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Go Meta with Oli Sharpe
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2020
Seeking solutions to the metacrisis and exploring ideas in a way that I hope contributes to a culture of healthy public discussion. The rise of AI tools like ChatGPT is likely to put further strain on our public square and so I will also be exploring the way that AI is going to impact society and our political economies.
Within many different countries there appears to have been a collapse in healthy public discussion just at a time when there are many important and complex issues that our societies are facing. In the videos of this channel I build up an analysis of a key component of why this collapse has happened. The earlier videos will be establishing some key concepts and then later videos will point to a possible way that we can build back the trust and shared set of expectations that could underpin a culture of healthier public discussions.
For some of the videos I have also written an accompanying blog post on the Go Meta Blog site: gometa.info/
Within many different countries there appears to have been a collapse in healthy public discussion just at a time when there are many important and complex issues that our societies are facing. In the videos of this channel I build up an analysis of a key component of why this collapse has happened. The earlier videos will be establishing some key concepts and then later videos will point to a possible way that we can build back the trust and shared set of expectations that could underpin a culture of healthier public discussions.
For some of the videos I have also written an accompanying blog post on the Go Meta Blog site: gometa.info/
Are Trump's tax cuts using MMT style logic? - Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and The Laffer Curve
Few people would think that Donald Trump is using any ideas that agree with Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), but actually the ideas of the Laffer Curve that underpin the economics of his proposed tax cuts have an overlap in their logic with the ideas of MMT.
▬▬ Chapters ▬▬
00:00 - Is Trump using MMT?
00:38 - The Laffer Curve
03:53 - Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
09:10 - Real deficit hawks
▬▬ Audio visual sources / references ▬▬
Song: Ariadne - All I Need (feat. Karl Killing) [NCS Release]
Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds
Free Download/Stream: ncs.io/a-allineed
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▬▬ Chapters ▬▬
00:00 - Is Trump using MMT?
00:38 - The Laffer Curve
03:53 - Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
09:10 - Real deficit hawks
▬▬ Audio visual sources / references ▬▬
Song: Ariadne - All I Need (feat. Karl Killing) [NCS Release]
Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds
Free Download/Stream: ncs.io/a-allineed
Watch: ncs.lnk.to/a-allineedAT/youtube
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Is Elon Musk a Sovereign Individual? - Book review and critique of The Sovereign Individual
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Over 25 years since the publication of The Sovereign Individual, how does it stand up? The book, written by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg, was first published in 1997 and has become a cult classic among some libertarians, anarcho-capitalists and bitcoin enthusiasts who long for the demise of the nation state. And it would be easy to look at someone like Elon Musk and think that they...
Can we afford UBI? - How Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) centres inflation as key risk for UBI
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AGI might replace so many jobs that we have to introduce a UBI, but how could we afford it? In this video I explore how the ideas of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) can shift the discussion away from the question of how can we afford it to instead be thinking about how we could manage inflation risks if we do one day need to introduce a UBI (Universal Basic Income). Indeed, many of the prominent v...
Why neoclassical economics has failed - Book summary of The New Economics by Steve Keen
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Steve Keen has been a long term critic of neoclassical economics and in his most recent book, The New Economics he not only gives an overview of the empirical and theoretical ways in which neoclassical economics has failed to be a good model of our political economy, but he also provides some ideas and tools for building a new economics built on a dynamical systems approach. This video gives a ...
Peter Thiel and the capitalist myth of competitive free markets
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Libertarians try to argue that all government regulations are an unnecessary distortion of free markets and that market competition will keep companies honest. But, this argument is undermined by the evidence of capitalism as it really exists, where real capitalists like Peter Thiel say that "competition is for losers" and instead work hard to create companies that have some kind of monopoly po...
How did Amazon, Spotify and YouTube become so dominant? - Book summary of Chokepoint Capitalism
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In Chokepoint Capitalism, Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow give a compelling account of why so many industries, especially in America, are dominated by just one or a few companies that have a chokepoint hold over their industry. In this 10 minute summary and review of their book I outline their explanation of what is the underlying cause of all of this consolidation and what could be the ways t...
Why full, human level AGI won't happen anytime soon
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Six reasons why human level AGI isn't likely to be achieved anytime soon. Of course AI tools are going to continue to get better and have huge consequences for our political economy, but in this video I argue that we are unlikely to see the sci-fi style scenario of us developing human level AI systems with the ingenuity and agency that underpin humans' ability to successfully act in the real wo...
Using ChatGPT to make 3D animations using Python in Blender - In what sense does ChatGPT understand?
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I've been using ChatGPT to help me with some 3D models and animations in Blender and thought it might be interesting to show how this works and use this as a context in which to explore the question of whether or not ChatGPT is actually understanding what I am asking it to do. NOTE: The video is not just one take and is edited for narrative clarity and speed. You can download Blender from here:...
The Capitalist Manifesto by Johan Norberg - Book Summary and Critique
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Like Milei's Davos speech, Norberg's book tries to suggest that we should all be more grateful for the benefits we've experienced due to the economic growth from global capitalism. And Norberg depicts the hard work of entrepreneurs under the guidance of market forces as being the driving force for that growth, and so it isn't much of a surprise that Elon Musk enjoyed Norberg's portrayal of the ...
A great title, but not a great book! - Book Summary and Review - Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis
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YouTube, but everyone speaks every language! + Critique of Milei's Davos speech
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With Milei's Davos speech translated by AI into English, we got a glimpse of what the future of TH-cam could look like. AI auto-translation tools like HeyGen could break down the language barriers between the cultures of the world. If TH-cam adopted this technology it would allow TH-cam to become a global platform where anyone can engage in any of the conversations on TH-cam as if everyone in t...
Book Summary and Review - The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf
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Liberal democracy and market capitalism are the symbiotic twins that have formed the engine of success for the liberal societies of the Western world for so long. In his latest book Martin Wolf (Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times), argues that they are both in crisis and need to be saved together if we are going to face the metacrisis the world is going through: ecological colla...
Which jobs will AI replace? - Extending an AGI scenarios analysis from the IMF
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Using scenarios to predict the near term future of AI. Full blown AGI might take longer than some expect, but that doesn't mean that we wont see radical changes to our political economy soon. This video explores the ideas in an IMF article by Anton Korinek and then expands upon these to develop a grid of plausible scenarios. The goal is to make it easier to keep a clear eye on what is likely to...
Unpacking "The Deficit Myth" by Stephanie Kelton | Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
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Will our kids ever catch up with AI? | Education in the age of AI
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Avoiding dangerous super AI by regulating meta level agency | ChatGPT and Tesla FSD examples
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Which jobs will AI automate? | Reports by OpenAI and Goldman Sachs
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Book Summary and Review | Resisting AI by Dan McQuillan
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Book Review and Summary | What We Owe The Future by William MacAskill
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Solidarity with Ukraine! - We need global solidarity and peace!
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Using scenarios | How to discuss plans for an uncertain future
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