by Scott Howard Swain | Sep 10, 2024 | All Articles, Economics, Liberty, Politics, Voluntaryism |
Updated. Originally written in 2015. “But… I thought we need a government to incentivize, force, and punish some behaviors so the weak and poor are not trampled under the boots of those with more power?” It is a legitimate concern to worry about...
by Scott Howard Swain | Sep 9, 2024 | AGI, AI, All Articles, ASI, Business, ChatGPT, Economics, GPT, Liberty, LLM, Machine Learning, ML, OpenAI, Politics, Voluntaryism |
Let’s talk about AI trainers “stealing” people’s data or creations. If your child sits in front of YouTube learning how to pair photons using Swain’s Wobulation Theorem, invents wormholes, and goes on to get mega rich by commercializing...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jun 9, 2024 | All Articles, Culture, Economics, Liberty, Life, Parenting, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
Updated. Originally written in 2020. It seems that Socialism is on the rise right now; at least amongst those who have not come to the USA looking for the opposite of what socialism did to their Country. Why? Let’s speculate. I see it as a combination of...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jun 4, 2024 | All Articles, Culture, Economics, Liberty, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
Updated. Originally written in 2020. Voluntaryist Empathizing with and Addressing the American Democratic Socialist Perspective No matter what your philosophical / political beliefs, odds are: you have a desire to increase joy, prosperity, health, and security for as...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jan 22, 2024 | AI, All Articles, Culture, Economics, Liberty, Life, Machine Learning, Marxism, ML, Politics, Privacy, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
Congratulations, Citizen 08675309! Your life of ease and connection begins now! I’m your new humble, hyper-intelligent interpreting and filtering implant. You will expend less energy making boring, repetitive, or difficult daily decisions. You can call me your...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jan 1, 2024 | All Articles, Business, Economics, Liberty, Politics, Voluntaryism |
On the surface a person might believe, “If we didn’t have intellectual property laws, it would open the floodgates for copycats everywhere, reducing incentive for people to create. We would have Chinese phones that look like iPhones and poor Apple!...
by Scott Howard Swain | May 5, 2023 | AGI, AI, All Articles, ASI, ChatGPT, Corruption, Culture, GPT, Liberty, Life, LLM, Machine Learning, Marxism, ML, OpenAI, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
Me:”Hello, please summarize the book ‘Democracy, the God That Failed’ by Hans-Herman Hoppe. Describe up to 10 of the key ideas in the book, and for each key idea, give up to 3 arguments or pieces of evidence from the book that support the...
by Scott Howard Swain | Dec 23, 2022 | All Articles, Business, Economics, Liberty, Politics, Voluntaryism |
On the surface a person might believe, “If we didn’t have intellectual property laws, it would open the floodgates for copycats everywhere, reducing incentive for people to create. We would have Chinese phones that look like iPhones and poor Apple!...
by Scott Howard Swain | May 10, 2022 | All Articles, Business, Economics, EQ, Liberty, Life, Parenting, Politics, Unschooling, Voluntaryism |
Updated. Originally written in 2014. You probably see the inequities and corruption in our current system. Do you also see the growing distance between you and other humans, in your beliefs, amount of time spent with others, and level of compassion you feel or are...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jan 5, 2022 | All Articles, Economics, Liberty, Politics, Voluntaryism |
From an article by Walter Block on 2009-04-16. “I advocate the complete, total, and full privatization of all roads, streets, highways, byways, avenues, and other vehicular thoroughfares. And I am serious about this, deadly serious.” This is so far off the...
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