On Luddites, the rebellion against Big Tech, human rights, and the AI threat: "Robots aren't coming for your job; bosses are." Ted Chiang: "Most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism."
Katalin Karikó just won the Nobel Prize for her dogged and live-saving work on mRNA vaccines. Her impeccably timed memoir, Breaking Through: My Life in Science, is coming out next week.
Blaring phones will scare the beejesus out of everyone in America on Oct 4 at 2:20pm ET; FEMA is conducting a test of their public alert system. Maybe set an alarm or calendar notification so you'll be prepared?
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