While radical, daily policy changes make the whole world precarious, I wonder how to keep healthy and survive—how to sleep well every night, have a good bowel movement every day and keep peace between my ears.
I thought "Dollars and Destruction" was sobering, too. Have you seen Jeff Gibbs/Michael Moore's "Planet of the Humans?" Or Julia Barnes' "Bright Green Lies?" They are both worthwhile.
Ha! That's an idea: If Trump and Musk (and manufacturers and consumers) knew the Jevons Paradox, would they quit providing and purchasing "efficient" services and products? The Jevons Paradox clarifies that efficiency INCREASES use of energy, extractions, water, etc.--since any time you make a quantity of new products, you need raw materials to do so. Likewise, when you disrupt longstanding veterans, parkland, military, taxation, Food & Drug and environmental regulatory services, you increase expensive, disruptive chaos...
I thought "Dollars and Destruction" was sobering, too. Have you seen Jeff Gibbs/Michael Moore's "Planet of the Humans?" Or Julia Barnes' "Bright Green Lies?" They are both worthwhile.
Ha! That's an idea: If Trump and Musk (and manufacturers and consumers) knew the Jevons Paradox, would they quit providing and purchasing "efficient" services and products? The Jevons Paradox clarifies that efficiency INCREASES use of energy, extractions, water, etc.--since any time you make a quantity of new products, you need raw materials to do so. Likewise, when you disrupt longstanding veterans, parkland, military, taxation, Food & Drug and environmental regulatory services, you increase expensive, disruptive chaos...
Thanks for the article and link to "Dollars and Destructions", quite the sobering docu.!
Thanks for linking to Trump's order on AI - something we should all be aware of - AI will be so ruthlessly efficient, it will be ineffective.