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…ago been discarded, if not overruled) contained—in dictum—some of the most bigoted language in Supreme Court history by one of the most bigoted Justice in its history, David Brewer. Brewer’s dictum, in an obscure immigration case, declared “Mohomet” and “the Grand Lama” to be “i...

…Seventh Sense reaches towards the questions of war and peace and power that will flavor our lives, like it or not. 1. One afternoon in the fall of 2009 I received an unexpected call from the Pentagon. The US was, then, nearly a decade into the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq. Each...

…But a member of the Board of Trustees actually did say to me when he met me: “It’s our star quarterback.” I brought in money and prestige. It is natural to wonder who actually got the money that An- dersen offered and what was done with it and why it was given out, and, while we...

…riends, it almost never went well. The best-case scenario was a conversation with anecdotal fragments: "I knew a girl,” one friend advised, "who couldn't have orgasms. Then one day she was tripping, and having sex, and she fell asleep, and when she woke up she was having an orgas...

… It is in part this impossible-to-explain weird-justice outcome that has made some people think he was covering for someone else--one person in particular. “So?” I ask directly, one day late in our interviews. “Explain this. It does make it look like you were covering for you-kn...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 The Case I still can’t talk about: Chappaquiddick There is one homicide case that I still can’t say very much about, even though all the principles are dead and the case is more than 40 years old. I was one of the lawyers involved in the Chappaquiddick case—th...

… is given by the framework of cooperative inverse- reinforcement learning, or CIRL. A CIRL problem involves two agents, one human and the other a robot. Because there are two agents, the problem is what economists call a game. It is a game of partial information, because while th...

…ndscape, influenced by news, rumors and real-time profit twitches anywhere on the planet. Just like moving a river from one place to another would radically change the utility of a bridge, a change in topology changes the shape of systems that depend on it. That Seventh Sense ins...

…id I should in early September, by the end of January I would have made $2.4 million. (Alas, I did not invest.) At any one moment, he is making a series of bets for himself and others--very much not as a workaday hedge fund, and much more as a privileged association. Money is al...

…e had to stay until after he left, and he often worked late. He did not believe in vacation for the clerks—“It’s only a one year job, and that means 365 days”—no personal time off. When I first came to work over the summer, I asked him for a few days off to take a preparation cou...

…ct, diverting from that story for a moment, my secretary, who never went to college, insisted that her daughters go, so one of them found herself in an art history course that she hated and complained to her mother who in turn complained to me. Why does she have to take art histo...

…re code. The five core developers are like Linus Torvalds of Linux. They decide what changes are made to the core code. One of the five is the lead developer, Wladimir, and one is the Chief Scientist, Gavin. > Gavin, Wladimir and Cory (an important contributing developer) were be...

… clear path opened when he was appointed commander of the Polish prison Treblinka. Unbeknownst to Stangl, Treblinka was one of the Nazi’s concentration death camps. To fulfill his desire for power therefore required harming thousands of others, or more accurately, commanding Nazi...

…t’s extremely unlikely that we'd even try to move billions of humans to Mars in the first place. The analogy is a false one, however. We are already devoting huge scientific and technical resources to creating ever-more-capable AI systems. A more apt analogy would be a plan to mo...

… vocabulary. Children should live in a world that is not burdened by debt or weakened by inequality, he said, but also one “‘that isn’t threatened by the destructive power ofa warming planet.” That suggests he knows he has an opportunity to address cli- mate change with more vig...