Inside Job is a 2010 American documentary film, directed by Charles Ferguson, about the 2008 financial crisis. Ferguson, who began researching in 2008,[3] said the film is about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption",[4] amongst them conflicts of interest...
今年年初，美國南加州（又）發生震驚世界的大火。比較有趣的是，右派相信是因為政策不利、水庫沒水，所以導致大火延燒……
Conventional “symbolic” AI runs computations according to algorithms and traditional computer programs that are stated abstractly ... But generative AI works in a different way, by approximating the things that humans have said in various situations.A symbolic AI system could simply look up where Shearer was born, such as by consulting his Wikipedia page. By contrast, generative AI systems ingest the entire internet, identify patterns of human language, and try to reconstruct what sounds plausible in a given contextHallucinations tend to be the kind of thing a person might say in a given context if she didn’t exactly know what was going on ... it is generating the kind of reasonable-sounding, well-formed, grammatical sentence that you might hear from a human. But it is false
Generative AI is fundamentally blind to truth
Because LLMs are so good at mimicking patterns of human language, people tend to anthropomorphize them – sometimes to the point of falling in love or “marrying” them. It is all too common to attribute to LLMs far more intelligence than they could possibly have
作为世界上最权威的科技商业媒体之一，MIT Technology Review于1899年在美国麻省理工学院创刊，至今已经走过121年，为全世界超过300万专业人士及商业领袖提供前瞻性的资讯和独到深入的行业趋势分析。
In 2025, The American Sunlight Project, a non-profit, published a study[161] showing evidence that the so-called Pravda network, a pro-Russia propaganda aggregator, was strategically placing web content through mass publication and duplication with the intention of biasing LLM outputs. The American Sunlight Project coined this technique "LLM grooming", and pointed to it as a new tool of weaponizing AI to spread disinformation and harmful content
A large language model (LLM) is a language model trained with self-supervised machine learning on a vast amount of text, designed for natural language processing tasks, especially language generation. The largest and most capable LLMs are generative pretrained transformers (GPTs), which are largely used in generative chatbots such as ChatGPT...
other countries should make market access to foreign multinationals (and their main owners) conditional on their paying a minimum amount of tax ... If billionaires refuse to pay taxes, market access for the firms they own should be denied
You have to give Donald Trump credit for one thing: for all his inconsistency on many issues, he believes deeply in high tariffs. He has been preaching that gospel for at least four decades, convinced that tariffs are the key to America’s future prosperity. Shortly after promising to “tariff and tax foreign countries to enri
target US multinationals and their owners directly. The world needs tariffs not for US exports, but for oligarchs
In 2017, the [Business Roundtable] group threw its support behind the first Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion tax-cut legislation, which overwhelmingly benefited corporations and the wealthy. Last year, it announced that it would spend “eight figures” lobbying to protect and extend the legislation’s business-friendly tax breaks. As for Biden’s 2022 Build Back Better initiative – which proposed modest tax increases on high earners to fund public services like education, health care, and infrastructure – the Business Roundtable voiced clear opposition
Christopher Marquis thinks the US Business Roundtable's April report should serve as a wake-up call to Democratic lawmakers.
While the Business Roundtable’s CEOs like to pay lip service to voluntary corporate-responsibility initiatives, they have strenuously objected to public policies that would require them to follow through
delivering real value to workers and the environment would cost money, which would reduce shareholder dividends and executive pay – the real priorities of the Business Roundtable’s members. In fact, the compensation of CEOs who signed the stakeholder-capitalism “commitment” has continued to reflect their success in delivering shareholder value. When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in 2020, Marriott International almost immediately began furloughing most of its US workers – while paying out more than $160 million in quarterly dividends and seeking a raise for its CEO, a signatory of the 2019 statement
even from a commercial perspective, this approach is fundamentally flawed. A growing body of research shows that failure to account for social and environmental imperatives poses clear, material risks to firm operations and performance ... For example, companies with poor climate-risk management routinely face supply-chain instability, greater exposure to extreme weather events, and higher capital costs. In other words, the Business Roundtable’s opposition to environmentally-focused policies and proposals is not just hypocritical; from their own short-sighted shareholder-capitalist perspective
The new Business Roundtable Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation has received a great deal of support, as well as questions and…
Business Roundtable today announced the release of a new Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation signed by 181 CEOs who commit to lead their companies for the benefit of all stakeholders.
they want even more tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks — which means even more money in their own pockets
Friends,The Business Roundtable is an association of more than 200 CEOs of America’s biggest corporations, their most powerful voice in Washington.Last Wednesday, its chair, Joshua Bolten, told...
justice requires wealthy countries to compensate the poor for the damage that climate change causes them
The world’s wealthiest 10% are responsible for two-thirds of global heating since 1990, driving droughts and heatwaves in the poorest parts of the world, according to a study
Paper in Nature Climate Change journal reveals major role wealthy emitters play in driving climate extremes
Those in rich countries were significantly less willing to contribute 1%
Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not
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adaptation without mitigation is insufficient ... the burden falls hardest on communities least equipped to respond ... the lens of multisolving...integrated solutions can cut emissions, build resilience, and deliver co-benefits for equity and sustainability around the world.
the problem definition, boundary and goal of the system also need to be questioned. If we succeed in balancing trade, other countries won’t be accumulating dollars and plowing them back into treasuries to finance our debt. What will the bond vigilantes do then?
The formula behind the recent tariffs has spawned a lot of analysis, presumably because there’s plenty of foolishness to go around. Stand Up Maths has a good one: I want to offer a slightly different take. What the tariff formula is proposing is really a feedback control system. The goal of the control loop is … Continue reading "Tariff dumbnamics in the penguin island autarky"
The roots of imbalances are structural, and baked in to the capacity of industries to produce and transport particular mixes of goods (pink below). Turning over the capital stocks behind those capacities takes years. Changing the technology and human capital involved might take even longer
Guido Wolf Reichert asks an interesting question at math.stackexchange: The question cites a useful paper by Max Kleemann, Kaveh Dianati and Matteo Pedercini in the ISDC 2022 proceedings. I’m not aware of a citation that’s on point to the question, but I suspect that digging into the economic roots of these alternatives would show that … Continue reading "Elasticities in SD"
