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Author Archives: Luke Ford
How Come There Are Only AI Objections (Anthropic, Google, etc) When America & Israel Use AI But Not When Ukraine Does?
Ben Van Roo writes: In 2018, Google walked away from a key AI contract, Project Maven, under employee pressure. I was furious at the double standard then. Social media and crypto were reshaping society in ways that dwarfed anything Maven … Continue reading
Decoding Historian Turned Pundit Phillips Payson O’Brien
Phillips Payson O’Brien is a historian who uses the past to strip the romance from the present. His work belongs to a tradition of materialist strategy that treats war as an industrial process rather than a series of heroic maneuvers. … Continue reading
Australia may be the most fuel-import dependent advanced economy in the world
Australia is unusually dependent on imported fuel for a rich country. The vulnerability comes from three layers. First, import dependence. Australia imports roughly: 70 to 80 percent of its refined petroleum products almost all of its jet fuel most of … Continue reading
Why Do Elites Love Paralympics?
Elites and journalists tend to love the Paralympics because it satisfies several incentives at once. First, it provides an almost perfect moral narrative. The Paralympics offers stories of suffering, resilience, and triumph. Those are emotionally powerful and easy to communicate. … Continue reading
Iran Experts On The War
Afshon Ostovar is an expert on Iran, the Middle East, and security issues—Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, and author of books like Wars of Ambition: The United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East. He says … Continue reading
NYT: ‘A Lot of Life Years Lost’: How NAFTA Shortened American Life Spans
The New York Times reports: “A study tracks how the North American Free Trade Agreement and trade competition with Mexico led to earlier deaths for American factory workers.” Trade arguments usually center on GDP figures or consumer prices. This one … Continue reading
NYT: His Harvard Lab Was Thriving. Then Came the Cuts.
Jenna Russell writes: Will Mair, who studies aging, lost almost all his research funds when the White House cracked down on Harvard. He was wholly unprepared for the upheaval that followed…. In October, he traveled to Malta to lead a … Continue reading
NYT: The Trump Administration Floats a New Way to Humiliate the Legal Profession
Deborah Pearlstein, the director of the Princeton program in law and public policy, writes in the New York Times about her love of truth: The state bar disciplinary system is far from perfect. Proceedings can drag on for years. Some … Continue reading
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (2018)
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber is a book that many people find compelling because it names something real. Everyone has sat in a meeting that could have been an email, or watched a colleague generate reports no one … Continue reading
Everything Is Incentives: Antisemitism and the Organizations That Fight It
With Alliance Theory and his other papers, David Pinsof’s core claim is that behavior follows incentives. Not intentions. Not moral convictions. Incentives. He calls this incentive determinism, and he sets it against what he names likability determinism, the far more … Continue reading