"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.
Iran demonstrates that a latent nuclear program is dangerous enough to invite preventive war while remaining insufficient to deter it.
“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:
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.
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
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The ceasefire in the Persian Gulf is a prelude to an emerging, precarious realignment.
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AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?
“Strangely for a book so concerned with wealth and power, GERONTOCRACY IN AMERICA doesn’t have much to say about class. Is the problem with wealthy old people that they’re old or that they’re wealthy?”
New from James G. Chappel:
"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
“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:
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OLDIE but GOODIE
"authoritarianism in its purest form: culture war as shitposting spectacle, constitutional crisis as viral entertainment." www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
