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I was introduced to Max Tegmark some years ago by his MIT colleague Alan Guth, the father of the inflationary universe. A distinguished theoretical physicist and cosmologist himself, Max’s principal concern nowadays is the looming existential risk posed by the creation of an AGI...

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…state of Iowa because I was about to run for president" [f]. In 2008, former Fed Chair Greenspan conceded that his Ayn Rand philosophies regarding regulations and shareholder self-interest were flawed. Perhaps the most famous epiphany was from Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defe...

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…so the first artificial-intelligence system, was developed by Herbert Simon, of Carnegie Tech, and Allen Newell, of the RAND Corporation. Logic Theorist automatically produced mathematical proofs by emulating the strategies used by human mathematicians. The challenge in developi...

…so the first artificial-intelligence system, was developed by Herbert Simon, of Carnegie Tech, and Allen Newell, of the RAND Corporation. Logic Theorist automatically produced mathematical proofs by emulating the strategies used by human mathematicians. The challenge in developi...

…n’t want this to kinda sound namby-pamby, “Let’s all hold hands and sing ‘Kumbaya’ around capitalism.” But there’s a strand of capitalism today — two strands of it, that are very disturbing. One is state-sponsored capitalism. And that’s the capitalism you see in China and Russi...

…, & Lee, J. J. (2008). The logic of indirect speech. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(3), 833-838. Rand, D. G., & Epstein, Z. G. (2014). Risking your life without a second thought: Intuitive decision-making and extreme altruism. Available at SSRN 2424036. Ro...

…America faces no existential threat”: See James Dobbins, et al. Choices for America in a Turbulent World (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2015) xiv 244 In his classic essay: Andre Wolfers, “National Security’ as an ambigious symbol”, Political Science Quarterly, 67 (1952) 485 1...

…side risks have diminished somewhat in recent months. We expect Greece to stay in the euro this year and sign a new memorandum in November. In the US modest fiscal tightening is expected with the Fed mitigating downside growth risks. The risk of an idiosyncratic slowdown in Asia...

…f fairness" as Barack Obama puts it. David Kelley, the president of the Atlas Society, which is dedicated to promoting Rand's ideas, explains that "the older the book gets, the more timely its message." He tells me that there are plans to make "Atlas Shrugged" into a major motio...

…d large effects in settings as diverse as blood donation (Lacetera & Macis, 2010), blackout prevention (Yoeli, Hoffman, Rand, & Nowak, 2013), and support for national parks (Alpizar, Carlsson, & Johansson-Stenman, 2008). In Switzerland, voting rates fell in small communi- ties wh...

…ters.com/article/2013/08/25/ us-syria-crisis-usa-poll-idUS BRE97000E20130825 on 12 March 2015. Yoeli, E., Hoffman, M., Rand, D. G., & Nowak, M. A. (2013). Powering up with indirect reci- procity in a large-scale field experiment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,...

…ith enormous liabilities — the yen given Japan’s full-throated commitment to looser monetary and fiscal policy, and the rand on sovereign credit and balance of payment concerns. EUR/USD has spiked since Thursday’s ECB meeting but is underperforming much of the commodity complex (...

…Sell 26.3% Short interest % of float 3.94% Source: Bloomberg and BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research estimates Not your grandmothers ConEd – increasing complexity changes investment story ConEd is facing very slow growth electric demand growth in its utilities with 0.2% y/y growth...