Science & Tech
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A humanities researcher puts AI bot ChatGPT through a few tests, with mostly laughable results and one promising potential use.
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Embedded into every tool is an ideological bias, and unless we continually re-evaluate new technologies, we may end up within a technopoly.
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Just as apocalypse means revelation, so can fire be medicine and poison. “Fire medicine” confers benefits on individuals and communities.
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If the universe is conducive to sentience rather than consciousness, then a scientific model for some even more fascinating phenomena emerges.
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Fears halted research on psychotropic compounds in the 60s. The Second Psychedelic Renaissance is now validating their psychological benefits.
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To address rising atomization and alienation, we must account for radical inadequacy and experiment with more totalizing communities.
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Emotional labor is common to historically underpaid jobs held mostly by women. How will the rise of automation change the way it’s valued?
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We don’t need a Green New Deal so much as many green new deals.