The Google Memo: A Counterfactual Response
An employee offers an alternative take on the notorious Google Memo.
Publius
· 4 min read
Science / Tech
A collection of 318 posts
Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies
In this essay, we’ll provide some background on the STEM controversy and consider multiple factors that might contribute to these sex differences.
David C. Geary and Gijsbert Stoet
· 16 min read
Lawsuit Exposes Internet Giant’s Internal Culture of Intolerance
The willingness to displace all of the other people on a panel, people who presumably worked hard to earn those speaking opportunities, displays a level of ego that is striking.
Gideon Scopes
· 12 min read
The Internet Is Not a Children’s TV Channel
The internet is not a TV station, a babysitter, a shopping mall, a kindergarten, or a support group.
Matthew Mott
· 6 min read
Nikola Tesla: The Extraordinary Life of a Modern Prometheus
The match for each, of course, is Tesla. Surprised? Most people have heard his name, but few know much about his place in modern science and technology.
Richard Gunderman
· 6 min read
Plenty of Room for AI-nxiety
Things change once we leave the world of infallible humans who can create a perfectly benevolent general intelligence.
Christopher Reuenthal
· 10 min read
Using the Blockchain to Fight Corruption
Blockchain technology has the power to render the dealings of businesses and nation states into open books, purged of secrecy and the privacy of elite cabals.
Alexander Blum
· 6 min read
The Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement
Technologies arising out of our improved understanding may be developed to enhance IQ and considers some of the ethical questions that gives rise to.
Toby Young
· 7 min read
Rational AI-nxiety: A Counter-Argument
Is there a dark side to artificial intelligence? Many people, including famous science and technology leaders, assert that advancements in AI should be approached with extreme caution.
Anna Marieta Moise
· 11 min read
Romanticizing the Hunter-Gatherer
It is important to note that this does not take into account the difficulty or danger involved in the types of tasks undertaken by hunter-gatherers.
William Buckner
· 14 min read
Irrational AI-nxiety
Concerns over the potential harm of new technologies are often sensible, but they should be grounded in fact, not flights of fearful fancy.
Edward Clint
· 9 min read
The Politics of Science: Why Scientists Might Not Say What the Evidence Supports
The case for deferring to scientific consensus on politically contentious topics is much weaker. This is true because what scientists publicly say may differ from what they privately believe.
Jonathan Anomaly
· 6 min read
Why Today's Teens Aren't In Any Hurry to Grow Up
To figure out what’s really going on, it’s worth taking a broader look at today’s teens – a generation of kids I call “iGen” – and the environment they’re living in.
Jean Twenge
· 5 min read
Smearing Free Thought In Silicon Valley
Damore stresses that these are differences at a statistical level between large populations and that we should not assume that they are descriptive of any particular individual.
Gideon Scopes
· 8 min read
Is Sex a Dirty Word?
Within the lens of Western culture, it is sex and not money that is the primary root of all evil.
Craig Bielert and David C Geary
· 21 min read