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Artificial intelligence

AI – a wedge with a wedge

Those deploying AI with a dose of their human intelligence will benefit from AI more than others.

Jul 14, 2023

Can AI be playing Socrates?

Nations that truly discuss their problems make better decisions and are wealthier than those that do not. The money...

Can AI help Americans overcome the political divide?

AI can dance around human sensitivities and, as a machine, be less intimidating. It can give us a shot...

Politicians have already outsmarted AI

Human deception in American politics is still a few magnitudes better than the best AI can generate. Politicians do...

Human intelligence is the only one that matters

With every major invention, there were fears that it would destroy fragile human society. For some, trains, movies, planes,...

Human and artificial intelligence in capitalism

One cannot pass a law making Americans smarter.

Remark of the day

Is Musk losing it?

August 20, 2024
Life and politics

Elon Musk claims that he is ready to serve as the chief of the Department of Government Efficiency in the Trump administration. He forgot what he did when he had to improve Twitter's performance after purchasing it. He fired about 80% of employees, and Twitter did not collapse. After taking office as president of Argentina in December of 2023, Javier Milei did not create the Department of Government Efficiency either. He did the opposite; he dissolved 11 ministries and fired 15,000 government employees. As of June 2024, 55% of Argentinians are OK with that. One does not improve efficiency by creating a new bureaucracy but by eliminating the existing one. Musk knew that at Twitter but forgot it when veering into politics.

$44 billion for loud lamenting

July 26, 2024
Life and politics, Media

Elon Musk warned us that “America is headed for bankruptcy.” The national debt, which is $34 trillion and gro...

Do we need the judiciary branch of the government?

July 10, 2024
Life and politics

That question comes to mind when reading critics of the recent Supreme Court decision weakening so-called Chevron deference. In t...

Between a circus and a nursing home

June 29, 2024
Life and politics, Media

I heard on BBC that assessment of the recent debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. People are still commenting. For exampl...

Dr. Phil’s sore knees

June 08, 2024
Media

Dr. Phil McGraw is a clinical psychologist who has gained fame thanks to his charming way of asking people seemingly simple questions that are not s...