We see variations of this question: What happens when robots can do anything physical better than humans and AI can do anything cognitive better than any humans? What will be left for us? The answer is: Live your life as the human being you are. The better-than-me circumstance already exists. Usain Bolt and a thousand […]

Two factors about the long reach of skeptical philosophy and its practical results. Social construction of reality: If influential philosophers teach that “reality” is merely a social construct, then what happens to us in the next, taught generation? We focus primarily on the social — on doing whatever we can to construct social reality according

“I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary, and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re 15 and 35 is new and exciting and

A starter list from the last quarter-century: Some questions: The initial list of scandals is open-ended, as is the list of questions.

What unites the many who from, say, August 2016 to August 2026, believed the following: The issues range widely — from environmentalism to viruses to law enforcement to sex and gender to economics to Middle Eastern politics to academic sociology. Yet there is an identifiable demographic: Those who believed all of the above propositions, often

“Democracy is a form of bourgeois state championed by all traitors to genuine socialism, who now find themselves at the head of official socialism and who assert that democracy is contrary to the dictatorship of the proletariat. Until the revolution transcended the limits of the bourgeois system, we were for democracy; but as soon as

Two questions: Who hired Jason Arday? Who signed the public letter of support for him when allegations of plagiarism and fabrication began to emerge? Grok: “The members of the Board of Electors (the independent nine-member appointment/hiring panel) that selected Jason Arday as Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge in 2022–2023 were:

Before A.I., pretty much every new information tool was feared and opposed as an enemy of human cognitive advance. Television (1985): “People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” [1] Calculators: This 1986 protest by teachers against the use of calculators. Kids are “addicted” to them,