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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245 | Solo: The Crisis in Physics
Physics is in crisis, what else is new? That’s what we hear in certain corners, anyway, usually pointed at “fundamental”
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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Time
Is metaphysics like physics, but cooler? Or is it a relic of an outdated, pre-empirical way of thinking about the
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243 | Joseph Silk on Science on the Moon
The Earth’s atmosphere is good for some things, like providing something to breathe. But it does get in the way
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242 | David Krakauer on Complexity, Agency, and Information
Complexity scientists have been able to make an impressive amount of progress despite the fact that there is not universal
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AMA | July 2023
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241 | Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations
Last year’s Nobel Prize for experimental tests of Bell’s Theorem was the first Nobel in the foundations of quantum mechanics
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