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  • American AI May Not Survive Chinese Open-Source

    Chinese companies’ AI strategy can economically cripple American labs unless the U.S. government competently counters...

  • Technological Determinism and Human Freedom

    For millennia, myths and philosophy warned of tools entrapping us in tragedies of our own making. But the discovery o...

  • How to Deal With Iran

    The Iran crisis cannot be resolved without recognizing Iran’s unexpected military and technological edge. Victories c...

  • China is Building a Blue Granary

    The People’s Republic of China hopes to turn the open ocean into the world’s largest farm. It might not be a bad idea...

  • Post-Scarcity Leads to Technological Stagnation

    The bottleneck of the computer age is not compute, but ideas for how to use it. The post Post-Scarcity Leads to Techn...

  • Frontier Panic

    As artificial intelligence has advanced, it has taken the place of climate change as the main perceived threat to our...

  • Wiring Capital to Compute

    America possesses more capital than any other nation in history and the most compute demand in the world. It is still...

  • Mesa-Optimization is Destroying Education

    Educational institutions have learned to optimize for everything except learning. Artificial intelligence could force...

  • War by Other Means

    Robotic warfare is shifting the source of state power away from citizens to firms. The transition will produce a new ...

  • The Rival Theologies of Artificial Intelligence

    Recently, the Vatican and Anthropic have shown a united front on artificial intelligence. But are they actually align...

  • The Burden of Discernment

    Scientific institutions are struggling to survive under a mountain of publications and poor standards of peer review....

  • The Lifecycle of an Apocalypse

    Since World War I, our society has been convinced that civilization is on the brink of technological apocalypse. The ...

  • The Peoples of America

    The Human Geography of this Continent The post The Peoples of America appeared first on Palladium.

  • The Dostoevskian Moment

    As we accelerate toward superintelligence, our quest for self-mastery takes a spiritual turn. The post The Dostoevski...

  • The Total Art of Flat Design

    The digital era has brought about a flattening of art and culture, creating a world where depth and texture have beco...

  • Think Tanks Have Defeated Democracy

    Think tanks and nonprofit advocacy have replaced citizen-driven political parties. Voters have lost their voice as a ...

  • How the Kurdish Offensive in Iran Unraveled

    Kurdish plans to enter the war remain in limbo as Washington equivocates on support while Tehran seizes the initiativ...

  • Permanent Games For Progress

    As politics weakens and private power grows, building a great future will depend on permanent games that convert priv...

  • The World Needs Your Great Work

    Society has lost our sense of greatness and the reasons it is worth pursuing. This is especially relevant to those wi...

  • Pardon Underwrites a Year of Palladium

    Sustaining ambitious governance journalism and sponsoring PALLADIUM 20: Noblesse Oblige and beyond. The post Pardon U...