R World (Ron Davison muses aloud)
16 February 2023
What Does AI Want Once It Knows Everything?
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I've previously posted about my amazement at the AI that has recently been released into the wild of the internets and how convinced I a...
14 February 2023
The Misery Index and Biden's Legacy
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"I was looking for a job, and then I found a job And heaven knows I'm miserable now" - Morrisey and the Smiths The misery inde...
12 February 2023
Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin's Shared a Birthday and Shared Insight Into the Transformative Nature of Small, Incremental Changes Compounded Over Time
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Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were both born on February 12, 1809. Lincoln is still the only president to hold a patent, which is a del...
11 February 2023
Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking to Economic Abundance
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The idea of zero-sum thinking stifles economic progress by fostering the notion that resources are scarce and that one person's gain mus...
26 January 2023
The Data That Tells the Story About the Economy is Generally Much Better Than the Stories You Hear About the Economy
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The data that tells the story about the economy is generally much better than the stories you hear about the economy. GDP grew in the last ...
25 January 2023
That Time in History When Incessant Tweeting Was Key to Wealth and Power
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Musk points out in a response to a random tweet that it isn't possible for him to fix Twitter overnight given, you know, he has 2 other ...
23 January 2023
The Future of Gaming as Prototype for and Politics of Real Worlds
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The gaming industry is now bigger than the movies and music industries combined. And I think it is just getting started in terms of impact. ...
06 January 2023
The Prospect of Low Unemployment Rates with No Job Growth (or how the next half century will be so very different from the last half century)
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Another great jobs report: 223,000 jobs created and unemployment down to 3.5%. The unemployment rate has hit 3.5% 7 times in the last 40 mon...
31 December 2022
The Time of Two Popes Has Ended - Or Why I think that Next Year Will (Finally) Be a Normal Year
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I'm suddenly far more optimistic about the new year now that we're back down to just one pope. Benedict was the first pope to retire...
30 December 2022
2022 in Review - Setback for Autocracies, a Reversal of Negative Real Interest Rates (and stock market gains), and Technological Advances
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2022 was a year of huge stories. Huge. In technical advances, MRNA therapy got its first positive results with a cancer vaccine, we sustaine...
10 December 2022
Abortion, Beliefs and Freedom of Religion
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"Virginia State Delegate Marie March (R) has pre-filed House Bill 1395, a law that would define life as beginning at fertilization....
26 November 2022
How the Pandemic and Remote Work May Accelerate The Move Away From Pay as Compensation for Time and Towards Sharing Value
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The pandemic may have accelerated a change in how we think about work and pay. When the US was founded, a vast majority of work fell into on...
15 November 2022
Trump's Futile 2024 Run for the Presidency
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Trump announced his run for president today. We will soon see whether Republicans have become less gullible and Democrats less timid. If the...
09 November 2022
Increased Life Expectancy Has Slowed Political Change
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Increased life expectancy and lower birthrates have slowed political change. Ronald Inglehart (who died just last year) compiled an enormous...
04 November 2022
It's Donald's (Delusional) Party Now
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As far as I know, not a single one of my Republican friends has denounced Donald. That puzzles me. Like a toddler on his third line of coke,...
29 October 2022
The Attack on Pelosi and the Stark Contrast Between Where Republicans and Democrats Turn for Leadership (Comparing Kentucky and San Francisco)
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An intruder broke into Nancy Pelosi's home yesterday to attack her. Her husband was violently assaulted and has had surgery to repair a ...
06 October 2022
The Most Defining Thing About a Community: Zero or Variable Sum Worldviews
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The biggest difference in worldviews seems to be the difference between zero-sum and variable-sum. If your worldview is zero-sum, you believ...
04 October 2022
2 Major Problems With Musk Owning Twitter
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Elon Musk is moving ahead on his purchase of Twitter. I have 2 problems with that. 1. This means he'll be playing CEO for 5 companies. H...
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16 September 2022
Trump is the Only Post WWII President to Hold Steady the Portion of American Workers in Manufacturing - Even Though (As With Nearly Every Other GOP President) the Number in Mfg. Dropped
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Trump is unique among presidents since FDR. Under FDR, the portion of workers in manufacturing rose dramatically: from 30.3% to 37.0%. Since...
16 August 2022
Four Books That Shaped My Worldview
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Four books that shaped my worldview. Robert Wright's Nonzero We can play zero-sum games in which every win comes from someone else's...
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