascade

We live in a transitional period, when the possibility of being duped by incomprehensible intelligences—and thereby duping ourselves—has grown exponentially.

Anthony Eagan

7 Apr 2023 · 16 min read

Astrobiology: The Rise and Fall of a Nascent Science

Premature claims, distorted results, and ‘decolonizing’ the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Lawrence M. Krauss

6 Apr 2023 · 12 min read

The State of ‘Nature’

Mucking around in the messy business of political compromises and calculations puts scientists at a distance from what they really know.

Oliver Traldi

29 Mar 2023 · 5 min read

Gender Equity When It Suits

Organisations should apply the principle evenhandedly.

Anthony Jorm

13 Mar 2023 · 5 min read

The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills

Fatherless children are at higher risk of delinquency that undermines their own prospects and disrupts the communities in which they reside.

David C. Geary

7 Mar 2023 · 12 min read

Heavy Lifting

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela’s ‘Fit Nation’ offers a fascinating but frustratingly selective history of America’s physical fitness obsession.

Joe Lombardo

7 Mar 2023 · 9 min read

Artificially Intelligent Offense?

ChatGPT has been programmed to avoid giving accurate information if it may cause offense.

Lawrence M. Krauss

21 Feb 2023 · 11 min read