Author: Thomas Schleusener
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Bureaucracy Native: AI and Humans
Disclaimer. None of this is new. These ideas were taken, some verbatim from, Yuval Noah Harari’s interview here. Watch that video. It’s better than my article. Humans are successful because of our ability to share stories through language. Every complex system we’ve ever built has been dependent on language. However, we’re limited in our wetware.…
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A Thought Exercise in AI Overlords
I’m not sure you could call the following “analysis” per se, but it’s an idea that’s been rolling around in my head for a while. Some background: Monetary policy is often times described with the following axiom: Expansionary monetary policy is like pushing on a string, while restrictive policy is like pulling on a string.…
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Markets Potpourri
A smattering of thoughts: layoffs, AI bubble, Trump policy, crypto, Fed repo actions, fraud. Structural changes to US economy -> labor for infrastructure Verizon is the latest in a swath of tech companies laying off corporate staff, announcing it’s cutting up to 20% of it’s workforce. In recent weeks, Target Corp. announced plans to eliminate 1,800 roles,…
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Guiding Principles: An Exercise
I’ve been reading quite a bit about nature, physics, geology, philosophy and anthropological history over the past several years. Authors include Karl Popper, Hannah Arendt, Richard Feynman, Sir John Glubb, Max Tegmark, William Cronon, Will Stefen, Johan Rockström, Wade Davis, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Joseph Campbell. The reason for my inquiry is to form…
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Room to run: AI and Markets
The advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are expected to significantly impact workforce and education, despite cultural adaptation lagging behind. Major companies are heavily investing in AI models, presenting immense opportunities for growth. Additionally, the financial landscape is shifting due to high interest rates, influencing equity market dynamics and pushing for more private credit.
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Quick Years: Semiconductors
Mundo and Misha worked together in the early years to push out new innovations in technology. They would leak these discoveries in open source forums providing equal access to information, given a prerequisite level of sophistication. The first such breakthrough occurred within semiconductor manufacturing, where the simulated research parameters indicated a 40% decrease in training…
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Disaster Capitalism
The incentives of capitalism are increasingly tied to disasters. We’ve built a system to respond to disaster which benefits the organizers of relief efforts rather than aiding those who are victims of the actual disaster. Advocates of a free market system argue that hard work should be rewarded. The exchange of goods at fair market…
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Ask Why
My toddler is now two years old. “Why?” has become a way of life around here. The act of asking why causes one to think about the consequences of being curious. The butterfly effects may not be ecological in scale in most cases, but the trail of where one asks why leads individuals down the…
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stream of consciousness
We’re such creatures of habit that we underprocess the insane reality that goes on around us. Things just happen to us. And we just go with it. We get one shot at experiencing reality and we spend it trying to get money so we can be fed, feel safe and entertained, get more stuff to…
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