Why We’re Failing: We’re Not a Mechanism
The idea that Nature is a mechanism has a long history. Many ancient cultures studied the night sky and developed an understanding of astronomical…
The Tax Benefits of Self-Employment
It’s tax preparation time, the secular equivalent of crawling around the temple on cobblestones littered with broken glass. When our numbed minds read instructions…
The Problem With Money Isn’t Money
To many minds, the solution to our core economic problems is to return to sound money via either the gold standard, in which gold…
What’s Valuable Now May Become Valueless–and Vice Versa
If extremes exhaust themselves and revert to the mean, if cyclical highs slide to cyclical lows, and if the pendulums of human emotions and…
Automation Institutionalizes Mediocrity
When deployed by monopolies / cartels, automation institutionalizes mediocrity, and soon everyone forgets excellence and quality because they no longer have any experience of…
The One True Test of AI Intelligence
From the earliest days of artificial intelligence, what test proves AI equivalence with human intelligence has been the subject of a lively debate. AI…