Musk offers voters $1 million a day to sign PAC petition backing the Constitution. Is that legal? (Mike Catalini)

Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and Space X and owner of X who’s gone all-in on Republican Donald Trump’s candidacy for the White House, has already committed at least $70 million to help the former president. Now he’s pledging to give away $1 million a day to voters for signing his political action committee’s petition backing …

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Conservative Activist Vows $1B Investment to ‘Crush Liberal Dominance’ (Zachary Folk)

Leonard Leo, a conservative activist and the former executive vice president of the Federalist Society, told the Financial Times his nonprofit group was pledging $1 billion to “crush liberal dominance” in corporate America. The conservative activist told the British broadsheet he would “direct resources to build talent and capital formation pipelines in the areas of news and …

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UN Projections: China’s Population to Decrease Significantly by 2075

Overview What we’re showing Population data and forecasts for the world’s 6 largest countries. This data comes from the UN World Population Prospects 2022 (latest version). Projections are based on a medium fertility scenario, which assumes countries will converge at a birth rate of 1.85 children per woman, by 2045-2050. China’s decline China’s population boom has officially come …

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MIT’s New AI Model Predicts Human Behavior With Uncanny Accuracy

A new technique can be used to predict the actions of human or AI agents who behave suboptimally while working toward unknown goals. MIT and other researchers developed a framework that models irrational or suboptimal behavior of a human or AI agent, based on their computational constraints. Their technique can help predict an agent’s future actions, …

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Constructor Theory. @DavidDeutschPhysicist (David Deutsch)

This is a physics theory that David Deutsch and Chiara Markletto developed in 2012. It is proposed as an approach to fundamental physics that focuses on which physical transformations are possible and impossible, and why. It aims to unify theories of information, knowledge, thermodynamics, and life. Watch the Video