When I lived in the Bay Area, I used to get together with my friend Jaron Lanier to explore the implications of spectacularly weird thought experiments. Outlandish thought experiments have been ...

Twitter reports that fewer than 5% of accounts are fakes or spammers, commonly referred to as “bots.” Since his offer to buy Twitter was accepted, Elon Musk has repeatedly questioned these estimates, ...

Imagine the following scenario: A phone rings, an office worker answers it and hears his boss, in a panic, tell him that she forgot to transfer money to the new contractor before she left for the day ...