Two June 27 articles in The Chronicle—"Field of Discord,” reporting on the difficulties Iowa State University had in hiring a director of sustainable agriculture, and “Colleges Atop Gas-Rich Shale ...

…Using the exact kind of reasoning a simulation would use to hide that it’s a simulation. Disclaimer: This article is based on actual news from the real world – honestly! However, it has been ...

Imagine a future where artificial intelligence (AI) systems, regardless of their specific tasks, all share a common understanding of the world. This is the essence of the "Platonic Representation ...

The story opens with a scene both familiar and deceptively simple: physicists once again interrogating the fabric of reality, ...

A mathematical proof has finally debunked the idea that we live in a simulation, according to a group of international researchers. The theory that the universe could be a computer programme has been ...

Patrick M. Magee ’21 is a joint Philosophy and Physics concentrator in Currier House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays. In March, on the eve of leaving Cambridge, I asked a particularly wise ...