No one elected Elon Musk to oversee foreign policy. Yet he was able to unilaterally slow down Starlink in Ukraine — because his enormous wealth gave him enormous power. Now he’s using that enormous wealth to buy another election and amass even more power. See the problem here?

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… to the importance of AI for its imperial dominance, or else China will supplant it as the global hegemon. A completely facetious argument, but still fascinating to see them switch from "AI will kill us" (though they do mention this briefly) to "Whomever controls AI controls the empire."

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Niall Ferguson is an inverse tankie. He views everything through the lens of American empire but thinks that American empire is a good thing that should be defended. In the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, he teams up with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to argue that the US better wake up ...

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This is my colleague and she is a wonderful, smart person who also happens to be a preeminent expert on freedom of expression.

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Nobody is making you write scholarly papers or books. If you don't like it or aren't good at it, I suggest you don't do it, rather than churning out AI slop and slapping your name on it. There are other things you could do in life, I promise.

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