PinnedSKULL-THUGGERY DELUXE: Trump as Violence Personified“Violence is an expression of impotence… Power [defined as the capacity to work in concert for a public purpose] and violence are…Jun 1028Jun 1028
PinnedAUTOMACENE RISING: The Perilous Political Economy of Artificial IntelligencePeople worry that computers will get too smart and will take over the world. But the real problem is that they are too stupid and they’ve…Oct 18, 202016Oct 18, 202016
PinnedA ECONOMY BUILT ON SAND: Silicon Valley is a Mixed Blessing at BestI am worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end. ____ David BodanisNov 9, 20206Nov 9, 20206
PinnedTHE LANDLORD’S GAME: The Grand Dispossession of AmericaHow can a man be said to have a country when he has not a right to a square inch of it. ___ Henry GeorgeAug 24, 20207Aug 24, 20207
PinnedSLOUCHING TOWARD UNTOPIAThe main way we are fooled is by being convinced that there is some perfect society that awaits us if we follow all the rules — a utopia…Feb 23, 202320Feb 23, 202320
TRUMPSTER FIRE: Unbridled Oligarchy Abides“We’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy.” Jimmy CarterNov 1142Nov 1142
DONALD TRUMP AND THE BANALITY OF FASCISM“Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans”. John T. FlynnOct 2624Oct 2624
AN ECONOMICS PRIZE FOR DEMOCRACY: Belated Celebration or Early Eulogy?“Democratizations increase GDP per capita by about 20% in the long run.” Daron Acemoglu, Suresh Naidu, Pascal Restrepo, and James A…Oct 157Oct 157
IS AI A SCIENCE? Nobels Aside, Machine Learning is Making the World Much More Mysterious“The pooling operation used in convolutional neural networks is a big mistake, and the fact that it works so well is a disaster”. Geoffrey…Oct 1117Oct 1117