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Category Archives: Science
UFO Sightings & the Anglosphere
This blogger does some interesting number crunching on data from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), such as this chart representation of worldwide UFO sightings per 10 million people: Notice how the reddest areas are where the world’s “white” people live … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, International, National, Sociology
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NYT Supports Job Automation
It’s quite remarkable how the Left (e.g., the NYT) went from being protectionist for the American working class to being the Champions of Globalism. In “No, Robots Aren’t Killing the American Dream”, the faceless NYT Editorial Board writes: Defenders of … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, NYT, Technology
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Cowen on Job Automation
Tyler Cowen, from Marginal Revolution, weighs in on the jobs-automation dilemma (“Industrial Revolution Comparisons Aren’t Comforting”): Consider, for instance, the history of wages during the Industrial Revolution. Estimates vary, but it is common to treat the Industrial Revolution as starting … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Technology
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The Great Displacement: Robot Tax
Bill Gates throws out a theoretical variation of the inevitable when it comes to accelerating job automation: Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and world’s richest man, said in an interview Friday that robots that steal human jobs should pay their … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Technology
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The Rise of the Term ‘Weaponized Information’
In “The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine”, the authors begin: “This is a propaganda machine. It’s targeting people individually to recruit them to an idea. It’s a level of social engineering that I’ve never seen before. They’re capturing … Continue reading
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The Relentless Pace of Automation
In MIT Technology Review, Dave Rotman discusses “The Relentless Pace of Automation”: But many economists argue that automation bears much more blame than globalization for the decline of jobs in the region’s manufacturing sector and the gutting of its middle … Continue reading
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The Great Displacement
As I’ve noted here several other times, job automation is the most underreported story in the national discussion, something that is sure to cause future social upheaval of the highest order. If you pay attention, though, you’ll see various news … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, National, Technology
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The Arc of Automation
In China, a brave new factory eliminates the vast majority of its workers, and productivity is up! One of China’s first unmanned factories in the city of Dongguan recently replaced 590 of its workers with robots and the results were … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, International, Technology
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22%
“Childhood forecasting of a small segment of the population with large economic burden” is a study in Nature illustrating what the Pareto Principle (i.e., the 80/20 rule) reveals about social costs: ABSTRACT: Policymakers are interested in early-years interventions to ameliorate … Continue reading
Mark Blyth on the 2016 US Election Results
From Tucker Carlson’s show tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bh08BLv9Es Here is the Mark Blyth talk from this past Nov that Tucker praised tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5vJrFsGVI Check out the first 10 min. After that, it peters out although there are occasional salient moments. Blyth is, … Continue reading
Posted in Alt-Right, Economics, International
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