Watching Phillipe Lemonie talk recalls Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr from a few decades earlier. Out of curiosity, just asked ChatGPT to come up with a list of 10 most prominent public intellectuals in the US for the past 50 years. Vidal and Buckley are not even on the list. I challenged ChatGPT to explain the rationale behind the list, especially in the age of the internet and social media. Suggest Steve do an episode on "how a new generation of public intellectuals are generated". For those who don't use ChatGPT, the initial list of 10 are: Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Richard Dawkins, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Judith Butler, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Camille Paglia, Christopher Hitchens, Martha Nussbaum, Steven Pinker. After prompting with the suggestion of Vidal & Buckley, factoring the impact of social media, the revised list of 11 is: Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Richard Dawkins, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Judith Butler, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Camille Paglia, Christopher Hitchens, Steven Pinke, rGore Vidal, William F. Buckley Jr. BTW: "public intellectual" in China has become a derisive term these days. That is worth another episode to explain why.
The policy wonk models might have been "garbage" but other models were not. The lock-downs did save lives. The real issue was the unemployment. People could have still been employed, there was no need for mass job loss. Governments issue the currency by fiat, so can always hire anyone available for public sector work if the private sector does not want them. Lock-downs meant the private sector could not have them! So even more extreme. Governments should have introduced local community job guarantees (helping the supply chain). After the lock down transition people back to full employment. (Keep the job guarantee too, why not, it is anti-inflationary.) But they did not because they lack an MMT analysis. (This comment is not about the pandemic science so much, talk to Nassim Taleb for more robust statistical analysis).
He is really intelligent and thinks broadly but he sounds too naive about the vested interests in politics and scientific research and the lengths they would go to block out dissension and block info and more like a privileged elite with a comfortable life.
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Watching Phillipe Lemonie talk recalls Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr from a few decades earlier. Out of curiosity, just asked ChatGPT to come up with a list of 10 most prominent public intellectuals in the US for the past 50 years. Vidal and Buckley are not even on the list. I challenged ChatGPT to explain the rationale behind the list, especially in the age of the internet and social media. Suggest Steve do an episode on "how a new generation of public intellectuals are generated".
For those who don't use ChatGPT, the initial list of 10 are: Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Richard Dawkins, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Judith Butler, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Camille Paglia, Christopher Hitchens, Martha Nussbaum, Steven Pinker.
After prompting with the suggestion of Vidal & Buckley, factoring the impact of social media, the revised list of 11 is: Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Richard Dawkins, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Judith Butler, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Camille Paglia, Christopher Hitchens, Steven Pinke, rGore Vidal, William F. Buckley Jr.
BTW: "public intellectual" in China has become a derisive term these days. That is worth another episode to explain why.
The policy wonk models might have been "garbage" but other models were not. The lock-downs did save lives. The real issue was the unemployment. People could have still been employed, there was no need for mass job loss. Governments issue the currency by fiat, so can always hire anyone available for public sector work if the private sector does not want them. Lock-downs meant the private sector could not have them! So even more extreme. Governments should have introduced local community job guarantees (helping the supply chain). After the lock down transition people back to full employment. (Keep the job guarantee too, why not, it is anti-inflationary.) But they did not because they lack an MMT analysis. (This comment is not about the pandemic science so much, talk to Nassim Taleb for more robust statistical analysis).
MMT analysis = obfuscation of economic reality.
Interesting alternative narrative
He is really intelligent and thinks broadly but he sounds too naive about the vested interests in politics and scientific research and the lengths they would go to block out dissension and block info and more like a privileged elite with a comfortable life.
Anothe "ukraine expert" never been here, dont know neither history nor languages😂