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Continue reading "Pluralistic: A business model for bankrupting the oil companies(06 June 2023)"
It didn’t happen.
The story you heard, about a US Air Force AI drone warfare simulation in which the drone resolved the conflict between its two priorities (“kill the enemy” and “obey its orders, including orders not to kill the enemy”) by killing its operator?
It didn’t happen.
The story was widely reported on Friday and Saturday, after Col. Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton, USAF Chief of AI Test and Operations, included the anaecdote in a speech to the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) Summit.
Continue reading "Pluralistic: The long lineage of private equity's looting (02 June 2023)"
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Only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.
-Milton Friedman, 1972
Continue reading "Pluralistic: Steven Brust's "Tsalmoth" (27 May 2023)"