Humanity Should Split More Atoms The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear. Lea Booth 7 Jul 2023 · 8 min read
Animal Liberation Later Most consumers of meat know that animals matter, but they choose to act as if this isnāt the case. Matt Johnson 30 Jun 2023 · 13 min read
What Lies Beneath In āThe Hidden Spring,ā psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a theory of consciousness and the causal mechanisms from which it arises. Sean Welsh 23 Jun 2023 · 14 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 Rubensteinās real target in āAstrotopiaā is not the corporate space race, but the very ideas of humanism and progress. Robert Zubrin 30 May 2023 · 7 min read
AI: Letās 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 youāre 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 āLifeā? An excerpt from 'The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos.' Lawrence M. Krauss 17 Apr 2023 · 6 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 · 8 min read
Kazuo Ishiguro and the Uncanny Cascade We live in a transitional period, when the possibility of being duped by incomprehensible intelligencesāand thereby duping ourselvesāhas grown exponentially. Anthony Eagan 7 Apr 2023 · 17 min read
Astrobiology: The Rise and Fall of a Nascent Science Premature claims, distorted results, and ādecolonizingā the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Lawrence M. Krauss 6 Apr 2023 · 12 min read
