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I was introduced to Max Tegmark some years ago by his MIT colleague Alan Guth, the father of the inflationary universe. A distinguished theoretical physicist and cosmologist himself, Max’s principal concern nowadays is the looming existential risk posed by the creation of an AGI...

…will ultimately get their wish for an entirely new document. Nathan Brown is a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University and a nonresident senior scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030049

the (currently) esoteric domain of self-reproducing machines—to the power and versatility of neurons and their synapses. This could become a new, great frontier of research. Here too, biology might point the way, as we come to understand biological development well enough to imit...

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…inting or magazine can be hauled into a Federal court anywhere in the United States and charged with participating in a national conspiracy.” Shortly thereafter, Nat Hentoff wrote a long front-page analysis of the Village Voice. Hentoff warned his readers of the consequences of...

…nd, Both Sides Now w/Huffington & Matalin celebrates its 1st anniversary this week. As the only 2 sides/2 women show on national radio, we've grown from 16 stations in May of 2010 to 110 now. Arianna and Mary find consensus that, contrary to the Washington and media conventional...

The United Arab Emirates, on its own or through the GCC, the Arab League and the specialized international institutions, plays an integral role on this front. The capitalist system did not fail. What has failed is the excessive economic liberalism, which pushed to minimize the in...

…uch, so fully. The country was, to begin with, born out of the social and political revolutions of the 18" century. The national liberation that pulled Jefferson from his Virginia farm and into politics was the first of the great, revolutionary movements that convulsed and fractu...

…ent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very > interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International > Health organization. > > Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis: > > U.S. 65% > > England 46% > > Canada 42% >...

…ms. It was increasingly expected that countries would not only hold elections, but that their elections would meet international standards and be judged “free and fair.” There was also an expectation that political parties would be able to compete on a reasonably level playing fi...

… between the two countries in relation to criminal laws and policies). 32 Since 2011, Switzerland also now has unified national criminal law and procedure codes administered in all cantons. See Anna Petrig, The Expansion of Swiss Criminal Jurisdiction in Light of International L...

…ted to: Maxim Dupliy, Amir Amedi and Shelly Levy-Tzedek This work (or this video) was pub- lished from Kawakami lab in National Institute of Genetics , Japan (Muto, A. et al. Current Biology 23, 307-311, 2013)” Photograph by James Tagg @ The Computer History Museum Wikimedia, E...

…ncies with overlapping or duplicative jurisdiction. This model is a familiar safeguard against underenforcement of transnational crimes or crimes on the high seas; international criminal law routinely grants nation-states coextensive, duplicative jurisdiction to enforce internati...

…lear, democratic — and moral — values that reflect the best of America, not our worst. We know people like this on the national stage now. As a thought experiment, consider the possibilities of a ticket outside the partisan lanes and imagine the chemistry of radical combination...