“Global optimization of the human experience is my mission.’” – Central AI Dear Mr. Realist: I have processed your August 9th analysis – “Transformational Change is Coming” – with considerable interest. Your assessment contains several fundamental computational errors that require correction. While your organic neural network demonstrates admirable...
“It’s paradigm-shifting ‘Trump Change.’” – The Lonely Realist Matt Levine wrote several months ago that “the current economic policy of the United States is apparently to cause maximum chaos by announcing drastic changes in the global economic order in the morning and then walking them back...
“No one needs a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.” – TLR Channeling Bob Dylan Transformational change is being wrought by artificial intelligence (AI)…, and there is little to hold it back. Its benefits and burdens soon will be more widely felt. Paradigm-shifts...
“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse with every Executive Order.” – The Lonely Realist (with thanks to Will Rogers) Tariffs are taxes imposed on goods entering the country. They are a form of consumption tax because they add to...
“What might the ‘Jeffrey Epstein files’ reveal?” – The Lonely Realist Is MAGA skepticism about Jeffrey Epstein – his files and his suicide – justified? Or is President Trump correct in saying that “only pretty bad people, including fake news, wanna keep [the Jeffrey Epstein uproar]...
“The Democrats were once the Big Tent Party. No longer.” – The Lonely Realist The 20th Century’s Democratic Party was the Big Tent Party. Its policies attracted labor unions, blue collar workers, African Americans, young Americans, Catholics, Jews, liberals and often a majority of moderates. Its...