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Job Report: Much Ado About Nothing

The usual suspects are freaking out about the bad Friday jobs report, which showed unusually weak hiring (38,000 jobs created vs. estimates of 150k). However, as you can see below, every year for reasons unknown there are a couple unusually low prints, and then it rebounds. In Jun 5, 2013, the number missed badly, yet… Continue reading Job Report: Much Ado About Nothing

Intellectual Solvent, Part 3

I’m sure everyone has seen the RNx map, but lesser known is Scott’s ‘rationality map‘, and as you can see there is even a spot for ‘social justice’, which for its own protection is ‘walled off’ from reactionaries. But why is social justice on the map? Why is ‘regular liberalism’ not on the map but… Continue reading Intellectual Solvent, Part 3

Ascended Economies

Lately there has been some discussion about “ascended economies” – economic systems where humans are removed from the process. Scott has two posts about the matter: If capital investment gets automated, corporate governance gets automated, and labor gets automated, we might end up with the creepy prospect of ascended corporations – robot companies with robot… Continue reading Ascended Economies

Society is Failing Men (or how men are failing at society)

Tyler Cowen’s article What the hell is going on? went massively viral, getting over 500 comments on his website and thousands of shares, not just touching a nerve but severing it altogether, with many people agreeing that, yes, there is is a male ‘crisis’ in America today that the media is ignoring. The overall theme… Continue reading Society is Failing Men (or how men are failing at society)

Inevitability and Pacifism

A couple months ago, Nick explored the possibility of two revolutions: (1) Techno-economic self-propelling change obsolesces ever wider swathes of humanity on a steepening curve. Capital (i.e. techno-commercial synthesis) tendentially autonomizes. For humans, there are ever more intriguing opportunities for synergistic attachment, on new terms, but the trend is — to put it very mildly… Continue reading Inevitability and Pacifism

Correct Predictions

Predicting the future is notoriously hard, and that seems to have so far discouraged potential authors and readers alike. Predicting is not as hard [1] as, say, understanding theoretical physics or algebraic geometry. There is a simple heuristic I use: assume past trends will continue. Stocks will keep going up, wealth inequality will keep widening,… Continue reading Correct Predictions

The Stark Realities of Self-Publishing

A cold dose of reality on the fanciful world of self-publishing: I just self-published my first novel and am extremely disappointed Most people on here seem to be having flaming success in self-publishing field, but unfortunately I haven’t been graced with such luck – it’s been out for nearly two weeks on Amazon and I… Continue reading The Stark Realities of Self-Publishing

Coding as the ‘New Literacy’.

More evidence that it pays to be smart: Global oil and gas job losses: 350,000 and counting The exploration and production (E&P) sector was the second worst sufferer, registering more than 80,000 layoffs, followed by the drilling sector, which has seen more than 52,000 job cuts. U.S.-specific data from the report shows that nearly 100,000… Continue reading Coding as the ‘New Literacy’.