geopolitical dynamics

Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East | Lex Fridman Podcast #244

Lex Fridman

Robert Crews, a historian at Stanford specializing in Afghanistan, Russia, and Islam, argues on Lex Fridman's podcast that the United States' 2001 invasion of Afghanistan was fundamentally a mistake driven by panic rather than strategic foresight following the September 11 attacks. He contends that …

Inside The AI Race: DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, China, and The Race to Superintelligence

Tim Ferriss

Inside the intense global race toward superintelligence, the narrative extends far beyond simple technological competition into profound philosophical and geopolitical territory. The author's perspective shifted from an initial belief that AI lacked a survival instinct—since machines possess no DNA …