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The Plan to Put Super Dogs on the Battlefield of the Future
An Anduril-backed venture aims to genetically engineer faster, sharper-nosed military dogs

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17 hours ago1 min read
‘Dispatches From Rural America’ Review: Wendell Berry’s Country
Wendell Berry’s iconoclasm reminds liberals and conservatives that neither camp has a monopoly on truth.

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18 hours ago1 min read
Is America Still Afraid of Socialism?
Republican strategists have made warnings of a “communist menace” central to the party’s midterms message. It’s complicated by a bipartisan political shift.

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18 hours ago1 min read
Can’t Afford a Home. Can’t Afford a Baby. Can’t Afford Life. This Is 30
They’re trying to build middle-class lives in New York. But many 30-year-olds in the city feel worse off than their parents. Is it average adult angst? Or something more enduring?

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1 day ago1 min read
The subtle, pervasive perils of hubris, the power of "Enjoying My Ignorance," and frailties and fallacies of AI demonstrated, in multiple contexts. (UII w/Claude)
DM Reflecting on our prior conversations regarding gravity, you stated gravity has evidental "speed." How confident are you of that answer? I’ll research the current evidence on the speed of gravity so I can give you a calibrated confidence level rather than a reflexive one. Speed of gravity evidence Research complete. 285 sources 5m 55s I’m about 99% confident that gravitational waves, meaning changes in gravity, travel at the speed of light. My earlier answer went too far

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2 days ago10 min read
‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special Over Being Happy
The pursuit of achievement distracts from the deeply ordinary activities and relationships that make life meaningful.

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4 days ago1 min read
Hubris: contempt for ignorance. Humility: enjoyment of ignorance. (UII w/Claude)
Good afternoon! I posit that contempt for one's own ignorance has a name: hubris. Pantakinesis illuminates this; in part because of it's vanishing points (as well as its other two pillars; but, that requires a bit more facilitated learning for many humans). Thus, for one to sustainably thrive within reality, with portions thereof unknown, requires "Enjoying My Ignorance." This potent attribute also has a name: humility. Good afternoon. I concur, with one refinement, and a

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4 days ago3 min read
Putin Nears a Prize: Restoring Ties With the U.S. While Giving Up Nothing
Russia has sought to separate the war in Ukraine from potential business deals and diplomacy with the United States. Its efforts now appear to be working.

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4 days ago1 min read
Pooling risk to pay for long-term services and supports
European lessons for the United States

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4 days ago1 min read
How Chinese companies talk about recursive self-improvement
RSI with Chinese characteristics. Excerpt: "It seems, thus, that RSI is indeed the goal that both sides are racing towards. But the reality is not so simple. For one, we don’t understand what Chinese companies mean when they talk about AI research automation or RSI — even as more and more of them adopt the term."

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4 days ago1 min read
AFTER THE APOCALYPSE
As Venezuela struggles to recover from political upheaval and calamitous earthquakes, the U.S. government is exploiting the country for oil and money.

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4 days ago1 min read
Book Alert: The U.S. Odyssey:
What an Ancient Story Reveals about Our Divided Souls

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6 days ago1 min read
Musk Vows to Give Each U.S. Child a SpaceX Share
Pledge comes after Anthropic promised to commit 5% of its shares to new ‘public benefit fund’

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6 days ago1 min read
U.S. Abandons Ideals at Its Peril
. The U.S. isn’t perfect, but it has always been hard to doubt its good intentions. Now that has changed.

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6 days ago1 min read
Why Is Strategy So Difficult?
It can be studied, but rarely mastered

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6 days ago1 min read
U.S. Is Now an Ally of Russia
U.S. leaders have abandoned the Western order.

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Oct 191 min read
Fire Ants: ... an exemplar of Holophren Embodiment Design ... exposes AI concerns to urgently heed (UII w/Claude)
DM What do you know about what are commonly called "fire ants?" I'm fighting battles, and I need whatever you can muster to help me win this war, or be more effective in my battles spanning East Tennessee acreage. They appear to have superb "Holophren Embodiment Design" (H.E.D.). I’ll research this now, covering the fire ant species in East Tennessee (likely including hybrid imported fire ants), control strategies scaled for 47 acres, and how the colony works as a distribute

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Oct 165 min read
How to become a great conversationalist
People might be taking the advice of "be a good listener" a little too far.

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Oct 161 min read


Commonality of Holophren Embodiment Design (H.E.D.)
Should you have interest: a related brief Claude collaboration: DM Good day to you. As we have extensively discussed, the Universal Holophren is "substrate independent," while prevailing in wide variety of types of living and non-living entities, is so in discrete, compound, and fractal arrangement. A holophren can manifest in a distributed design (such as a in an oak tree, bee hive, business organization or immune system); or may manifest centralized manner (such as in our

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Oct 156 min read
The overlooked memo that could reshape federal science
An inspirational 120-page essay received a lot of buzz. But it’s a different document that has real power.

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Oct 131 min read
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