Recent developments in AI have raised new concerns about whether humanity will survive the 21st century, but how worried should we be?
Our Final Invention? Weighing Existential Risks from Artificial Intelligence
Charles Jackson Paul
An Interview with Dr. Scott Aaronson
An interview with UT computer scientist and OpenAI researcher Scott Aaronson.
Burning Man for Nerds: My Time at The Tribune Festival
Trib Fest was an embrace of political normalcy, for better or worse.
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To understand the culture war over “banned books” we must look to the underlying philosophy of what makes books valuable in the first place.
Every McCombs Syllabus
Welcome to BA 123: A maximally generic business class.
The Texas Orator 