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On March 22, 2023, thousands of researchers and tech leaders – including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak – published an open letter calling to slow down the artificial intelligence race.

While this may be a compelling argument to some, it has little bearing on the actual purpose of the individual mandate. The biggest problem with the “free rider” argument for the mandate is that it ...

On March 22, 2023, thousands of researchers and tech leaders – including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak – published an open letter calling to slow down the artificial intelligence race.

The large number of free riders on the Pennsylvania Turnpike across the year that ended May 31 is a problem even bigger than it seems. According to the Associated Press, which analyzed internal ...

For Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of ethereum and an outspoken cryptocurrency evangelist, there are bigger issues in play than those most commonly cited by digital currency enthusiasts as barriers ...

Euphoria over an impending COVID vaccine obscures the free-rider problem lurking behind it. Free-riding, the choice by some to avoid vaccination while the larger population receives it, was going to ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Janus v. AFSCME last month, the latest union blockbuster case. At issue are “agency fees” Mark Janus, a nonmember, must pay the union, supposedly because ...

In part 2 of this article, I focused on how Takers hurt Makers in open source, as well as how individual actions—no matter how rational they may seem—can have adverse outcomes for open source ...

Political influence by a professional association, like the influence of any special interest group, is a collective good for the members of the profession. This paper investigates the variables ...

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In October 2007, I was invited to the third Professional Leaders Project ThinkTank. The conference took place in Santa Monica, Calif., where, as I recall, close to 200 young Jews were received warmly ...