We're the richest country in the history in the world at the richest moment of human history...with huge and troubling wealth disparity, an apparent loss of values beyond or apart from wealth, and an increasing number of weather-related catastrophes ranging from drought to flood to mega wildfires. Shouldn't we kind of try to tend to these issues as we try to imagine our kids' and grandkids' futures? Or, somewhat hopefully, might their futures be about tending to these issues, if the issues don't overtake us first?
A terrific threesome. I really love the variety of perspectives. Just want to say that I wrote my holiday newsletter about competence. About how you'd screen a babysitter or anyone you might want to hire better than American voters screened their choice for president. We voted for this damned incompetence. And, finally, Professor Wolfers is so right---we aren't talking about AI and what to do about AI. I know he thinks the positives will outweigh the negatives----I don't believe it myself. But subscribe to Platypus Economics. You will be smarter---maybe even happier---certainly better informed. Thanks for a great podcast (or whatever this is). Oh, some of the rest of us have answering machines. Not just Jon.
Cheeto Is Becoming the 21st Century Neville Chamberlain
What does Neville Chamberlain and Cheeto have in common? Well, Mike Pence says the Iran deal in the form of an Memorandum of Understanding(MOU) is nothing more than appeasement. Shades of the 1930’s. Neville Chamberlain the English right wing prime minister infamously made an appeasement deal with Hitler in September 1938 ceding the Sudentenland of Czechslovakia to Germany hoping that it would stop the madman dictator from invading other countries. But one year later in September 1939 Hitler invaded Poland and was the beginning of WWII. In fairnees to Chamberlain Britain was not militarily capable of confronting Germany at the time which bought time for Britain to eventually succeed.
With only one week left of oil reserves Cheeto realizes that Iran has won and Cheeto admires and sides with winners even if they are on the other side of a conflict. Bullies always run away once confronted. And now that Ukraine has made serious inroads in the war with Russia, Cheeto may be throwing his dictator buddy under the bus, recently pledging support to Ukraine, then of course, backtracking 24h later.
The uniqueness of Cheeto compared to Chamberlain is that he’s a psychopath who is transactional and always ready to appease whether they’re Iranians or Ukrainians. As Mark Twain wrote, history doesn’t repeat itself but it certainly rhymes. Where does this leave Netanyahu? Out in the cold.
Unmitigated disaster. Iran will use oil revenues to build more and better drones and missiles, then they will impose tolls and rebuild their nuclear bunkers with better hardening.
Will Trump reinstate oil sanctions on his Sith Lord Master Putin or does Russia win bigger than anyone?
A recent study published in Nature found: “Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” Mathematics and science journals are constantly finding that papers using AI refer to false facts and theorems. AI is undoubtedly helpful for directions to inquire, and how to write particular ideas, but the accuracy is not reliable. I fear for people who must rely only on machine diagnoses.
But I agree with Justin that the waste and unnecessary destruction of the last year and a half are infuriating and sickening.
It's these last comments that sum up what Justin was referring to. This was a great show until you reverted to the same old same old bullshit of talking about shit that means nothing in the greater scheme of things. I'm not as diplomatic as Justin as you can tell but I'm giving you some honesty which even your prez isn't able to do. Maybe that's why you elected him? He's just like so many of you. I'll watch your show again when Justin brings some sanity and real humour back to it.
We're the richest country in the history in the world at the richest moment of human history...with huge and troubling wealth disparity, an apparent loss of values beyond or apart from wealth, and an increasing number of weather-related catastrophes ranging from drought to flood to mega wildfires. Shouldn't we kind of try to tend to these issues as we try to imagine our kids' and grandkids' futures? Or, somewhat hopefully, might their futures be about tending to these issues, if the issues don't overtake us first?
A terrific threesome. I really love the variety of perspectives. Just want to say that I wrote my holiday newsletter about competence. About how you'd screen a babysitter or anyone you might want to hire better than American voters screened their choice for president. We voted for this damned incompetence. And, finally, Professor Wolfers is so right---we aren't talking about AI and what to do about AI. I know he thinks the positives will outweigh the negatives----I don't believe it myself. But subscribe to Platypus Economics. You will be smarter---maybe even happier---certainly better informed. Thanks for a great podcast (or whatever this is). Oh, some of the rest of us have answering machines. Not just Jon.
Cheeto Is Becoming the 21st Century Neville Chamberlain
What does Neville Chamberlain and Cheeto have in common? Well, Mike Pence says the Iran deal in the form of an Memorandum of Understanding(MOU) is nothing more than appeasement. Shades of the 1930’s. Neville Chamberlain the English right wing prime minister infamously made an appeasement deal with Hitler in September 1938 ceding the Sudentenland of Czechslovakia to Germany hoping that it would stop the madman dictator from invading other countries. But one year later in September 1939 Hitler invaded Poland and was the beginning of WWII. In fairnees to Chamberlain Britain was not militarily capable of confronting Germany at the time which bought time for Britain to eventually succeed.
With only one week left of oil reserves Cheeto realizes that Iran has won and Cheeto admires and sides with winners even if they are on the other side of a conflict. Bullies always run away once confronted. And now that Ukraine has made serious inroads in the war with Russia, Cheeto may be throwing his dictator buddy under the bus, recently pledging support to Ukraine, then of course, backtracking 24h later.
The uniqueness of Cheeto compared to Chamberlain is that he’s a psychopath who is transactional and always ready to appease whether they’re Iranians or Ukrainians. As Mark Twain wrote, history doesn’t repeat itself but it certainly rhymes. Where does this leave Netanyahu? Out in the cold.
Unmitigated disaster. Iran will use oil revenues to build more and better drones and missiles, then they will impose tolls and rebuild their nuclear bunkers with better hardening.
Will Trump reinstate oil sanctions on his Sith Lord Master Putin or does Russia win bigger than anyone?
A recent study published in Nature found: “Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” Mathematics and science journals are constantly finding that papers using AI refer to false facts and theorems. AI is undoubtedly helpful for directions to inquire, and how to write particular ideas, but the accuracy is not reliable. I fear for people who must rely only on machine diagnoses.
But I agree with Justin that the waste and unnecessary destruction of the last year and a half are infuriating and sickening.
It's these last comments that sum up what Justin was referring to. This was a great show until you reverted to the same old same old bullshit of talking about shit that means nothing in the greater scheme of things. I'm not as diplomatic as Justin as you can tell but I'm giving you some honesty which even your prez isn't able to do. Maybe that's why you elected him? He's just like so many of you. I'll watch your show again when Justin brings some sanity and real humour back to it.