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Tag Archives: system
Automatism + Automaticity – First Thoughts
Automatism and automaticity are “real concepts”, but they are not widely used … or at least not widely used everywhere in the same way. One of the fields where these concepts are most widely used is in the broad field … Continue reading → Continue reading
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What are you going to do about it?
I have a friend who works in the field of healthcare, and we were talking about corruption in the medical and pharmaceutical industries – the kind that leads to patients getting misdiagnosed and mistreated. I had shared something I had … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged ad, ads, advertise, advertisement, advertising, alternative currencies, alternative currency, anonymity, anonymous, authentic, authenticity, bond, brand, brand name, brand names, branding, brands, care, careless, cash, construct, construction, constructs, engage, engagement, failure, identity, meaning, meaningful, meaningless, money, power, rational media, relationship, relationships, retard media, social, social construct, social construction, social constructs, social engagement, social system, social systems, society, success, successful, system, systems, trace
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The Spectre of Populism
There is a spectre haunting the Web: That spectre is populism. Let me backtrack a moment. This piece is a part of an ongoing series of posts about „rational media“ – a concept that is still not completely hard and … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged academia, academic, AI, algorithm, algorithmic, algorithms, answer, answers, artificial intelligence, bandwagon, bandwagon effect, big data, citation, citation index, citation indexing, citations, communication, communications, computation, computational, compute, computer, corrupt, corrupted, corruption, data, democracy, democratic, education, follow, following, group think, groupthink, index, indexing, information, information retrieval, institution, institutional, institutions, Internet, leader, leaders, leadership, logic, majority, method, methods, online, popular, populism, populist, question, questions, rason, rational, rational media, rationality, reliability, reliable, science, scientific method, search, system, systemic, systems, trust, trusted, trusting, universities, university, valid, validity, vote, votes, voting, web, World-Wide Web
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How to Fix the World via the Legal System
I have long since been a big fan of Edmund Burke — the “father of modern conservatism”…. He was probably far ahead of his time, but for today, I feel he is no longer far ahead of our time. What … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged change, fixed, flux, free, freedom, law, legal, market, markets, privilege, privileges, reliability, reliable, system, systems, variable
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Paul Krugman has lost the plot
money is like a social network I think Professor Krugman should look into the sociological basis of economics more (much as e.g. Max Weber did in “Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft”). I don’t think that one sentence quoted above is wrong, but … Continue reading →
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Tagged American, economics, economy, monetarism, monetary, money, social, society, sociology, system, systems, theory
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I book, I care, I think, I can
In the past several days, I have been confronted with a quirky issue. Let me explain the background with a hypothetical example, because I don’t want to name any specific details of the actual case. Last year, ICANN (the Internet … Continue reading →
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Tagged domain name, domain names, governance, government, ICANN, Internet, law, legal, online, regulation, regulations, regulatory, system, systems, tld, tlds, top level domain, top level domains, web
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Establishment Apologists Acknowledge that the Status Quo Is Unfair — and They Want to Keep it that Way for Their Own Benefit
Great achievements are never made by simply maintaining the status quo. Whether by revolutionary breakthrough or by evolutionary adaptation, progress is always a matter of change. Therefore, anyone who resists change acknowledges that they are profiting from the current system … Continue reading →
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Tagged adapt, adaptation, apologist, apologists, apology, change, establishment, evolution, evolve, fair, fairness, game, game theory, games, government, progress, rebell, rebellion, reform, reformation, revolt, revolution, status quo, system, systems, technology, unfair, zero sum game, zero sum games
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