edafe knabe11h ago

"Under the current system, where you have a billionaire class paying almost no taxes, it is just mathematically obvious that in a very short period of time, because of the power of compounding interest, they will own everything. And that means you owning nothing."
Gary Stevenson

https://edafe.de/2026/06/why-the-economist-hates-wealth-taxes/

#assets #capitalism #economics #government #inequality #inflation #politics #poverty #prices #society #taxtherich #taxwealthnotwork #theeconomist #uk #unitedkingdom #wealth

Daniela Pagenstecher 🇺🇦 🚴‍♂️ 📚2d ago
The #Economist about the banks supporting the listing of #SpaceX : „Sycophancy seems a small price to pay for fat fees.“
😅
#TheEconomist
#ElonMusk
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴5d ago

@jkraybill @TheEconomist

👉"*Project Gordo*
A framework for human-#AI collaboration that holds together over time.👈

(3/n)

...in an interview with #SebastianMallaby, author of “The Infinity Machine, ”have just outlined that open-sourced #LLM models will need to become a thing of the past due to convincing global security reasons:

Inside the mind of #DemisHassabis [#Google #DeepMind]

https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2026/04/08/inside-the-mind-of-demis-hassabis
From #TheEconomist:

Inside the mind of Demis Hassabis

Our podcast on science and technology. This week, journalist Sebastian Mallaby takes us behind the scenes in the race for superintelligence

The Economist
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴6d ago

#HPsCommentary

👉#LLMsAreIntelligent!👈

(9/n)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704361504575552661462672160

.. .👉human-like...artificial general intelligence (AGI).👈"

So, back in 2021, Mr Agüera did not *yet* think that LLMs deserved to be considered #AGI|s, as he did only 4 years later, in the aforementioned #TheEconomist pod in 2025.

Writing on Dec 16, 2021, his...

@mina @si_irini @appassionato

Glyn Moody6d ago
The spectre of #genZ socialism is haunting the world … according to #theEconomist - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/09/gen-z-socialism-the-economist the economist always teetered close to the absurd, now it has fully tipped over into it...
The spectre of gen Z socialism is haunting the world … according to the Economist

The magazine writes: ‘Resisting Gen-Z socialism is therefore an urgent task.’ That urgency must outweigh any urgency of feeding hungry people

The Guardian
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Jun 8

@mina @si_irini @appassionato

👉#ArtificialGeneralIntelligence has already happened👈

👉#LLMs are intelligent👈

(2/n)

...#podcast, #Babbage.

2) *#AI is more human than you think—an interview with #GeoffreyHinton*

https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2025/03/12/ai-is-more-human-than-you-think-an-interview-with-geoffrey-hinton
#Podcast from #TheEconomist

We all remember:
With regard to organizational and technological developments, time ⌛ seemed to fly during the #Cobid19 #Pandemic.
What most people do not see (anymore:) time *is* still flying in #ArtificialIntelligence...

AI is more human than you think—an interview with Geoffrey Hinton

Our podcast on science and technology. Decades ago, the Nobel laureate began a project to model the brain in software. The results have surprised even the “godfather of AI” himself

The Economist
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Jun 8

@mina @si_irini
@appassionato

#HPsCommentary

👉#ArtificialGeneralIntelligence has already happened👈
(Blaise Agüera y Arcas, VP and CTO, #Google 1))

👉#LLMsAreIntelligent! 👈(#GeoffreyHinton, #GodfatherOfAI
2))

(1/n)

No, I'm not crazy, this is what two of the most brillant #AI researchers on earth said already in 2025 in two highly interesting, paywalled #TheEconomist interviews in its #Science + #Technology...

1)
#BlaiseAgüera y Arcas: why AI really is intelligent
https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2025/11/26/blaise-aguera-y-arcas-why-ai-really-is-intelligent

Blaise Agüera y Arcas: why AI really is intelligent

Our podcast on science and technology. The Google engineer explains how AI has given him a new perspective on intelligence—and life itself

The Economist
Jeroen HabetsJun 8

#TheEconomist China’s world-beating #solar industry is in turmoil -
The Gulf war won’t save it

https://archive.is/3Woap

HuffPost [ES]Jun 8

🎯 ■ 'The Economist' se pregunta "cuánto tiempo podrá durar Pedro Sánchez" y responde con una frase demoledora ■ Da un repaso a la situación del presidente del Gobierno.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/virales/the-economist-preguntacuanto-podra-durar-pedro-sanchez-responde-frase-demoledora-f202606.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD

#pedrosanchez #virales #psoe #theeconomist

Daniela Pagenstecher 🇺🇦 🚴‍♂️ 📚Jun 6
„#Football is the beautiful game. But it’s often also the boring game. The World Cup, which starts on June 11th, is being hosted by America, Canada and Mexico, the international equivalent of going to a dinner party and hearing the hosts rowing in the kitchen.“
The Economist
#WorldCup
#TheEconomist