tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191084196584249823.post3558681251970816003..comments2024-03-21T06:54:52.136-04:00Comments on Wisdom of the West: The Business of the Post-HumanJim H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191084196584249823.post-75081759747947153422020-06-27T23:13:41.379-04:002020-06-27T23:13:41.379-04:00Ruh Roh. Somewhere Forbin is sleeping uneasily.Ruh Roh. Somewhere Forbin is sleeping uneasily.Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191084196584249823.post-13673429175466994042020-06-27T15:52:46.115-04:002020-06-27T15:52:46.115-04:00You get it, Mongo! Thanks for the insight—as ever....You get it, Mongo! Thanks for the insight—as ever. In the novel, character tries to automate his functions at his LLC with some initial success. Then, as Wife Wisdoc likes to say, trouble ensues.Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191084196584249823.post-72174165188989332312020-06-27T14:47:24.824-04:002020-06-27T14:47:24.824-04:00Oh; yeah -- Go Novel!Oh; yeah -- Go Novel!Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191084196584249823.post-35599488548757104042020-06-27T14:46:53.109-04:002020-06-27T14:46:53.109-04:00The generations of business leaders of the past fo...The generations of business leaders of the past forty years -- MBA grads of Harvard, Yale, Stanford, London Schools of Economics and Business -- were taught by Friedmanesque professors. The theories of business those teachers developed, when married to technology, ultimately gave us the Jobs' and Zuckerbergs and Bezos' and Kalanicks and Parks' and Dorseys and thousands of lesser Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191084196584249823.post-61577888079715392742020-06-25T10:42:11.725-04:002020-06-25T10:42:11.725-04:00Thanks for the comment, davidly.
Not sure how gre...Thanks for the comment, davidly.<br /><br />Not sure how greedy Hawking was, but that's a mere nit. You're correct: the current situation of geometrically—perhaps even logorithmically—increasing wealth and income inequality is unsustainable. So, can robots accumulate wealth? And will they manage to bend the R>G equation in their favor? Or will the Bezoses and Sergeis and Ellisons Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191084196584249823.post-10127412041654868062020-06-25T01:41:52.011-04:002020-06-25T01:41:52.011-04:00Well I know now.
My layperson's take away fro...Well I know now.<br /><br />My layperson's take away from what you say here is that Musk and Gates and Hawking are projecting their own greed, which doesn't mean they aren't right. Still, it occurs to me that the nightmare scenario (always in the future, almost ignoring current circumstances, like so many warnings about if someone becomes president, a law is passed/not passed, etc.) davidlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04754707934311038544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191084196584249823.post-7325503821427839562020-06-24T15:23:41.960-04:002020-06-24T15:23:41.960-04:00What you can't possibly know is that this is r...What you can't possibly know is that this is research for the novel I'm currently working on.Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.com