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Paul Millerd • #100: We Need 100x More Creators Online
Some philosophers have argued that, despite widespread intuitions to the contrary, knowledge is not merely a mat... See more
Céline Henne • Frameworks
But, as you can see from the chart, the term “fake science” hardly existed during the 20th century. In those days, science was considered emble... See more
advance of progress, and placed in doubt the naïve faith, which I originally shared, that data and knowledge were identical. Even then, the problem was framed by
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
What’s true of counterfeiting money should also be true of counterfeiting humans. If governments took decisive action to protect trust in money, it makes sense to take equally decisive measures to protect trust in humans. Prior to the rise of AI, one human could pretend to be another, and society punished such frauds. But society didn’t bother to o
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
There is a vast difference between understanding how answers are arrived at and simply being informed of their outcomes. As soon as digital computation was capable of the kind of complexities needed to model natural processes – to take on the tasks which were previously only possible in physical simulators, like the water computers – knowledge of t
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