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Solo: AI Thinks Different
Nov 27, 2023The Artificial Intelligence landscape is changing with remarkable speed these days, and the capability of Large Language Models in particular has led to speculation (and hope, and fear) that we could ...
Derek Guy on the Theory and Practice of Dressing Well
Nov 20, 2023Putting on clothes is one of the most universal human experiences. Inevitably, this involves choices; maybe you just grab the cheapest and most convenient clothing available, or maybe you want to fit ...
Kelly and Zach Weinersmith on Building Cities on the Moon and Mars
Nov 13, 2023There is an undeniable romance in the idea of traveling to, and even living in, outer space. In recent years, a pragmatic justification has become increasingly popular: the Earth is vulnerable to thre...
AMA | November 2023
Nov 06, 2023Welcome to the November 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Pa...
Michael Muthukrishna on Developing a Theory of Everyone
Oct 30, 2023A "Theory of Everything" is physicists' somewhat tongue-in-cheek phrase for a hypothetical model of all the fundamental physical interactions. Of course, even if we had such a theory, it would tell us...
William Egginton on Kant, Heisenberg, and Borges
Oct 23, 2023It can be tempting, when first introduced to a deep concept of physics like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, to draw grand philosophical conclusions about the impossibility of knowing anything prec...
David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation
Oct 16, 2023David Deutsch is one of the most creative scientific thinkers working today, who has as a goal to understand and explain the natural world as best we can. He was a pioneer in quantum computing, and ha...
AMA | October 2023
Oct 09, 2023Welcome to the October 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Pat...
Hannah Ritchie on Keeping Hope for the Planet Alive
Oct 02, 2023Our planet and its environment are in bad shape, in all sorts of ways. Those of us who want to improve the situation face a dilemma. On the one hand, we have to be forceful and clear-headed about how ...
Rosemary Braun on Uncovering Patterns in Biological Complexity
Sep 25, 2023Biological organisms are paradigmatic emergent systems. That atoms of which they are made mindlessly obey the local laws of physics; even cells and organs do their individual jobs without explicitly u...