Razib Khan
Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
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Their wordsBoth view AI as a powerful tool for skilled thinkers but a potential source of intellectual passivity for others, raising the question of how people can preserve their agency and sense of purpose as AI becomes part of everyday intellectual work.
↗Jerry Z. Muller: academia today, intellectual history in the past and AI in the futurerazibkhan.com
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Modern humans, not Neanderthals, were the fearsome party in their encounters with archaic humans.
Their wordsToday, it seems more likely that it was we who were the monsters out of the dark, the demons about which Neanderthal mothers would tell their little-ones.
↗The rise of the hopeful monsters: the true story of humanityrazibkhan.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsAll the evidence, both ancient and modern, points to a tiny non-African ancestry population between 50 and 60,000 years ago, a few thousand individuals at most
↗The rise of the hopeful monsters: the true story of humanityrazibkhan.com 2nd of 2 in this piece