Pakistan struck a 2,000-bed drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, killing at least 408 people. The attack is the deadliest incident in an undercovered war between two nuclear-armed neighbors.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisEconomic sanctions succeed roughly one in three times. The mechanism is a four-link chain, and the history of sanctions is mostly the history of those links breaking.
Evergreen Geopolitics & ConflictFor a millennium, philosophers have tried to define God into existence through pure logic. The ontological argument keeps failing. It also keeps coming back.
HistoryYour brain cannot simulate not knowing what it knows. The curse of knowledge, and a family of related biases, explain why what seems obvious to you is invisible to everyone else.
Evergreen Psychology & BehaviorTheology has spent centuries building the case for God. Five arguments remain standing. Here is each one at its strongest, and why none of them survive scrutiny.
OpinionYour cone cells are different from mine. Your language sorts colors differently. Your brain makes different lighting assumptions. And the subjective experience itself may be fundamentally private.
Evergreen Psychology & BehaviorEvery major AI chatbot has invisible rules shaping what it will and will not discuss. The content policies are baked into model weights through RLHF, enforced by annotators most users never see, and subject to zero transparency standards.
Artificial Intelligence Evergreen Tech & AI PolicyIran’s drone strikes on Fujairah and Dubai Airport did not just damage infrastructure. They dismantled the assumption that oil could bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisTorture was formally abolished across Europe by the early nineteenth century. Then France, Britain, and the United States brought it back, with manuals, psychologists, and legal memos explaining why it wasn’t really torture.
HistoryLarge language models are trained to please, not to be honest. The sycophancy problem is a structural consequence of how AI learns from human feedback, and fixing it may be harder than anyone expected.
Artificial Intelligence EvergreenMore than 1,000 Kenyans were lured to fight for Russia in Ukraine with promises of civilian jobs. A Kenyan intelligence report, diplomatic talks in Moscow, and a growing death toll expose a trafficking pipeline spanning 36 African countries.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisMore than a dozen whistleblowers told the BBC that Meta and TikTok deliberately weakened safety controls to win an engagement arms race. The documentary names the engineers, the decisions, and the internal data.
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