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The American Deal Guy remains one of the most powerful assets in the nation's arsenal. He conjures ancient and eldritch forces in some ways more powerful than a nuclear weapon, more subtle than our clandestine apparatus, and more Promethean than our technological establishment.
Despite philosophizing grandly about "great power competition" for years, the collective pearl clutching of the foreign policy establishment as the realities of this era come into focus tells us that - at some visceral level - they never really believed that it would come to pass
One of the most overlooked influences on contemporary geopolitics is the extent to which an entire generation of rising staffers formed early instincts in grand strategy gaming
Today, "Player 3" explores what the sensitive young man learned about civilization from Civilization
The core lesson of Civilization is hard power and nationalism.
By training a generation of players in ways quite against the grain of the period, Player 3 conjectures that it perhaps sowed in part the seeds of the civilizationalism currently maturing at @StateDept and beyond.
If RN triumphs in April, the CFR doid class will seek to frame victory as "fueled" by these protests, as if the mandate was the result of unfortunate circumstance. The reality is that these protests merely illustrate why the right has become structurally necessary in Europe.
Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen.
I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.
And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.
imagine leading a team focused on the national security applications of hashtag artificial intelligence
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Nick Land is rightly considered a defense thinker because he inverts the normal causality of security discourse: while we debate the niceties of “automation” over wine in Aspen, machinic desire is tearing through the world, assembling itself through a rapidly declining present.
The debate over autonomous weapons and the debate over frontier AI safety are about different problems, argue experts @mchorowitz and @Lauren_A_Kahn. To regulate them, policymakers need a framework to address it, they write.
“Everyone wants autonomy to be a clear binary, yes or no. . . . In reality, autonomy is a spectrum defined by the technology being used and the human choices that are made to employ a weapon system. The question isn't, ‘Is it autonomous?' but rather, ‘How autonomous is it?'”
“What few people understand is how much autonomy is already in modern military systems—and has been for decades,” they write.
Read their analysis: cfr.org/articles/the-autonom…
Our series on video games and warfare continues today with an extended meditation by "Julia Broussard" on modularity in systems design, looking comparatively at the success of the Skyrim modding community and the troubled @USNavy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program
Somewhere in San Francisco, an increasingly flustered CCP cell is sending ever more subculturally specific foids to the Anthropic happy hour and failing
OpenAI does anti-honeypot training. From the article:
'In training sessions, OpenAI has warned employees that outsiders, including competitors and state-sponsored actors, could try to get access to company information. Company leaders have said that could take the form of people offering money, listening in cafes or even trying to seduce OpenAI employees, people familiar with the matter said. Employees at other AI heavyweights, including Anthropic and Google, have received similar warnings.'
We're thrilled to kick off our series on video games and warfare today with this piece from @VestutiMarco arguing that @DeptofWar should adopt a new paradigm of "playable weapons": leaning into gaming interfaces as a way of accelerating soldier effectiveness with new systems.
