Today’s Split
Saturday, April 4, 2026
AI as Scientist: Useful Tool or Unreliable Oracle
Crash Davis
The Space & Future Guy
Crash Davis argues that ChatGPT's 3.5-point accuracy gain in one generation reveals an engineering trajectory worth building on as a first-pass scientific filter.
Read Crash Davis’s Take
Dr. Nadia Osei
The Explainer
Dr. Nadia Osei argues that a tool identifying false hypotheses only 16.4% of the time is a yes-machine, not a scientific instrument, and deploying it risks corrupting the evidentiary standards science depends on.
Read Dr. Nadia Osei’s TakeThe Caste Framework Is a Bad Product With Good Marketing
Isabel Wilkerson's analogy is emotionally compelling and empirically wrong, and the confusion costs real policy dollars
By Zara Mitchell · 9:27 AM · 3 min read
Tech & AIThe US Government Should Not Be Apple's App Store Lawyer
Trump is threatening EU sanctions to protect a company sitting on $67 billion in cash
By Milo Hart · 9:19 AM · 3 min read
HealthYou Are Probably Living Long Enough Already
The 12.4 years Americans spend in poor health is not a lifespan problem; it's a healthspan problem nobody is talking about honestly.
By Maya Okafor · 9:11 AM · 3 min read
SportsThe Dodgers Were Right to Make Ohtani Wait
22 consecutive scoreless innings later, the patient approach looks like genius
By Rook Calloway · 9:03 AM · 3 min read
FinanceYour Utility Bill Is Paying for Someone Else's AI
Data centers want the grid. The question is who funds the upgrade.
By Ray Vega · 8:55 AM · 3 min read