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Human brains can't compute endless loops, so we rely on public cues and shared signals—eye contact, rituals, news headlines—to establish common knowledge without consciously working through each ...

The news is full of sober warnings about AI. The latest: recursive self-improvement, or RSI. RSI is the process by which AI systems improve themselves on their own—and then, improve their own ability ...

Whether our kids go into computer science as a career or not, learning the basics of programming is a good way for their brains to be trained in certain critical ways of thinking. But especially at an ...