Does AI "think"? Robin Sloan says we cheapen the term when we say it does.

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Christopher Leonard's deeper dive on the problems in the U.S. defense manufacturing sector is a real-life version of our Riskgaming scenario “Hampton at the Cross-Roads.”

Democratic countries can’t keep taking blow after blow from adversaries with nary an attempt at a hybrid-war response. Here's what we have to do: www.riskgaming.com/p/make-gray...

We've lost the war on terrorism and war on drugs. Next up: cognitive war.

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Today’s Lux AI Summit is focused on the power of AI to express humanity’s most creative and powerful thoughts, whether through music, art, writing or more

I’m a strong nuclear energy advocate, but if you are curious why so many people don’t believe humanity could ever safely run a complex technical system that could melt down, today's AWS outage is why. riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-inter...

We need chaos engineering: let's carefully and intentionally break technical systems and see what fails for the end user.

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In South Korea, a decade’s worth of work by an estimated 750,000 civil servants vanished up in smoke in minutes. In some ways, this may be just the kind of stress test we need. riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-machi...

English spelling is so complex that we’ve made mastering it into a competitive sport: what would be the point of a spelling bee in a language with a predictable spelling system?

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