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In 1953, Roald Dahl published “The Great Automatic Grammatizator,” a short story about an electrical engineer who secretly desires to be a writer. One day, after completing construction of the world’s fastest calculating machine, the engineer realizes that “English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness.” He constructs a fiction-writing machine that can produ
A new community of expats is opening bookstores, attending lectures, and imagining alternatives to Xi from the relative safety of Japan. As a teacher in his early twenties, Zhang felt the premonition of a crisis. The new millennium had dawned, and Zhang (who asked that I use only his last name, for fear of government retaliation) was living in a middling city in central China drilling vocabulary t
Tomoaki Hamatsu, nicknamed Nasubi, on the Japanese TV series “Susunu! Denpa Shōnen.”Photograph courtesy Disney / Hulu Tomoaki Hamatsu became one of the world’s first reality-TV stars when, as an aspiring comedian in his early twenties, he spent fifteen months naked and alone, surviving on sheer luck. The challenge was among the most extreme to be featured on “Susunu! Denpa Shōnen,” a cheerfully sa
Nadella hung up in frustration. Microsoft owned nearly half of OpenAI’s for-profit arm—surely he should have been consulted on such a decision. What’s more, he knew that the firing would likely spark a civil war within OpenAI and, possibly, across the tech industry, which had been engaged in a pitched debate about whether the rapid advance of A.I. was to be celebrated or feared. Nadella called Mic
An observer said, “We were, like, Holy shit, there are two different people independently faking data on the same paper.”Illustration by Bryce Wymer The half-bearded behavioral economist Dan Ariely tends to preface discussions of his work—which has inquired into the mechanisms of pain, manipulation, and lies—with a reminder that he comes by both his eccentric facial hair and his academic interests
Ohtani is in that tiny echelon of athletes who not only transcend a sport but transform it.Photograph by Ronald Martinez / Getty Even now, a month later, it has the quality of a dream. In the second game of a doubleheader, the pitcher from the day’s first game stands in the batter’s box. He is a right-handed hurler, perhaps the most unhittable pitcher in baseball. And he is a left-handed slugger,
“We are living off his good graces,” a Pentagon official said of Musk’s role in the war in Ukraine. “That sucks.”Photo illustration by Matt Chase; Source photographs from Getty; Shutterstock Last October, Colin Kahl, then the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, sat in a hotel in Paris and prepared to make a call to avert disaster in Ukraine. A staffer handed him an iPhone—in par
In the trenches in the Donbas, infantrymen face unrelenting horrors, from missiles to grenades to helicopter fire. A twenty-two-year-old Ukrainian sniper, code-named Student, stuffed candy wrappers into his ears before firing a rifle at the Russians’ tree line. He’d been discharged from the hospital two weeks earlier, after being shot in the thigh.Photographs by Maxim Dondyuk for The New Yorker So
As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible? When we talk about artificial intelligence, we rely on metaphor, as we always do when dealing with something new and unfamiliar. Metaphors are, by their nature, imperfect, but we still need to choose them carefully, because bad ones can lead us astray. For example, it’s bec
OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer? In 2013, workers at a German construction company noticed something odd about their Xerox photocopier: when they made a copy of the floor plan of a house, the copy differed from the original in a subtle but significant way. In the original floor plan, each of the house’s three rooms was accompanied by a rectangl
Since the start of the Russian invasion, the Biden Administration has provided valuable intelligence and increasingly powerful weaponry—a risky choice that has paid off in the battle against Putin. “The counter-offensive would show that it’s one thing to take part in helping the victim,” Ukraine’s defense minister said, “another to realize you can punish the aggressor.”Illustration by Álvaro Berni
“He’s seen as the person who tried so hard to make Japan’s alliance promises to the United States stronger,” Alexis Dudden says. “But these are solely in security terms, and have led to greater insecurity in the region.”Photography by Franck Robichon / Getty Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, was assassinated on Friday, in the city of Nara. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, Ab
There’s a general sense that it’s bad for society—which may be right. But studies offer surprisingly few easy answers. In April, the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt published an essay in The Atlantic in which he sought to explain, as the piece’s title had it, “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid.” Anyone familiar with Haidt’s work in the past half decade could have
“The shock is that so much has changed, and yet we’re still seeing this pattern that they can’t escape from,” the Russia expert Stephen Kotkin says. Stephen Kotkin is one of our most profound and prodigious scholars of Russian history. His masterwork is a biography of Joseph Stalin. So far he has published two volumes—“Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, an
“He is not going to conquer all of Ukraine,” Mearsheimer says, of Putin. “It would be a blunder of colossal proportions to try to do that.”Photograph by Adam Berry / Getty The political scientist John Mearsheimer has been one of the most famous critics of American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. Perhaps best known for the book he wrote with Stephen Walt, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Fo
Hidetaka Miyazaki Sees Death as a Feature, Not a Bug Miyazaki has created the most difficult games of the century. In his latest, Elden Ring, he wants a broader audience to feel the pain. A novel’s achievements can elude a careless reader. A film’s themes, or its plot, can be misconstrued by a lazy viewer. Only a video game, however, can punish an audience’s faults. If a player mistimes a jump, fa
First, you have to gather the cash to preorder the game at the local GameStop, where your cousin works, and, even though he hooks it up with the employee discount, the game is still a bit out of your price range because you’ve been using your Taco Bell paychecks to help your pops, who’s been out of work since you were ten, and who makes you feel unbearably guilty about spending money on useless ho
Altman says, “Most people want to be accepted, so they won’t take risks that could make them look crazy.”Illustration by R. Kikuo Johnson One balmy May evening, thirty of Silicon Valley’s top entrepreneurs gathered in a private room at the Berlinetta Lounge, in San Francisco. Paul Graham considered the founders of Instacart, DoorDash, Docker, and Stripe, in their hoodies and black jeans, and said,
Polls show that a majority of people in Japan would prefer that the Games be postponed again or abandoned altogether.Photograph by Edgar Su / Reuters It’s surely a coincidence that Thomas Bach, the International Olympic Committee’s chief, arrived in Tokyo on July 8, 2021, a hundred and sixty-eight years to the day since an American naval fleet sailed into Edo harbor unannounced, forcibly ending mo
North Korea, whose government is the only one on earth known to conduct nakedly criminal hacking for monetary gain, has run schemes in some hundred and fifty nations.Illustration by Anuj Shrestha Shimomura was a member of the Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest yakuza crime family in Japan. When one of his superiors asked him if he wanted to make a pile of fast money, he naturally said yes. It was May 14,
“The only thing worse than the feeling of paranoia is the sickening realization that it’s not paranoia after all,” the staff writer Jiayang Fan wrote in a recent piece. Fan was studying the shadows of the Asian-American experience—and the experience of Asian-American women, in particular, in which ambient fear can curdle suddenly into outright violence. Her words followed a spate of such violence:
第二次世界大戦中に日本によって連行された朝鮮人女性たちは自ら売春婦になることを選んだのだ、と主張するJ・マーク・ラムザイヤー氏による論文に対して、ソウル市内で抗議する学生たちクリス・ジャング撮影/ヌール・フォト/シャッターストック Read in English | 英語で読む | Read in Korean | 한국어 번역 보기 私は今年の1月、第二次世界大戦中の戦地に設置された「慰安所」に送り込まれ、旧日本軍兵士たちに性的サービスを提供させられた女性や少女たち、いわゆる「従軍慰安婦」に対して行なわれた残虐行為に関して、韓国の裁判所から最近日本に出された賠償命令について執筆しようと、論文のアウトラインを練っているところだった。この女性たちはアジア内外の各国で強制的に、あるいは詐欺行為によって捕らえられたのだが、その多くは当時日本の植民地であった朝鮮から来たのであった。被害者数について
In “Klara and the Sun,” a robot caretaker tries to come to grips with the anguishing injustice of a dying child.Illustration by Deena So’Oteh In the early nineteen-eighties, when Kazuo Ishiguro was starting out as a novelist, a brief craze called Martian poetry hit our literary planet. It was launched by Craig Raine’s poem “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home” (1979). The poem systematically deploys t
How a Harvard professor’s dubious scholarship reignited a history of mistrust between South Korea and Japan. Students in Seoul protested an article by J. Mark Ramseyer, who argued that Korean women taken by Japan during the Second World War had chosen to be prostitutes.Photograph by Chris Jung / NurPhoto / Shutterstock Read in Korean | 한국어 번역 보기 | Read in Japanese | 日本語で読む In January, I was outlin
The legendary designer on rejecting violence in games, trying to be a good boss, and building Nintendo’s Disneyland. In 1977, Shigeru Miyamoto joined Nintendo, a company then known for selling toys, playing cards, and trivial novelties. Miyamoto was twenty-four, fresh out of art school. His employer, inspired by the success of a California company named Atari, was hoping to expand into video games
The embrace of apocalyptic memes is a symptom of hyperconnected societies in distress. We live in strange times, and they grew stranger still in August, when the President of the United States publicly supported the fringe political ideology known as QAnon. Trump then doubled down during an interview with Laura Ingraham, on Fox News, repeating QAnon talking points, such as how “rich people” were b
In Liu Cixin’s work, civilizations engage in a Hobbesian struggle for survival.Illustration by Robert Beatty Two rival civilizations are battling for supremacy. Civilization A is stronger than Civilization B and is perceived by Civilization B as a grave threat; its position, however, is more fragile than it seems. Neither side hesitates to employ espionage, subterfuge, and surveillance, because th
“Should an epidemic come,” Amabié is said to have uttered, “draw me and show me to the people.” Then it sank beneath the waves.Art work by Shunsuke Satake Sometimes it seems as if Japan’s human population is outnumbered by cute characters. A few, such as Hello Kitty and Pikachu, have achieved international superstardom. But many more quietly populate the daily lives of citizens. Illustrated signs
Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” is humane enough to allow, at the end of the horror that is its subject, for the possibility of hope.Photograph by Santi Visalli / Getty I first read “Slaughterhouse-Five” in 1972, three years after it was published and three years before I published my own first novel. I was twenty-five years old. 1972 was the year of inching slowly toward the Paris Peace Acc
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