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Where do you start these days? The FT has AI ‘exuberance’ risks ending in lengthy investment bust, BIS warns. BIS is the Bank for International Settlements. It’s been described as the Fed of global central banks. That's not quite right. What we learned in 2008, we all
AI Politics & NY 12
“The American technocrats have drawn an enchanting picture of a society in which, with the abolition of the market, technicians would find themselves all-powerful, and would use their power in such a way as to give to all the maximum leisure and comfort possible. This idea reminds us, by
MoUs & Versailles
I’m in Chicago and the other day my 93 year old mother was in the other room watching the Trump show from Versailles. My mother now has the TV volume higher than my dad once did, that’s saying something. So, once more, despite best efforts, Trump was sticking
Numbers & SPCX
“This future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems to be possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it were, for something