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Banning data centers would blow up the U.S. economy

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Seven in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for AI in their local area, including nearly half who are strongly opposed, First Statewide Moratorium on New Hyperscale Data Centers Launched by Governor Kathy Hochul, and more ›

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Are the Democrats going to save us this time?

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Are Young Republicans Too Based to Work for Congress?, ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat, and more ›

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The End of the Age of Heroes

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The Browser, and more ›

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Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science, AI just disproved a major math problem. A mathematician explains, and more ›

Slopulism is taking over America

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Why did South Korean stocks just crash?

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Exclusive, Chinese AI models are gaining ground with U.S. companies as OpenAI, Anthropic costs surge, and more ›

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Roundup #85: Most policy is also industrial policy

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Europe 2031: What getting AI wrong means for us, Science a New Golden Age, and more ›

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What will more intelligence do for us?

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hypothetic future event in which artificial intelligence iteratively redesigns itself to rapidly become more intelligent, causing technological and social change beyond prediction, AI as Normal Technology, and more ›

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We asked too much of the American university

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The lost joy of monoculture

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Who was the worst monster of the 20th century?

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TIL that the perpetrators of the chemical warfare R&D unit "731" of the Imperial Japanese Army, that engaged in lethal human experimentation (1936-1945), were s...

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Britain: A Cautionary Tale for America

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The Economic Impact of Brexit | By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi, and more ›

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America's political economy is pretty bleak right now

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Stopping Wall Street from Competing with Main Street Homebuyers

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Book Review: "Power and Progress"

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Attention is all you need (2017), How Many People Does Synthetic Fertilizer Feed, and more ›

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Why I didn't sign the "We Must Act Now" statement (yet)

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DeLong's Grasping Reality, and more ›

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A Statement on AI's Transformation of the Economy, Ramp data shows heavy AI adopters hire more, and more ›

The American suburbs are better than you think

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Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity

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I have never been working class

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‘A Slow-Rolling Disaster’: Inside the Implosion of the Platner Campaign

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MAGA's attack on science is even worse than it looks

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JD Vance's crusade against GDP is wrong and bad

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Vance's hot summer positions to be Trump's heir — for now, 100g One of the interesting things here is that what J\. D\. Vance is saying here is pretty identical to the criticisms of economists from the left\. What Vance calls \"value\" is..., and more ›

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No, China did not manage to avoid a crash

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The American age was the human age

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The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy

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