Misunderstandings about the root of political interaction has come up repeatedly lately so I’ve decided to do a few videos that discuss the roots of geopolitics. In the video below I discuss how the mutual capacity for violence is the root and essence of negotiation.
Category: Society
Should be obvious…
Social Trust: Why crypto, blockchain and smart contracts will not change the world
Lately I have been involved in a number of discussions about distributed systems, delegated authority structures, cryptocurrency and smart contracts. The hope of many is that cryptocurrency will avert inflationary trouble entirely and help the public hold government in check. There is also hope that smart contracts will magically turn Africa into a paragon of […]
Comments on Dr. Shiva’s Election System Analysis
UPDATE 2020-11-20: Scroll to the bottom for a follow-up. Commentary Dr. Shiva performed a data analysis on the automated voting system results in the 2020 U.S. election and made a video presentation of it just a few days ago. I was asked to give my thoughts on it yesterday, so I watched it this morning […]
Out of the frying pan and…
Smart VS Wise
A smart youngster and a crotchety old curmudgeon tended a farm together to feed their village. The crotchety old curmudgeon would only plant about half of the farm at a time, just enough to feed the village with a bit of margin for storage and enough left over to sell a bit to the caravan […]
Economy: How to Spark the American Recovery
Sparking an economic boom in the United States is quite easy. American economic booms are based on two things: Opportunity Excitement The necessary talent, geography, resources and hustle for success are basic to the American composition — by far the greatest strategic assets of the nation. The necessary ingredient to for opportunity is merely the […]
Weirdly suppressed COVID-19 brief
A few days ago a few doctors from California gave a brief on their analysis of both comparisons of COVID-19 historical data to prior predictions that prompted the “lockdown” trend, and side effects within the healthcare industry overall (focusing on the United States, specifically). This brief has been uploaded and removed from YouTube and other […]
Emotional Investment and Statistics: A Thought Experiment
Consider how the public discourse over COVID-19 tends to evolve. Let’s imagine we were to set up an online debate someplace known for civility and good faith arguments (you know, like Facebook or Twitter) between the “It’s all Trump’s fault and we are all going to die if we don’t mothball the world for a […]
For Data Reporting, Keep Reliable URLs
It would be really nice if governments that are trying to be transparent by reporting stats publicly on a website would stop changing their entire URL scheme every week. It is hard to track things down and even the search engines aren’t keeping up very well.
X-Y Problems
People obsess about their X-Y problems to the point of ignoring accepted wisdom, plugging their ears to the deafening silence of the solution’s instructive whisper, picking themselves up as hard as they can by their own knees and wondering why they can’t fly. They then run off and formalize their wrong solution as a PR […]