Chad Aaron Hall

Give a machine billions of data points. Add the power of pattern recognition. Suddenly, the mystique of creativity seems glaringly mechanical. Art, writing, and even strategic games like Go are revealed to be less divine and more like precision-based machinery.

That's the hard truth we're grappling with: our prized domains of creativity may not be... See more

As Seth Godin observed, “no one ever gets talker’s block.”

It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the... See more

Imagine that any time a meteorologist forecasted the weather, the prediction changed how the weather would be that day. So for example, if they predicted it would be sunny, then it was more likely to be sunnier that day. If they predicted it would be rainy, then it would be more likely to be rainy.

While the weather obviously isn’t like that,... See more

Danny Casolaro was a journalist who had been working on a complex case involving government corruption stretching from the DOJ and FBI to the CIA and beyond. His death has often been connected to the death of Alan Standorf, who had been one of his sources.

When gatekeepers who have the ability to fund, make, and champion comedy projects start to cater to 9-Percenters, we find ourselves in a world where comedy is censored, 9-Percenters are empowered, and the 91 percent of the population that gets the jokes feels reluctant to laugh.