Ramez Naam gives a skeptic’s take on Recursive Self-Improvement.

Cambridge Core - Political Theory - Democratic Multiplicity

You can find the opinion and dissent here. The Supreme Court, with at least the three liberal Justices dissenting, has allowed states to do queries to the federal “SAVE” database that contains informa...

Each autumn the traditional alpabzug (descent of herds) sees farmers in Switzerland move their livestock from mountain pastures down to valley barns. In the Griesalp area above Kiental around 70 alpacas were herded down the valley, before being transported by truck to their winter farm at Aeschi, near Spiez, in the Bernese Oberland

Clyde Barrow and his lawyer have repeatedly asked for updates and details on his case and have been met with silence and redirects at all levels.

The 23ft-long trackway, consisting of four three-toed footprints, two left and two right, date from 66.5m years ago The first known series of footprints from an adult Tyrannosaurus rex has been found in North Dakota by a team of scientists. The 23ft-long trackway – consisting of four three-toed footprints, two left and two right – was first identified in the south-west of the state, in the dinosaur fossil area known as Hell Creek Formation, last year by researchers from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Colorado and Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. Continue reading...

Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.

The authors of this volume challenge conventional notions about Habsburg and Czechoslovak politics, arguing that they were more democratic than they often appear. They use the consociational model of ...

The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.

American democracy differs greatly from other democracies around the world. But is the American way more or less efficacious than comparable democracies in A...

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The Puzzle of the Lithuanian-Polish Tatars: The Only Muslim Community That has Survived Under Catholic Rule in Europe since the Middle Ages

The current president is waging an all-out assault on the separation of powers. In pursuit of a totalizing vision of presidential power, he has sought to exerci

Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...