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1. When we “leave something to the imagination,” what are we doing? — Luke Roelofs takes up the question
2. “Most people are such that most people they know are more social than they are” — a short demonstration from Alex Pruss
3. Claude and ChatGPT are not welfare subjects. But thinking of them that way raises valuable moral questions for us to consider before conscious AI arrives — as Simon Goldstein & Harvey Lederman illustrate
4. How much do universities help students become more wise, just, and equipped to positively change the world? — a new ranking of schools based on these and related qualities
5. “The question is not whether industrial animal agriculture will end—no industry this inhumane, unhealthful, and unsustainable can last forever—but when and how” — Jeff Sebo argues for a global ban on industrial animal agriculture by 2050
6. Populism: “Narrowly construed, it is a rebellion against executive function. More generally, it is a rebellion against modern society, which requires the ceaseless exercise of cognitive inhibition and control” — Joseph Heath on how populism is “a political strategy that privileges a particular style of cognition”
7. “The emphasis on disciplinary expertise has been bad for the humanities” — Jennifer Frey explains why she thinks so in a conversation with Anastasia Berg

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