Category: Science and Technology

Real Alternatives to Fossil Fuels

The response to our latest animated series, Fueling a Freer Future, has been incredible. In our first videos, we reframed the energy debate with a focus on human thriving, highlighting many of the myths that surround the politicized push for so-called green energy. In our newest episode, we […]

Alleged Death Threats Against UFO Witnesses Should Make UAPs A Concern For Believers And Skeptics Alike

Whatever UFOs/UAPs are, we must end the rampant abuses of power by military, intelligence, and security agencies Andrew Mohar Phoebe Smith Michael Shellenberger Jul 26, 2023 Glenn Dennis, Michael Herrera, and Caz Clarke say military officials threatened them after they witnessed unidentified aerial phenomena in separate incidents. by […]

The Glass Bees (Ernst Jünger)

written by Charles Haywood The Glass Bees, a novel by the crucial Ernst Jünger, is not directly a political work. The focus here is the relation of man to technology, especially the resulting alienation of man, not from the fruits of his labor, but from his grounding in […]

When will humans go extinct?

Devika  Rao When will humans go extinct? Rafi  Schwartz Is Florida’s new PragerU deal a sign of things to come? Advertisement From Wisebread Earn $200 After Spending $500 Brendan  Morrow Woody Allen, Roman Polanski to bring new movies to Venice Film Festival Justin  Klawans Hollywood’s wealth disparity by […]

‘Is ChatGPT Getting Dumber?’

When ChatGPT took off a few months ago, it began a great wave of experimentation accompanied by wonder and fear at all of its impressive capabilities. In the intervening period, a growing chorus of disappointment and frustration has arisen — along with a widely held sense among avid […]

Shepherding Electric Sheep

At the outset of “The Bogey of Automation,” a 1965 essay about what he took to be overblown fears of the computerization of the American economy, Daniel Bell wryly notes that “it may be useful to keep in mind an old Jewish saying: For example is no proof.” […]

AI’s latest victim

July 17, 2023 Well, it’s Monday. A nice cup of coffee would definitely brighten up the workweek. But coffee is so expensive nowadays. Ugh. Even Warren Buffett’s wife was overheard complaining about a $4 java while attending summer camp for billionaires.   Billionaires — they’re just like us. […]

The Lab Leak Cover-Up

Today Scientists Kristian Andersen and Robert Garry testified on the origins of COVID-19 before the House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. The big question is whether or not the scientists were part of a laboratory leak cover-up. Get rid of aches, pains and sleepless nights AND […]

Who Swims with the Scientist?

“Defining wildness is not an easy task,” writes David Quammen in an essay we published online last month, but at the least it “requires living creatures of many different forms entangled in a system of surging and ebbing interactions.” These are the insights of a writer who has spent a […]

The Green Energy Lie

On the newest episode of Fueling a Freer Future, we take on the wishful thinking of environmental activists who suggest that the only thing stopping a global green energy revolution is a lack of political will. In our previous video, we looked at the qualities that make traditional […]

Why the Titanic sub likely imploded

June 23, 2023 Hello, Insiders. This is Lisa Ryan, an executive editor on Insider’s audience team. The US Coast Guard confirmed that the missing Titan submersible likely imploded in the water, with debris landing just 1,600 feet away from the Titanic wreck. Our news team is breaking down […]

AI and the destruction of thought

How GPT AI impoverishes discourse and culture laughlyn (johan eddebo) Jun 20, 2023 I’m going to go out on a limb here and for the sake of argument assume that it’s possible to speak of “progress” (in everything from science, philsophy, the arts and politics) in a meaningful […]

Inside the AI Factory

The conventional wisdom on artificial intelligence is that the technology will eliminate boring office drudgery. Depending on your outlook, this will either liberate millions of humans to pursue more engaging work or lead to massive unemployment. In our new cover story, published in collaboration with The Verge, Josh […]

First People Sickened By COVID-19 Were Chinese Scientists At Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Say US Government Sources

The three scientists were engaged in “gain-of-function” research on SARS-like coronaviruses when they fell ill Michael Shellenberger Matt Taibbi Alex Gutentag Jun 13, 2023 After years of official pronouncements to the contrary, significant new evidence has emerged that strengthens the case that the SARS-CoV-2 virus accidentally escaped from […]

Lyceum Round-Table #83: Impact of AI

Keith, Swithun and Terminal Philosophy and I will discuss the impact of AI. Locals: https://praiseoffolly.locals.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoFPodcast Telegram: t.me/PraiseOfFolly_1511 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PraiseOfFoll… BuyMeACoffe: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PraiseOf… Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/PraiseO… Substack: https://substack.com/profile/40985862…