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How to Think About AI Without Losing Your Mind
Since everyone is in a frenzy about AI now, let me share a few signposts for how I’m thinking about it.
-AI-powered tools are a real paradigm shift: Unlike the crypto and blockchain hype, this is a very significant technological advance. T...
Once More Unto the Breach
“No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces” -- Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke, 1871
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”—Heavyweight boxer Mike Ty...
Slouching into September
It’s the last week before Labor Day, and so I’m keeping things light. Here’s a quick list of stuff I suggest you pay attention to:
--This bit of expert prognostication from longtime election watcher Charlie Cook explains why Republicans a...
Snapshots From Our Summer of Madness
1. Seventy-six of Canadians polled over the weekend say they support Premier Mark Carney’s decision to abandon trade talks with the United States, and Dean Blundell doesn’t mince words on what that means, in a post titled, “You Have No Ide...
Ben Wikler on The Fight for Your Right to (a Strong) Party
“Modern democracy is unthinkable save in terms of the parties.” So wrote E.E. Schattschneider, one of the most influential political scientists of the 20th century. And like it or not, political parties are essential building blocks for dem...
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