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