#PoliticalCoverage

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All, by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, Little,…

From Retraction Watch (Pascual Chiago); you can see the published paper here (perma.cc version in case the original gets taken…

I WANT FREE MINDS AND FREE MARKETS! Help Reason push back with more of the fact-based reporting we do best.…

The final item in an Institute for Free Speech symposium on the 50th anniversary of Buckley, which I’ve been cross-posting; this…

The federal government’s brutal and often illegal use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel and other federal agents in…

Technology authors Perry Metzger and Brian Merchant debate the resolution, “Artificial Intelligence will provide enormous net benefits to nearly every…

This year’s Super Bowl between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots will feature several interesting story lines: Sam…

“While families with young children comprise about 14 percent of the city’s population, they comprise about 30 percent of the…

Kevin Warsh is President Donald Trump’s pick to be the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Trump has grumbled publicly…

Under a draft Crown Prosecution Service document in England and Wales, male circumcision could be treated as a possible form…

Words to note, from Judge Amy Berman Jackson today, in Egolf v. Georgetown University: MINUTE ORDER. Apparently, the parties either have…

An escalating conflict between the federal judiciary and the Trump administration led a frustrated judge in Minnesota to release a…