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Embracing Uncertainty: How AI is Rekindling Creativity in the Age of ChatGPT
”Certainty meets people’s basic needs,” this is what ChatGPT told me. As always, it fails to give a basis for this statement. However, since this is consistent with our feelings in daily life, we will not study it in detail. As a person who creates things, I don’t really like certainty. At least that’s the theory. Only with uncertainty can we innovate, have opportunities, and be free. Once everything is settled, it becomes lifeless. Therefore, when I said that I would buy a house in a school district for my children in 2020, I felt very contradictory. The selling point of that house is that it not only guarantees that…
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Debunking Economic Myths: Why Market Failure Fables Spread and How to Counter Them
Ariel Rubinstein, a master of game theory and a famous economist, believes that economics Models in science are equivalent to fables in daily context; he once said frankly, “I do think that we economists are just people who tell fables.” Fables are of great significance in economics. The book “Famous Fables of Economics: The Myth of Market Failure” includes a group of papers written by Ronald Coase, Zhang Wuchang, Daniel Spurber and others, examining lighthouses, Dutch tulip bubbles, bees and orchards, The sharecropper system, the path dependence of the keyboard and video recorder system, the General Motors acquisition of Fisher Auto Body, the American Standard Oil monopoly case, and many…
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Life as a Digital Nomad in Dali City: Pursuing Freedom and Poetic Living Amidst Loneliness and Uncertainty
No need to set a wake-up alarm clock, no need to get up early to squeeze the subway, worry about being late for work, sleep until you wake up naturally every day, and after a simple wash, Qin Quanyu rides his beloved “little electric donkey” and walks slowly to the North Gate Vegetable Market in Dali Ancient City. Soy flour with deep-fried dough sticks, and then find a quiet coffee shop to work. This is his daily life in Dali after he chose “digital nomad” after the 90s – “I have been in a big city for a long time, and I commute mechanically every day, and I especially yearn…
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Black Swans Are Shaking the World: Israel in Crisis, Extreme Weather Hits US, and Corporate Debt Crisis Looms
Black swans are bringing uncertainty! Israel is facing its biggest crisis in 75 years due to judicial reform. The country’s Prime Minister Netanyahu was rushed to the hospital last weekend, and 550,000 people across the country participated in demonstrations. According to the media, a conflict is coming, and now is the time for the government, especially Netanyahu, to take action, otherwise it will be too late. If Israel is in chaos because of this, the situation in the Middle East will also undergo major changes, which will inevitably affect the world again. Extreme weather is also turning into a black swan event. The city of Phoenix in the United States…
