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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 · 4w
What can tech policy folks learn from the nuclear age about the role of science in policy? My read of the summer is Benjamin Wilson's new book "Strange Stability" about the backstage arrangements of ...
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Wilson's book Strange Stability checked off a bingo card of issues that could have easily been in AI policy news today:

- warnings of existential risk from well funded insiders
- scientists who keep secret their industry ties
- definitions of science that uphold the politics of profit and war
- claims that only insiders can truly understand the scientific issues
- a popular movement against harmful tech valorizing its creators
- whistleblowers who profit from business interests they mildly critique in public
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Brian Vastag · 4w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqg57ze9t87qkn63zm6yzcf8zlzsldgn5c8v3eq8sc3s7q383ht52szlfwps Thanks for posting this. I read your review and Wilson's piece in BAS...interesting stuff. Until recently, a friend of mine was a senior editor at SciAm and I'm curious if he knows the B...
J. Nathan Matias 🦣 · 4w
In one astonishing tale, Wilson shows how the physicists Hans Bethe and Richard Garwin were “assertively hand-held” by Scientific American into becoming unexpected nuclear whistleblowers—after submitting a draft to support the weapon their article eventually opposed https://thebulletin.org/20...