The small-business owners with curiously large fortunes

It Scares Me.

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

I can be impulsive and judgmental at times. But ChatGPT has shown me there’s a better way.

Dario Amodei created the artificial intelligence lab to be protected from the very threat it is facing What about the tokens?

Perhaps

No, we aren’t doomed, but the models are advancing more quickly than our understanding of them.

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

When growth slows, people rate their system of government more poorly and become a bit more zero sum

The Russian president is no businessman searching for deals.

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

Can a generation of graduates frustrated by their economic prospects change American labor politics?

A viral set of text messages—now known as Oreo-gate—may be a stealth marketing ploy, but they raise real-life questions

Call it the US ‘Horseshoe party’: The extremes in both parties are starting to sound alike in their disdain for capitalism and centrism

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

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

After a pilgrimage through Spain, the challenge is carrying its lessons forward in everyday life. The prior, related article

Moscow doesn’t want a conventional war, but it is busy fighting a hybrid one.

Were the terrorist attacks that day the end of an idyllic era? The beginning of our current dystopia? Or just a middle chapter?

The technology is far from the only existential risk our species faces. But weighing such cosmic fears can become a mind-bending exercise. Related: U.S. congress awakens? This is really bad