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From the Consent Decree filed today in Missouri v. Biden (W.D. La.): As President Trump stated upon taking office on… The post Trump Administration Agrees to Consent Decree in <i>Missouri v. Biden</i> Social Media Case appeared first on Reason.com
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The hardest question to answer about AI-fueled delusions What actually happens when people spiral into delusion with AI? To find out, Stanford researchers analyzed transcripts from chatbot users who experienced these spirals. Their findings suggest that…
Large-scale, voluntary space settlement must be economically rational to be viable. Here, we deploy the Roy model, an economic model used to understand immigration, to illuminate the economic factors important for space settlement and develop qualitative understanding of robust features of space settlement that do not depend on the details of the space economy. We […] The post An economic framework for space immigration appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesSouth African safar...
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L. Stephen Coles’s brain sits cushioned in a vat at a storage facility in Arizona. It has been held there at a temperature of around −146 degrees °C for over a decade, largely undisturbed. That is, apart from the time, a little over a year ago, when scientists slowly lifted the brain to take photos…
James Meadway's radical new think tank will take aim at Treasury consensus
FBI director Kash Patel told lawmakers that the agency is actively purchasing commercially available location data, which can track Americans without needing a warrant