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Perhaps an unfair set of expectations, but I think the USA should be more ambitious. How do people born in the USA in the past 15-25 years feel? Do they consider improvements in their lifetimes to be significant?

I've had trouble noticing these things because Bangladesh (where my parents live and where I spent part of my childhood and teenage years) experienced such dramatic development since the 1970s that quality of life improvements in my 15 years in the USA feel pale.

Today, dear @HalderAlaka hosted the great @kaushikcbasu — he’s back on Interintellect! We talked about dictatorial escalation, why nations lose their freedom, how decent people can do bad things, and many more very timely topics.

This was a really great conversation!

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🌏 Join us at 1pm ET today (online) to discuss @kaushikcbasu's paper on why autocrats turn into tyrants. We'll have case studies and plenty of Q&A 🧭 If you're a student or have never attended an @interintellect_ salon, message me. I've a few free sign-up codes to hand out!

I think a particularly important skill is actually knowing when (and how) to use language models and when not to. Language models cheapen and reduce the barriers to producing a lot of text, and so it's easy to generate a lot and overwhelm people. Many people are already

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📑 We'll be discussing this paper, and use it to understand historical cases and what societies can do in the future: https://t.co/U3rmiptauQ

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🌎 Why do authoritarian leaders, often with good intentions, turn into tyrants? What does it mean for an era of democratic backsliding? 📅 Sat Dec 6 (1pm ET): Join me & @kaushikcbasu (ex-Chief Economist @WorldBank, Professor @Cornell) for an @interintellect_ salon to discuss!

I have a guest essay in @nytimes today about autonomous vehicle safety. I wrote it because I’m tired of seeing children die. Done right, we can eliminate car crashes as a leading cause of death in the United States @Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million

"The slide into tyranny is a process, not a starting point." @kaushikcbasu's model explains why leaders deteriorate. Join the former World Bank Chief Economist & @HalderAlaka to investigate this crucial systemic failure.

Greenville and Saluda

Resplendent trails, four years ago. Thanksgiving was also warmer and earlier in the year. The leaves were still on the trees: https://t.co/25bKbWdLv2

Yesterday evening, out by Saluda, someone pointed out an exposed stretch of the river by the road It was once shielded by 17 houses. 16 washed away. Their only traces are metal posts sticking out of the ground, invisible at dusk The 17th house flooded up to the 2nd or 3rd floor

Walking through wreckage and recovering trails at Green River Game Lands, a year after Helene and wildfires

Grate art ~ children not looking at the paintings at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1963 (photo: Herb Slodounik) https://t.co/0glqCEoO22 https://t.co/KoR4wL8Eru

Depopulation is neither a climate plan nor a path to prosperity. Economist Dean Spears argues falling birth rates threaten equity & innovation. He joins host @HalderAlaka to discuss his book After the Spike and the case for people. Watch on YouTube: https://t.co/qIHJyapCgD

🍂🌸 Happy Thanksgiving!