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AMERICA NEEDS A "TRIMMER"
Some people long for bold, visionary leaders. Others value technocratic expertise. But there’s a third alternative.
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Mar 261 min read
AI is creating the first generation of cognitively outsourced humans
We’ve offloaded pieces of thinking before, but never thought itself
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Mar 261 min read
The late Bronze Age was the last time our world was this connected
Historian Eric Cline argues the Bronze Age collapse wasn't the work of one invading force, but something far harder to stop.
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Mar 241 min read
Group Think
How do the groups you identify with shape your sense of self? Do they influence the beer you buy or how you think? The way you vote?
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Mar 241 min read
The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood
When can a kid play outside alone? Two parents, one stranger, and the state collide.
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Mar 241 min read
How quantum computing works
And How It Could Supercharge—and Disrupt—Billion-Dollar Industries
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Mar 231 min read
A.I. recklessness from U.S. leadership?
The administration’s approach to AI encourages fast development and pre-empting state laws
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Mar 231 min read
A new architecture for war emerges
How Iran flipped the economics of war against US | Fareed's Take
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Mar 221 min read
THE BASIC DRIVE THAT HUMANS MIGHT BE LOSING
In a time of AI sex and looksmaxxing, a new book calls on humans to rediscover intimacy.
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Mar 221 min read
‘Open Space’ Review: Orbiting the Problem
Our dependence on satellite technology means that private citizens now wield enormous power over communications, transportation and war.
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Mar 221 min read
Five Best: Works of Big History
Selected by Veronica Buckley, the author of ‘Seven Sisters: Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe’s First Family.’
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Mar 221 min read
How Lego Became a Go-To Meme of the Propaganda Wars
Throwback messaging using toys and videogames—with a dash of AI—is lowering defenses and opening new avenues for the information wars between rival states
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Mar 221 min read
The Trillion Dollar Race to Automate Our Entire Lives
The AI sprint is hurtling toward a world where anyone can build personal concierges to do everything from executive presentations to March Madness brackets
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Mar 221 min read
The Pentagon’s New Press Rules Violate the First Amendment, Judge Rules
The decision orders agency to restore press credentials that were illegally restricted
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Mar 221 min read
More pondering and posits of consciousness. (UII w/Claude)
DM What is the root and history of the terms: "conscious" and "consciousness?" This is a rich enough question that I can dive straight into it — the etymology runs deep. Let me do a proper research dig into the full linguistic, philosophical, and historical roots. Your research report on the history of "consciousness" is ready. It traces the word's evolution from Latin conscientia(shared guilty knowledge) through its 17th-century philosophical transformation by Descartes, Loc
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Mar 2018 min read
The diligence and delight of debate
You may be familiar with the concept of debate team from watching TV and movies – a group of eager kids who are willing to spend time outside of school researching issues and arguing their points. But these are also spaces in which kids are learning to find their voices. And where adults have to listen to what they have to say.
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Mar 201 min read
US intelligence elevates AI as a top global threat in new report
Annual assessment of Office of the Director of National Intelligence notes AI's use in combat, economic competitiveness—but skips disinformation.
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Mar 191 min read
"White Identity" Is Galvanizing the U.S. Political Right
He wrote a book on anti-white bias. The White House noticed.
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Mar 191 min read
Are They Still Your Friends if You Never See Them?
The friendship crisis of America men
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Mar 191 min read
Maybe Turning War Into a Casino Was a Bad Idea?
A disturbing new low in the Polymarket era
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Mar 181 min read
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