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Commentary / artificial intelligence, information, management cost, transaction cost /

Who is Neil Lawrence? Or AI and Gardening

May 14, 2026

Who is Neil Lawrence? Why do I ask? The Financial Tims published a letter he wrote in which he directs us to the real value in artificial intelligence. It will not be sourced through some centrally orchestrated “grand plan” that investors in various AI businesses can more readily put a value on. Not at all. […]

Commentary / democracy, plutocracy /

Epstein as a moment for Democracy?

March 4, 2026

I have been busy, so I have not been here lately … But: I have nothing to say about the Epstein files. Except: that the Epstein files have a lot to say about America [and the western world generally] Those files are a testimony to the enormous corruption of our elite. It has capitulated […]

Politics / capitalism, democracy, Levitsky, plutocracy, Ziblatt /

Are We There Yet?

January 20, 2026

A quick note on a chaotic Tuesday. American “values” are no longer American values? I have been re-reading the Levitsky and Ziblatt book “Tyranny of the Minority”, which was published in 2023. It reads as if it is both a requiem and a warning. It is a lamentation of the loss of American democracy, or […]

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