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The entire US economy is downstream of the AI buildout dam, and that dam is almost certain to fail

– by New Deal democrat I’ve been ambivalent about whether the mania for AI is a Boom or a Bubble. That’s because whether its use is transformative or, like Steve Jobs’ claims that the Segway would revolutionize transportation, not so much.  But what has become increasingly clear is that virtually the entire economy has been […]

The Missing AI Conversation

J.P. McJefferson Thoughts J.P. McJefferson Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the most discussed technologies of our time. Governments around the world are debating regulations. Legislatures are holding hearings. Experts are proposing safeguards. Companies are publishing ethical principles. Yet amid all this activity, one critical issue receives surprisingly little public attention: AI is a […]

“go bankrupt and an extra 2 million people who should not be there will suffer”

Recently, I read a bit about climate change. Apparently, it is felt we did what we could do to minimize what we do today and to minimize Climate Change from our own actions. It was more likely than not, not enough, In AZ and even though it is illegal, Many vehicles have altered exhaust systems. […]

The Tariff Reckoning Comes Due

I thought this would be interesting now as compared to a month ago when David Zetland posted on AI. David’s experiment with AI is a comparison to an earlier commentary by him. Both his and AI’s commentary: “AI’s impacts on learning” can be found at the link. David start’s off by asking a question of […]

Physics and Feng Shui

Just saw this on FB, although the report apparently came out last year: “Physicists confirmed that clocks in two rooms at identical heights separated by only 10 meters horizontally run at measurably different speeds — not because of gravity differences but because local mass distribution differences create subtly different spacetime curvatures detectable by modern optical […]

An exception to the rule? Maybe Housing ISN’T the Business Cycle

Twenty years ago, Professor Edward Leamer gave an important presentation at the Fed’s Jackson Hole meeting entitled “Housing IS the Business Cycle.” The current environment is putting that hypothesis to a very severe test. Because by all accounts housing has deteriorated  sufficiently that a recession should already have begun months ago. In fact, the current […]