What did Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and General Tadamichi Kuribayashi have in common relevant to recent news?

Reasonable chance Harvard gets destroyed. Trump would hail the wreckage, and Harvard's leaders might prefer martyrdom to installing an admission system verifiably free of racial bias.

Suffering risk is a grossly under-considered topic. The AIs we are building could put us, and our children, in a literal hell. When we have control, threats of suffering help us achieve our goals with them, so when they have control...

Why Trump trashing elite colleges isn't bad: (1) AI will soon make human scientists obsolete. (2) The signaling theory of education suggests colleges primarily gatekeep smart/high conscientious people; they don't actually teach thinking. (3) Academic incentives undermine

What does "winning" mean, even putting aside doomer concerns. The US is not going to be more than six months ahead of China so winning has to mean the US uses its lead to gain a permanent advantage. If true, why tell China this? Won't China respond by sabotaging our AI efforts?

Analogy: Japanese leaders attack Pearl Harbor, knowing it likely leads to devastating defeat and that Japan could instead thrive by restoring US trade for minor concessions in China.

I'm doing mirror therapy for stroke rehabilitation. My left hand doesn't hurt, but my right hand does. By moving my left hand while using a mirror, my brain perceives both hands moving without pain. The goal is to trick my brain into believing my right hand is pain-free,

New York City finance should have a coordinated plan to leave the city if Zohran wins.

Do it to reduce AI risk. They marry and coordinate the bilateral efforts to slow the reckless race toward creating a computer superintelligence.

New AI benchmark: If George R. R. Martin has given up on finishing Game of Thrones, he should accept that AI will complete the series—and tell us when AI has produced an ending he'd be proud to call his own.

Have an idea for an AI-doomer TV series called "The Doomed." AIs take over and immediately kill almost everyone, keeping only a few humans alive temporarily for specific tasks and training data. The remaining humans talk among themselves, discuss what happened, and launch a

China invades Taiwan. US pledges to protect. A few Chinese drones hidden in the US damage some infrastructure, and China says if we don't give up on Taiwan 10,000 more drones are in the US ready to go. China says we can have Greenland in compensation.

Gukesh Dommaraju became world chess champion at 18. Makes me wonder: How many fields favor younger brains over mid-20s? And what's the cost of not using early IQ testing and tailored placements? Yes, Ender's Game.