Basic Income

One thing we have learned, if we can manage to hold onto it in the massive deluge of pointless information, is that roughly 30% of the post industrial population is prone to batshit craziness. These people don’t understand anything but they have a strong focus on wanting to fuck someone up. We are powerless in the face of mindless vindictiveness. What a sad end. . .

Good question. That seems to be where I’m going. The essential goal of neoliberalism is an open, global market. That is the correct goal. The failure was nearly complete disregard for the great mass of people forced into redundancy with no sign of any benefits. To those without an understanding of actual goals of neoliberalism it appeared to be just…

Good analysis of the difficulty of taking current AI as the ultimate manager. The biggest current problem is 1) the algorithm being used and 2) inaccuracies in the training data sets. The first problem is an issue of secrecy allowed to protect the algorithm as property. That also often now applies to the data sets also. The second is problem may be…

Yes, we have this backwards

We have a long history of backing into the future. Humans tend to lead with their asses. Another way to look…

There is much that is useful here and rational discussion is needed. My own policy is always to respond to someone who makes a serious statement based on an effort to understand what is happening. This leads to discussion. At this point I think we all understand why some people made a legitimate choice to throw the Trump bomb. I, frankly, don’t think…

How to make the best of political collapse . . .

We do not have a reset button on the human political system. As a result we have to wait for enough people infected with particularly evil sets of distortions on human society to die before we can move on. The range of evil distortions never go…

That’s certainly one of many points of contention. I think it might be something that would appeal to those who hate human administrators. The dislike for bureaucrats is based on the problem that causes me to look at the alternative. People are emotional animals committed, often, to personal power games if not blatant aggrandizement. Administrative…

Yes, bigotry, that is strongly racist for American society, is the chronic illness that is allowing opportunistic infections to grow. I personally don’t think the 18th century body politic will survive this. The markets are deformed and continue to grow but bizarrely disconnected from the collapsing political structure. But that is actually common…