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America's Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment and Repatriation of Qian Xuesen
The article argues that the United States' decision to imprison and then trade Chinese rocket scientist Qian Xuesen (co-founder of JPL) back to China in 1955 was America's greatest strategic blunder. Qian, who had contributed to U.S. airpower dominance after WWII, was accused of being a communist, detained for five years, and eventually exchanged for eleven
You Don't Align an AI, You Align With It: A Critique of AI Alignment Discourse
This article argues that AI alignment is fundamentally misunderstood. The author contends that the people shaping AI alignment policy — researchers, lab executives, and policy makers — are not the ones whose jobs and lives are being disrupted by AI. Instead of "aligning" AI to abstract human values defined by a privileged few, the author suggests we need to
Quantum Mechanics as a Mathematical Model: Why the Interpretation Debate Misses the Point
The article argues that quantum mechanics (QM) is not a physical theory but a mathematical model—a probability calculus on a wave-mechanical system. It contends that the 95-year-long debate over QM interpretations (Copenhagen, Everett, Bohm, etc.) persists precisely because QM is a mathematical model describing measurements, not what is being measured. The a