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Benjamín Labatut draws a line from the Vedas to George Boole and Claude Shannon onward to Geoffrey Hinton and Frank Herbert’s Butlerian Jihad. In the coming years, as people armed with AI continue making the world faster, stranger, and more chaotic, we should do all we can to p … | Continue reading
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It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it-and its targets have ranged from "the international bankers" to Masons, Jesuits, and munitions makers. American politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work … | Continue reading
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I didn’t go to high school. This I think of as one of my proudest accomplishments and one of my greatest escapes, because everyone who grows up in the United States goes to high school. It’s such an inevitable experience that people often mishear me and think I dropped out. | Continue reading
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From anonymous accounts written by seven different men on death row in the United States, collected in Right Here, Right Now, edited by Lynden Harris, which will be published next month by Duke University Press. 1. My first memory is of a gun. I was two years old and playing with … | Continue reading
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