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Killer Robots
I read two comments this week on a forum populated by some of the smartest tech execs I know.
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Is Lisbon Prepared For The Next Earthquake?
I live on a hill above the sea in Estoril.
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Why Cassandra Always Sounds Paranoid
I was listening to Sam Harris this morning, his most recent Making Sense episode with Gary Kasparov, when a single sentence stopped me cold.
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Are Citrini Research’s Predictions Correct?
When I read Citrini Research’s piece on Substack this past Sunday, the one titled “The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis,” I felt something I have learned…
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PROTECTING THE SYSTEM
On February 3, 2026, the Prime Minister of Poland stood before his cabinet and said something that should have stopped the news cycle cold.
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The Crowd Only Understands The Symptoms
I recently spent an evening reading an insightful article by Annie Lowrey published in The Atlantic regarding the impending artificial intelligence…
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The Yes Machine
A hundred million biased prompts meeting a system optimized for agreement… what could go wrong?
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Hate
I have been reading Howard Cohen’s weekly reflections at The Cohenization Project for several years now.
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The Last Arms Race
I was just reading the Atlantic’s latest on Artificial Intelligence and it occurred to me that most people have no clue as to what has happened in the…
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A Story About the Rise and Fall of Humanity
We Traded Depth for Spectacle and Called It Progress
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Is Your Job in AI Morally Defensible?
I have spent all morning asking a question that nobody in the AI industry seems to want to hear, and even fewer want to answer honestly.
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A Multipolar World
Yes, I know.
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