Where did it all go wrong in Russia? Maria Pevchikh explains how liberal “reformers” and oligarchs looted the Russian state, and then appointed a corrupt, nondescript Chekist to power to guarantee their own immunity and ill-gotten gains.
The Kremlins Didn’t Do It But Even If They Did Navalny Deserved It Anyway
Why the Right-Wing Ideology is Programmed to Keep Losing Until the End of Time
Less Butter and Fewer Friends, But More Guns
As China’s economy slows down ahead of expectations and it loses its luster abroad, it’s hard power seems set to acquire a bigger profile.
Taking sides in vicious tribal conflicts is dumb as fuck and is going to boomerang back on you.
Oppenheimer (2023) ★★★
Although Oppenheimer is a solid and historically accurate film, it is overly long – making its missed opportunities all the more glaring – and the key dramatic tension rests on speculation that was considered entirely fictional long before 1945.
Barbie (2023) ★★★★★
This might be a “Woke” film, but it is Wokeness with a human cafe.
Some modest suggestions for AI terminology of a fantastical nature
The cryptocurrency space can provision a putative malevolent AI with discrete decentralized compute, storage, and opportunities for secure accumulation of cryptographic assets and social capital. Consequently, there might be an AI Control Trilemma: Ban further AI software development; cap hardware; criminalize crypto – pick two.
The coming of AI has made Universal Basic Income a political and technological inevitability in the long-term, regardless of whether there are extensive attempts at AI control.
Twitter Space debate with Roko Mijic about feasibility and desirability of AI control.