Faster, Please!

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🚀 F,P! Week In Review, Briefly #5
Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing items from the week that was
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🛡 Math vs. Trump's dreamy Golden Dome
The president is cooking up a missile-defense plan that ignores the realities of cost, complexity, and strategic risk. Populists gonna populist
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🧬 Why 'great genes' matter for the American economy
But so does the environment created by smart policy, according to a new study
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🎇 Searching for signals of soonish superintelligence
Financial markets are presenting a puzzle
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🚀 F,P! Week In Review, Briefly #4
Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing items from the week that was
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🛩️ Human aspiration and the legacy of 'To Fly!': My chat (+transcript) with filmmaker Greg MacGillivray
Faster, Please! — The Podcast #83
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🛑 Stopping political violence, ASAP
'Freedom of speech and cultural permission to be provocative must remain a societal bedrock even as violence is unhesitatingly punished'
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✨💰 A world where Sam Altman and Elon Musk are AI trillionaires
Spoiler: It would be far from a dystopia
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💀 The paradox of p(doom): Why doomer talk makes policy action less likely
Paralysis by apocalyptic analysis
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🚀 F,P! Week In Review, Briefly
Also: Up Wing/Down Wing: record-breaking nuclear energy generation; brain-injury treatment; US losing lunar race — and more
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🛑✨ Luddite's lament: Josh Hawley offers an anti-AI screed
Smash the algorithms!
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✨ Brace yourself: The AI Revolution isn't about job creation
'A supposedly powerful general-purpose technology that left every firm’s labor demand utterly unchanged wouldn’t be much of a GPT.'
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