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
Science / Tech
A collection of 371 posts
The Politics of Science — 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
Today's Teens Aren't in a 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
The Internet's Infrastructure Is the New Battleground for Free Speech
This robustness does still exist, but only at a fairly low level, where raw packets of data are routed between numerical addresses.
Matthew Mott
· 4 min read
How Animal Genes Go to Battle to Dominate Offspring
One consequence of these genetic battles is the effect on reproductive compatibility within a species.
The Policy of Censorship Is Extreme — Even for Google
There is no room for nuance, no room for subtlety. Feelings supersede facts. The emotions of the most fragile must be soothed at any cost, even if the truth is a casualty.
Gideon Scopes
· 8 min read
Genetics, Fear, and the Slippery Slope of Moral Authoritarianism
Many warnings were offered up to us about how well-meaning scientists and policy makers could slip into using genetic information maleficently.
Charleen Adams
· 9 min read
The Case for Psychedelics
Psychedelics are incredible tools whose significance lies in their ability to catalyze the power of the human mind for healing, creativity, and spiritual consciousness.
W. Keith Campbell and Brandon Weiss
· 14 min read
The Google Memo — The Economist on Nothing
This may come as a surprise to those who developed their opinion about it, not by reading the memo itself but by absorbing accounts of it in the popular press.
Patrick Lee Miller
· 27 min read
Science, Sin, and Paternalism
The message is loud and clear: sugar is bad, government regulation is good, and now we have the science to prove it.
Matthew Mott
· 5 min read
The Google Diversity Memo — Still Stereotyping, Just Not in the Way You Think
What Google needs to do is to tailor its diversity policies towards the men and women who work at Google.
Renee Adams and Vanitha Ragunathan
· 4 min read
Stop Equating Science with Truth
The message that liberates women is not: men and women are the same, and anyone who tells you different is oppressing you.
Heather E. Heying
· 7 min read
The Google Memo — Four Scientists Respond
Psychological differences make equal outcomes impossible. Equality or diversity. You can’t have both.
Lee Jussim, Geoffrey Miller, David P Schmitt, Debra Soh
· 14 min read