Lately I’ve been asking myself: what might artificial intelligence be good for besides answering questions and writing code? My answer is the latent spaces within AIs themselves will become a new ...

Get The Nature of the Physical World. The Nature of the Physical World was written by the astrophysicist who confirmed Einstein’s relativity. It explores how modern physics has ...

The lovelorn nostalgia and mystical voyeurism of an extraordinary correspondence return in the latest edition of the Griffin ...

The best of these are still valid and useful, so we’re trying out something new — Retro Recomendo. Once every 6 weeks, we’ll send out a throwback issue of evergreen recommendations focused on one ...

Marco Polo app. So much fun to share good morning videos with my granddaughter far away. No intrusive ads, no bs, feels ...

It is the first Deep Cut I’ve turned into a full Book Freak Edition for the new reading club, and you can download the ebook below. It’s narrated in the first person by Arnold Blettsworthy, a ...

One has to sympathize with the writer-artist team of Ferri and Conrad, taking on the daunting task of creating new adventures ...

Todd Henion is a recently retired airline pilot now trying to fix the world one toaster at a time. “I don’t mind what happens.” — J. Krishnamurti* I discovered this quote many years ago and just ...

Someday real soon, most of us — starting with young adults — will carry an always-on AI. This agent will help us navigate our journeys, answer our questions, tutor and teach us new skills, remember ...

That’s Marshall McLuhan’ overarching big idea. We are fundamentally, almost inherently, unable to see the largest thing in our lives — our environment. This ocean of ideas, assumptions, expectations, ...

I read Robert Anton Wilson’s Prometheus Rising when I was in my early 20s, and it has stuck with me ever since (I’ve re-read it several times). It’s a manual for understanding how your mind got ...