Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# podcast
Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence, but what do they actually mean by that? Turns out nailing down the meaning of the term is a lot harder that it seems at first glance.
# science
Raymond Tallis has a list of scathing criticisms aimed at physics and neurology. It would sure help his points if he knew what he was talking about...
# tech
Ted Kaczynski's technophobic manifesto lives on and its ideas found an appreciative audience.
# tech
A philosopher turns transhumanism into a parade of horrors on loan from dystopian sci-fi movies.
# oddities
Even a cursory glance at post-modernism shows that it's basically just trendy nonsense. Emphasis on nonsense.
# tech
The problem with John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment is that its premise is woefully outdated in computer science terms.
# tech
Philosopher Nick Bostrom is still barking up the same, fundamentally wrong tree of emergent super-intelligence.
# science
According to the finest minds Templeton could assembly, science is for lazy chumps. Aesthetics and theology is where all the hard work really is.
# science
What does it mean to be real? An awkward introductions to scientific mass solipsism.
# science
Revisiting the "if you believe in science, you're doing it wrong" debate with an epistemological bent.