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Roundup #88: Is it time to panic yet?
AI risk; AI and growth; AI and Saas; Rich people; Christians vs.
The anti-American Right
Bo French’s rightist movement is a dead end for our nation. Fortunately, it’s beatable.
Two missing pieces in the AI safety discussion
We need to make skeptics properly scared. And we need to make CHINA properly scared.
Liberalism needs a new philosophy of immigration
We need to make a principled stand instead of a tactical retreat.
David, Goliath, and Drones: The New Map of Geo-Technology - RBC
In the latest episode of Disruptors, Noah Smith explains how geo-technology, supply chains, and allied scale are reshaping global competition and Canada’s economic opportunities.
AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobs
Happy Labor Day!! Your labor is still valuable.
Why you won’t get a flying car
A review of “Where is My Flying Car?”, by J. Storrs Hall, and some other thoughts on the future of technology.
Roundup #87: Technology BAD!!
The Hugging Face attack; TV and loneliness; Leftist antisemitism; Another Acemoglu paper; The Electric…
In defense of Asian American art
People are creating some very interesting and original stuff!
The death of Market Street
How San Francisco turned its most iconic street into a giant empty scar.