Tag: natural law = sharia law
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Who needs FDR when you’ve got Powell?
Via DailyMail: Goldman Sachs readies for a third round of lay-offs that will include some partners in the next few weeks after slashing more than 3,000 positions in the last year as investment banking deals drop off. It is CEO David Solomon’s attempts to cut costs as deal-making – the firm’s major revenue source –…
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Neuralink vs Alidade
Elon’s Neuralink is the latest and nastiest step in our long departure from senses and reality. Elon wants to get directly into our brains with both transmit and receive so he can update our software in the same way he updates the Tesla. Maximum Github, maximum Room 101. Last year when I was showing the…
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Not the best argument
Via MindMatters as usual: New AI systems have carved inroads into many industries, not least of all those involving voice and audio. Now the audiobook business is in trouble; since AI has the increasingly good ability to mimic the human voice and generate words, many voice actors and readers have watched the demand for their…
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Headline better than article
An interesting headline: Oral tradition is not corrupted over time. I tried reading the article, but it’s written like a catechism and seems to be splitting fine logical points. The headline itself is worth expanding. We’re accustomed to outsourcing our memory to written words. We don’t have the experience of maintaining a text through speech…
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Reprint on astrology
Rehashing my hypothesis about astrology. = = = = = START REPRINT: Picking up from previous post on James Ferguson. Previously I showed a couple of science entertainments using static fields to drive gadgets. Ferguson’s main focus was orreries or planet simulators. He began with another static-driven toy: From the top: In action: A simple…
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More consequences of QT
Half-baked thought, continuing along the lines of WHERE ARE THE GODDAMN PHILOSOPHERS? Now that the free money of QE/ZIRP has dried up, many pointless projects and pointless IPOs are going away, starting with the huge totally pointless project of bitcoin. Corporations are suddenly realizing that they need customers. Free-money woke idiocy doesn’t work any more,…
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And that brings us
Gary Smith is treading outside of economics territory and measuring Life, but he hasn’t quite crossed the boundary yet. He’s showing how log vs linear graphing can aid or obscure your understanding of a topic. It’s a hugely important point, and deeply familiar in acoustics and speech and neurology. His first attempt made a linear…
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Spring rebirth
Polistra and friends enjoy a refreshing spring shower now that warm weather has finally arrived. Thank the Lord and thanks to Jerome Powell for continuing to hold the line despite universal screeching from the vultures. Real business and thrift have a chance of rebirth now. = = = = = Graphics footnote after posting: The…
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Older and clearer thoughts
The two “bank” crashes this week resulted from a bizarre reversal of basic definitions. In 2017 I had some broader and clearer thoughts on the subject. = = = = = START REHASH: While feebly attempting to “think” about REAL VALUE vs FAKE VALUE in banking, I noticed a basic fact. So far I can’t…
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Beautiful! More, please!
Another fuckhead bank goes DOWN IN FLAMES! Silicon Valley Bank branch in Manhattan today called the cops on tech investors trying to pull their cash out as a run on the bank forced regulators to seize its assets. Police were called after ‘about a dozen’ financiers, including former Lyft executive Dor Levi, showed up outside…
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One vs many is a myth
Organizing some thoughts, might not go anywhere. 1. Of course AI is a tool. The problem is that the full-scale tool is EXCLUSIVELY in the hands of demons, who are using it for demonic purposes. Anyone can set up their own inference engine on their own computer, but ordinary people don’t have unfettered access to…
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Two definitions
The story of Silvergate Bank is a tale of two definitions. Silvergate started out as one of the very few modern banks… maybe the ONLY modern bank… that followed the CORRECT definition of a savings bank. They failed because they tried to follow the CORRECT definition of a bond in a world where everyone else…
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Immediately continuing…
Branching from previous item on Sammy’s stupidity vs Mafia’s wisdom. I wrote that the Mafia used non-electric communication systems perfected 800 years before the telegraph. They also had FINANCIAL systems of equal age and perfection. Both systems relied on what we’d now fakely call “quantum entanglement”, or resonance of thought and purpose. When everyone in…
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Extinct principle
An ad from American Motorist in 1912. Seems like an odd choice of subjects. Muslims were not common or newsworthy or familiar at that time. Maybe they were trying to say discreetly that Protestants shouldn’t be trying to convert Catholics by rough methods? Those conversions were common and controversial. After 2001, this ad would cause…
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Truly effective altruism
The brand name of EA is just a fake philosophical way of “justifying” theft and murder. Gangsters steal money from peasants and give it to their buddies, and gangsters KILL massive numbers of peasants to appease the Climate Gods. The FTX bankruptcy trustee is GENUINELY and EFFECTIVELY altruistic. Justice by recompense is real altruism. Government…
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