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Response to CEO killing reveals antipathy toward health insurers − but entire patchwork system is to blame for ill feeling … Continue readingThe Killing of United Healthcare’s CEO in New York City
That’s now possible, according to a new paper from a team including researchers from Stanford and Google DeepMind. … Continue readingAI Can Now Create a Replica of Your Personality
by Andrew Dean at Singularity Hub: Here are some lines Sylvia Plath never wrote: The air is thick with tension,My mind is a tangled mess,The weight of my emotionsIs heavy
A real-life sci-fi scenario unfolded in Shanghai, China, when a small AI-powered robot managed to… … Continue readingFactory Robot Convinces 12 Other Robots to Go on Strike
Henry Farrell in American Affairs on Silicon Valley’s Never-Ending Search for Exit Opportunities… … Continue readingBusiness Models and Political Thought in Silicon Valley
Harvard Univ. reports engineering strategies: solar radiation management, carbon dioxide removal, and ocean fertilization, etc. … Continue readingCan We Engineer Our Way Out of Climate Change?
Can we reinvent agriculture for a low-carbon world without people going hungry? Change will be dirty at first but could get cleaner. … Continue readingCan We Keep Producing More Food in a Warmer World?
At September’s UN General Assembly in New York, Brazil’s President Lula described the international financial system as a “Marshall Plan in reverse” … Continue readingMarshall Plans
Project Syndicate: Last year, you suggested that a prevailing “culture of pragmatism,” exemplified by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), explains the lack of major wars in Asia in recent decades.
Continue readingKishore Mahbubani on the U.S.-China Rivalry and More
The answer is neither small-scale, targeted interventions nor broad generalizations about growth. Instead, we should focus on firms. … Continue readingHow Can Poor Countries Become Rich
“The economists’ “groundbreaking research” has given us a “much deeper understanding of the root causes of why countries fail or succeed.” … Continue readingHow Colonial History Explains Why Strong Institutions Are Vital to a Country’s Prosperity
China’s efforts to decarbonize are upending a world economy dependent on the petrodollar and, in the process, restructuring the U.S.-led world. … Continue readingChina Builds a New Eurasia