Sense Check
Sense Checks slow a claim down before it becomes accepted wisdom. The focus is on numbers, definitions, incentives and the difference between what was promised and what actually happened. These articles are less interested in winning a shouting match than in finding the part that survives contact with evidence. Read the newest check first, or choose a topic when one kind of nonsense has arrived in bulk.
We Can Imagine an AI God but Not Human Superintelligence
We can imagine AI becoming superintelligent, yet dismiss the possibility that human intelligence emerged from something greater. That deserves a sense check.
Your Younger Self Is Basically a Stranger With Your Name
Personality keeps changing across adulthood. Meet your younger self after 25 years and you may recognise the face, but still argue with the mind…
Real AI Intelligence: Born Smart, Not Trained to Be Smart
Could AI be intelligent from creation, without prior training? A dry sense check on instant learning, vast memory and the gap between knowledge and…
AI Superintelligence Meets a Scientist With Feet on Earth
Michio Kaku cuts through AI doom and abundance fantasies with a grounded view of robots, jobs, quantum computing, human evolution and machine intelligence.
AI Sceptics, Expert Pride and the Quantum Intelligence Dream
AI is useful, feared and overhyped at once. A fact-led roast of model snobbery, expert pride, quantum dreams and the robots waiting at humanity’s…
AI Can Draft a Text, It Cannot Feel the Burn of Real Love
AI can help with boundaries, but it cannot replace the risk, courage, and lived feeling needed for love, friendship, human repair, or honest rejection.
Europe Needs One Voice, One Army and One Chain of Command
Europe has 27 governments, rising defence budgets and no single chain of command. A sharp sense check on unity, sovereignty and Europe’s strategic power.
Six Years, Three Books and the Market’s Love Calculator
Six years of love and three books face the usual scoreboard, where duration, ratings, downloads and sales are mistaken for meaning, truth and success.
Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born and the Whole Stage Shines
Jeongnyeon gives Kim Tae-ri another remarkable role, while its whole cast turns pansori, women’s gukgeuk and disciplined acting into living culture on screen.
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