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Plus: Adult activists, Fani Willis' love life, Catholic crackdown, and more...
The colorful, mostly libertarian history of Key West.
Plus: State officials attempt to ban Donald Trump from 2024 election ballots.
If our best and brightest technologists and theorists are struggling to see the way forward for AI, what makes anyone think politicians are going to get there first?
Ballots should be counted quickly and accurately.
The good news: Regulators have exercised unusual restraint.
Eradication of the apex predator is "likely impossible."
The growing anti-transparency atmosphere in the state might make the Florida Man extinct.
Plus: Digital AR-15s, actual AR-15s, politicians livestreaming sex acts, and more...
Plus: Grimes the urbanist, Matt Taibbi's fight night, crazy AI applications, and more...
Plus: DeSantis vs. Newsom, a controversial Christmas-tree lighting, Brazilians use AI, and more...
Why have so few species been taken off the endangered species list?
Plus: Four-day ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, teen activists, anti-murder billboards, and more...
A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to.
Plus: Getting babies out of Gaza, lobster roll economics, gerontocracy update, and more...
Plus: A listener asks the editors about libertarians and "reflexive contrarianism."
Plus: OpenAI apocalypse, New York's problematic pie, Backpage trial concludes, and more...
The results are interesting and suggest weird and significant biases.
Susan Schneider and Jobst Landgrebe debate the dangers of AI.
Some progressives want to remove bureaucratic obstacles to growth—in the service of Democrats and big government.
Susan Schneider and Jobst Landgrebe debate the dangers of AI.
"Duty of care has worked in other areas," the senator said, "and it seems to fit decently well here in the AI model."
David Friedman's anarchism doesn't have the answer for everything. That's the point.
Plus: A listener asks the editors about requiring gun buyers to pass a psychological assessment.
Plus: Israeli forces get close to Gaza City, scenes from the Sam Bankman-Fried trial, mini-millionaires, and more...
Biden's new executive order will slow the development and deployment of artificial intelligence technologies.
Free Agents author Kevin J. Mitchell makes a neuroscientific case against determinism.
Popular podcasts and shows portray crime as salacious and sexy, failing ordinary victims in the process.
The epidemiology of food and drink is a mess.
The worst of the antitrust alarmism keeps proving untrue, as tech companies believed by some to be monopolies instead lose market share.
Plus: House speaker battles, a Jesus-themed Trump courtroom sketch, Eric Adams' travel plans, and more...
Economist Tyler Cowen elaborates on some of the reasons why. The root of the problem is that voters have poor incentives to become well-informed and evaluate information objectively.
Conceptually, it's all a bit vague, but it sure looks amazing.
An undercurrent of the book is that common people want whatever progressive intellectuals want them to want.
Plus: Nonessential government programs (all of them?), AI firefighting, tech-world hit pieces, and more...
Plus: IRS insanity, robocop photo ops, and more...
When keeping cultural archives safe means stepping outside the law.
In addition to licensing regimes, there have also been calls for creating a new agency to regulate AI.
Plus: Political campaigns will have to disclose if they use AI in their ads, the effort to rehabilitate rent control rumbles on, and more...
Artificial intelligence is not about to replace your favorite actors.
Not ChatGPT's fault, but an illustration of how some pro se litigants are trying to use the technology.