Recent Articles
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Bitcoin Mining: A Catalyst for Monetizing Wind Energy
Bitcoin mining is evolving into a mechanism that can monetize wasted renewable energy, transforming its image from environmental liability to valuable asset. By absorbing excess electricity from wind farms, it enhances the economic viability of renewable energy projects.
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The Surplus Divide: AI’s Uneven Economic Landscape
As AI transforms the economy, the concentration of profits among a few tech giants raises critical questions about who truly benefits from these advancements. While productivity increases, many workers, particularly in the gig economy, face job insecurity and stagnant wages, highlighting the pressing need for equitable redistribution.
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Investment Thesis in AI: Who Funds What and Why?
The current landscape of AI funding reveals critical assumptions underpinning investment theses, highlighting potential risks for sustainability in AI business models. Understanding who funds these developments and why is essential for assessing future economic dynamics in AI.
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AI and Cognitive Bias: The Impact of Algorithmic Decision-Making
This article examines how AI-driven recommendations can reinforce cognitive biases, exploring the implications for human agency and decision-making. Drawing on recent research by Obermayer et al. (2023), it highlights the risks of over-reliance on algorithmic authority and the need for critical reflection in an AI-mediated world.
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How technology reshapes markets, labor, capital allocation, and business models. Analysis of who gains, who loses, and what the mechanisms actually are.
75 postsLegacy Systems
A serialized dystopian fiction series about the slow-motion collapse of a society optimized to death by the systems meant to run it.
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Cognition, behavior, and decision-making. How people relate to technology and each other, grounded in behavioral science rather than pop psychology.
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58 postsSociety
How technology changes institutions, civil behavior, governance, culture, and collective life. What is changing, who is making it change, and what people and institutions can do about it.
69 postsTech & Engineering
The craft and discipline of building systems. Engineering judgment, architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and what experienced practitioners actually contend with.
67 postsThe Singularity
Speculative and philosophical takes on AI futures, post-human scenarios, and civilizational risk.
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