Ben Goertzel on X: "This move to cap "indirect costs" paid by NIH research grants to 15% bears a bit of unfolding. I have dealt with these matters from a few angles over my career. When funding university research, one does like to cap the indirect cost paid. If one wants to fund Professor" / X
Don’t cancel Aristotle – we need his ideas to hone ours | Aeon Essays
Larfargue concludes: ‘Aristotle’s dream is our reality. Our machines, with breath of fire, with limbs of unwearying steel, with fruitfulness, wonderful, inexhaustible, accomplish by themselves with docility their sacred labour … the machine is the saviour of humanity.’
The AI We Deserve - Boston Review
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on X: "Please submit questions for an upcoming podcast by @bhorowitz and me on the Post-Election Landscape for tech, the economy, Silicon Valley, and America -- as replies to this xeet. Thank you! 🙋♂️🎧🇺🇸" / X
75 Questions about Trump's Latin America policy
my column this week in World Politics Review
Trump says he'd put Elon Musk in charge of proposed efficiency commission "if he has the time"
J.D. Vance Is Trump’s Pick for Vice President
The Technoprogressive Declaration After Ten Years - James Hughes
(Versus Techno-Optimists, Doomers, or AI Existentialism. Effective Altruism is controversial. Democracy as a quest for consensus.)
Gary Gerstle — The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
How a Google billionaire helped pay for Biden's science office
Why the balance of power in tech is shifting toward workers
The paradox of technologies of connectivity
The US Government Is Finally Moving at the Speed of Tech