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- The Joy of Why: Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence? (20 August 2026); Original Quanta interview transcript, answer to Steven Strogatz about why humans keep doing science. Exact spoken-style wording; the edited pull quote was not used. Replaces the unpublished Herbert Spencer duplicate a
- The Joy of Why: Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence? (20 August 2026)
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