11Sep 2026 by Post

AI Hysteria: Take a Deep Breath and Ask, “Who Benefits from Apocalyptic Claims?”

9/11 attack, Anderson Cooper, Anthropic, artificial inteligence, Atomic Doomsday Clock, Bill Gates, Computational Sciences, danger, Fast Company, Gary Marcus, Gizmodo, human extinction, Islamic terror, Jacob Coxon, Jay Richards, Nostradamus, OpenAI, panic, political power, Ro Khanna, Sam Altman, science media, Science Reporting, security hacking, Silicon Valley, Telluride Film Festival, Wired
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit and posted at X last Tuesday, to over 25 million views, that “No other human activity poses this level of danger.” Source
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29Oct 2025 by Post

On Intelligent Design, Wikipedia Hedges, While Grokipedia Tells (Whoa!) the Truth

Artificial Intelligence, bias, Discovery Institute, Elon Musk, encyclopedias, Evolution, facts, fine-tuning, Grok, Grokipedia, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Intelligent Design, Jarvis, Larry Sanger, Nine Theses, Philosophy of Science, pseudoscience, Reece Rogers, think tank, United States, Wikipedia, William Dembski, Wired
There is still plenty of time for Grok to be infiltrated by all kinds of bias and it would certainly be wise to keep checking back. Source
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29Nov 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Beetles

academia, adults, amber, antennae, astrology, Basilosaurus, beetles, Carabidae, catching cage, Collembola, Dorudon, Evolution, Fossil Friday (series), Indohyus, K/Pg impact event, larvae, living fossils, Loricera, maxillae, Myanmar, Neo-Darwinism, Pakicetus, paleontology, psychoanalysis, unguided evolution, Wired
Natural selection is the great magician in evolutionary fantasy land, where it explains rapid change in explosive radiations as well as no change at all. Source
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