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Jo Jiao

The Large Language Model Trapped in Mary’s Room

Is sensory integration of large language models a tractable problem?

culture

Max Ruskowski

The Meaning of Progress: A Founder's Manifesto

The conversation around a post-AGI world has been dominated by a single idea: universal basic income. Does it work?

culture

Colin Yuan

AI And The End of Authentic Human Lives

If a machine tells you how to live, are you still living authentically?

culture

Owen Yingling

The Political Brawl Within the Republican Party Over AI Policy

It’s a mistake to think that the contemporary Republican Party adheres to an ideology, and on AI, they each want something different.

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Gabriel Thomas

Climate Realism: What Can Technology Do For Us And What Will We Have To Do Ourselves?

What does the middle ground between techno-optimism and climate-doomism look like?

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Diego Scanlon

Models of Human-AI Relationships

What is a robust model for evaluating relationships between AIs and humans?

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Malhar Manek

A Journey Through the Indian Tech Ecosystem

Six memos walk you through why India's tech economy shouldn't be dismissed.

culture

Jedd Horowitz

Tracking Technological Thinking in Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time

Being and Time is already a work in the philosophy of technology because it diagnoses the ontological conditions that make a technological age possible.

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Ananya Ganesh

Neuroscience, Psychology, and the Black Box of AI

“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain”.

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