“Around the world, tougher economic times make governments less popular. In response, political leaders then spend too much money, including on subsidies.”
― Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism
― Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism
“Pollution, corruption, economic problems—there would be enough reason to fear for developing countries even if the coming tech disruption weren’t expected.”
― Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism
― Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism
“Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.”
― The Essential Rumi
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.”
― The Essential Rumi
“What will new AI technologies make so cheap? Prediction. Therefore, as economics tells us, not only are we going to start using a lot more prediction, but we are going to see it emerge in surprising new places.”
― Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
― Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
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