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AI Did Not Write This Article (opens the original)
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Muck, muddle, murk, mire, sludge. Waves of silt lick over my feet as I squelch into the slushy guck of the AI debate.In the immediate wake of World War II, our always-brittle alliance with the Soviets disintegrated. The brief marriage of necessity ended and a long night of proxy wars, espionage, and technological races began.Even during the war, but especially after it, some scientists with the Manhattan Project urged American leaders to share what we had discovered with the Soviets, and to nego
The Neophytes Sow Panic: Robots Are Coming to Kill Us All (opens the original)
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Subscribe now“Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it’s time for our viewers to crack each other’s heads open and feast on the goo inside?”“Yes I would, Kent.”Sage, timely counsel from the Simpsons. Anyway, you likely have read a bit about recent developments in the world of artificial intelligence—something about creating new video games with a single prompt and also annihilating our species before we even have a chance
The Neophytes Bait Your Clicks: The American Dream Is Dead (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowDepending on who you ask and how careful you are with your definitions, far more people will tell you the American Dream is dead than will wave the flag and insist it lives. In a recent AP poll, only 22% of respondents ages 18-30 claimed to believe the American Dream, defined simply as the idea that if you work hard, you’ll get ahead, is still achievable.My view, and that of the other Neophytes, is more nuanced, although we are not ourselves in full alignment. What has long separate
The Neophytes: Hawaiian Mongeese and Trump’s Foreign Policy (opens the original)
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In 1883, sugar plantation owners in Hawaii imported mongooses from Jamaica—where the India-native species had been introduced a decade earlier—to eat the rats ravaging the sugarcane crops. It isn’t difficult to see where the plantation owners were coming from: crops good, rats bad, how kill rats?, mongoose like rats probably, I get mongooses, this definitely not backfire. But, as seems to so often be the case when we supreme beings mess with nature, there was a problem: Rats are nocturnal; mongo
The Neophytes: What Is Twitch and How Does It Influence Elections? (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowFirst, we discuss incumbent newbie Senator Darline Graham’s win in her run-off in South Carolina’s Republican primary Tuesday evening. Her win came not long after she was booed during a debate for honestly admitting she couldn’t address a question about America’s national security interests in Taiwan and the South China Sea.Then, we turn to Twitch and the rise of streamers’ influence in politics. Leftist streamer Hasan Piker has been making
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