Joshua Rothman
@joshuarothman
Ideas Editor and writer @newyorker dot com.
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I wrote about rationality, rationalism, and the "rationality community" (in which I am a longtime lurker) for The New Yorker. newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
12 years ago, David Rohde and his interpreter, Tahir Luddin, were kidnapped by the Taliban. After 7 months, Tahir helped them escape. He's now a US citizen. For months, David Rohde has been trying to help him bring his wife and children to the U.S. newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
For the The New Yorker, I profiled Kim Stanley Robinson, whose book “The Ministry for the Future” offers a timeline for how we’ll fight climate change over the next thirty years. newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…
Are you the same person you've always been? Or have you changed dramatically through life? As I learned while writing this piece for The New Yorker, people have strong, divergent views about this question! newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…
In this week’s issue of the The New Yorker, I write about my expedition to Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica with an extraordinary group of scientists. It’s a long read at 7,500 words, filled w/unbelievably cool people doing hard work at one of the most forbidding places on Earth. 1/🧵
Yes yes yes, thank you Joshua Rothman !! Virginia Woolf’s Idea of Privacy newyorker.com/books/joshua-r… via The New Yorker
In the The New Yorker, I profiled Geoff Hinton, the “godfather of A.I.” He's a thoughtful, rational, emotional, humane, and very “human” genius—and he’s worried about what A.I. might become. “It started as one thing, and it’s become something else.” newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
David Attenborough is now narrating my life Here's a GPT-4-vision + ElevenLabs python script so you can star in your own Planet Earth:
I owe my career at The New Yorker to Michael Agger, who accepted a pitch from me more than a decade ago when I was just starting to make my way in journalism. He’s been a wonderful mentor and friend ever since, and is one of the best editors in the business.