What If the Work We’re Busy Automating Is Needless?
Many of the topics I address are met with silence because they question the quasi-religious beliefs that underpin our entire way of life: the…
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We’re Busy Automating Needless Work
I consider it self-evident that much of our economy is nothing more than Silly Hats that we call something else that sounds less silly….
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What AI Is and What It Is Not
Whether we admit it or not, we are collectively making an epoch-changing bet that AI is fantastic, unstoppable Progress with a capital P so…
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What AI Is and Is Not– or, When Electrocution of Innocents Becomes Profitable
Whether we admit it or not, we are collectively making an epoch-changing bet that AI is fantastic, unstoppable Progress with a capital P so…
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We Don’t Need the Real World, We Only Need Money
This make-believe world in which money is all that matters is not a sustainable society or economy. In this make-believe world, shape-shifting money is…
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The Consequences of Runaway Greed, Excess and Corruption
The reason I want to discuss Greed, Excess and Sacrifice is that these are the dominant forces shaping everyday life, but they receive near-zero…
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Can We Talk About Greed, Excess and Sacrifice for a Minute?
The reason I want to discuss Greed, Excess and Sacrifice is that these are the dominant forces shaping everyday life, but they receive near-zero…
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AI’s Core Flaw: “Mass Regurgitation of Misinformation”
I narrate key points in my post “AI’s Insurmountable Flaw: “Mass Regurgitation of Misinformation.” Correspondent Mike Fasano recently submitted a succinct and telling summary…
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AI Isn’t Reversing Anti-Progress, It’s Accelerating It
I narrate key points in my post “Is AI Reversing Anti-Progress or Is It Accelerating It?” The ceaseless reduction of value and the expansion…
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AI’s Insurmountable Flaw: “Mass Regurgitation of Misinformation”
I approach all AI topics with several things in mind. One is the nature of problems, which implicitly define what qualifies as solutions, and…