“In the face of what may be the beginning of an existential crisis for this administration, thus far no elected or appointed official has willingly jumped ship from the Trump agenda. To quote John Heileman recently on Nicole Wallace’s MSNBC show, they are “Craven, weak-willed enablers.”
Read More What Good Is A Minion’s Resistance If He Still Supports His Master’s Agenda? (The DexFiles 9/7/2018)We know right now that the pace of technological change itself is increasing. From this it very likely follows that at some point automation and robots have to start replacing humans in most “algorithmic jobs,” those tasks (however complex) that proceed from one step to another, then start again after completion. The future isn’t just cashiers losing their jobs to software. It’s financial analysts, too.
Read More The Thing About Robots (The DeX Files 6/16/2018)Firms investing more in capital than labor is evidence of low demand. Low demand saps productivity, which limits investment in new equipment and workers.
Read More The DeX Files 05/29/2018: News & Notes On The Great Buyback BoomIf we’re safer because police are better than they used to be at policing, why do we need more police, more laws, more surveillance, more secrecy, and more technology meant to control us?
Read More The DeX Files 05/24/2018: News & Notes On Amazonian SurveillanceWhile I feel sorta sorry for mid and low-level staffers torn between leaving and staying (perhaps compromising their careers with either choice), I also think they must’ve had some idea of what they were getting into.
Read More The DexFiles: Notes And Quotes On Trump’s White House DysfunctionThough arguments by analogy are inductive reasoning, in cases such as this, they are more about non-rational means of persuasion, such as rhetoric, than the more deductive aspects of critical thinking.
Read More Reason’s Trolls (In The Land Of False Analogies)Great Britain chose to leave the European Union. Greece chose to remain. Sovereignty was the issue, in some way, in both cases.
Read More The (De)X Files 07/12/16: Bitcoin = Energy, Encrypted Facebook, Son Of Bin Laden, The Italian Job, Elites In Retreat …The (De)X Files is my (sorta) daily aggregate of a few stories, essays, articles, an academic paper here and there, and (ugh) “think pieces” (only the awesome ones) from as wide a net as I can cast across the web.
Read More The (De)X Files 07/07/16: Mapping The Dark Web, Weaponized A.I., & Digital Bank Heists
