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AddAnn Arbor (Informed Comment) - The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as …
On the importance of a strong inside strategy.
Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.
How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth: 9781509540235: Economics Books @ Amazon.com
Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance
Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.
I’ve never been accused of any crimes, let alone prosecuted. My experience sums-up the draconian plight of non-citizens in the US, says journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson
Moving the capital is an old idea and a perennial nonstarter.
He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.
You may want to keep this news from your kids.
Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
Since I first read Kristen Roupenian’s viral story, I’ve wondered: How did she know about me?