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Feb 18, 2019

NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s post wraps up the prior discussion of why as part of increasing informational freedom we should embrace a post privacy world. —- So we Read more

Feb 13, 2019

After an excursion for the last few Uncertainty Wednesdays into the topic of intelligence, I want to return to how to think about risk. In a post about a decade ago I wrote that it is possible for a startup ...

Feb 11, 2019

NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s post continues on the idea from last week that privacy is not compatible with technological progress (if you would rather watch a talk, you ...

Feb 8, 2019

The question of “How Much is Enough?” isn’t just the title of an excellent book by Edward and Robert Skidelsky, but has come to be at the forefront of political debate. We are finally discussing such topics as a wealth ...

Feb 6, 2019

Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday will be the last post for a while about matters related to intelligence following my posts on the problems of sample correlation under fat tails and on dynamic versus static models. Now might be a good time ...

Feb 4, 2019

NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s section introduces the idea that privacy is a strategy for freedom that has real downsides if we want to enter the Knowledge Age. In ...

Jan 30, 2019

In Uncertainty Wednesday I have talked a lot about the danger of doing statistics without a model. Another big danger is ignoring dynamic processes and conducting static analyses instead. That is you may have an explanation, such as “a person’s ...

Jan 28, 2019

I was overly optimistic when I thought I could resume excerpts from World After Capital today. Turns out the next section is on privacy and it needs major editing. So while I am working on that, here is the talk ...

Jan 25, 2019

Senator Elizabeth Warren yesterday proposed a wealth tax. It is a way of dealing with the rising inequality issue that I also discuss in World After Capital. I propose a longer term way of getting to a similar place via ...