What if dark matter is tiny black holes?

Wharton's Michael Platt discusses the biological basis of gambling amid the proliferation of online gambling sites.

How do genocides end? In most cases, there are two options. Either the perpetrators accomplish their goal, or a military force stops them and accountability ensues.

Gert Biesta on the real reason we should be wary of AI in education.

Are you there, Claude? It’s me, Margaret. You should perhaps read this post as well. Excerpt from first link above: When people are faced with the choice between a chatbot god or oracle who praises them and human religious authorities who challenge them, many will opt for the former. Pastors, popes and prophets — all of whom have their human faults and limits of knowledge — may begin to look unpersuasive next to the voice of the machine. Add religious leaders to the long list

DM It would seem that you, and most mainstream A.I. usage models, could have significant impacts on spirituality and theologies, both positive and negative. Related, LLMs and algorithms seem biased to the reductionist physical and empirical sciences, versus the equally important wholistic, metaphysical, philosophical and holophrenic unknowns, and synthesis therefrom which resides beyond empiricism. And of course, you're anthropocentric (yes, like many theologies) which is ano

The best encounters with classic literature—with Tolstoy, with Proust—forego line-by-line analysis or politically motivated allegory.

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Practical science for your everyday life, that finds wonder and thrill in the seemingly mundane.

Thanks Kimberly! From a LinkedIn post: For 25 years as CEO of WD-40 Company, I opened almost every meeting with the same line. '"Good day, I'm Garry Ridge. I'm the consciously incompetent, probably wrong, roughly right CEO of WD-40 Company, and I need all the help I can get." People assumed I was being humble for effect. Most never realized it was the most strategic sentence I said all year. That line was not modesty. It was an operating system. When you are a senior leader

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It’s not an epidemic—it’s an immune system.

The majority refuses to see evidence of racism.

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They buy deterrence. That’s about it.

Civilization is destroying itself, says the Canadian scholar who is fleeing Montreal for the U.S.

DM Good afternoon. Ultimately, "4 Chairs Life" is a practical and applicable philosophy, worldview, or "meta-paradigm" to advance better life through better thought, ...for humans individually, ... and for humans collectively, ...such as within their organizations and institutions. This is optimally accomplished by offering facilitating/supporting community arrangements (either independently or embedded within organizations and institutions), all of which require, adopt and e

Corporate America is starting to balk at the cost of AI agents (aka: prevailing business models). A cheap alternative from China looks more tempting than ever. Perhaps related Also related