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“Nobody is entitled to anything.” For about 30 years, I’ve been saying that to anyone complaining about anything. It’s one of the most important ideas I ever accepted…
I’ve been writing about the effect AI is going to have – and is already having – on the world pretty regularly since the beginning of this year.…
What the heck is going on in France? According to Macron’s government and The New York Times, it’s been a few weeks of protest about underfunded high schools and…
In a recent Substack essay – “Four Direct, Reasonable, and Important AI Questions (Which the AI People Will Ignore)” – Freddie deBoer, my favorite Atheist/Socialist, criticized those in…
After talking to the Agora publishers about my predictions for how quickly AI will be taking over our industry, I heard from one of them about some of…
Election campaign posters for Sweden’s political parties displayed ahead of the country’s general election on Sept. 13. I talked about Sweden, Denmark, and Finland in Monday’s issue. About…
It’s interesting. The Scandinavian countries – Denmark, Sweden, and Finland – have reputations for being unusually open societies with comprehensive and generally successful social-welfare systems. So comprehensive, in…
My three brothers and I agree on almost nothing. But Sunday night, we agreed on this: It’s not possible to know what will happen in the final act…
Readers who believe that spending more money is the solution to human suffering will not want to hear this. But after reforms pushed through Congress last year, fewer…
In the first three installments of this report, I’ve been making what may seem like a depressing argument. Artificial intelligence is rapidly reducing the economic value of stored…
The world is not what it appears to be. At least, that’s what I’ve been trying to persuade you of in the first two parts of this report.…
For the last 250 years, every important new technology – and the machines built to support it – has increased the value of human knowledge and human thinking.…
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