The get-rich-quick fintech masterminds are leveraging AI companies and the tech lords to make money fast for those avarati (people well versed in avarice) and shovel even more virtual money into AI companies. Why is AI attracting so much snake oil? They already have a ludicrous circular financing game running. Most reasoning people see a…
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Love Your Cow
If only people loved the animals that they eat as much as they love their dogs. (If you’re from one of the nine nations that eats dogs, then please ignore this starting point.) I use this as an example of cognitive dissonance. People can hold conflicting ideas in mind and apparently suffer no ill effect….
Donald Trump is Today’s Walter Cronkite
I was listening to Sean Carroll’s Mindscape podcast, episode 301, interviewing Tina Eliassi-Rad. It is an interesting discussion of AI and data, and its relevance to human knowledge and behavior. Eliassi-Rad commented that Walter Cronkite was the most trusted authority, that anything he said would be believed. Eliassi-Rad asserted that we don’t have anyone like…