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The Third Magic
The Third Magic0.0

A meditation on history, science, and AI

On the Importance of Staring Directly Into the Sun
On the Importance of Staring Directly Into the Sun0.0

It's also important to poke the heart of a dead pigeon

The Golden Quarter
The Golden Quarter0.0

Some of our greatest cultural and technological achievements took place between 1945 and 1971. Why has progress stalled?

If Not Darwin, Who?
If Not Darwin, Who?0.0

An alternative history of the great ideas of science.

Mother Earth Mother Board
Mother Earth Mother Board0.0

The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth.

The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid
The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid0.0

What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.

I Saw the Face of God in a TSMC Semiconductor Factory
I Saw the Face of God in a TSMC Semiconductor Factory0.0

As the US boosts production of silicon chips, a WIRED journalist goes inside the mysterious Taiwanese company at the center of the global industry.

Forty years of the internet: how the world changed for ever
Forty years of the internet: how the world changed for ever0.0

Internet at 40 In 1969 a student typed 'LO' on a computer - and the internet was born

John Lanchester · You Are the Product: It Zucks!
John Lanchester · You Are the Product: It Zucks!0.0

I am scared of Facebook. The company’s ambition, its ruthlessness, and its lack of a moral compass scare me...

A Nation Of Echo Chambers: How The Internet Closed Off The World
A Nation Of Echo Chambers: How The Internet Closed Off The World0.0

Deadspin | A Nation Of Echo Chambers: How The Internet Closed Off The World

How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks0.0

How the world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack from the right wing, tech billionaires, and AI.

The stupidity of AI
The stupidity of AI0.0

The long read: Artificial intelligence in its current form is based on the wholesale appropriation of existing culture, and the notion that it is actually intelligent could be actively dangerous

The Future Is Too Easy
The Future Is Too Easy0.0

LAS VEGAS — There is something unstable at the most basic level about any space with too much capitalism happening in it. The air is all wrong, there’s simultaneously too much in it and not enough of it. Everyone I spoke to about the Consumer Electronics Show before I went to it earlier this month…

AI Is a Lot of Work
AI Is a Lot of Work0.0

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions to support OpenAI, Google, Meta, and every other major tech company. As AI becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.

Book Review: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Book Review: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies0.0

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Beauty is truth? There’s a false equation
Beauty is truth? There’s a false equation0.0

Scientists prize elegant theories, but a taste for simplicity is a treacherous guide. And it doesn’t even look good

The Meaning of It All
The Meaning of It All0.0
The rise and fall of peer review
The rise and fall of peer review0.0

Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing

The Mouse Trap
The Mouse Trap0.0

The dangers of using one lab animal to study every disease.

The Problem with P-values
The Problem with P-values0.0

Academic psychology and medical testing are both dogged by unreliability. The reason is clear: we got probability wrong