27 Insights From Three Years of Bismarck Brief
The modern, liberal democratic industrialized nation-state has been the dominant global force since the early twentieth century, the clear “victor” of last century’s great political clash. It came with defining functions now taken for granted. The provision of security. Great concentrations of legitimate power at the center, capable of utterly domi
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analysis of scores of political and business biographies
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On AI policy : Lately, lots of powerful people have been balking about the idea of AI safety. At the woefully misnomered AI Action Summit in Paris, Vice President JD Vance dismissed the idea of AI safety and suggested that as long as America beat everyone else in creating superintelligence, the rest would all take care of itself.
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Early thoughts on GPT-4.5
What happens when many, perhaps the majority, of the tasks required to operate a corporation, or a government department, can be run more efficiently by machines? Who will benefit first from these dynamics, and what will they likely do with this new power?