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The AI debate has largely focused on productivity gains and job displacement, but its consequences will reach much further By revolutionizing how we combat disease, wage wars, and stimulate income growth, AI could fundamentally alter the terms of human existence. LONDON—Over the long sweep of history, three forces have driven humanity’s greatest transformations, for good…
Two of the world’s most critical oil chokepoints — the Strait of Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb — are seeing almost no shipping traffic right now. Yet as the Iran conflict drags on, far from an oil apocalypse, prices are 30% down from their peak. But if you’re filling up with diesel, you won’t have noticed —…
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I. Atlas Shrugged in Brazil In 1988, when I was 27 years old, I read Ayn Rand for the first time. It was her novel Atlas Shrugged, in its just-released Portuguese edition. At that time, I already considered myself a sort of classical liberal, but my superficial knowledge of political philosophy, among many other gaps…
