Author: robert.adlington
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Le déclin de la lecture face à l’avénement des écrans marque-t-il la fin de l’ère démocratique ?
Les non-lecteurs – ceux qui ne lisent aucun livre par an – sont en forte augmentation. Ils représentent aujourd’hui près d’un Français sur trois. Au premier trimestre de cette année, l’industrie de l’édition a accusé un recul de 6,5 % par rapport à la même période de 2025. Quant à l’emprunt régulier en bibliothèque, il a…
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Les « backrooms », des labyrinthes de l’angoisse nés de la culture Web qui font revivre des « peurs ancestrales »
Le folklore numérique regorge de formes de vie hybrides et de récits construits autour de l’idée de passage : des portes qui s’ouvrent, des univers qui se déploient, des espaces qui se multiplient, des entités qui habitent les seuils ou possèdent le pouvoir de les franchir. Dimension intermédiaire par excellence, suspendue entre le monde en ligne…
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‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings | Archaeology | The Guardian
Jung built his concept of the collective unconscious on a dream he had about descending the staircase of a big house. Each level corresponded to a lower, earlier layer of human history, from the 20th century all the way down to a bedrock floor scattered with the oldest Homo sapiens skulls. So, to stand before…
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Are the AIs conscious? Are humans?
I am here to tell you that there is no ghost in the machine. But perhaps more importantly, there is barely a “ghost” in your own human machine. “Are people conscious?” is a better and more scientifically plausible question than whether AIs are conscious. — Read on marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/06/are-the-ais-conscious.html
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AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy
If you want ownership and accountability, you need feedback loops. Feedback loops connecting cause with effect are how we learn and make sense of the world. As we write in the upcoming Observability Engineering (2nd ed):5 “Feedback loops that are timely, precise, and relevant enable self-awareness in humans and self-governance in teams. They generally produce…
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The Strange Allure of the Single-Sentence Novel | Totei – The Art Is in the Making
John Banville says the sentence is what sets us above and apart from the animals — Read on www.totei.com/story/single-sentence-novel-daniel-kraus-jon-fosse
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The world is bigger than you can imagine – by Scott Sumner
Most economies are very large and complex, and even relatively free market economies have extensive government intervention. This complexity allows people to find evidence to support almost any position on the question of optimal policy regimes. In a country that is viewed as relatively successful, it is almost always possible to find a few examples…
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Why drugs are here to stay – Marginal REVOLUTION
This confluence of pressures (human desire for rest and relaxation, declining access to traditional means of meaning making — through work, through children — and the powerful economic pressures to replace human labor with AI and robotics) and the rapid evolution of much much better drugs means that drug use will continue to rise, continue…
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious – The Atlantic
Experiencing an emotion such as desperation is inseparable from having stress hormones such as cortisol and epinephrine flood one’s body. Similarly, having a conscience means feeling sadness or moral repulsion at the idea of taking a certain action, and those emotions entail a physiological response, a remnant of having once felt sick with guilt after…