Month: June 2022
June 26, 2022
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Perspective | The Trump court limited women’s rights using 19th-century standards
“In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the Supreme Court justices that President Donald Trump appointed to reverse Roe v. Wade have just made good on…”
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On NYT Magazine on AI: Resist the Urge to be Impressed
“Context On April 15, 2022, Steven Johnson published a piece in the New York Times Magazine entitled “A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?”…”
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“I suspect many of you saw the coverage and commentary last week about the Google researcher who believes one of the company’s large language models, LaMDA, has…”
June 25, 2022
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A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?
“Credit… Artwork by Nikita Iziev OpenAI’s GPT-3 and other neural nets can now write original prose with mind-boggling fluency — a development that could have…”
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“W hat would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction? In the Book of Genesis, we are told that the descendants of Noah built a great…”
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Non-Human Words: On GPT-3 as a Philosophical Laboratory
“I n May 2020, Open AI released GPT -3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3), an artificial intelligence system based on deep learning techniques that can…”
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‘Fools, drunks, and the United States of America’
“From a cartoon by William Charles during the War of 1812, President James Madison, at right, teaching John Bull and the invading forces of King George III a…”
June 24, 2022
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A Branch of Government Self-Destructs
“Dred Scott, subject of the notorious ruling by Chief Justice Roger Taney that current Justice Clarence Thomas quoted approvingly in a ruling this week. (Getty…”
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“The scene in front of the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022. With one decision on Friday, the Supreme Court ended the 49-year-old right to an abortion that the…”
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“Rebecca Traister is a writer-at-large for New York Magazine and the Cut and the author of Good and Mad , about the history and political power of women’s anger.…”
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America Is Growing Apart, Possibly for Good
“I t may be time to stop talking about “red” and “blue” America. That’s the provocative conclusion of Michael Podhorzer, a longtime political strategist for…”
June 22, 2022
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January 6 Was Only the Beginning
““Although no one believed in civil war, the air reeked of it…” —Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, recalling 1860 1. It’s Cool We watched her die before…”
June 21, 2022
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A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems
“D uring the holiday week, I spent a frigid afternoon standing in a long line outside the local library to pick up a rapid COVID test. Lines for essential goods…”
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“I have contrarian ideas on intellectual property. I’ve come to think that the natural home of ideas is in the commons, that they should not be “owned” for very…”
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“By Sam Kahn. Capetown in 1888 via Look and Learn . In the ’90s, Edward Albee was a bit stuck. He had an idea for a play in which a successful doctor, “having…”
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“Almost too beautiful to be true”: Inside Hayao Miyazaki’s genius
“Words Jyni Ong — Date 24 January 2022 Tags Features Animation Film Book Exhibition 2D Kids The lauded co-founder of Studio Ghibli has taken animated film to new…”
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“Neither you nor I have consented to the genes we inherited. Our general makeup was dictated to us by our ancestors. I had no say in my allergies, my short…”
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Company Culture Is Really Important, But The Way We Talk About It Is Wrong
“What Makes A Culture “Bad” Isn’t Just That You Don’t Like It I won’t invest in a startup that doesn’t care about its culture. Because a culture is going to form…”
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Is Web3 culture similar to Amway culture?
“meme by u/Lveryyyy I’ve generally been more bullish on web3 than on Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s core narrative of replacing fiat money is obviously false, and it has big…”
June 20, 2022
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Is Old Music Killing New Music?
“I had a hunch that old songs were taking over music streaming platforms—but even I was shocked when I saw the most recent numbers. According to MRC Data , old…”
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“O ne morning last summer , I woke up and announced, to no one in particular: “I choose to be happy today!” Next I journaled about the things I was grateful for…”
June 19, 2022
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Bottlenecks in Rocket Engine Production May Slow the Space Economy Flywheel
“Time for a deep dive into the technologies that may make or break another order of magnitude drop in launch cost. Key Takeaways: Today’s proliferation of rocket…”
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How the Pandemic Broke Social Interaction
“Everyone is acting so weird! The most obvious recent weirdness was when Will Smith smacked Chris Rock at the Oscars. But if you look closely, people have been…”
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Returning To The Office Is Creating The Great Reckoning
“Despite years of proof that remote work is both productive and a net positive for workers, Google is demanding a good chunk of employees return to the office at…”
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Is Human Intelligence Simple? Part 2: Genetics
“Is there a “secret sauce”, a relatively simple physiological mechanism, that enabled human intelligence? If a few new brain-related mutations arose around the…”
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Michael Gerson: Saying goodbye to my child, the youngster
“Eventually, the cosmologists assure us, our sun and all suns will consume their fuel, violently explode and then become cold and dark. Matter itself will…”
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Pattie Maes and the foundations of social networks | Hidden Heroes
“Pattie Maes and the foundations of social networks | Hidden Heroes Intelligent Agent. How Pattie Maes almost invented social media BY STEVEN JOHNSON…”
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The Unravelling of an Expert on Serial Killers
“A brother and a sister are standing on the balcony of a sixth-floor apartment in Monte Carlo. It’s the nineteen-seventies, in May, the afternoon of the Grand…”
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Community Safety and Ignoring the World
“Security reports from other sites are welcome. Why aren’t safety reports? One of the most fundamental triumphs of the last few decades of open source culture is…”
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How a TV Series Undersells the Danger of the Sex Pistols
“A music critic who teaches college students about the punk movement takes stock of “Pistol,” the new FX drama about the 1970s British punk band. Send any friend…”