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Exploring AI through experimentation and current affairs—and questioning what it means for how we think, understand, and evolve.
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Small but Beautiful - My latest in Foreign Affairs (opens the original)
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My new piece in Foreign Affairs argues that Beijing stopped betting on megaprojects in the early 2020s—they cost too much and drew too much backlash. Instead, Beijing now embeds itself through smaller, quieter endeavors, usually at the municipal or provincial level. The money itself didn’t leave (although the amounts did shrink). It changed shape, moving out of sovereign loans and into categories nobody counts: equipment sales, training
Got, Got, Need: Automating the World Cup Sticker Trade (opens the original)
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