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In the Land of Happiness
Bhutan has its own national theory of happiness. How cool is that?
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Cody Kommers
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The Man Behind the Machine
A review of Benjamín Labatut's historical novel of ideas, The Maniac.
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Cody Kommers
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What if science moved faster, not slower?
A lot of researchers think the academic system requires them to work too quickly. Maybe they have it backwards.
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Cody Kommers
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Wait! I think Michael Lewis is right.
An author should be judged on whether they deliver on their promise. Contrary to what everyone else claims, Lewis did what he said he would.
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Cody Kommers
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Great, AI can write essays. Can we stop asking students to do useless writing assignments?
We were never that good at teaching the fundamentals of writing to begin with. This is an opportunity to rethink them.
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Cody Kommers
Is culture the key to AI's next big breakthrough?
The field of artificial intelligence has often used what we know about human intelligence as a template for designing its systems. But for the most…
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Cody Kommers
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April 2023

Yes, we're all storytellers. But not good ones.
Let's face it: your life story could use a little spicing up.
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Cody Kommers
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March 2023

How to read a novel as a theory of behavior
Stories can model the one thing computation never can: experience
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Cody Kommers
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February 2023

Meaning is interpretative.
That's why scientists don't know how to study it.
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Cody Kommers

January 2023

Meaning is post-hoc.
If you think you can predict ahead of time what will be meaningful, then you're wrong.
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Cody Kommers
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Meaning is contextual.
The case against my least favorite question of all time.
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Cody Kommers
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The Map of Eratosthenes
What the first map of the world shows us about how we see things today.
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Cody Kommers
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