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Jan 7, 2025, 3:16 AM

The Algorithm Tweakers

How could Luigi Mancione have thought he could get away with murdering a CEO in Manhattan? Everything is transparent nowadays. German-American billionaire & Girardian philosopher Peter Andreas Thiel wrote in 2004: One must never forget that one day all will...

Dec 24, 2024, 4:51 AM

Did you get to vote on AI?

When in the course of human events, wars are ongoing across the globe, technology is accelerating at breakneck speed, and negative externalities such as loneliness, suicide, murder and poverty are omnipresent, it becomes necessary to at least try to...

Oct 24, 2024, 5:28 AM

Genesis: AI, Hope, and the Human Spirit

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Review of Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit. By Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Craig Mundie. Edited by Eleanor Runde. Foreword by Niall Ferguson. November 19, 2024. Little, Brown & Co. Hachette Book Group. Pamela McCorduck famously...

Sep 21, 2024, 3:36 PM

Larry Ellison, Yuval Noah Harari & Nick Bostrom

Oracle CTO & Executive Chairman Larry Ellison raised some eyebrows on a recent earnings call. He said in the near future: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on." This...

Sep 20, 2024, 1:45 AM

Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari: The Case for History

Review of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. By Yuval Noah Harari. Penguin Publishing Group. 2024. Yuval Noah Harari, the secular-Israeli historian and philosopher who shook the world with the publication of his...

Jul 4, 2024, 7:49 AM

Lost Decade by Robert Blackwill & Richard Fontaine

Review of Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power. Richard Fontaine & Robert Blackwill. Oxford University Press. 2024 Is the US sleepwalking into irrelevance in Asia? "Lost Decade" by Robert Blackwill and Richard Fontaine...

Jun 13, 2024, 11:45 PM

The Fifth Industrial Revolution by Pranjal Sharma

Review of The Next New: Navigating the Fifth Industrial Revolution Pranjal Sharma, Harper Business Press, July 30, 2023 The fourth industrial revolution is history. Never mind that many small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) are stuck at industry 3.2. Indian...

May 10, 2024, 1:10 PM

Deaths at Davos by Thierry Malleret

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Review of Deaths at Davos. Thierry Malleret. March 24, 2024. 113 pages. Perhaps the global elites worst nightmare is that those who resent them gain the means to disrupt their coveted Annual Meeting in Davos. Imagine a group of jihadists,...

Apr 16, 2024, 8:49 PM

Nick Bostrom’s Deep Utopia

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Review of Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World. Nick Bostrom. Ideapress publishing. March 27, 2024. 536 pages I read Nick Bostrom’s new book Deep Utopia shortly after turning 30. It made me question the meaning of my...

Mar 7, 2024, 12:14 PM

The Singularity is Nearer

Review of Ray Kurzweil’s forthcoming (June 2024) book The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI. Penguin Publishing Group. Renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil envisions a destiny where those under eighty and in good health have the potential to live...

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Dan is writing a book about the origins of the intelligent age. He also reviews books. Contact: dansmithstrategist@gmail.com

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