Alex Dobrenko

Physicists come off looking particularly bad. After attending a Stephen Hawking lecture about fantastical ideas like wormholes and superstrings and “mini-superspace,” Horgan concludes that Hawking is “less a truth seeker than an artist, an illusionist, a cosmic joker” whose work “can keep us awestruck. But it is not science.”

A reminder: This newsletter is the product of one (1) guy, i.e., me, who spends hours every reading and thinking and trying to figure out a way to write in an entertaining and clear fashion, a task that I succeed at roughly 60 percent of the time. I’m able to do this (spend my working days Studio Ghibli-fying photos of my friends) thanks to the... See more

Let people be wrong about things - about facts, about politics, about you . Leave them to it. Learn to walk away from and let it all go.

When I hear artists and AI evangelists argue about whether people who generate text using ChatGPT or images using Midjourney are truly creative, I wonder about the question behind the question.