Power & Politics

Essays on politics, institutions, geopolitics, regulation, corporate power, technological power, and the systems deciding how everyone else gets to live.

Culture

Would You Watch Someone Die?

The U.S. may livestream Nidal Hasan’s execution by firing squad. What happens when state violence becomes transparent, permanent, and consumable online?

Artificial Intelligence

Nobody Is Driving

AI researchers are quitting, labs are talking about slowing down, governments are worried about China, and everyone has an incentive to keep accelerating anyway. Maybe we have been looking at the AI alignment problem one layer too low.