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Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington told me that they believe generative AI can help millions of suffering people. I’m not so sure.
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Novak Djokovic may be the greatest tennis player ever—and I can’t stand him.
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Food shortages will make grocery shopping more expensive and less fun.
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‘The Goddess of Good Sex’
Dr. Ruth, the world’s most famous sex therapist—and at 90, the subject of a new documentary—has long harnessed the power of pop culture to tackle that most intimate of subjects. (From 2019)
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