Winter Issue • Jan 2026
Winter Issue • Jan 2026
Winter Issue • Jan 2026
THE CITY RISES
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Jo Jiao
The Large Language Model Trapped in Mary’s Room
Is sensory integration of large language models a tractable problem?
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Jo Jiao
The Large Language Model Trapped in Mary’s Room
Is sensory integration of large language models a tractable problem?
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Jo Jiao
The Large Language Model Trapped in Mary’s Room
Is sensory integration of large language models a tractable problem?
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Max Ruskowski
The Meaning of Progress: A Founder's Manifesto
The conversation around a post-AGI world has been dominated by a single idea: universal basic income. Does it work?
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Max Ruskowski
The Meaning of Progress: A Founder's Manifesto
The conversation around a post-AGI world has been dominated by a single idea: universal basic income. Does it work?
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Max Ruskowski
The Meaning of Progress: A Founder's Manifesto
The conversation around a post-AGI world has been dominated by a single idea: universal basic income. Does it work?
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Colin Yuan
AI And The End of Authentic Human Lives
If a machine tells you how to live, are you still living authentically?
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Colin Yuan
AI And The End of Authentic Human Lives
If a machine tells you how to live, are you still living authentically?
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Colin Yuan
AI And The End of Authentic Human Lives
If a machine tells you how to live, are you still living authentically?
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Owen Yingling
The Political Brawl Within the Republican Party Over AI Policy
It’s a mistake to think that the contemporary Republican Party adheres to an ideology, and on AI, they each want something different.
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Owen Yingling
The Political Brawl Within the Republican Party Over AI Policy
It’s a mistake to think that the contemporary Republican Party adheres to an ideology, and on AI, they each want something different.
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Owen Yingling
The Political Brawl Within the Republican Party Over AI Policy
It’s a mistake to think that the contemporary Republican Party adheres to an ideology, and on AI, they each want something different.
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Gabriel Thomas
Climate Realism: What Can Technology Do For Us And What Will We Have To Do Ourselves?
What does the middle ground between techno-optimism and climate-doomism look like?
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Gabriel Thomas
Climate Realism: What Can Technology Do For Us And What Will We Have To Do Ourselves?
What does the middle ground between techno-optimism and climate-doomism look like?
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Gabriel Thomas
Climate Realism: What Can Technology Do For Us And What Will We Have To Do Ourselves?
What does the middle ground between techno-optimism and climate-doomism look like?
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Diego Scanlon
Models of Human-AI Relationships
What is a robust model for evaluating relationships between AIs and humans?
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Diego Scanlon
Models of Human-AI Relationships
What is a robust model for evaluating relationships between AIs and humans?
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Diego Scanlon
Models of Human-AI Relationships
What is a robust model for evaluating relationships between AIs and humans?
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Malhar Manek
A Journey Through the Indian Tech Ecosystem
Six memos walk you through why India's tech economy shouldn't be dismissed.
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Malhar Manek
A Journey Through the Indian Tech Ecosystem
Six memos walk you through why India's tech economy shouldn't be dismissed.
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Malhar Manek
A Journey Through the Indian Tech Ecosystem
Six memos walk you through why India's tech economy shouldn't be dismissed.
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Jedd Horowitz
Tracking Technological Thinking in Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time
Being and Time is already a work in the philosophy of technology because it diagnoses the ontological conditions that make a technological age possible.
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Jedd Horowitz
Tracking Technological Thinking in Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time
Being and Time is already a work in the philosophy of technology because it diagnoses the ontological conditions that make a technological age possible.
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Jedd Horowitz
Tracking Technological Thinking in Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time
Being and Time is already a work in the philosophy of technology because it diagnoses the ontological conditions that make a technological age possible.
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Ananya Ganesh
Neuroscience, Psychology, and the Black Box of AI
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain”.
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Ananya Ganesh
Neuroscience, Psychology, and the Black Box of AI
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain”.
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Ananya Ganesh
Neuroscience, Psychology, and the Black Box of AI
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain”.
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