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Who Supervises the Supervisor? A Riff on Machine Learning
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Consciousness, Free Will, Information and Enlightenment
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My Unheroic Life: Second Thoughts on Odyssey
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Odysseus and Oppenheimer Aren’t Heroes
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Okay, AI Is Cool. But I Still Loathe It
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Scientific American and the Collapse of Science Journalism
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Watching King Lear in 2026
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Willy Loman and The Ruff-Tuff Cream-Puffs
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An AI-Hater Tries to Learn the Math That Underlies AI
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Tolstoy’s “Resurrection” and the Lucky Man’s Dilemma
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AI Ain’t Gonna Save Higher Ed
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Brain Explorer Rethinks Consciousness
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Nessie, Ghosts and Pseudo-Mysteries
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Horgans Are from Cork
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The James Joyce Walking Tour
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Ultra-Ultracrepidarianism
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Ultracrepidarianism and The End of Science
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An AI Critic Talks to a Tech School
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How “Fluid” Is Sex?
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Are You Happy?
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Why the Moon Mission Doesn’t Thrill Me
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Brain Chips Can Prevent War and Lovers’ Spats
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Robert Trivers Is Dead. I Once Thought He Was Going to Kill Me
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I Hate AI!
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Truman, The Bomb and Free Will
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Visiting the UN as Bombs Fall on Iran
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Should Killer Robots Have Rights?
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Epstein and The End of “Pure” Science
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The Upside and Downside of Our Longing to Matter
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What Is It Like to Be a Superintelligent Machine?
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