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A newsletter from author Steven Johnson exploring where good ideas come from—and how to keep them from turning against us.
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Introducing Expert Intelligence (opens the original)
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The Uses Of Terror (opens the original)
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Notebooks And The Extended Mind (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago, the Sunday NY Times business section published a long reported piece called “Revenge Of The Philosophy Majors” written by my old friend Ben Wallace, documenting the unlikely recent trend of AI companies adding academic philosophers to their payrolls:“So, I think I’m going to major in philosophy” is the kind of undergraduate statement that for decades has terrorized tuition-burdened parents, inspiring dark visions of basement-dwe
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