How China Pulled So Far Ahead on Industrial Policy
The United States and Europe are trying to catch up to a rival skilled in using all the levers of government and banking to dominate global manufacturing.
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***** People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one.
*** Harvard’s Golden Silence
The university will no longer make statements about political matters. Other schools should follow suit.
***** Americans Are Thinking About Immigration All Wrong
Population growth, economic growth, and income growth can be mutually reinforcing.
****** [The Washington Post] The media and sullen nonvoters should listen to Ken Burns
The media and sullen nonvoters should listen to Ken Burns
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/28/ken-burns-graduation-election-trump/
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***** NYTimes.com: Do We Still Understand How Wars Are Won?
Do We Still Understand How Wars Are Won?
Israel and Ukraine don’t have the luxury of fighting fecklessly.
********** NYTimes.com: The Gender Gap Is Now a Gender Gulf
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The Gender Gap Is Now a Gender Gulf
The consequences for America’s political future are enormous — and a little unpredictable.
**************** NYTimes.com: A Conservative Futurist and a Supply-Side Liberal Walk Into a Podcast …
A Conservative Futurist and a Supply-Side Liberal Walk Into a Podcast …
Could the U. S. economy be twice as large today if it hadn’t made policy mistakes in the 1970s?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-james-pethokoukis.html?smid=em-share
The point they totally missed is how the concentration of wealth and its monopoly power in the economy has stifled innovative. See THE BIG AI RISK NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE ARE SEEING
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/ai-dating-algorithms-relationships/678422/
******* NYTimes: What Trump Looks Like to Historians
What Trump Looks Like to Historians https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/opinion/trump-history-transformative-president.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
******* The Big AI Risk Not Enough People Are Seeing
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The response to our algorithmically remade world can’t simply be that algorithms are bad, sensu stricto. Such a stance isn’t just untenable at a practical level—algorithms aren’t going anywhere—but it also undermines unimpeachably positive use cases, such as the employment of AI in cancer diagnosis. Instead, we need to adopt a more sophisticated approach to artificial intelligence, one that allows us to distinguish between uses of AI that legitimately empower human beings and those—like hypothetical AI dating concierges—that wrest core human activities from human control. But making these distinctions requires us to re-embrace an old idea that tends to leave those of us on the left rather squeamish: human nature.