AMA | October 2023
Welcome to the October 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who […]
252 | Hannah Ritchie on Keeping Hope for the Planet Alive
Our planet and its environment are in bad shape, in all sorts of ways. Those of us who want to
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251 | Rosemary Braun on Uncovering Patterns in Biological Complexity
Biological organisms are paradigmatic emergent systems. That atoms of which they are made mindlessly obey the local laws of physics;
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250 | Brendan Nyhan on Navigating The Information Ecosystem
The modern world inundates us with both information and misinformation. What are the forces that conspire to make misinformation so
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249 | Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds
The study of cognition and sentience would be greatly abetted by the discovery of intelligent alien beings, who presumably developed
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AMA | September 2023
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248 | Yejin Choi on AI and Common Sense
Over the last year, AI large-language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have demonstrated a remarkable ability to carry on human-like conversations
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247 | Samuel Bowles on Economics, Cooperation, and Inequality
Economics, much like thermodynamics, is a story of collective behavior arising from the interactions of many individual constituents. The big
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246 | David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization
You might remember the somewhat bizarre worries that swept through certain circles back in 2012, based on the end of
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AMA | August 2023
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