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Exceptional AI: Emergency Politics “Sovereign,” writes Carl Schmitt, “is he who decides on the exception.”1 And we live in exceptional times. The White House tells us that “foreign trade and economic practices have created a national emergency,”2 that “the United States’ insufficient energy production, …

Automation and Skill Retention: Anthropic recently published research examining how AI use impacts skill development and efficiency: In a randomized controlled trial, we examined 1) how quickly software developers picked up a new skill (in this case, a Python library) with and without AI assistance; and 2) whether using AI made …

The Internet is an Entertainment Machine: Charlie Warzel and Mike Caulfield argue that the internet is a justification machine. Dan Williams responds that justifications have always been readily available, and thinks that Warzel and Caulfield romanticize past media environments, for their own self-justificatory purposes.1 I think Williams …