5+ hour, 4+ min ago   (28+ words) mindmatters.ai Grieftech poses genuine problems when avatars seem to keep the deceased unchanged in a changing world — or change just when we want them to....

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (882+ words) Some recent AI news falls into each of these categories: AI can be used to quickly spot routine errors in past documents that we would not hire editors to do, for economic reasons. At Nature, Chris Stokel-Walker explains, In two…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1066+ words) mindmatters.ai This article by philosopher of science Bruce Gordon is republished from Science and Culture Today. Phil Halper, a science communicator and commentator who debated Stephen Meyer and got a number of things wrong in doing so, has released…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (232+ words) The recent math contest buzz has been that AI catches up with humans to score 100% at top math contest. From Andrew Zinn at Techxplore: A perfect score at the world’s most prestigious math contest used to be the preserve of…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (160+ words) mindmatters.ai Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 1:11:09 | Recorded on June 19, 2026 In this bingecast installment of the Mind Matters News podcast, host Robert J. Marks welcomes economics professor and author Gary Smith to discuss the hype around artificial intelligence and…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (243+ words) This abridged version of my essay first appeared in New English Review What makes good dialogue in a film? For me, good dialogue is like great poetry where the real meaning can sometimes be hidden or disguised beneath the words....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (881+ words) Last week’s Micro Softy challenged our puzzlers ability to think abstractly. We explored how simple rules can lead to complex behavior when the rules are followed by unintelligent agents — in that case it was dumb bugs. We continue that theme…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (813+ words) I broke the argument down as follows: I’ve already dealt with premise A, and that by itself is enough to make the argument collapse, but there are additional issues with premises B and C. A gold watch is more valuable…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1108+ words) OpenAI recently announced that one of its AI models autonomously tackled a prominent open problem in mathematics associated with Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős’s Problem #90. It concerns the unit distance problem in discrete geometry. Erdős’s problem #90 asks for the maximum number…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1172+ words) Engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists need to know some number theory, the branch of mathematics that studies the way numbers behave. Number theory is needed to understand modern data encryption, for example. This week’s Micro Softy is about number theory…...