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The new machtpolitik threatens global stability. The post After Iran, the World Will Never Be the Same appeared first on The American Conservative
The authors describe an artificial general intelligence (AGI) Rideout strategy to avoid geopolitical risks in the race toward and transition to AGI. The strategy prioritizes deterring conflicts and increasing U.S. tech infrastructure resilience
The subtitle is Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning, due out June 23. In the first chapter, Wright summarizes four of his perspectives, these are my paraphrases of his pp.5-6: 1. When it comes to AI, we should be somewhere on the awe spectrum. 2. We can create a future where the upside of […] The post Robert Wright’s The God Test appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIt looks like LLMs will transform business. However, if we get . by bazzaWhat does this even mea...
This was a great failure of the most recent philanthropic era. At its best, the infrastructure established by figures like Gates delivered effective efforts to reduce poverty and fight disease; at its worst, it threw money after fashionable political causes and education fads. But there was no real legacy when it came to physical infrastructure […] The post Ross Douthat on what AI money should learn from the golden age of philanthropy appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsI was not a...
Nature, Published online: 23 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00220-9 Officials from the US Department of Health and Human Services, which funded the controversial study, say that it will proceed as planned
Labour MPs warn prime minister the decision will trigger ‘bloodletting’ – but supporters back move, saying it will help party draw a line under recent ‘psychodrama’
Despite Trump's claim, Moscow's forces launched dozens of drones and one missile at Ukraine overnight, according to the Ukrainian air force
Debt charities say that calls have risen compared with last year as people are urged to seek help