The truth at any cost lowers all other costs
Can the planet really afford the exorbitant power demands of machine learning? OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI research lab, has been trying to track the amount of computing power required for machine learning ever since the field could be said to have started in 1959. What it’s found is that the history divides into two …
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This is vastly worse than the Great Depression contrived by the banks with the complicity of the US President. This is about genocide of humanity for profit. Transgender Industry Only the First Phase of & Prelude to Transhumanism Industry The transgenderism industry – the drugs, the clinics, the specialized MDs, hospitals, surgeries – focused on …
Falsifying the market — manipulating the market — and suppressing true cost economics — is what is killing the Earth. Tip of the hat to MISES. Non-Renewable Resources Never Really Run Out
As Theresa May loses battle of Britain, West Coast oligarchs sue for peace ROBERT STEELE: Benjamin Fulford’s weekly report, a $11/month subscription, is absolutely recommended to one and all. This week’s report sets the stage for multiple announcements by the President between now and the 4th of July, when he will start campaigning in earnest.
The US Army Asked Twitter How Service Has Impacted People. The Answers Were Gut-Wrenching. After posting a video of a young recruit talking to the camera about how service allows him to better himself “as a man and a warrior”, the US Army tweeted, “How has serving impacted you?” As of this writing, the post …
ORACLE delves deeper into blockchain with four new applications This bit caught my eye: The four applications involve supply chain-transaction data including a track and trace capability to follow a product through its delivery from inception to market, proof of provenance for valuables like drugs, intelligent temperature tracking (what they are calling Intelligent Cold Chain) …
Missing wages, grueling shifts, and bottles of urine: The disturbing accounts of Amazon delivery drivers may reveal the true human cost of ‘free’ shipping Allegations of broken promises, intimidation, and retaliation Phi Beta Iota: This is a superb article that makes clear the “true cost economics” of Amazon — millions cheated one way or another.
‘We Are Climbing Rapidly Out of Humankind’s Safe Zone’: New Report Warns Dire Climate Warnings Not Dire Enough In the new report—titled What Lies Beneath: The Understatement of Existential Climate Risk (pdf)—authors David Splatt and Ian Dunlop, researchers with the National Centre for Climate Restoration (Breakthrough), an independent think tank based in Australia, argue that …
Interview Yuval Noah Harari: ‘The idea of free information is extremely dangerous’ Andrew Anthony As his new book is published, the bestselling author talks fake news, meditation and appearing with Natalie Portman Read an extract from 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Read full interview.
Transition Economics – The Science of Sustainability Transition Economics is the science of profiting from automation while setting social policy that corrects the naturally occurring financial cycles in capitalistic economies. Ensuring that people have incomes and that those incomes have renewed spending powers in a tax-neutral climate is critical now, and this is the goal …
None of the world’s top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use Here’s how those costs break down: The majority of unpriced natural capital costs are from greenhouse gas emissions (38%), followed by water use (25%), land use (24%), air pollution (7%), land and water pollution (5%), and waste …
Augmented Intelligence with Human-Machine Integrity: Future-Oriented Hybrid Governance Integrating Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) UPDATE: PDF (26 Pages): Chapter Steele on Augmented Intelligence as Published Full Text of Author’s Final Draft (Pre-Editing) Below the Fold
Free Isn’t Freedom: How Silicon Valley Tricks Us So what’s in Google’s mysterious contract? What have we unknowingly all agreed to whenever we are using Google services, knowingly or not? What Google Gets: In return, we get to record everything you do 24 hours a day—the questions you ask, the purchases you make, the websites …
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Corruption costs…. $47b? Indonesia counts costs of haze Besides financial setback, its reputation and relations with neighbours are also at risk Phi Beta Iota: This is what happens when both governments and corporations lose sight of true cost economics and holistic analytics.
There is No Such Thing as Cheap Food Taking these costs into account is essential; the economic cost of global environmental degradation from industry is estimated at US$2 to US$5 trillion per year. TCA has the potential to make industrial food production seem unreasonably harmful and expensive and make sustainable food production seem not only …
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