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Scary AI Is More “Fantasia” Than “Terminator”
Ex-Googler Nate Soares on AI’s alignment problem.
Why Women Choose Differently at Work
Psychologist Susan Pinker on the role of choice in gender differences in the workplace.
Is There an Ideal Amount of Income Inequality?
A conversation with this month’s Ingenious, Venkat Venkatasubramanian.
Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will
How the attention economy is subverting our decision-making and our democracy.
How to Solve the Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever
A step-by-step guide to True, False, and Random.
The Simple Logical Puzzle That Shows How Illogical People Are
More than 90 percent of people err on this test. Will you?
Will Humans Be Able to Control Computers That Are Smarter Than Us?
Let’s consider the fear that once surrounded another powerful technology: recombinant DNA.
Brain Damage Saved His Music
After a chunk of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back.
