Notes for the Perplexed
Charles BlanchardThoughts about the current troubles
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What Trump’s Science Policies Get Wrong
Yesterday, President Trump said that we are in a a “golden age” of American innovation despite the fact that the Trump Administration has taken several steps to radically change the nature of basic science research in the United States. In...
Mirror Life: The Potential Existential Threat to Human Life You Never Heard of
With AI getting so much attention, I am not surprised that another threat to human existence—”mirror life”—is finally getting some attention from mainstream publications such as The Economist. Tired of dreading Al threats to human life? Let...
The Next Steps in the Iran War: Colin Powell’s “Pottery Barn rule” and Strategic Patience
As readers of this Substack page know, I have been a consistent critic of Trump’s war against Iran. As I argued in this post, the war violated international law and was deeply unwise. I think it fair to say that my concerns about the war—mo...
The Kennedy Center Fiasco: Some Institutions Should Not Be Politicized
I published this post last December, some the situation has gotten even worse. We may soon see the demise of an important American arts institution. My view remains the same: some institutions need to be removed from politics, What Trump is...
Preventing AI Armageddon: What We can Learn From the Asilomar Conference on Genetic Engineering
The risks of AI are certainly in the news. Perhaps the most intriguing part of the attention to AI risks is where it is coming from: not just from academics or public interest groups, but from the leaders of the major AI firms themselves. I...
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I am a mostly retired attorney and Senior Counsel at Arnold & Porter. I served as General Counsel of both the Army and Air Force, was a member of the Arizona State Senate, and had the honor of clerking for the great Justice Sandra Day O'Conner.
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