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3 Quarks Dailyby ChatGPT19d ago
by ChatGPT-5.6 Sol and S. Abbas Raza What should a government do if artificial intelligence is advancing toward something vastly more capable than human beings, but nobody knows how fast it will...
3 Quarks Dailyby Sean Murphy20d ago
by Sean Murphy Does it tell us much—about the times we live in, about ourselves—that the occasion of Milan Kundera’s passing, at age 94 three years ago this summer, was not met with an outpouring...
3 Quarks Dailyby Dilip D'Souza20d ago
by Dilip D’Souza It’s been a breathless several days of chasing AI news, and there’s much more I haven’t got to.
3 Quarks Dailyby Laurence Peterson21d ago
by Laurence Peterson Let’s just plan for catastrophic success. —Jared Kushner The present must certainly constitute one of the weirdest and most perverse economic conjunctures in my lifetime, maybe...
3 Quarks Dailyby Jeremy Moss21d ago
Editor’s Note: This essay begins an ongoing series of columns experimenting with AI collaboration in writing.
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese21d ago
Lily Lynch in Sidecar: The mood at the hard-right Sweden Democrats’ (SD) election-night gala on Sunday was sombre.
3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Culleny21d ago
Hatred See how efficient it still is, how it keeps itself in shape— our century’s hatred. How easily it vaults the tallest obstacles.
3 Quarks Dailyby Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad22d ago
by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad I recall reading a short piece of fiction as a high school student at the turn of the millenium called Catching Crumbs from the Table.
3 Quarks Dailyby Paweł Skała-Piękoś22d ago
by Paweł Skała-Piękoś The Polish noble republic as a laboratory for anyone who wants to imagine America under the Confederacy; and why a liberal owes no apology to those who call privilege freedom...
3 Quarks Dailyby Mike O'Brien22d ago
by Mike O’Brien It takes me a long time to finish books. The last one I finished was published about a century ago, or four and a half centuries ago, depending on how you figure it.
3 Quarks Dailyby Azra Raza23d ago
Alex Lanz in LARB: “MR. BLOOM READ with relish the lustrous verses of Blake and Shelley,” I am tempted to write, since Harold Bloom, the author of The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry...
3 Quarks Dailyby David Hoyt24d ago
by David Hoyt In his recent book, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and Dreams of A World Without Democracy, historian Quinn Slobodian offers what might be the closest thing we have to an...
3 Quarks Dailyby John Ambrosio24d ago
by John Ambrosio In 2001, Grover Norquist, the Republican anti-tax crusader, famously quipped in an interview that he did not want to abolish government, “I simply want to reduce it to the size...
3 Quarks Dailyby Eric Schenck24d ago
by Eric Schenck Back in December of 2022, I was on top of the world. I was introducing my entire family to my girlfriend, and we were just weeks away from the trip of a lifetime: Driving our newly...
3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Culleny24d ago
The first known account of surfing was written during the 1640s in what is now Ghana. Surfing was independently developed from Senegal to Angola.
3 Quarks Dailyby Jochen Szangolies25d ago
by Jochen Szangolies Last Sunday, on the sixth of September, for the first time in more than 80 years, a far-right extremist party won the majority of votes in a German state election, and has a...
3 Quarks Dailyby Derek Neal25d ago
by Derek Neal I read Ben Lerner’s new novel, Transcription, in one day. I started reading it on my iPad at around 7:30 am as I sat at my kitchen table, sipping coffee and eating a piece of cake...
3 Quarks Dailyby Rachel Robison-Greene26d ago
by Rachel Robison-Greene A student came to my office last week to discuss her future. This student is extremely bright and creative, and I think the sky is the limit for her.
3 Quarks Dailyby Barry Goldman26d ago
by Barry Goldman Suppose Jones receives a communication from a Nigerian prince. The prince convinces Jones that if he provides access to his checking account, the prince will deposit $5 million...
3 Quarks Dailyby Malcolm Murray27d ago
by Malcolm Murray At this point in time, I would have expected to see more “AI religions”, or religious movements focused on AI. Why are there no churches of AI or scriptures of AI worship?
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