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Apple’s 50 Years of Integration

Apple has survived 50 years by being the only company integrating hardware and software; if the company loses because of AI it will be because the point of integration changes

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Economy

Economists on AI and economic growth and employment

We completed the most comprehensive study of how economists and AI experts think AI will affect the U.S. economy. They predict major AI progress—but no dramatic break from economic trends: GDP growth rates similar to today’s and a moderate decline in labor force participation. However, when asked to consider what would happen in a world […] The post Economists on AI and economic growth and employment appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesIs financial economics still economics?...

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Politics

A Crisis of Belonging

A Crisis of Belonging Commentary on politics today is concerned with size—the size of superpowers and client states, GDPs and deficits, armies and arsenals. But what’s often forgotten is that the issue of scale in modernity was first about inclusion. For Enlightenment philosophers, this is what separated the moderns from the ancients. From the eighteenth century onwards, albeit slowly, ever more people came to regard government as something they should have a say in—and a right to. It was not...

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Culture

Project Hail Mary’s Unresolved Moral Dilemmas

Like practically everyone else, I loved Project Hail Mary, the runaway science fiction mega-hit film that has so far garnered over $600 million in worldwide revenue. Everything about the. The post Project Hail Mary’s Unresolved Moral Dilemmas appeared first on First Things

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