Pluralistic: A business model for bankrupting the oil companies(06 June 2023)

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A business model for bankrupting the oil companies: Incentives matter (and that matters).
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Pluralistic: Wall Street Journal goes to bat for the vultures who want to steal your house (04 June 2023)

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Wall Street Journal goes to bat for the vultures who want to steal your house: When the editorial page leaks into the news.
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Ayyyyyy Eyeeeee

The lie that raced around the world before the truth got its boots on.

A portrait of OpenAI founder Sam Altman. It has been altered so that his eyes are replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. He is holding a flashlight under his chin and is shrouded in darkness. — Jasleen Kaur/CC BY-SA 2.0; TechCrunch/CC BY 2.0; Cryteria/CC BY 3.0 (modified)

It didn’t happen.

The story you heard, about a US Air Force AI drone warfare simulation in which the drone resolved the conflict between its two priorities (“kill the enemy” and “obey its orders, including orders not to kill the enemy”) by killing its operator?

It didn’t happen.

The story was widely reported on Friday and Saturday, after Col. Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton, USAF Chief of AI Test and Operations, included the anaecdote in a speech to the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) Summit.

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Pluralistic: Washington State's capital gains tax proves we can have nice things (03 June 2023)

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Washington State's capital gains tax proves we can have nice things: We just need to tax the rich.
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Pluralistic: The long lineage of private equity's looting (02 June 2023)

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The long, bloody lineage of private equity's looting: Or, if you prefer, "plundering."
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