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All of this discussion leaves unanswered the question of how we decide if something represents a breakthrough — after all, there isn’t an international court of arbitration for creativity.
Overreliance on slides has contributed to the absurd belief that expecting and requiring students to read books, attend classes, take notes and do homework is unreasonable.
This can be avoided with a moratorium, but then we’re back to square one. This sparks a near infinite regress of bad options.
If the critics are correct that human enhancement is unethical, dangerous or both, then yes, emergence in China would be worrying.
But the real reason for Duckworth’s genius is that she’s been able to do all of this based on shaky science.
We should start at the beginning, which is to say, conception. That magical moment when sperm meets egg holds an important insight.
Because of its emphasis on the heritability of acquired characteristics, Lysenkoism found itself at home and became an official dogma of Communist ideology.
If the AI that controls other players evolved, it may go through the same steps that made our brain work.
All these specific conditions (loud volume, correct support, a vowel that works) must be met in order to sing a high note.
It will be important to see how many researchers and journals indeed opt to publish null-findings, and whether and how that affects their impact factor and ranking over time.
Humans, like all organisms, are the product of evolution. And what evolution ‘cares’ about is genetic propagation: how many genes are passed from one generation to the next.
In the early 20th century, this led to a split in the field of statistics, with intense debates taking place about whose methods and ways of thinking were better.
Biosocial criminologists endure reputational attacks often. The field of criminology is not an especially cordial place to work.
It implies the effortlessness in which a fragment of a song, arriving in the inner ear without conscious effort, can continually loop and stick around.
Blockchain is important because it provides a way to communicate electronically that mimics face-to-face transacting in the physical world.