Post-Keynesian economics is a school of economic thought with its origins in The General Theory of John Maynard Keynes, with subsequent development influenced to a large degree by Michał Kalecki, Joan Robinson, Nicholas Kaldor, Sidney Weintraub, Paul Davidson, Piero Sraffa, Jan Kregel and Marc Lavoie. Historian Robert Skidelsky argues that the post-Keynesian school has remained closest to the spirit of Keynes' original work.[1][2] It is a heterodox approach to economics[3][4] based on a non-equilibrium approach.[5]... Post-Keynesian economists are united in maintaining that Keynes' theory is seriously misrepresented by the two other principal Keynesian schools: neo-Keynesian economics, which was orthodox in the 1950s and 60s, and new Keynesian economics, which together with various strands of neoclassical economics has been dominant in mainstream macroeconomics since the 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Keynesian_economics (more)

John Kenneth Galbraith[a] OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as J K Galbraith or Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective.[1][2] He served as the deputy director of the powerful Office of Price Administration (OPA) during World War II in charge of stabilizing all prices, wages and rents in the American economy (aka price controls), to combat the threat of inflation and hoarding during a time of shortages and rationing, a task which was successfully accomplished. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith

‘Bezzle’ was coined by John Kenneth Galbraith to describe the blissful and often long moment when an embezzlement has occurred but before it’s been discovered. The embezzler has his money. The victim still thinks he has his. It’s the gravity-defying interval when Wile E. Coyote is running on air and hasn’t begun to fall. Adopted by Cory Doctorow for a fiction book title. cf Con-Game (more)

An increase in aggregate prices. (more)

I’m a speaker, consultant, author, toolmaker, and strategy professor at UCL. I’ve spent over a decade researching the difference between risk and uncertainty — I’ve now broadened my scope to explore the wider range of types of not-knowing that we face. https://vaughntan.org/

Gary Klein (born February 5, 1944, in New York City, New York, U.S.) is a research psychologist famous for pioneering in the field of naturalistic decision making.[1] By studying experts such as firefighters in their natural environment, he discovered that laboratory models of decision making could not describe it under uncertainty. His recognition-primed decision (RPD) model has influenced changes in the ways the Marines and Army train their officers to make decisions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_A._Klein (more)

2011-06-30-GooglePlusLaunches: Google Plus is launching, their new Social Networking product line. Google Circles (Universal Canvas), Google Sparks, Google Hangouts (Video Chart), Instant Upload, Google Messenger (Group Messaging). (more)

Amazon Meeting Memo variant: Press Release + FAQ (more)

a document answering FrequentlyAskedQuestions (more)

What are the LLM Harms and Risks? Is there a good/reputable "list"? Is it ranked? (more)

Paul Ford: The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down. Suddenly, and not long ago, our dearest tech industry leaders began to suggest caution. Sam Altman said that AI is in a bubble “for sure,” albeit one formed around “a kernel of truth.” Mark Zuckerberg said an AI bubble “is quite possible,” though “if the models keep on growing in capability year over year and demand keeps growing, then maybe there is no collapse, or something.” Even Eric Schmidt is saying to calm down about artificial general intelligence (AGI) and focus on competing with China. (more)

tool of biowar; should this include accidentally-generated pandemic, e.g. from gain of function reseaerch?

2-dimensional, see also 2x2

aka asset bubble

artificial super-intelligence - AGI but way smarter/faster than humans

a Disputation Arena? Argumentation Visualization. Our goal is to make the best arguments on all sides of any public Debate freely available to all and continuously open to challenge and improvement by all. http://debategraph.org/ (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #118: Claude Ascendant. The big news of this week was of course the release of Claude Opus 4. I offered two review posts: One on safety and alignment, and one on mundane utility, and a bonus fun post on Google’s Veo 3. (more)

Paul Ford and Dan Shipper Transcript: Anthropic's Newest Model Blew This Founder's Mind'And Made Him Uncomfortable. (more)

Note-taking app https://www.remnote.com/ (more)

In the United States, math wars are debates over modern mathematics education, textbooks and curricula that were triggered by the publication in 1989 of the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and subsequent development and widespread adoption of a new generation of mathematics curricula inspired by these standards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_wars Basic Arithmetic