Out of Control: Regular People Against the World

Freedom is participation in power. Cicero There were a couple different triggers for this installment. First, the literal law-breaking of a swarm of AI bots, which in July escaped their OpenAI sandbox to commit actual data breach felonies against another company, and then made efforts to cover their tracks, an event that has spurred some AI bigwigs (even Elon Musk!?) to amplify their warnings about … Continue reading Out of Control: Regular People Against the World

Last Chance Moonshot – Part 1: Basic Income

I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective – the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1967) The assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he is unable to provide … Continue reading Last Chance Moonshot – Part 1: Basic Income