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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…
Sach Wry
A newspaper says news is special, it's not like packaged food. Oh, but it is. And in ways that can inform better journalism.
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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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A community of extremely talented and well-meaning people intend to do good better. What might they learn if they lived where they want to have an…
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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…
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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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Black English, Indian English, Hinglish and Singlish, all have different relationships to Standard English and Globish. What’s a unifying way to think…
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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…
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Chatter about deglobalization and allied blocs is swelling. This time around, a more honest ‘accounting’ of the interests of nations might give us a…
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Respect for religion and the religious can better reconcile with science, if it keeps up with updated ideas (from other sections of the NYT!).
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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…
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On representation, inclusion and eligibility, columnists make evitable errors that preclude dialogue across reasonable disagreement.
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