Gateway and Hemi-Sync
Now that we have briefly profiled the basic mechanics of the principal techniques for altering or expanding consciousness which share…
Why Bayes rule is nicer with odds
About Likelihood Ratios, also sometimes called Bayes Factors*. Help fund future projects: https://www.patreon.com/3blue1brown An equally valuable form of support is…
The basic plan for the Federal Reserve System
The basic plan for the Federal Reserve System was drafted at a secret meeting held in November of 1910 at…
Fiat Money and the Post-Covid Economy
Investors have stopped considering the value ‘utility’ and are moving to the value ‘store’. They buy apartments -like in China-…
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -TS Eliot (The Rock)
This wonderful quote from TS Eliot echoes the DIKW model of Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom.The model is pure academicism and therefore useless from the practical point of view, but...
A Bright Future
They say you don’t hear the shot that kills you. Because the bullet travels faster than the sound of the…
Platforms are not About Technology
Are you an entrepreneur? If you don’t have your own platform on the Internet, you tend to become a commodity….
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SQL vs Blockchain Databases
The problem of structuring data for unknown future uses was solved in the 70s and it’s called relational algebra. It…
Reporting, Bureaucracy and Misdiagnosis
In an interconnected world, the traditional way of analyzing reality based on cause-effect relationships is obsolete. The economy depends on…
From “Product Marketing” to “You Marketing”
Most marketing boards insist on ‘problem-solving’ as the main approach to gain customers. But solving immediate needs is only an…
Are Programmers going to be Replaced?
Programming is like dancing: everyone can do it, but very few do it so well that they get money in…
This duality can be pursued further and is related to a duality between past and future and the notions of control and knowledge. Thus we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it...
The Knowledge vs Control Dichotomy According to Shannon
Shannon's Information Theory is one of those few books with mathematical, technological and philosophical implications. A true genius that has been little studied.
The Hacking Philosophy
The hacking idea is intrinsic to any complex system. You discover the mechanics that make it to work, and then…
AI Hype
Experts and media claim that we are about to create Artificial Intelligence (AI) that will allow machines to start thinking…
No Thinking Machines
Current AI models and research assume that you can recreate consciousness using equations and logical procedures. But they are basically…
“There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing…
Blockchain tech, is it time?
The dot com vision was e-commerce, but the killers came in the form of social and search… In crypto, its…
CBDCs are for the Banks, not for the People
The world has too much debt, which cannot be repaid (actually by design). But growth is too slow to allow…
Secrets and Leaks
The more unfair and secret and organization is, the more paranoid becomes and suffers more leaks. This makes its internal…
There can be only one
2 alternative and mutually exclusive scenarios for the future financial system: – CBDC (fiat, central banks) -> current elites –…