โBe optimistic about the boom, but donโt buy the stock.โ โ Liaquat Ahamed on the AI bubble Yesterday, Alexander Starritt argued that the 2008 financial crash ruined the lives of his generation. But compared with the great crash of 1873, 2008 looks like a tremor. The Pulitzer Prize-winning economic historianโฆ
Episode 2928: Alexander Starritt on How the 2008 Crash Ruined Everything https://keenon.substack.com/p/drayton-and-mackenzie?utm_source=youtube
โTo explain the lives of people living in this moment, to look at the historical forces that are shaping all of us, you have to look at business and technology. In our period, what is it thatโs shaping us? I would suggest itโs the long fallout from the 2008 financialโฆ
โWhen youโre in a world that is careening out of control, where weโve broken through seven of the nine safe dimensions of safe operating space that scientists have discovered, itโs unrealistic in my view to focus on those little things and think that will lead to a real better outcome.โฆ
Episode 2927: Jeremy Lent on Why TINA Is Wrong https://keenon.substack.com/p/ecocivilization-and-its-discontents?utm_source=youtube