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Going from question to answer in the face of uncertainty. Saving science from sensationalism and defending it from excessive literalism.

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  1. Issue · Sep 26, 2026

    The Case for Learning: Knowledge in the Era of AI (opens the original)

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    I don’t know about you, but for me, there’s just something about a gloomy Saturday morning that invites deep thoughts into the mind. Raindrops on my apartment window are like tiny mirrors telling me to look inward. I guess that’s why this past weekend, greeted by grey skies, I fired up ChatGPT and asked somewhat fancifully,“Why should I learn to add when a calculator can do it for me?”The answer it gave yanked me swiftly out of whimsy and into panic.Normally, an LLM will respond in an encouragin

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