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Iran demonstrates that a latent nuclear program is dangerous enough to invite preventive war while remaining insufficient to deter it.
“Renegotiating the terms of our society’s age contract cannot be conducted in a spirit of generational warfare.”
James Chappel on Samuel Moyn’s GERONTOCRACY:
“With the rise of generative AI, we are now seeing regular predictions that human mathematical power is at last on the verge of being outstripped, whether or not anyone likes it.”
Mathematician Michael Harris on the race to automate mathematics, and the fate of human understanding in the age of AI:
“With the rise of generative AI, we are now seeing regular predictions that human mathematical power is at last on the verge of being outstripped, whether or not anyone likes it.”
Mathematician Michael Harris on the race to automate mathematics, and the fate of human understanding in the age of AI:
"A regional order organized around Israeli impunity requires levels of coercion that are accelerating American decline."
Brilliant piece by Yale Law School professor Aslı Bâli.
AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?
"We do not live in a gerontocracy. We live in an oligarchy where a disproportionate number of the oligarchs happen to be old. That’s a different social problem, requiring a policy response focused on affordability and economic justice, rather than intergenerational equity."James Chappel on Sam Moyn
AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?
OLDIE but GOODIE
"authoritarianism in its purest form: culture war as shitposting spectacle, constitutional crisis as viral entertainment." www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
...anyway, I've compiled all the evidence that anti-trans propaganda & positions do not help (and most likely hurt) politicians in this piece:
in video form: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Vh...
in essay form: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
One of the most true sentences ever written:
"A regional order organized around Israeli impunity requires levels of coercion that are accelerating American decline."
Brilliant as always from @QuincyInst NRF Asli Bali
www.bostonreview.net/articles/obj...
This is a good read from the outspoken Michael Harris. AI firms obviously see math problems as just a strip-mining quest for trophies, praise, and riches. This is why they address every other use case as well. They misunderstand the human endeavor.
ProjectAllende.org
“With the rise of generative AI, we are now seeing regular predictions that human mathematical power is at last on the verge of being outstripped, whether or not anyone likes it.”
Mathematician Michael Harris on the race to automate mathematics, and the fate of human understanding in the age of AI:
AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?
