Independent thinking for complex markets and current events
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Fixing all this doesn’t scale. What scales is the spread of uncontrollably harmful consequences. When something scales faster than it can be absorbed or controlled, the resulting extremes break the system. That’s the problem of asymmetric scaling. Let’s take a current example: the malicious use of AI and the runaway expansion …
1/3 #bitcoin and all of crypto is 🐀 poison, has ABSOLUTELY no value, generates no cash flow, and has no use case beyond harmful speculation (b/c it sucks up valuable resources – i.e., capital that could be used to fund useful assets and valuable energy resources)… https://t.co/L2MTGOyPFw — Gordon Johnson (@GordonJohnson19) December 20, 2024 3/3… …
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The Keir Starmer government in the United Kingdom is drafting plans to force social media platforms including X to censor "legal but harmful" speech and so-called "fake news" or "misinformation." This will come under a review of the Online Safety Act with new provisions. It was… pic.twitter.com/yHoh9hqpRc — Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) August 9, 2024 …
Google’s Gemini AI program was caught in another example of egregious bias when it said that calling communism “evil” was “harmful and misleading”. The company’s multimodal large language model program allows users to generate AI images using text command prompts, but people began to notice that the program almost completely erased white people from history …
by Chris Black …but they’re going to keep doing it anyway. I would like to hear an explanation on the mechanics of how a public company can pursue a policy of purposefully losing money and not violate fiduciary duties to shareholders. https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/11/24/nolte-disney-report-warns-investors-social-goals-take-priority-over-profits/ Further, consumers’ perceptions of our position on matters of public interest, including our …
via Skynews: The Online Safety Bill has passed its last parliamentary hurdle in the House of Lords, meaning it will finally become law after years of delay. The flagship piece of legislation will force social media firms to remove illegal content and protect users, especially children, from material which is legal but harmful. The idea …
A new study suggests that the excess carbon dioxide breathed in by mask-wearers can have major health consequences. “While eight times the normal level of carbon dioxide is toxic, research suggests that mask-wearers (specifically those who wear masks for more than 5 minutes at a time) are breathing in 35 to 80 times normal levels. …
