Technocratic hubris presents politics as primitive, sentimental, and irrational - a spiral of conflicts and personal interests. Technocrats - the clergy of governance models founded on technical ...

As the nation braces for another Trump administration and its likely emotional turmoil, please allow some thoughts on the ...

According to this method, everyone belongs to a “season,” and a “subseason,” determined by the coloring of their skin and features. Bright winters, for example, tend to have sparkling eyes and dark ...

To make good decisions about AI, we need an accurate picture of the technology’s progress, and Epoch AI’s work has brought ...

Los Angeles' fires reveal systemic failures, including mismanagement, overregulation, and ideologies that inhibit addressing ...

So with no further ado, here are this year’s Good Tech Awards: Few groups this year were more widely praised among AI insiders than Epoch AI, a small nonprofit research organisation whose work has ...

to place them in a new context — William James’s “radical empiricism.” Intentionally or not, this move also canonizes the discipline’s founders; hence its conservative force. Joseph ...

Empiricism is the reliance on personal experience to ferret out “truth” or “facts": If it cannot be established through direct observation, it might be suggested by that experience ...

and Epoch AI’s work has brought much-needed rigor and empiricism to an industry that often runs on hype and vibes. To Andres Freund, and every open-source software maintainer saving us from doom ...

I showed why quarantine of healthy people is a fool’s errand and on 29 June 2024 I called for a global conference on the ...

Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke and David Hume, pioneers of empiricism and rational inquiry, strongly influenced America’s founders. To "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts ...