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Is Gen Z afraid of risk, or just more aware?
This article originally appeared in Issue 14: Risk. Subscribe to the print magazine to get future issues delivered to your door.
A schism has emerged among members of the commentariat: Some pronounce Gen Z the biggest bunch of degen...
AI policy must fail gracefully
In systems engineering, the concept of graceful degradation describes how a well-designed system behaves when components fail — like how an airplane lands when an engine dies. It’s also a useful frame for institutional design. How do we eng...
Forecasting the death of machines
This article originally appeared in Issue 14: Risk. Subscribe to the print magazine to get future issues delivered to your door.
I met Norm two decades ago. I recall him clothed in slacks and a button-down — I think it was the sort...
Behind the scenes: Are prediction markets good for anything?
In this behind-the-scenes interview, Clara Collier talks to Dan Schwarz, author of our latest essay, Are Prediction Markets Good for Anything? (Read that first.)
Clara and Dan talk about how Dan’s thinking evolved as he wrote the piece, t...
Are prediction markets good for anything?
This article originally appeared in Issue 14: Risk. Subscribe to the print magazine to get future issues delivered to your door.
By Dan Schwarz
In 2007, Nobel laureates Kenneth Arrow, Daniel Kahneman, and other notable scholars pub...
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A magazine dedicated to clear writing and clear thinking, published from inside the worlds shaping the Bay Area. Subscribe in print: https://store.asteriskmag.com/.
A print and digital journal of writing on how to make sense of the world.
senior policy advocate @publicknowledge
writer of Concurrent newsletter; host of podcast CyberPink I write about Silicon Valley and China
AI policy person, language enthusiast, rock climber, China nerd, chronically relapsed Wikipedia addict, etc. Logogram is my professional Substack; Idiolect is just for fun.
Co-founder and CEO of California YIMBY
AI history and philosophy at the University of Cambridge and the Cosmos Institute
i write about bio/ml at owlposting.com! currently doing ml at noetik, previously did ml at dyno therapeutics
Urbanist, cyclist, and transport enthusiast. Author, speaker, consultant. Fellow, Roots of Progress Institute.
Was a philosophy PhD student, left to work at AI Impacts, then Center on Long-Term Risk, then OpenAI. Quit OpenAI due to losing confidence that it would behave responsibly around the time of AGI. Now executive director of the AI Futures Project.
Executive Director at the Breakthrough Institute. Ecomodernist. Promethean Hamiltonian Schumpeterian meliorist.
We study science not for prestige, but because we are human. Curiosity, beauty, discovery -- these are what we stay alive for.
writer based in Palo Alto | mailing list: https://buttondown.com/sheonhan
Editor in Chief of Asterisk Magazine
I'm the author of The Dignity of Dependence, as a well as Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. My substack, Other Feminisms, is about how to advocate for women as women in a world that treats us like defective men.
I write about global development, technological progress and AI. The other me writes fiction and criticism.
I am writing a book about the NYC subway and a hopeful historical tale about outsiders who helped put the trains back on track.
Former FDAer. I write about innovation in health and the policies, institutions, incentives, and infrastructure that make it possible.
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