Traders Magazine (August 14)
Despite the fear, “stock predicting AI will never take over the world,” markets are a level two chaos event (L2CE): they respond to predictions. There is “a feedback loop. The program would have to predict share prices based upon variables including the share price it has just predicted. In other words, the forecast given by a stock prediction bot can never be right, if the amount traded because of this prediction is great enough to make it wrong.”
Tags: AI, Bot, Chaos, Fear, Feedback loop, Markets, Share prices, Stock predicting, Variables, Wrong
The Economist (October 7)
If Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy “thought that cracking heads would put a stop to secessionism, he could not have been more wrong. He has only created a stand-off that has energised his enemies and shocked his friends.” Rajoy’s reaction “has thrown Spain into its worst constitutional crisis since an attempted coup in 1981…. Only a negotiation can restore calm and it should start immediately.”
Tags: Calm, Constitutional crisis, Coup, Enemies, Negotiation, Rajoy, Secession, Spain, Stand-off, Wrong
Bloomberg (September 22)
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s “preliminary recommendation is to let commercial fishing resume in the Pacific Remote Islands and in the nearby Rose Atoll Marine National Monument. Yet commercial tuna fishing is precisely what put these ecosystems under pressure. To thrive, the creatures need to be undisturbed, and this protection has to extend far enough to allow them to roam…. The Trump administration is wrong to be contemplating this backward step.”
Tags: Commercial fishing, Ecosystems, Pacific Remote Islands, Recommendation, Rose Atoll Marine National Monument, Trump, Tuna, Undisturbed, Wrong, Zinke
1843 (July Issue)
“Legions of robots now carry out our instructions unreflectively. How do we ensure that these creatures, regardless of whether they’re built from clay or silicon, always work in our best interests? Should we teach them to think for themselves? And if so, how are we to teach them right from wrong?” Though “there are a number of competing ideas in circulation about how best to teach morality to machines” and so far no clear answers, “at the very least, we have a moral obligation to figure out what to teach our machines about the best way in which to live in the world.”
Tags: Machines, Morality, Obligation, Right, Robots, Think, Unreflectively, Wrong
Washington Post (August 1)
None positive, headlines focusing on Trump dominate the Opinions section: “There is something very wrong with Donald Trump;” “Is Donald Trump just plain crazy?” “By dishonoring the ultimate sacrifice, Trump has sunk to a new low;” “Dear Republican leaders: It’s not too late to dump Trump;” “The facts behind Donald Trump’s many falsehoods;” and “Will the GOP repudiate Trump’s cruelty to a fallen soldier’s family?”
Tags: Crazy, Cruelty, Dishonor, Falsehoods, GOP, New low, Opinions, Republican, Trump, Wrong
USA Today (May 2)
“You know something is wrong when major U.S. companies are fleeing to Europe to pay less in taxes.” If Pfizer succeeds with plans to move its tax domicile, its effective tax rate will drop from 27.5% to 20%. “The U.S. corporate rate of 35%, with an average of 4.1% added by states, is the highest in the world.”
