11+ hour, 27+ min ago  (459+ words) Humans often spend their lives suspended between two giant magnets; the first is what "lies behind us," our past mistakes, our childhood traumas, our previous successes, and the labels society has pinned on us. The second is what "lies in…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (821+ words) Amanda Askell knew from the age of 14 that she wanted to teach philosophy. What she didn't know then was that her only pupil would be an artificial-intelligence chatbot named Claude. As the resident philosopher of the tech company Anthropic, Askell…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago  (694+ words) Human behaviour is an enduring mystery. Our conscious mind has far less control of decisions and actions than we like to think. And this has profound effects on almost every aspect of our behaviour. "Why have so many intelligent people,…...