If AI Is Coming for Intelligentsia, the Intelligentsia Should Cheer
The problem for white collar workers and “intelligentsia” is not AI, but that its genius isn’t being felt fast enough.
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Writing by John Tamny and Parkview contributors, from the latest commentary to the collected archive.
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Clear filtersAI Cheating’ Isn’t Destroying Higher Ed, It’s Exposing Its Demerits
As opposed to AI destroying it, its allegedly broad usage more realistically indicates that higher education has destroyed itself.
Technology Will Soon Make It Possible For Kids To Sleep In
Parents will embrace a change that technology will make simple. Kids will finally get to sleep in, and because they’ll be able to sleep in, mornings will be much less of a nightmare. Isn’t “Big Tech”…
Yo U.S. Protectionists, How Goes the ‘Ban’ On Chip Sales In China?
Napoleon “did not realize until it was too late that the only closed political economy is the world economy. Britain could not be starved into submission by blockade unless she were totally cut off…
Technology Is Rapidly Retiring the Notion of Retirement
Retirement is vanishing before our eyes. Probably in the lifetimes of our children it will take on dated, past tense connotations like the telephone booth. One can only hope. People are happier when…
If AI Can’t Exceed Human Abilities, Then There’s No Point To AI
Tractors, cars and computers are ubiquitous today precisely because they thankfully surpassed human ability, and the expectations of many skeptics back then. Let’s hope AI does too.
The Looming, and Intensely Profound Impact of AI on Retirement
The surest sign of a booming economy is falling prices, and the marriage of man with thinking/doing machines is set to bring on the cheapest of “Cheap Revolutions.” Retirees will live grandly, and at…
About the Future of AI, Dismiss the Pessimistic Creators of It
What machines and automated minds can do for us doesn’t replace us as much as it frees us to pursue all manner of new advances.
The Mind-Blowing Stupidity Behind the $280 Billion 'Chips for America Act'
It was a beautiful midsummer late afternoon. I had just checked into the “Inn” in Woodstock, Vermont. I grabbed my fly rod and hurried over to a picturesque covered bridge and waded down into the…