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How do we make the future (even) better than the present? By using science, evidence and reason. Progressives need to embrace progress again.
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Race Realist Rattles Rector (opens the original)
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The moment I heard that “race realist” Nathan Cofnas had been hired by Ghent University, I knew shit was about to hit the fan. I’d met Cofnas only once and briefly, at the Heterodox Conference in Buckingham, but I had been aware of his controversial views on race for years. Like other race realists, Cofnas argues that there are IQ differences between ancestral groups, and that t
How to Hijack a University (opens the original)
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When I finished high school, 25 years ago, I had little idea what I wanted to study, but I already knew where. Between the two major Flemish universities, Ghent was progressive, secular, and liberal, while Leuven was a stuffy Catholic institution with actual bishops on its board of directors. A no-brainer!In my first year, I studied music composition at the conservatory in Ghent alongside philosophy—but I soon discovered that I preferred writing words over writing notes, so in my second year I s
Saints, Sinners, and Suspensions (opens the original)
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‘To be honest with you, I thought you’d just believe me.’ That is what former Cambridge professor Jason Arday told The Guardian when his tower of lies finally came crashing down. And who can blame him for making that assumption? For many years, everyone Arday encountered on his path to academic stardom had credulously swallowed his fantastical tales: universities, journal editors, publishers, c
Show Us the Prompts (opens the original)
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“Dogma,” Albert Einstein told an audience at the Sorbonne in 1929, “is the enemy of progress.” In English, no less. Just kidding—it’s what ChatGPT whispered in the ear of the rector of my university at the start of this academic year after she decided to outsource her inaugural address to AI. The speech she delivered was a string of grammatically impeccable platitudes garnished with four quo
What Does AI Want? (opens the original)
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How worried should we be about superintelligent AIs plotting to dominate—or even exterminate—the human species? A few months ago, a trio of biologists and AI scholars published a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) warning about the threat of “Evolvable AI.” In it, they push back against the more sanguine arguments about AI evolution my friend Simon Friederich and I developed in </
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