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Machines Are Eating My Brain, and I Think I Like It
The real danger of AI is not that it gets things wrong, but that it tempts us to stop thinking for ourselves.
Me, Myself and the Abyss
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Intelligence, Consciousness and Language
The category errors we keep making about artificial intelligence
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Human, All Too Human
We’ve found the problem with artificial intelligence, and it is us.
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Still Dancing at 100: Lessons from Dick Van Dyke
His secret isn’t denial of age or brute discipline, but a lifelong insistence on joy, play, and self-mockery.
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The Worse-Is-Better Theory of History
No one ever went broke telling people that the world is going to hell.
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The Long Goodbye to Sugar: Jack LaLanne’s Hardboiled Health Code
I grew up watching Jack LaLanne’s fitness-oriented television show. When I dug into the story of his life, I found some surprises.
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Just Look at the Degree on that Chick
What an ant scientist can teach us about shame
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When Wealth Becomes a Cage
Elon Musk reminds me of Howard Hughes — men whose wealth freed them from every limit but left them trapped in their own obsessions. When…