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What Gets Left Out Of Math's New Era?
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (383+ words) 9:25 AM EDT on September 10, 2026 There are some people to whom correctness matters even more than it matters to coders, however: mathematicians. When a mathematician brushes up against “correctness,” they have good reason to believe they are doing so in a…...
What If We Could Have A Future?
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (702+ words) Maybe you have heard of Roko’s Basilisk. This is a thought experiment, for lack of a better term, popular among a certain set: hyper-rationalists, futurists, effective altruists. Tech-industry guys. You get the idea. The most exhausting humans who ever lived,…...
There's A New Space Telescope On Its Way To Help Answer The Biggest Question In The Universe
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1055+ words) Defector There’s A New Space Telescope On Its Way To Help Answer The Biggest Question In The Universe 9:31 AM EDT on September 2, 2026 On August 30, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope successfully launched from Florida and will spend the next three…...
Red Dwarfs Are Super Stars
2+ week, 6+ day ago (171+ words) Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf and our closest star, imaged by Hubble. 9:35 AM EDT on August 25, 2026 We think. It's all theoretical, since we have yet to actually observe the death of a red dwarf star, because—again—the universe hasn't…...
Freaky Little Plant Pollinated By Freaky Little Freaks
3+ week, 5+ day ago (425+ words) Defector Freaky Little Plant Pollinated By Freaky Little Freaks 2:28 PM EDT on August 18, 2026 In Okinawa's coastal forests, brown puffballs protrude from roots of trees like unwanted warts. Although they might appear to be mushrooms, the balls are plants. To be…...