My View on A.I.
This is something a bit different: Not an interview, but a commentary of my own. We’ve done a lot of shows on A.I. of late, and there are more to come. On Tuesday, GPT-4 was released, and its capabili...
19 Maalis 202316min
Why Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed — And What Comes Next
Last Friday, in the largest bank failure since 2008, Silicon Valley Bank failed.Banks fail all the time. But unless it’s a big or highly-connected bank, most of us don’t pay much attention. That’s bec...
16 Maalis 202358min
How China Went From Economic Superstar to Faltering Giant
In just a few years, the narrative on China has almost completely flipped. The dominant sentiments in America had been awe, envy and a kind of fear. China’s growth seemed relentless. Its manufacturing...
14 Maalis 20231h 20min
The Men — and Boys — Are Not Alright
In 1972, when Congress passed Title IX to tackle gender equity in education, men were 13 percentage points more likely to hold bachelor’s degrees than women; today women are 15 points more likely to d...
10 Maalis 20231h 58min
If You Read the G.O.P.’s Anti-Trans Policies, You’ll See What It Really Wants
In the 2023 legislative session alone, Republican state legislators have introduced more than a hundred bills seeking to restrict transgender people’s freedoms, rights and health care access. To put t...
7 Maalis 20231h 6min
The Art of Noticing – and Appreciating – Our Dizzying World
“Poetry is the attempt to understand fully what is real, what is present, what is imaginable, what is feelable, and how can I loosen the grip of what I already know to find some new, changed relations...
3 Maalis 20231h 20min
Our Brains Weren’t Designed for This Kind of Food
Our society’s dominant narrative is that body size is a product of individual willpower. We are skinny or fat because of the choices we make: the kinds of food we buy, the amounts we eat, the exercise...
28 Helmi 20231h 26min
Inside the Minds of Spiders, Octopuses and Artificial Intelligence
Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Children of Time” is about an advanced civilization built by sentient spiders. A sequel, “Children of Ruin,” is about a society run by superintelligent octopuses. I love these bo...
24 Helmi 20231h 2min
