Anthropic has three very different visions for the impact AI will have on the U.S. economy.

A doomsaying community once on the periphery of the tech industry has gained influence, as AI “agents” perform amazing and alarming feats. From Anthrophic From OpenAI From NBC Nightly News: "could end humanity within this decade" Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons "Jumping the shark? Political world erupts

Francis Fukuyama looks back on the book that put his ideas on the world stage—and the misunderstanding that has dogged him since.

Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information produced by AI is transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a viral analogy, with LLM use spreading through populations, becoming embedded in cognitive and cultural practices. Thanks Melissa!

The Taiwanese don’t trust Trump, and they don’t believe America will come to their defense. A deal with China is starting to look inevitable.

In North Carolina’s Lost Provinces, residents see the arts as a pathway to sustainability and maintaining community.

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This Labor Day, a reason to, or not to, panic about AI unemployment Excerpt: "The reason why the solutions to economic inequality and instability are always the same is because the problems are fundamentally the same. Capitalist economies distribute income by paying people for their labor and paying returns to people who own capital (wealth). Due to certain feedback loops, capital factors — or wealth — end up overwhelmingly concentrated in the hands of a small percentage of p

DM How might embracing the "3 Pillars" of all humans' actual reality: • all-encompassing, • kinetic and • vanishing points, (together known as Pantakinesis...) ...bring about significant advancements in human thought, response and vigilance within these three contextual examples: 1) Financial planning and investments? 2) Business modeling/strategies? 3) Career navigation? The core of what you're asking can't be researched — since the three pillars live within our shared corpu

Frederick Douglass’s early speeches condemned the U.S. Constitution for embedding slavery in its clauses. Decades later, he saw the document very differently.

Books from Arion Press, crafted with lead and tin, can sell for tens of thousands of dollars

Meet the ‘Everywhere Millionaires’ proving that elite degrees aren’t a prerequisite for building massive wealth

At Uber and elsewhere, managers with small fiefdoms have become an especially vulnerable target in the push to purge management ranks

The Dutch central bank said shifting the 78 metric tons of gold, worth $11 billion, would improve its ability to trade the metal in a pinch Perhaps somewhat related Another symptom?

What Trump wrought in Venezuela could have come from a Wall Street playbook.

Those of us who live in relatively stable and well-ordered societies would like to believe, like Voltaire’s absurd Dr. Pangloss, who stumbles from one disaster to another, that “all is for the best.” We might grumble about the economy or the prospect of another far-off war, or listen approvingly to radical voices from either end of the political spectrum, but we don’t expect our world to be turned upside down. Excerpt: "We have arrived in a new age of disorder. We must prepar

The Iran war has widened the gap between Washington’s stated prioritization of the Indo-Pacific and the military, economic, and diplomatic policies needed to sustain U.S. regional leadership.

To remain relevant amid evolving attitudes toward higher education, Brandeis University and institutions like it are redefining their purpose

DM Good day. As you may recall, I argue, "All plans are fiction." A "plan" typically implies fabricating and holding what is believed to be a reliable, accurate assessment of future(s); or a held-fantasy of a static reality, or unfounded predictive confidence in one's body of experience, knowledge, resources or adequacy of due diligence. We've agreed, Pantakinesis indicates that any of these are flawed, even potentially danagerous. Thus, I posit instead of a "plan" for

New Wharton research finds that Big Tech’s $1 trillion AI bet may require productivity to nearly triple or risk becoming history’s largest capital misallocation.