This post explains why I would not be surprised if democracy disappears in the next several centuries. Long-run progress in AI is one special cause for concern.[1] There’s a strange new trend that’…| The Best That Can Happen
The Italian Renaissance, like nearly every other time and place, is a real blank spot in my knowledge of history. I recently read The Book of My Life (1575), a memoir by the mathematician-doctor-ph…| The Best That Can Happen
This blog post is an edited transcript of a talk I recently gave on the past and future of privacy. I argue that the story may be a more positive and hopeful one than people often realize. The tal…| The Best That Can Happen
1. Here’s one particularly common kind of metaphor: Literary metaphor: a sentence with multiple possible interpretations, where one possible interpretation, the “literal” one, is …| The Best That Can Happen