“Ensh*ttification”: A General Theory for the Life Cycle of the Firm?
“It is the people that distinguish one company from another.”
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Devolution and the Decline in Operational Capacity and Elite/Managerial Competence
Has devolution, as in technologies that increase output at the cost of skill, contributed to the decline in operational capability?
Read more...NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law
The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take worker’s tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income.
Read more...The Global Pharmaceutical Industry Isn’t Investing in Products for the Greatest Burden of Human Disease – Are Non-Profits a Solution?
How to increase development of pharmaceuticals to treat tropical diseases, which afflict millions yet are neglected?
Read more...Western Wind Turbine Manufacturers Struggle to Compete with Chinese Pricing
The US, UK and Europe fall behind China in a supposed priority area, wind turbines.
Read more...A Weak Spot in Carbon Sequestration: Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells
Carbon stored underground could leak through old wells. How regulators plan to handle that is under scrutiny.
Read more...Here’s Why You Can’t Afford an Electric Car
The US is using complicated and limited-in-practical-effect programs to increase electric car sales rather than allow in cheap Chinese models
Read more...Matt Taibbi: “Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism”
Matt Taibbii took a good look at Google’s AI censorship of this site and deemed it “an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression.”
Read more...Generative AI Could Leave Users Holding the Bag for Copyright Violations
Liability for the use of AI that in turn is meaningfully based on copyrighted material could throw a spanner in the AI bandwagon.
Read more...“The Censorship Trap”
Rajiv Sethi joins the pushback against censorship, using Google’s bogus attack on one of his posts on this site as a point of departure.
Read more...Google Censorship: AI Run Amok Threatens Demonetization Over a Navigation Page with No Ads, An Article on a Foreign Policy Best-Seller Deemed Anti-Vaxx, and More Flagrant Errors
Google tries to censor this site based on a systematically flawed AI review. How many others will be victims of bad algos?
Read more...Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now
The promise of artificial intelligence is eclipsed by its perils, which include our own annihilation.
Read more...“We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy”
Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan for renewable energy could make a difference between catastrophe and progress.
Read more...New Storyline in Wall Street Journal: “Russia Is Running Out of Missiles” Shifts to “Russia Can’t Keep Up Production Forever”
A careful reading of a sighting in what may be a new campaign to shore up Western hopes in the light of Russia’s military outproduction.
Read more...Apple’s Exclusionary App Store Scheme: Will the EU Tolerate Gaming of the Digital Markets Act?
Will the EU see through and act against Apple’s self-serving, Digital-Markets-Act-evading new app store scheme?
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