by Henry Oliner | May 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
I have spent some time contemplating the possible effects of AI and machine learning. We could be facing a future where not only truck drivers and cab drivers are replaced by autonomous vehicles but technical thinking jobs can be replaced by machines capable of...
by Henry Oliner | May 31, 2017 | Media, Politics
from The New Yorker, EVERYBODY’S AN EXPERT by Louis Menand It is the somewhat gratifying lesson of Philip Tetlock’s new book, “Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?” (Princeton; $35), that people who make prediction their business—people who...
by Henry Oliner | May 30, 2017 | Economics, Politics, Progressivism
life is just too complicated to reduce to binary choices from Spanish Bombs by Kevin Williamson at National Review William F. Buckley Jr. scoffed at American progressivism as the ideology of “free false teeth,” i.e., the belief that wherever there is want, it is the...
by Henry Oliner | May 29, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
by Henry Oliner The Libertarian believes that fundamentally man is driven by economic self-interest. Ironically, socialists are driven by the same belief in the fundamental motivation of man. Progressives and Libertarians are driven to quite different responses to...
