More People, More Prosperity: The Simon Abundance Index The Simon Abundance Index 2024 finds Earth’s resources 509% more plentiful than in 1980. Marian L. Tupy 22 Apr 2024 · 5 min read
To Accelerate or Decelerate AI: That is the Question Explaining the “accel/decel” split at the heart of the OpenAI power struggle. Sean Welsh / Michael Timothy Bennett 18 Dec 2023 · 12 min read
The Communication Revolution Like the first iPhone, Gutenberg’s Bible opened up avenues of development that entrepreneurs have been exploiting ever since. James Hannam 27 Sep 2023 · 10 min read
Artificially Intelligent Offense? ChatGPT has been programmed to avoid giving accurate information if it may cause offense. Lawrence M. Krauss 21 Feb 2023 · 11 min read
Why Environmentalists Pose a Bigger Obstacle to Effective Climate Policy than Denialists The opposition to nuclear energy is not the only way in which mainstream environmentalists have, with the best of intentions, hurt the cause of climate action. Maarten Boudry 27 Jan 2022 · 10 min read
Machine Learning, Deep Fakes, and the Threat of an Artificially Intelligent Hate-Bot James D. Miller 4 Nov 2021 · 6 min read
Technology and the Golden Age of Taxonomy After decades of experience, the sharpest naturalists in history may have been able to identify a few hundred species in the field. Malcolm Cochran 14 Oct 2021 · 5 min read
A Contrarian View of Digital Health Sending millions more people to clinicians, creating a society even more fearful of lurking diseases, and systematically robbing people of the normal arc of life and death–this, I am afraid, is where the digital health expansion is heading. John Mandrola 17 May 2019 · 6 min read
Down the Rabbit Hole of Political Intolerance in Silicon Valley I took it as a good sign that by the time I got back to our family brunch all I could talk about was what I’d read about this kid (Palmer Luckey) and his incredible company (Oculus). Blake J. Harris and Clay Routledge 12 Mar 2019 · 9 min read
We Can Put an End to State Bidding Wars Amazon would still have paid tax revenue, and, more likely than not, other tech startups would have followed, growing the taxable population even further. Christopher Sabaitis 23 Feb 2019 · 6 min read
Deepfakes and the Threat to Privacy and Truth In an age of heated polarization of it will be difficult for politicians to convince their opponents that damaging videos are in fact deepfakes. Ben Sixsmith 23 Feb 2019 · 5 min read
What’s Happening to Technological Progress? We’re blinded by incremental progress in electronic gadgets of marginal utility—new smartphones, larger monitors, and more powerful computers. Hans Peter Dietz 21 Feb 2019 · 9 min read
Understanding China's Confucian Edge in the Global AI Race China now stands poised to lead the world in the development of artificial-intelligence technologies, which rely, for their machine-learning algorithms. Craig Smith 14 Feb 2019 · 5 min read
Video Games and the (Male) Meaning of Life Research indicated that improved technological entertainment options, primarily video games, are responsible for between 20 and 33 percent of reduced work hours. Andrew Yang 14 Dec 2018 · 9 min read
In Defence of Combat Robots Human weaknesses in combat are well-documented and largely consistent. Technology, by contrast, improves with every passing week. Sean Welsh 23 Aug 2018 · 11 min read
