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Automating Math
Adam Marblestone
Computers can already help verify proofs. One day soon, AI may be able to come up with new ones.
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Get In, Weirdos
The Editors
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The Case for Insect Consciousness
Bob Fischer
The evidence that insects feel pain is mounting, however we approach the issue.
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Can We Build a Five Gigawatt Data Center?
Lynette Bye
By 2030, leading AI labs will need data centers so massive they will require the power equivalent of some of America’s largest cities. Will they be able to find it?
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The Unbearable Loudness of Chewing
Jake Eaton
Why do some people find certain sounds intolerable? And why has it taken so long for scientists to get even a preliminary answer?
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Where the Wild Things Aren’t
Agnes Callard
We tell our children that weirdness is a blessing in disguise. That’s our fantasy, not theirs.
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The Science of Woo
Kati Devaney
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Are AIs People?
Rob Long Kathleen Finlinson
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Deros and the Ur-Abduction
Scott Alexander
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Greening the Solar System
Edwin Kite Robin Wordsworth
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We Can, Must, And Will Simulate Nematode Brains
Michael Skuhersky
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Where Babies Come From
Sam Kriss
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Yes, Shrimp Matter
Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla
09: Weird
Children’s literature. Chewing sounds. Habitable bubbles on potato-shaped asteroids. Are you a noncongenerist? Nirodha samapatti. Shrimp. Do fruit flies feel? Enough energy to power a large American city. Malevolent Atlantean dwarves. Math homework. What Is It Like to Be a Bot? The future of humanity rests on microscopic worm brains.