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The president has been talking about steam power for almost a decade. Why?
For years, the tech industry has portrayed Chinese AI development as an existential threat. The truth is not so straightforward
Consumers are ditching the hype cycle and buying used devices in unprecedented numbers
That is my latest piece of writing, co-authored with Sonia Farrell Pearson of Harvard. Here is the opening premise: As early as 2017, the European Parliament floated “electronic personhood” for robots. More recently, a handful of U.S. states introduced legislation explicitly barring AI from legal personhood; and early this summer, President Milei of Argentina proposed letting AI agents own, manage, and bear responsibility […] The post Capitalizing untethered AI agents appeared first on Margin...
The 2024 forecast is particularly pessimistic about China’s fertility prospects. Both projections produce very substantial global aging, a major global capital glut producing very low long-run real capital returns. The latest forecast entails 10% lower global GDP in 2100 and far higher payroll tax rates to fund old-age benefits. Most important, it entails a major […] The post Some fertility and AI forecasts appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to Andao. I think we (i.e., re...
ICE acknowledged it investigated a critic for exercising their constitutional right to free speech, raising concerns about government overreach and the implications for civil liberties.
The lack of a scienter requirement renders the content-based ban unconstitutional
Voter confusion caused by candidates with similar names - as in the current Alaska Senate race - is part of the much larger problem of political ignorance
Reform would not be able to tolerate criticism from outside its centre Source