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The America That’s Still Possible

What does it mean to celebrate America on its 250th anniversary? The Trump administration’s festivities — from the U.F.C. fight on the White House lawn to the Great American State Fair — have centered American glory and greatness. What has been missing are the Americans who fought to move America closer to its promises. They had to love a country — or at least believe in a country — that often failed them. How did they do it? Beneath that is a deep question for anyone who loves a country, or ...

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Geopolitics

The Transatlantic Artificial Intelligence Calculus

This report provides a strategic framework for assessing the conditional value of artificial intelligence partnerships across different technological futures and presents options for transatlantic cooperation that advance U.S. strategic interests

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Technology

Can AI models consent to their own constitutions?

From Nick Caputo: NEW paper from me on SSRN: Can Claude consent to its own Constitution? AI constitutions (like Claude’s Constitution and the OpenAI Model Spec) are real constitutions, and we need to take how they govern us – and the AIs they create – seriously. In this paper, I apply constitutional theory’s oldest paradox […] The post Can AI models consent to their own constitutions? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesThe Troubled History of Government Equity in Technology...

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Infrastructure

Why we stopped making land

From Zigmund Forrest and Maxwell Tabarrok in Works in Progress: In total, around eight percent of the land in America’s major coastal cities was underwater in the 1890s and has since been reclaimed. This includes the land under several major airports, like Newark, Logan, and SFO, as well as neighborhoods like the Financial District in […] The post Why we stopped making land appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesRent Control: The Ceiling TrapWhat should I ask Liaquat Ahamed?How...

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