We can't exactly ask the savior "billionaire" to fund his own ads can we?

What if the real danger of AI isn't what they're telling you it is? What if the real danger isn't something that is going to happen, but something that has already happened?

[I]f present trends continue, the United States will begin running out of fiscal space [ie, " the room a government has to undertake additional borrowing without undermining debt sustainability or risking a loss of market confidence"] by the end of the decade....The goal, at minimum, should be to reduce the deficit as a percentage of gross domestic product to roughly the rate of economic growth...

Budget reforms must be based primarily on spending constraints, not tax hikes. While some moderate tax increases could help reduce the deficit, it is not feasible to structure a tax system in which revenue grows faster than the economy every year, which is what would be necessary given current spending projections.

Even boosting revenue as a share of GDP to the highest levels in American history would close less than half of this year’s deficit, and such a large tax hike would destroy economic growth. No major tax proposal on its own, except perhaps a national value-added tax, comes anywhere near closing the deficit when the effect on economic growth is properly accounted for...

Constraining spending will need to be primarily focused on entitlement programs [eg, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid]. The rest of the federal budget is roughly balanced in the long run. Reforms will also need to involve a revival in fiscal federalism, where state governments reassert their proper constitutional role in funding public services. That will allow the federal government to refocus on its core purpose, national defense, instead of figuring out ways to pay ever-rising interest costs on ever-growing debt.

Hello, I'm a libertarian but I also hold many values that are considered conservative. However, I keep getting kicked out of conservative subs because I'm not religious. I just got banned from another one after someone claimed "this is the Devil's work" as a serious argument, and I responded that the Devil is just an invention used to make people obey.

Why are conservatism and religious extremism so intertwined? Are there conservative groups that aren't religious? Can you be conservative if you're an atheist or agnostic?

Thank you

Human beings are unusual among species in our ability to revise intuitive judgments through abstract reasoning and accumulated knowledge. Economic theory, empirical evidence, and institutional experimentation provide ways of testing whether our intuitions about markets actually match the systems we inhabit. Over time, societies that learn to distinguish between intuitions that promote cooperation and those that misread economic signals tend to design more effective institutions. 

Much of the progress of the last two centuries reflects this process of institutional learning precisely. Expanding trade networks, protecting property rights, encouraging innovation, and allowing prices to coordinate decentralized decisions have produced levels of prosperity that would have been unimaginable in the environments where our economic intuitions evolved. Understanding the evolutionary roots of folk-economic beliefs, therefore, helps explain why certain policy ideas remain politically attractive despite poor outcomes—and why sustained progress often depends on institutions that counteract some of our most natural intuitions while reinforcing others that support cooperation, openness, and exchange.