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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
"Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions."
Confronting your "absolute stupidity" is a sign you're on course to learning something new and wonderful.
The cognitive scientist argues the current AI environment is failing us as consumers and a society. But it’s not too late to change course.
How black and white is your thinking?
11mins
“We've engineered a volatile world where Starbucks is completely unchanging from year to year, but democracies are collapsing and rivers are drying up.”
Electromagnetism, both nuclear forces, and even the Higgs force are mediated by known bosons. What about gravity? Does it require gravitons?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Carl Sagan was far from the first to declare we are the children of ancient stars.
Grab a sword, a small plate, and a young child. We've got a demon to summon.
Self-help often distills philosophical ideas for the modern ear. Sometimes, its better to go back to the source.
The Firefly Sparkle galaxy was only spotted because of gravitational lensing's effects. Yet galaxies like these brought us a visible cosmos.
The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.
"We do not experience primarily because we have brains; we experience because we are alive."
Just because you can't experience it doesn't mean it's not real.
We have it in our power to forgive a debt — and learning to use this power in the workplace can be golden.
10mins
“If we're to be happy at all, it has to be found outside of this notion of pleasure. We have to step beyond hedonia. But the problem is that we risk going too far.”
By improving quantum error correction, quantum computations are now faster than ever. But parallel universes? That's utter nonsense here.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
What if the barrier to a fulfilled life isn’t technology but culture?
The problem for galactic-scale civilizations comes down to two numbers.