Science / Tech - Quillette (Page 2)

Beware Psychotherapy That Works

Much has been written about the problems caused by therapy when it fails. Less discussed are the problems it can cause when it succeeds.

Steve Salerno

8 Aug 2023 · 11 min read

Faith Goes to Switzerland

When should we allow a person to hasten her own death?

Brent M. Kious / Margaret Pabst Battin

7 Aug 2023 · 24 min read

AIs Will Be Our Mind Children

We must free our artificial descendants to adapt to their new worlds and choose what they will become.

Robin Hanson

6 Aug 2023 · 7 min read

How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’?

A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film.

Robert Zubrin

1 Aug 2023 · 9 min read

Humanity Should Split More Atoms

The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear.

Lea Booth

7 Jul 2023 · 7 min read

Animal Liberation Later

Most consumers of meat know that animals matter, but they choose to act as if this isn’t the case.

Matt Johnson

30 Jun 2023 · 12 min read

What Lies Beneath

In ‘The Hidden Spring,’ psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a theory of consciousness and the causal mechanisms from which it arises.

Sean Welsh

23 Jun 2023 · 13 min read

If The Findings Detract, You Must Retract

How dissent is policed in social science.

Jukka Savolainen

18 Jun 2023 · 10 min read

Aliens...Again!

This time, they always say, it could be different.

Michael Shermer

8 Jun 2023 · 10 min read

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