Robert Blumen

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  • Robert Blumen is a software engineer and podcast host who writes occasionally about political and economic issues


Peanut and Puppycide

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The puppycide movement made a good effort. The ACLU took it one step further, situating violence against our pets within the scope of the militarization of policing.... Read more.

Veganism and the Covid Panic

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Both ideologies locate our interactions with the animal world as the root of corruption. Veganism aims to isolate us from causing the death of animals; while Covidism... Read more.

Can AI Plan the Economy? 

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What AI cannot do is incorporate into a single entity all of the specialized skills that the entrepreneur has; the abilities to calculate, plan, and execute, the... Read more.

Was “Philip Cross” an AI?

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Will future campaigns to control Wikipedia narratives rely on this technology? What is the future of a crowd-sourced knowledge base such as Wikipedia that depends... Read more.

The Economics of Lockdown Panics

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Economics alone cannot tell us if any cost is too much to “save one life.” But economic thinking can help us understand that preserving human life entails bearing... Read more.

The Vaccine Was “95% Effective” How?

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The mis-translation of the message convinced the public that mass vaccination would stop the pandemic. And, it persuaded them to see the unvaccinated as a threat.... Read more.

Unmask the Audiences Already!

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People no longer have an emotional connection while speaking when wearing masks. And we can no longer understand each other’s speech. A venue full of masked people... Read more.