Now’s a good time to read (or reread) Gary Chartier’s 2019 article “The Case for Sanctions Fails at Every Turn.”
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The most recent tech dystopia discourse has been driven by a meeting between AI bigwigs and Pope Leo XIV, wherein one of them tried to convince the Pope that artificial intelligence can develop consciousness. Why, if possible, this would be desirable, is outside of...
People have been debating what to do with murderers for thousands of years. Plato discussed the contentious matter in his dialogues, and it is likely that disagreement about the proper course of action has existed for as long as there have been murderers. In recent...
One of the most persistent myths about war is that it is sometimes inevitable. States are carried along by the impersonal forces of history: the balance of power, alliance commitments, ideological antagonisms, the rise and decline of great powers, et cetera. Leaders...
