What we know of ourselves in a scientific age — and what we don’t
The new cold war means a race with China over AI, biotech, and more. This poses a hard dilemma: win by embracing technologies that make us more like our enemy — or protect ourselves from tech dehumanization but become subjects to a totalitarian menace.
How to see clearly what lies ahead
Why rationalists can’t answer the doomers or the boomers
“Language models are just glorified autocomplete” has been the critics’ refrain — but reinforcement learning is proving them wrong. New breakthroughs could follow.
Why modern man yearns to be replaced, fantasizes of being the one to do it, and how we can stay human instead