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AGI, brain-machine interfaces, 'uploads' etc. can all wait. We have a bigger problem: we don’t yet know if wetware brains should assess predictive algorithms at all!
A newspaper says news is special, it's not like packaged food. Oh, but it is. And in ways that can inform better journalism.
Chatter about deglobalization and allied blocs is swelling. This time around, a more honest ‘accounting’ of the interests of nations might give us a more stable world.
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There are indeed limits to science that leave a gap for faith to step in. Just not the sort you'd think.

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For couples with moral doubts about raising a family in the backdrop of climate change, two New York Times columns took a blinkered American view to…
Abortion as a question is so complex that even the most nuanced and balanced conversations, even two such conversations combined, can leave things out.
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Are we overestimating the machines or misprizing mimesis? What if we're ill-equipped to tell! At least, let’s give the children in your life due credit…
Respect for religion and the religious can better reconcile with science, if it keeps up with updated ideas (from other sections of the NYT!).
Inflation might be the one thing consumers of news care most about. Explainers from economists tend to slide into just-so stories. Care in bridging that…
On representation, inclusion and eligibility, columnists make evitable errors that preclude dialogue across reasonable disagreement.
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A critique of New York Times columns with a wonkish perspective from the Global South. Why NYT? Because it really tries.
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