Indeed- there is a very good book on this topic from early 2010s claiming that that is one factor weakening US democracy
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

AI in & of itself doesn't solve the relevant issues (like how make mass colonization economically worthwhile)

Also most people who have studied this question find that this belief by Bezos & co about the timeline of human space colonization is way overoptimistic...
www.amazon.com/City-Mars-se...

power *grab

for 232 need first an investigation of a few months for each product category etc. W/out IEEPA Trump will find it much harder to arbitrarily impose tariffs on everything by humanity at his whim. /2

I agree such a decision would help greatly regarding Prez power but it would also help in global trade war- reason why went for IEEPA power grad is b/c 232 section etc. tariffs cannot be as quickly & flexibly implemented as his (mis)use of IEEPA- for example /1

This is an optimistic sign actually- Trump is clearly afraid that SCOTUS will declare unconstitutional his big beautiful "liberation day" tariffs and is trying to prepare cover for their potential replacement where he has more solid legal ground- but are thankfully harder for him to play with

Given the current dire financial situation of the UN that is unfortunately a very good analogy...

Finally, in this issue’s data feature, @dovlevin.bsky.social introduces PEIG 2.0, an expanded dataset on #ElectionIntervention. This adds 25.5% more years and 37.4% more cases, mapping interventions from 1946–2014.

Nice to know- although I recommend someone who liked my research to show that in a somewhat different way...

I can think of a few ways to do so without affecting other usages (blocking feeding obvious course paper instructions, require users to confirm not used for cheating etc.)