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Conversation among us is peppered with observations of the division within the American population. The division is revealed in a number of forms. It may be the acknowledgement of the political gap ...

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After Mass on Sunday, our priest took a moment to relay a message from our bishop regarding the upcoming off-year elections here in Virginia. The Church, of course, goes to great lengths to avoid ...

A leading large language model displays behaviors that resemble a hallmark of human psychology: cognitive dissonance. Anyone who interacts with an AI chatbot for the first time is struck by how human ...

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