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The challenges of complex risks in game design
Building great Riskgaming scenarios is far more of an art than science. The designer needs to understand the players — what they know and what they don’t — and then carefully construct a landscape of…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Intel, chips and America’s future
By now, we’re all familiar with the crisis that has faced America’s chip manufacturing industry. Intel remains the last bastion of homegrown chips (if we exempt new developments from TSMC and Samsung…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
What’s next for European defense autonomy
There has been a massive influx of defense funding into Europe since Putin’s war on Ukraine started in early 2022. A sea change is underway, with Germany loosening its debt brake and countries from P…
Published on 3 months ago
The future of science in an age of spending cuts
Science feels under attack. The Trump administration has proposed budget cuts of up to one-third of all basic research funding, breaking a generations-long, bipartisan consensus that what is good for…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Can AI teach us critical thinking?
AI and education seem like a match made in heaven, and certainly, much work and dollars are being spent trying to bring the two together. As more and more people eschew reading and outsource deep tho…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Finding a Third Way on the AI singularity
Our guest today, Mike Sexton, believes that the AI singularity has arrived, and somehow, it ended up “on page C3 in the newspaper.” What he’s getting at is that the tools we have at our fingertips to…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
How Jane Jacobs got Americans stuck
Over the past few decades, an astonishing pattern has taken place: Americans no longer migrate. From a peak of roughly one third of the country moving cities in a single year, today, migration rates …
Published on 4 months ago
What America can learn from the rebooting of Estonia
Estonia is a nation of 1.3 million people, situated in a dangerous neighborhood on the Baltic Sea. It gained its independence early in the 20th century, only for the Soviets to take the country by fo…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
The relevant axis of political conflict is change versus stasis
Abundance has become the word of the year in politics, led by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book and a slew of articles and podcasts trailing in its wake. Everyone loves growth and prosperity of co…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Samuel Arbesman on his new book, The Magic of Code
It’s not every day that we get to fete the launch of a new book by one of our colleagues at Lux Capital, so today is a very special day. Lux’s scientist-in-residence, Sam Arbesman, just published his…
Published on 5 months ago