Hints and tips:
...When Sutskever invited employees to an all-hands meeting to greet the new boss on the company’s internal messaging system, he received a stream of middle-finger emojis in response, according to two people...
...It was the demands of capital that brought these two thought systems into such abrupt opposition inside OpenAI....
...That stance aligns Shear with Ilya Sutskever, the sole remaining co-founder on OpenAI’s board, who leads efforts to control superintelligent systems at the company....
...The others — safety researcher Helen Toner and tech entrepreneur Tasha McCauley — were less well known....
...We could say that a dollar is now a liability on the balance sheets of the banks of the Federal Reserve system. That would be true but inadequate....
...There is something in that, as the build-up of leverage in the UK pension system that was revealed in the September gilt crisis demonstrated....
...To liken bitcoin to a Ponzi scheme or a pump-and-dump scheme, both basically redistributive, is to flatter the cryptocurrency system....
...However, John McCauley, director of the World Influenza Centre at London’s Francis Crick Institute, said, while not impossible, he would be surprised to see a significant number of cases in the northern...
...Pandemic-battered health systems in Europe and the US are braced for widespread influenza outbreaks this winter, as economies reopen and coronavirus restrictions are lifted....
...Late last year Goldman Sachs analysts described it as “an experimental and unregulated alternative financial system” where users can earn a yield on their stablecoin holdings of “typically around 5 per cent...
...And, thus, hot springs, including the great McCauley, Jemez, Spence, and perhaps the most dramatic of them all, San Antonio....
...Concerns about the two respiratory illnesses compounding one another — and the impact on health systems — has led governments to act fast to begin strict flu inoculation programmes in place of what were...
...McCauley’s notes follow below. How can a central bank stabilise security markets?...
...The Fed is often said to be injecting liquidity into the banking system, suggesting that it is funding banks....
...However, with rising fragility in Emerging Markets (Shin 2013), i.e. the periphery of this system, that specifically relies on the top for stability (McCauley, McGuire, and Sushko 2015) the C6 standing liquidity...
...Is the dollar system sustainable? These are worthy and interesting questions, and Alphaville can do no better than Bordo and McCauley to address them....
...€-denominated Mercedes Benz — FT Alphaville Greece shows ECB’s stress tests were nonsense — FT Alphaville Target balances and monetary policy operations — ECB Interpreting TARGET2 balances — Cecchetti, McCauley...
...That is probably at the heart of it,” says Mr McCauley, whose institution manages $178bn in assets. “But some investors are also very deferential to management....
...That at least is the finding of the Bank for International Settlements, which has analysed financial flows through the global banking system....
...flows or those looking to be recycled outside of the US system....
...This is creating big strains on the banking system....
...the true US dollar system to be funded....
...“Our priority wasn’t geographic positioning because we wanted the app to be as quick and easy as possible,” says Mr McCauley....
...“A hundred and seventy years after it was originally conceived, Farringdon will become the central hub of the railway system,” said Mr Wolmar....
...These propellors do the job of an anti-torque tail rotor but use their energy to speed the aircraft forward through the air. This is current technology, like that of the AgustaWestland AW609....
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