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The Demigod Gap: Coexisting with Post-Humans

“Esteemed guests, welcome! We will shortly begin our ascent. Please sit comfortably and enjoy this once-in-a-timeline opportunity to bear witness to Earth’s largest mountain.”

Benjamin Scott13 min read

Technological Niche Construction

We must cobble together some sort of picture of what technology is and what it is doing, how it relates to us and us to it; and we all know by now that it will not slow down to help us out.

Dr. Kem-Laurin Lubin9 min read

Who the Machine Says You Are

On how AI inherited rhetoric’s most dangerous art, and what it means for all of us.

Culture

I Met A Genie

The genie was so very tempting. I was so fatigued by going through the motions of work. Especially writing—writing emails, connecting with people and understanding what they need.

Elliot B. Garamond7 min read

Culture

Maybe I’ll Read That: Art in the Time of Ignorance

Being a review of “Art in the Time of Fascism” by Alex Preston, being itself a review of “Watching Over Her” by Jean Baptiste Andrea.

Selective Reader4 min read

Politics

The Privatization of the U.S. Government

The interface between citizen and government is changing. It is going high gloss, well engineered, aesthetic — the government is getting a private sector skin.

James Hartree11 min read

Let’s Make Sense of a Rapidly Changing World, Together.

The Better Argument is a community of thinkers as much as it is a print magazine. Our community thinks that wisdom is especially needed in fast-changing environments.

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