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What Is It Like to Be a Large Language Model?
7+ hour, 52+ min ago (367+ words) We operate entirely on donations. Please contribute if you like reading these articles. Saturday 25 July 2026 The temptation is to answer too quickly. Enthusiasts proclaim that sufficiently intelligent behaviour is indistinguishable from consciousness. Sceptics reply that no amount of statistical prediction…...
Justice Under Pressure: The Dismissal of Karim Khan and the Politics of International Criminal Law
5+ hour, 36+ min ago (231+ words) We operate entirely on donations. Please contribute if you like reading these articles. Saturday 25 July 2026 To many observers, the outcome demonstrated that no official, however senior, stands above the ethical standards expected of international civil servants. To others, the decision…...
Europe's forthcoming ban on Russian gas tankers
7+ hour, 11+ min ago (121+ words) We operate entirely on donations. Please contribute if you like reading these articles. Saturday 25 July 2026 The full-scale invasion of Ukraine destroyed that assumption almost overnight. If those services disappear, Russia may still possess gas beneath the Arctic tundra, but transforming…...
Bringing Europe’s Margins into the Union: Enlargement in an Age of Frozen Conflicts
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (127+ words) We operate entirely on donations. Please contribute if you like reading these articles. Friday 24 July 2026 The consequence is that enlargement policy risks becoming hostage to precisely those who oppose enlargement. This suggests that the European Union requires a more sophisticated…...
Gödel, Consciousness and the Limits of Artificial Intelligence
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (697+ words) We operate entirely on donations. Please contribute if you like reading these articles. Friday 24 July 2026 Whether Gödel himself would have accepted such a conclusion is a more delicate question. These results permanently altered humanity’s understanding of mathematics. The nineteenth-century dream…...
Blade Runner and the Contemporary Imagination of Artificial Intelligence
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (136+ words) We operate entirely on donations. Please contribute if you like reading these articles. Thursday 23 July 2026 Blade Runner anticipated this predicament by challenging the observer to decide whether a perfect simulation of emotion is any different, for practical purposes, from emotion…...
What the Balkan Wars Can — and Cannot — Teach Ukraine
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (580+ words) We operate entirely on donations. Please contribute if you like reading these articles. Thursday 23 July 2026 Every war acquires its own mythology. Those searching for guidance instinctively reach backwards, looking for historical analogies that promise clarity amidst uncertainty. The wars that…...
Why the Stereotype? Fidelity, Society and Relationships in Russia
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (398+ words) We operate entirely on donations. Please contribute if you like reading these articles. Thursday 23 July 2026 Human beings everywhere form romantic attachments, experience temptation and sometimes betray the trust of those closest to them. There is no convincing evidence that any…...
The Drone Arms Race Accelerates — Russia’s Jet-Powered Shaheds and Ukraine’s Search for Speed
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (81+ words) We operate entirely on donations. Please contribute if you like reading these articles. Thursday 23 July 2026 The emergence of jet-powered derivatives changes that equation. Yet the arrival of jet-powered Shaheds threatens to erode that advantage. Speed alone, however, will not determine…...
The Advocate in the Dock: Why the Rajiv Menon KC Contempt Proceedings Raise Profound Questions About Judicial Power
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (327+ words) We operate entirely on donations. Please contribute if you like reading these articles. Thursday 23 July 2026 Every legal system worthy of the name depends upon an uncomfortable but indispensable principle: advocates must be free to argue fearlessly on behalf of their…...