Science / Tech - Quillette (Page 4)

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 · 7 min read

Kazuo Ishiguro and the Uncanny Cascade

We live in a transitional period, when the possibility of being duped by incomprehensible intelligences—and thereby duping ourselves—has grown exponentially.

Anthony Eagan

7 Apr 2023 · 16 min read

Astrobiology: The Rise and Fall of a Nascent Science

Premature claims, distorted results, and ‘decolonizing’ the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Lawrence M. Krauss

6 Apr 2023 · 12 min read

The State of ‘Nature’

Mucking around in the messy business of political compromises and calculations puts scientists at a distance from what they really know.

Oliver Traldi

29 Mar 2023 · 7 min read

Gender Equity When It Suits

Organisations should apply the principle evenhandedly.

Anthony Jorm

13 Mar 2023 · 5 min read

The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills

Fatherless children are at higher risk of delinquency that undermines their own prospects and disrupts the communities in which they reside.

David C. Geary

7 Mar 2023 · 12 min read

Heavy Lifting

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela’s ‘Fit Nation’ offers a fascinating but frustratingly selective history of America’s physical fitness obsession.

Joe Lombardo

7 Mar 2023 · 9 min read

Artificially Intelligent Offense?

ChatGPT has been programmed to avoid giving accurate information if it may cause offense.

Lawrence M. Krauss

21 Feb 2023 · 11 min read

AI and the Transformation of the Human Spirit

The first stage of grief is denial, but despair is also misplaced.

Steven D. Hales

13 Feb 2023 · 12 min read

ChatGPT and the Future of the Professions

Professionals must learn to work with the machines or they will be replaced by them.

Sean Welsh

26 Jan 2023 · 12 min read

The Crypto Token Economy Is Second-Order Fraud

The entire industry is artifice built atop artifice.

Sohale Mortazavi

24 Jan 2023 · 16 min read

Hope, Trust, and Religious Faith

In the 1990s, religious Americans embraced science’s re-definition of spirituality. They would be unwise to repeat this mistake.

Ronald W. Dworkin

17 Jan 2023 · 10 min read

Experiences with Suicide

Coping with a uniquely painful kind of bereavement.

Art Kusserow

16 Jan 2023 · 8 min read

More Than Just a Social Construct

The fiction that race has no biological basis is more likely to exacerbate health disparities than narrow them.

Robert J. Morris

8 Jan 2023 · 8 min read