Rubric 03
EconPol
Economy and politics: policy, power and the mechanics underneath.
145EconPol
Trump 5000 Dollar Dividend Pledge Has No Paymaster
The most revealing part of the Dallas speech was not on the podium. It stayed in a drawer, unopened: a mechanism for moving money out of a government account and into 270 million pockets. In a speech at the Republican...
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146EconPol
Cartoon Two Bills and Gas Reservation Divide Coalition
The microphones are set up in the same corridor at the same hour, and someone always has to explain what was said the day before. Taylor spoke to journalists in the corridor. Those sentences then travel into clips, into...
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147EconPol
Safety Researcher Quits Over AI Superintelligence Risks
Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic, has resigned in protest. He said he resigned because Anthropic and his previous employer, OpenAI were ignoring, or at best mishandling, their response to the threat. In posts on...
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148EconPol
AI Existential Risk Debate Now Centers on 10 Percent Chance
For years, the central question about artificial intelligence was binary: can software, at some point, out think and outlast the species that built it? That was an abstract puzzle about a distant possibility, a question...
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149EconPol
Datacentre job forecasts dwarf actual employment records
The fear, when a datacentre is planned near a town, is that the community will trade its water and electricity for jobs that never arrive. The fear cannot be settled by repeating industry forecasts, but it can be tested...
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150EconPol
OpenAI Cracks Half of Navier Stokes Problem in 88 Hours
Eighty eight hours. That is how long, by OpenAI's account, it took a group of about 10,000 AI agents to crack a piece of a problem that has stood unproven for 90 years. The problem is the Navier Stokes existence and...
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151EconPol
AI Skill Reviews Force a New Arithmetic on Jobs
No memo at the large consultancy tells Pamela to use artificial intelligence. Pamela, a senior executive in the United States, says there is no formal mandate ordering employees to learn AI. The ground is shifting under...
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152EconPol
Who Inherits When You Die Without a Will
The Default Heir In 1540, Henry VIII's Parliament gave English landowners the right to decide who would inherit their property after death. Before that act, land followed blood; a person's wishes played almost no role....
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