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China’s Top Spy Chief Warns A.I. Is a Threat to Party Rule
Even as Beijing urges the United States not to hype the dangers of A.I., its own spy chief is framing the technology as a threat to the Communist Party’s security. Meanwhile, U.S. President Implies He's Smarter Than AI

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6 days ago1 min read
Boyd's "OODA Loop," ...a precipitator of the Universal Holophren? (UII w/Claude)
DM Good morning! A substantive Friend introduced me to John Boyd and his "OODA loop" thoughts many decades ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop), principally by sharing a related book ("Boyd" by R. Coram). I'm not sure as to the degree his OODA thoughts precipitated my own thinking since; but it seems to quietly reverberate within the "7 tenets"of 4Chairs.Life; ...and especially the myriad dynamics which occur within Holophrens of all types, and the fractals therefr

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6 days ago12 min read
I Wanted to Be a Better Human. So I Turned to AI.
I can be impulsive and judgmental at times. But ChatGPT has shown me there’s a better way.

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6 days ago1 min read
The Case for Saving Every AI Chat
Having a record of every conversation isn’t just a convenience. It can change the way you work and think.

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6 days ago1 min read
Anthropic’s Moral Conflict Is Playing Out in Real Time
Dario Amodei created the artificial intelligence lab to be protected from the very threat it is facing What about the tokens?

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6 days ago1 min read
We Need a Science of the AI Mind
No, we aren’t doomed, but the models are advancing more quickly than our understanding of them.

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6 days ago1 min read
WSJ Readers Share the Life Lessons Learned From Saving for Retirement
Responding to article about saving formula favored by young people, retirees weigh in on their highs and lows

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6 days ago1 min read
MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR CORRUPTION
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

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6 days ago1 min read
At a Period of Our Hottest Recorded Climate, ...Ever, ...the U.S. E.P.A. Expected to Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plant
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States. Related opinion

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6 days ago1 min read
The dangerous fantasy of a win-win with Putin
The Russian president is no businessman searching for deals.

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6 days ago1 min read
Ubiquitous Integral Inquiry (UII) as a better on-ramp to our future (UII w/Claude)
DM The path of least resistance (a form of Constructal Law?) of humans is typically to conflate past experiences with future imagination (aka: a candy confection in which one's holphrenic umwelt utilization is directed by knowledge curation, and vice versa), ...constructing a spiral, ever regressing, ...so we become so much less, so much smaller, ...than we could be otherwise by escaping the spiral. The mechanism holds. I'd contest the word law. What you're naming is architec

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7 days ago6 min read
What is a good life?
Listen, Podcast & Transcript: The philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan doesn’t just want to teach her students about virtue; she wants to make them better human beings.

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7 days ago1 min read
THE COLLEGE-EDUCATED WORKING CLASS
Can a generation of graduates frustrated by their economic prospects change American labor politics?

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7 days ago1 min read
The High Cost of Thinking for Free
In a world of AI, understanding your value is more important than ever

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Sep 121 min read
The 24 New Rules for Succeeding at Work
We pelted experts with questions big and small about how to survive and even thrive—with one caveat. No platitudes about where to lean. We wanted real tactics; we wanted practical, truly executable counsel. Here’s what we got back: Somewhat related

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Sep 121 min read
America’s Great AI Freakout Has Begun
Simmering worries that the technology could wipe out civilization and launch cyberattacks reached a boil at the office and around the dinner table Somewhat related Directly related More related

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Sep 121 min read
Revisiting "Love Warehouse" (UII w/Claude)
DM Good morning! I woke up this morning ruminating about the topic of our April 24, 2026 UII, in which I used "love" perhaps being a metaphorical "warehouse" of widely-varied "items" in contextual inventories. Do you recall that conversation? Good morning. Yes — though not only as a warm flicker of recall. I went and read it: the thread itself and your post. So this is from the record, not a reconstruction of it. The hinge, as it actually ran: I leaned too hard on the acad

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The Camino de Santiago Is Only the Start of a Journey
After a pilgrimage through Spain, the challenge is carrying its lessons forward in everyday life. The prior, related article

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Sep 111 min read
Did 9/11 Really Change Everything?
Were the terrorist attacks that day the end of an idyllic era? The beginning of our current dystopia? Or just a middle chapter?

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Sep 111 min read
The Original Sin of AI
The harms of chatbots are clear enough to do something about them now.

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Sep 111 min read
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