Why Real Intelligence is Something More Than Optimisation
If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more.
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When AIs Do Science, It Will Be Strange and Incomprehensible
When AI takes over the practice of science we will likely find the results strange and incomprehensible. Should we worry?
Empowering Patient Research
For far too long, medicine has ignored the valuable insights that patients have into their own diseases.
Why Chinese Minds Still Bear the Long Shadow of Keju
Keju, China's incredibly difficult civil service test, strengthened the state at the cost of freedom and creativity.
When Aggression is Viewed As Brilliance, It Hurts Women in Science, and Science Itself
When Aggression is Viewed As Brilliance, It Hurts Women in Science, and Science Itself
Tearing down ideas is central to scientific practice, but when it bleeds into the interpersonal, science loses its humanity.
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