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Steven Pinker
September 11, 2024
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Alexander Zaitchik
The Machines Are Proving Ray Kurzweil Right—Sort Of
For decades, Kurzweil has been prophesying the unstoppable rise of AI and its eventual merging with human intelligence.
August 22, 2019
Evgeny Morozov
Jeffrey Epstein’s Intellectual Enabler
How did Epstein meet so many luminaries in the worlds of science and technology? It all might trace back to literary agent John Brockman.
March 19, 2018
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Samuel Moyn
Hype for the Best
Why does Steven Pinker insist that human life is on the up?
March 3, 2011
Evgeny Morozov
e-Salvation
October 27, 2010
Noam Scheiber
The Semiotics of Crazy Eddie
June 29, 2010
Rochelle Gurstein
The Perils of Progress
October 5, 2008
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker On How America Will Change
November 4, 2006
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Frame Game
October 16, 2006
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Defending Freedom
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