I don’t know how most articles get into that section, but I know, from direct communication with a Time staff writer, that Time reached out and asked for Eliezer to write something for them.
Time appears to have commissioned a graphic for the article (the animated gif with red background and yellow circuits forming a mushroom cloud, captioned “Illustration for TIME by Lon Tweeten”, with nothing suggesting it to be a stock photo), so there appears to be some level of editorial spotlighting. The article currently also appears on time.com in a section titled “Editor’s picks” in a list of 4 articles, where the other 3 are not “Ideas” articles.
That’s not an “article in Time”. That’s a “TIME Ideas” contribution. It has less weight and less vetting than any given popular substack blog.
I don’t know how most articles get into that section, but I know, from direct communication with a Time staff writer, that Time reached out and asked for Eliezer to write something for them.
Time appears to have commissioned a graphic for the article (the animated gif with red background and yellow circuits forming a mushroom cloud, captioned “Illustration for TIME by Lon Tweeten”, with nothing suggesting it to be a stock photo), so there appears to be some level of editorial spotlighting. The article currently also appears on time.com in a section titled “Editor’s picks” in a list of 4 articles, where the other 3 are not “Ideas” articles.
Thanks, fixed.