Musk Issues New Stark Warning on How AI Could Impact Humanity
Elon Musk is once again warning about the dangers that unchecked artificial intelligence poses to humanity. Musk cautioned that AI is a “double-edged sword” in a recent interview with Thorold Barker at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit. “I don’t think that AI’s going to try to destroy all of humanity, but it might […]
Focusing on DeSantis & Trump's Differences Is Absurd
In the areas where Americans would be most severely affected, there’s hardly a fly’s hair of separation between them. Source link
China Continues to Reshape Middle East with Syria-Arab League Deal
Syria has re-joined the Arab League, after the League had excluded it for 12 years since the outset of the Syrian Civil War. But the bigger winner is China. China used the Syria-Arab League deal to praise Syria’s re-emergence from isolation, take credit for the deal (which came on the heels of the China-brokered Iran-Saudi […]
After Moliere: "Good Heavens! For Thirty Years I Have Been Writing Training Data Without Knowing It"
The Moliere quote (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme) is generally rendered, Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it. The post After Moliere: "Good Heavens! For Thirty Years I Have Been Writing Training Data Without Knowing It" appeared first on Reason.com. Source link
Jim Brown: Legendary NFL running back dead at 87
The record-breaking running back became a Hollywood action hero and civil rights activist. Source link
U.S. Secret Service director ‘livid’ over Jake Sullivan home intrusion
WASHINGTON — Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is “livid” over the apparent security lapse that allowed an intruder to enter the home of national security adviser Jake Sullivan undetected last month, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The incident, which occurred in the middle of the night a few weeks ago, is largely […]
How to file your taxes in 2023 before the deadline
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Erdoğan finds a scapegoat in Turkey’s election: LGBTQ+ people – POLITICO
ISTANBUL — To President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s LGBTQ+ community represents “deviant structures” and a “virus of heresy.” In the run-up to Sunday’s too-close-to-call election, he has ramped up his poisonous invective against homosexuality, as he seeks to shore up his conservative Islamist base. Almost every other speech from the campaign trail accuses the opposition […]
‘Book Club 2’ Is Jane Fonda’s Tour de Force of Corny Cinema
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by editor Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. There are only five people in this world with whom I’d be willing to relive the hell of Zoom-reliant pandemic isolation: Jane […]
David Lat on Yale Law Dean’s Comments on the March 10 Incident
From his Original Jurisdiction today, an excerpt (though the whole thing is much worth reading): Here’s what the policy—which Dean Gerken never quotes from in her message, oddly enough—actually provides: (1) “a university event, activity, or its regular or essential operations may not be disrupted”; (2) protesters “may not interfere with a speaker’s ability to […]