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Since last year, the Trump administration has been dramatically reducing the amount of federal data available to Americans
Silicon Valley is making a show of helping prepare the country for AI layoffs
In The Nationalization of American Science I warned that the Trump administration’s rewriting of the seemingly mundane Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance was a tremendous threat to America’s historically successful decentralized system of science funding. Many others are now sounding the alarm. It’s not surprising that organizations like the AAAS oppose the rule, albeit with unusually […] The post The Trump Administration’s Threat to Scientific Research appeared first on Marginal REV...
The author is Bob Harris, and the subtitle is The Life and Times of Lord Daer 1763-1794. Who is Lord Daer? Don’t worry about that! So many books on the Scottish Enlightenment cover one particular thing, but somehow fail to give the reader a proper sense of life on the ground. I found this is […] The post A Tale of Three Cities appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsHe doesn't say anything about it being
Ex-OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo walked away from $2 million rather than stay silent, and now reveals why he believes there's a 70% chance AI leads to human extinction, why superintelligence could arrive before the end of the decade, and the one plan he thinks could still save us all! Daniel Kokotajlo is a former OpenAI researcher and one of the world's leading AI forecasters. He is the founder of the AI Futures Project and the lead author of 'AI 2027', the widely-read scenario mapping t...
The South Carolina senator, who died suddenly last night at age 71, was a fierce advocate for what he believed
The South Carolina senator was witty and fiercely ambitious
The Founders knew that freedom is the foundation for dignity and prosperity
Uniting capital and labour is easier in rhetoric than in government