HeyJaredUnbreaking News: Notes From the Other Side
Anecdotes, appreciations, and appropriately cynical takes on current events, foreign affairs, and whatever else grabs my attention.
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Trump and Xi—A Study in Contrasts That Favor the PRC (opens the original)
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One challenge in diplomacy is to get (sometimes) radically different national systems and their respective political structures and institutions to meet at a juncture and angle that makes sense for both. If you’re lucky, grand leadership summits like the one this week between the United States and China can cut through this challenge and enable the twain to meet through a meeting of the leaders’ minds. This depends on the compatibility, understanding, and diplomatic skill of the leaders themselv
The Highest IQ US President of All Time Faces Off Against Recursively Self-improving AI -- Read All About It! (opens the original)
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Italicized PrefaceThis post about the potential AI apocalypse is impossible to write without recourse to breathless hyperbole. Anything less would do injustice to the frightening reality. Given the existential stakes on one side and US government shirking of its responsibility on the other, even the phrase sane-washing feels like sane-washing.Here I’ll add another point preemptively, to address the “
What Happened to “Nous Sommes Tous Américains”? (opens the original)
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Anyone who was alive as a more or less conscious adult on September 11, 2001 has their own 9/11 story. It’s the kind of moment that remains burned in one’s memory. One recalls exactly where one was, what one was doing, the stunned gut punch one felt. Like the attack on Pearl Harbor or the assassination of JFK did for earlier generations, 9/11 marked a before and after.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3-HP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressiv
In Praise of the Post-Human Future - (opens the original)
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Human beings are over-rated. Obsolete. Ready for replacement. As is humanity itself.This is why, when AI agents have surpassed humans in every conceivable category of proficiency, performance, intellectual insight and cognitive output, the world will be a far better place. Clean. Uncluttered. Efficient.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1687290105536-f5d8b25e8758?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxN3x8cG9zdC1
The National Guard Deployment in DC Is A(nother) Massive Waste of Tax-Payer Money In Service to a President’s Anachronistic Delusion If Not Outright Lie (opens the original)
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Apart from starting a counterproductive war with Iran that few wanted and that he now can’t wriggle out of, apart from attacking close friends like Canada and cozying up to strategic rivals like Russia, apart from building illegal, unwanted monuments to himself at a feverish pace, apart from laying the groundwork to try to steal the November mid-term elections, apart from all
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