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It’s still wait-and-see time for many key characteristics of the Omicron variant
Dean ball has some thoughts and hesitations: Here are some questions I wish “Pause” and “Stop” advocates would address: 1. Assuming we achieve the desired policy goal through a bilateral US/China agreement, what would be the specific metric or objective we would say needs to be satisfied in advance? Who decides whether we have satisfied […] The post A bilateral AI pause? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesSolve for the China tech equilibrium*The Marginal Revolution: Rise an...
The article advocates for cities that embrace a "Solid B" approach, balancing livability and growth, rather than striving for unattainable perfection, to foster sustainable urban development.
Using a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults, this study explores awareness of five financial fraud types and links that knowledge to fraud experiences including targeting, engagement, and financial loss
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. How a couple of ski bums built the internet’s best weather app The best snow-forecasting app for skiers isn’t a federally-funded service or a big-name brand. It’s OpenSnow, a startup that uses government data, its own AI…
This week I reported on some rather unusual research that focuses on the brain of L. Stephen Coles. Coles was a gerontologist who died from pancreatic cancer in 2014. He had spent the latter part of his career specializing in human longevity. And before he died, he decided to have his brain preserved by a…
Is Trumpism crashing on the shoals of the Iran war? That is what Christopher Caldwell thinks. Caldwell is a prominent thinker on the right. He’s a contributing editor at the conservative publication the Claremont Review of Books,and he’s one of the people who’ve been trying to define, and even craft, a coherent Trumpism. So his recent article in The Spectator, “The End of Trumpism,” sparked a lot of debate on the right. At the core of this debate are some fundamental questions that I think re...
Overweight, overpriced and overheated – it was a 12-ton metaphor