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Statistics like that just makes me angry. Last night I was up late reading Fast Company’s November 2019 magazine edition whose main title was “Capitalism Is Dead – Long Live Capitalism”. Of course, when I saw that at the bookstore, I immediately had to buy it. Upon reading the magazine, it was not about the…
Well, it looks like while we were sleeping, the robot revolution progressed on. Now, robots can: read, write, see, hear and understand, speak, smell, touch, move understand emotions, play games, debate, create, and read your mind. With the exception of the last item which is beyond humans’ ken, they cover pretty much most of the…
When does skepticism veers into the ridiculous? This pops up in my news feed. The flat earthers are back! The perturbing thing about the article, aside from the comment that the flat earthers conferences are growing, is the line that flat earthers are generally curious and hyper-skeptical. They question things; they perform experiments to prove…
[My last few posts have been rather long so I’m going to try to keep this short.] This is off topic but last week I was shocked that George Conway appeared on MSNBC as a legal analyst. Of course, I had to see that to see if anyone would be “indelicate” and ask him about…
““You’re not victims; you’re the richest people in the world,” Novogratz said Friday in an interview with Bloomberg. “How in God’s name do you feel like a victim?”” HuffPost, “Billionaire Tells Wealthy to ‘Lighten Up’ About Elizabeth Warren: ‘You’re Not Victims’ “, Mary Papenfuss, October 19, 2019 A lot of billionaires really don’t like Elizabeth…
Yesterday, I had a rather long post about one writer’s positive take on the automation/artificial intelligence/robot trend coming fast at us. I didn’t buy in his positive thesis, even though I wanted to believe in something positive, but his thesis just didn’t convince me – it was too free market oriented. I did want to…
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