oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith
Friday, May 01, 2026

Why We're Helpless When Things Break Down

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Only then do we realize that by optimizing profit and efficiency, we've also optimized systemic failure. In my essay AI, Money, H...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

AI, Money, Human Nature and the Problem with Problems

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How we define "problems" also defines what we "understand" as a "solution," and if our definition is circular,...
Monday, April 27, 2026

Sex, Money and Demographics

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Maybe focusing on next quarter's profits and reaping short-term gains from financializing everything under the sun with debt weren'...
Friday, April 24, 2026

Mercantilism: China and Beyond

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The self-liquidating nature of the mercantilist model cannot be reversed, it can only be managed as stagnation. Everyone is an expert...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

When the Cost of Truth Is High, We--and AI--Lie

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When we can no longer tell the truth because the cost is so high that it threatens our reward for compliance, we're unimaginably impover...
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