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More sensible lawsuit
A previous lawsuit relating to AI seems absurd and clearly serves a hidden purpose, which hasn’t been revealed yet. Thaler used AI as a tool to write a trivial patent, which was granted. Now he wants courts to treat the AI as the ‘inventor’ while Thaler is the ‘assignee’. Thaler can’t gain any money from…
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Not just econ
The Quote Investigator on Medium traces a quote by economist Paul Samuelson: I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws if I can write its economics textbooks. The saying started around 1750 with songs, then later became poems, then Samuelson switched it to econ texts, adding: The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on…
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Sanity returns to influencers
During QE, all influencers were “investing” in stupid IPOs and fantastically brainless bitcoin. Now that Powell has stopped the counterfeit, some rich athletes are returning to real capitalism. A brokerage is buying farmland for the influencers and renting it out to farmers. Sharia would approve, and real economics also approves. Unlike Gates and other Gaian…
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Coalism works both ends
Delicious. In advanced countries like Krautland, coalism (sometimes called “environmentalism”) has vastly increased the demand for coal by wiping out all other reliable sources. No nuclear, no diesel, no hydro, no natural gas. Only coal. The highly enlightened Kraut government is fulfilling coalist requirements by expanding a lignite mine. Less enlightened countries abandoned lignite a…
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Reprint on AI and panpsychism
Partly for the continuing focus on AI as the tool of the demons, mostly for the animistic footnote at the end, which ties into the theme of genefields and earthfields. Reprint from Oct 21. = = = = = START REPRINT: The April 76 issue of Computers and Automation includes a POWERFUL article by Joseph…
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Can it happen?
Probably a stupid thought, but I feel like writing it down for my own thinking process. In previous item: = = = = = An outside thermometer tells us how cold it is BEFORE we go outside, so we can prepare. Online weather radar is an even better reporter. It tells us where the precipitation…
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Was Nixon fooled?
Nixon surrendered our economy to China after losing Vietnam to China. It was an unconditional surrender like Versailles in 1919. Before Nixon, our approach to China was uniformly stupid and innocent. Starting around 1890, we viewed China as a land of customers. All of our policies were aimed at befriending their government so they would…
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Speaking of reporting…
In this clip Batya does some actual reporting, brings us some real Shannon information. Batya has blown her overall credibility by bowing down to Fauci, but this time she performed the proper function of a remote sensor as I was discussing in previous item. Both “sides” had been treating the Congress speaker crap as just…
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What is a reporter for?
Matt Taibbi is following all the bad rules of “journalism”, which are the same as the rules of Deepstate. Protect sources above all. Never reveal anything that your source doesn’t want to reveal. Well then, what the fuck is your PURPOSE? You’re not reporting, you’re just an unpaid (or maybe paid) part of Deepstate. You’re…
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Where are they going?
I’m still wondering where Substack is going. Some of their hidden purpose is starting to show up with a focus on becoming the new mass media, led by Bari Weiss. This will inevitably lead right back to censorship. The same thing already happened with Bari Weiss’s other push, the “free university”. They’re still waiting for…
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Why miss a chance to show your skill 2
Brazil’s auto industry used to apply considerable design skill to its adaptations of foreign cars. Willys and Ford and GM and VW all had Brazilian plants that began with assembly and quickly expanded into truly original products. Now Brazil’s extension of our Deepstate is copying FBI products with no adaptation or originality at all. FBI…
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Speaking of Harding…
A Harding speech from Dec 8, 1922, a little more than 100 years ago. This is how a PROBLEM-SOLVING president would talk right now. Substitute NAZI TORTURE for war to modernize. = = = = = START HARDING: So many problems are calling for solution that a recital of all of them, in the face…
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Why miss a chance to show your skill?
This is one of my perpetual puzzles. In the ’40s and early ’50s, the best Euro cars tried amazingly hard to omit taillights. Designers who lavished close attention to shapes and grilles and roofs and dashboards simply ignored taillights, tacking on microteensy standardized pinpricks way down behind the bumper. Taillights were apparently obscene. Two haute…
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Random thought about dynasties
Thinking about the current medieval setup. One thing is missing. In Dark Ages 1.0, political dynasties continued for many generations, and competing dynasties warred for many generations. The worst wars were between families, not between nations. In Dark Ages 2.0, our national dynasties are strictly ‘horizontal’. Before 1900 there were a couple of father-son pairs:…
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Speaking of reinvention…
Speaking of reinventing old tech and speedrunning the Dark Ages: Back in 2015 when discussing old bookkeeping symbols, I caught a truly peculiar advertisement for a nightmarish toilet: I’m convinced the artists in the 1880s were on some kind of hallucinogen, perhaps ergot in spoiled bread. Now the nightmare has been reinvented with a more…
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