Tag: humans
Squid Game Explores a Dark Image of Humanity
While the show rejects the idea that men are nothing but brute beasts, it repeatedly goes out of its way to attack religion.
Dune Finds Entertainment in Eugenics
The world-building is fantastic, but the historical background to the novels is also instructive.
Human Genetic Variation — A Tale that Keeps on Telling
If the pockmarks on the moon showed this kind of specific array surrounding each crater, we would think someone was using the moon for target practice.
Evolutionary Psychology: When We Looked In, No One Was There
Because minds don’t fossilize, anything we think we know about the minds of putative prehumans is speculation.
Harvard U Press Computer Science Author Gives AI a Reality Check
The key missing ingredient in machine intelligence is the ability to appreciate context, do analysis, and make appropriate inferences.