Brandon Marcus

The liberal, affluent readers who made Silver famous read his forecasts for reassurance. They want numbers to tell them the future of the country is s

“It is a highly valued function of society to prevent changes in the rules of the many games it embraces... Deviancy, however, is the very essence of

AI agents are bad at dealing with unforeseen obstacles. Waymos and Roombas still get stuck. Your job is to be more resilient and adaptive than they ar

The demonic recognizes in our shortcuts the perfect opportunity: tempt humans away from the difficult labor of making, growing, and building with our

If AI capability depends on the social complexity of human language production—and if AI deployment systematically reduces that complexity through cog

Information and attention: A century in which the key to human history is not how the economy grew, but rather how humans learned to give attention to

Murdoch suggests that the ego makes it difficult to properly attend to one another. We often fail to see others adequately because the ego gets in the