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Stablecoin Wildcat-Bank Roulette: The Genius Act Gambles with America’s Money
History potentially rhymes, as Congress toys with private stablecoin currencies, and becomes an apprentice sorcerer playing with demons—or at least with…
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Vico's Singularity [republished]
AI, Renaissance wizardry and dark inhuman forces
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What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?: How We All Already Have Our Superintelligent AI-Assistant :: POSSIBLE LECTURE OUTLINE
Anthology Intelligence: humanity's collective brain is already our superintelligent friend: We don't need to build superintelligence because we did it…
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Discounting the Future: Financial Markets, Memory, & the Mirage of ‘Normal’
Secular Stagnation in Occlusion, Yet Global Savings Glut Still in the Foreground: With Fed policy frozen for at least the summer, the monetary muddle…
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Tariffs, Chaos, & the G6: I Watch Adam Posen as an Eloquent Cassandra on the Economic Wages of Pluto-Populist Trade-Policy Folly
Connects the dots, and warning that with neofascist tariff pluto-populism the big losers are the ordinary households of America. If you think tariffs…
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The Phantom Menace of the Trump Mobile T1 SmartPhone: Silicon Dreams & Supply Chain Realities
The grifting never ends. Nor does the journamalistic sanewashing...
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DRAFT: Prosperity & "Utopia": The Moving Target :: History of Economic Growth Lecture Notes 1.5
DRAFT: Why the best-laid plans of philosophers and poets never quite survive contact with history—or the marketplace. From Arkadian simplicity to…
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What's Left to Say?
I don't know anymore!
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Rakes, Rage, & the Rationality Racket: Jane Austen, High-T, & the Long Arc of Bad Decisions
Contrary to Edward McLaren, literary Regency marriage patterns, stand-up comedy, and Homeric epic all agree: marrying Colonel Brandon is in no way a…
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Chaos Monkeys at the Gate: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, & the Unraveling of Rocket-&-Rage-Tweet Tech Statesmanship
Technology’s greatest overpromiser & overdeliverator has met America’s chao-monkey-in-chief. The result is a Musk entangled in the Trumpian vortex and…
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Monopoly Profits, AI Arms Races, & the Mirage of Silicon Valley Platform-Oligopoly Disruption
Users are likely to gain massively from the buildout of MAMLMs—natural-language interfaces, very big-data very high-dimension very…
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The Unsolved Puzzle of Apple Computer's "AI" Misadventures Over the Past Year
Not that I have any answers. But I do have lots of questions. And there are interesting tidbits of information out there, as we contemplate the…
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