2019
Why it’s hard to come up with a test for AI intelligence
Dawkins’s successor at Oxford claims true AI creativity is coming
Theoretical physicist reassures public, they’re not just making it up
Darwinian Jerry Coyne vents his spleen at Darwin-doubting Yale computer scientist
So it’s come to this: Turmoil over what genes really do
Talk about stasis! Bedbugs are 100 million years old
Researchers: Purebred dogs are not “biological species”
Researchers: Tooth studies show that Neanderthals “split” from modern humans 800 kya, not 300-500 kya
Amber—a moment in time 100 mya
Historian: Evolution means that human equality is a myth
Ernst Haeckel studied sponges to demonstrate “a universe devoid of supernatural beings or purpose”
Sabine Hossenfelder: “We know that quantum mechanics is wrong.”
At Nature: Carl Woese’s archaea are “shaking up the tree of life”
Logic & First Principles, 20: What is law?
A good first step to understanding the ongoing failure of our civilisation is to contrast the common, positive law view of law summarised by Wikipedia (as a handy point of reference): Law is a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior. It has been defined both as “the Science of Justice” and “the Art of Justice”. Law is a system that regulates and ensures that individuals or a community adhere to the will of the state. State-enforced laws can be made by a collective legislature or by a single legislator, resulting in statutes, by the executive through decrees and regulations, or established by judges through precedent, normally in common law jurisdictions Read More ›