Category: Culture & Ethics
Human Exceptionalism — Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Tell a Story
The personal, communicative nature of storytelling rules out AI as a legitimate author. It can’t intend meaning.
For Science and Free Speech, Lessons from Oppenheimer
Like all great art, the movie evokes reactions in the viewer beyond what the filmmaker might have intended.
CDC Undercounts Suicide Epidemic by Not Including Assisted Deaths
You can call a dung beetle a butterfly, but it remains a dung beetle. The term suicide defines what is done, not why.
Recalling Orwell’s Timely Warning on Groupthink
The censorship he had to address was not a conspiracy or even a campaign; it was spontaneous.
Environmentalist Misanthropy: Humans Are Terminal Cancer
Lest readers dismiss the author and the interviewer as fringe, anti-humanism has become a hallmark of environmentalism.