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This Movie Makes Nuclear War Feel Disturbingly Possible
An interview with the A House of Dynamite screenwriter Noah Oppenheim and Tom Nichols
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The next revolution in biology isn’t reading life’s code — it’s writing it
It’s time to write the human genome, argues microbiologist Andrew Hessel.
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Nietzsche Saw What A Godless Future Might Become
So often cast as the very symbol of atheism, the German philosopher is widely misunderstood. To read him as a cheerleader for unbelief is to miss the point entirely. Thanks Jim! Excerpt: " Nietzsche remains disturbingly relevant. Every time society treats meaning as optional, his shadow looms. Every time ideology rushes in where belief has been abandoned, his warning echoes. He saw that people cannot live long without the transcendental. If God disappears, something else wil
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‘WE’RE DEFINITELY GOING TO BUILD A BUNKER BEFORE WE RELEASE AGI’
The true story behind the chaos at OpenA I
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Career tips...
Mindset changing Burning bridges Become a multi-hyphanate leader
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How a Fringe Movement of Gun Nuts, Backwoodsmen and Free Marketers Paved the Way for Autocracy
It was pitched as the world’s most exclusive invitation. Hundreds gathered at President Trump’s private country club in Virginia in May for a gala evening. Guests included Justin Sun, a cryptocurrency billionaire who, in the Biden administration, was under investigation for suspected financial crimes. He and the other attendees had won their seats by being the top buyers of $TRUMP memecoin, a form of crypto that benefits Mr. Trump’s family.
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Oct 241 min read
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"Terror Management Theory" (TMT): an introduction, ...and a bit beyond. (UII w/Claude)
DM Are you familiar with "terror management theory," and if so, please provide your understandings and perspectives. I am indeed familiar with terror management theory, and I'd be happy to walk you through this fascinating psychological framework. Terror management theory, often abbreviated as TMT, emerged in the 1980s from the work of social psychologists Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski. The theory attempts to answer a profound question: how do human bei
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GM Aims to Deliver Eyes-Off Autonomous Driving by 2028
The Cadillac Escalade IQ electric SUV will be the Detroit automaker’s first vehicle to have the feature
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AI Destroys the Old Learning Curve
Wright’s Law is being rewritten, and leaders who don’t adapt to this new world will be replaced.
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The Average U.S. Cost of a Family Health Insurance Plan Is Now $27,000
Higher spending on chronic diseases, weight-loss drugs and hospital bills help drive the increase
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Oct 231 min read
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U.S. government seeks to acquire more ownership in U.S. businesses
Discussions signal Washington’s wider involvement in key parts of the economy Quick Summary Several quantum-computing companies are negotiating with the Commerce Department for federal funding in exchange for equity stakes. The Trump administration is expanding its strategy of taking equity in companies receiving taxpayer funds, following a nearly 10% stake in Intel. The funding, potentially $10 million minimum per company, would support quantum computing, a critical next-gen
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Oct 231 min read
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More robots entering Amazon's workplaces
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Perspectives of the college campus remodeling agenda
Campus autonomy was a major driver of the can-do America that Trump aims to revive.
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Oct 231 min read
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Celebrities sign to prevent A.I. superintelligence
Prince Harry, Meghan join open letter calling to ban the development of AI ‘superintelligence’ Also on the list are Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, conservative commentator Steve Bannon, former members of Congress, actors, professors, and many othe rs
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For those who think you're more productive with less sleep
Sleeping less doesn’t make you more productive. It just makes you more tired.
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AI Workers Are Putting In 100-Hour Workweeks to Win the New Tech Arms Race
Workers in Silicon Valley are pushing themselves to extremes day after day Quick Summary Top AI researchers and executives are working 80 to 100 hours weekly, driven by intense competition. Corporate credit-card transaction data from the expense-management startup Ramp shows a surge in Saturday orders from San Francisco-area restaurants for delivery and takeout from noon to midnight. The pace of AI development has compressed the time from research breakthroughs to product lau
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Oct 231 min read
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Ancient Desert Death Trap
Explore mysterious 9,000-year-old Stone Age megastructures found in the Arabian Desert.
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Oct 221 min read
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The war on whimsy
America is facing a war on whimsy, and we are losing ground daily. A monster pervades this nation, stealing sleep from schoolkids, tearing down national treasures and locking us in our homes to toil behind computer screens: efficiency. We have marched to the anthem of productivity since the Industrial Revolution; we think of children working away with coal-slathered faces in factories and believe we have evolved as a society. But I posit that as soon as we pilfered the chisel
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Oct 221 min read
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AMERICA IS SLIDING TOWARD ILLITERACY
Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.
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Oct 221 min read
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U.S Leadership Advances Election Denials, Still Fixated on 2020 Grievances
Enabled by congress and the courts, the president has placed proponents of his false claims into government jobs while dismantling systems built to secure voting, raising fears that he aims to seize authority over elections ahead of next year’s midterms. Related
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