Skeptophilia

Of all the things I've seen written about artificial intelligence systems lately, I don't think anything has freaked me out quite li...

In Jean-Paul Sartre's short story "The Wall," three men are captured during the Spanish Civil War, and all three are sentenced...

You probably have heard the quote attributed to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels : "If you tell a lie big enough and continue t...

One of my sensitive spots has to do with embarrassment.  Not only do I hate being embarrassed myself, I hate watching other people in embarr...

There's a folk truism that goes, "Don't try to bullshit a bullshitter." The implication is that people who exaggerate and/...

Things have come to a sorry state when it's the strict Christians who are advocating lying. I wish I was making this up.  Look, I know...

In my youth, I was quite an accomplished liar. I say "accomplished" more to mean "I did it a lot" rather than "I ...

A wag once said, "Artificial intelligence is twenty years in the future, and always will be."  It's a trenchant remark; predic...

In Richard Feynman's brilliant autobiography Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! , he tells the story of his experience as an undergr...