Category: Articles
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Conspiracy AI: Pinpoint the evidence for the puppet masters
Let us be precise from the start. There is no secret cabal of one ethnicity, one bloodline, or one club that runs everything. That formulation is a strawman, and it is deliberately kept alive because it is easy to debunk. Once you debunk the cartoon version, the rhetorical move is to declare the entire subject…
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AI will revolutionize psychiatry
Psychiatry may be the branch of medicine that needs artificial intelligence the most. For decades, psychiatry has faced an uncomfortable reality. We have medications that can save lives, suppress psychosis, reduce depression, stabilize mood and control anxiety. Yet our understanding of why severe psychiatric disorders actually develop remains remarkably incomplete. Allen Frances, one of the…
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What would Franz Kafka think about Israel and Gaza?
Franz Kafka died in 1924. The State of Israel did not yet exist. The Holocaust had not happened. Neither had the Arab-Israeli wars, October 7, or the destruction and enormous human suffering in Gaza. Yet Kafka’s life, politics, Jewish identity and literature make him a fascinating figure through whom to examine Israel and Gaza. He…
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Bill Gates warns humanity could lose control of AI
Bill Gates has spent most of his life believing that technological progress ultimately improves human existence. Artificial intelligence is making him reconsider how safely that assumption can be applied. The Microsoft co-founder has dramatically intensified his warnings about AI. He argues that the technology is developing faster than governments and societies are preparing for it.…
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Lower IQ in psychiatric populations: A complicated relationship
I once discussed intelligence among psychiatric patients with my former psychiatrist. My impression was simple: people with psychiatric disorders seemed, on average, to have lower intelligence than the general population. He disagreed. At the time, my argument was largely anecdotal. Since then, however, I have had considerably more contact with psychiatric populations. I spent time…
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Czech Republic had a lot of significant people. They weren’t Czech
The Czech lands have produced an impressive number of scientists, writers, composers, philosophers and other intellectuals. Yet there is a historical complication that modern national narratives can easily obscure: many of the most internationally famous people born in what is now the Czech Republic were not Czech in the modern ethnic or linguistic sense. They…
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The worst things feminists have ever said
Feminism has been one of the most consequential movements for human rights in modern history. Women gained political representation, greater economic independence, reproductive rights, protection against discrimination and vastly greater control over their own lives. None of this should be controversial. But feminism is not a single doctrine, and supporting equality between women and men…
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What if Richard Dawkins really makes a deathbed conversion?
Richard Dawkins has spent much of his life arguing that there is almost certainly no God. Yet if one day the news announces that the famous evolutionary biologist accepted Christianity on his deathbed, believers around the world may celebrate one of the greatest conversions imaginable. But would it actually mean anything? The question is more…
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They won’t admit Jesus didn’t exist. It is the opium of the people
The establishment will not admit the truth. The media will not say it. Rich interest groups refuse to consider it. Even Christian scholars avoid the question entirely. There is absolutely no evidence that a person such as Jesus Christ ever existed. No contemporary Roman records mention him. No historians from his time wrote his name.…
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American political commentators: Useful idiots of the establishment
They are idiots, but make no mistake—they are extremely well paid idiots, and their fat paychecks should never be confused with intellectual honesty or moral courage. They speak with the swagger of prophets, yet their principles are nothing more than rental properties, leased out to the highest bidder on any given news cycle. Imagine, for…