Julien Crockett is an intellectual property attorney and the science and law editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. He runs the LARB column The Rules We Live By, exploring what it means to be a human living by an ever-evolving set of rules.
Julien Crockett
Articles
Everything You Think Is Physical
Julien Crockett discusses cognition and metaphors with George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan, authors of “The Neural Mind: How Brains Think,” in a new installment of the series The Rules We Live By.
Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem
Julien Crockett speaks with Ted Chiang about the search for a perfect language, the state of AI, and the future direction of technology.
The Rules We Live By: Year in Review
Julien Crockett looks back on the first year of the LARB series The Rules We Live By.
Play and the Engine of Creation
Julien Crockett interviews Kelly Clancy about gamification, simulations, and her new book “Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World.”
How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell
Julien Crockett interviews Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell about complexity and learning in AI systems, and our roles as caregivers.
The City of the Future: A Conversation with Antoine Picon and Carlo Ratti
For the Rules We Live By series, Julien Crockett interviews Carlo Ratti and Antoine Picon about their new book “Atlas of the Senseable City.”
The Hold of the Dead Over the Living: A Conversation with Jill Lepore
Julien Crockett talks with Jill Lepore about her new book “The Deadline.”
Everything Is Embedded in What Came Before: A Conversation with Robert M. Sapolsky
Julien Crockett interviews Robert M. Sapolsky, author of “Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will.”
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