Gautam Mukunda
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- Sep 24, 2026
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- Jul 17, 2026
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The AI folks don't seem to understand intelligence (opens the original)
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Just three years after OpenAI said its models were good at grade-school math, the company announced they had solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem in 88 hours, something that had stumped humanity’s greatest mathematical minds since the 1930s. Project that trend forward and you see why OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman thinks AI will cure all diseases - and why people are afraid that a rogue AI might harm humanity. Santa Fe Institute scientists Melanie Mitchell and David Kraka
The U.S.-Canada rupture is a lesson in declining leadership (opens the original)
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Trade talks between the U.S. and Canada broke down at the last minute late last month. Apart from the tariffs President Donald Trump announced and which were matched by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. A few days earlier, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy had issued a veiled threat, saying Canada is “a country that doesn’t have a military,” so America’s oldest and closest ally could never go to war with Trump and w
Pete Hegseth fails to understand bureaucracy (opens the original)
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By Gautam Mukunda, Bloomberg Opinion (TNS) On the morning of July 15, a Blue Angels F/A-18 came in over Florida’s Pensacola Beach so low it sent umbrellas and beach chairs tumbling while children covered their ears due to the loud noise. The next morning, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on social media that “The flyovers will continue until morale improves.” That was supposed to be the message of a leader slashing pointless rules. He’s half right. Slashing pointless bureaucracy is a worthy
Big business bought political influence; the bill is now due (opens the original)
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Brunswick and Echelon Insights asked registered voters in late June what they would tell America's CEOs if they had the chance. Only 3% said anything about politics. Before any CEOs breathe a sigh of relief, the same poll asked about contributing to the president's new White House ballroom. That was the most damaging thing a company could do, worse than endorsing his policies outright, at a net negative of 37 points. The bill for using money to buy political influence is about to arrive, and CEO
Elon Musk surprisingly doesn't understand abundance (opens the original)
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By Gautam Mukunda, Bloomberg Opinion (TNS) Elon Musk, the world’s first trillionaire, told The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minto Beddoes in a recent interview that money won’t matter in 2036. He invoked a Star Trek-like future where robots and artificial intelligence will make us so wealthy that work will become a hobby like gardening and not a necessity. We’ve seen such predictions before, and we don’t have to read science fiction to know what people who don’t have to work are like. Abundan
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