On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM '[email protected]' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
*> I am not wedded to Friedman or Smith.* > *Obviously. * *> Let's see if this Tariff policy works in real life * *It has about as much chance of working as gargling with Clorox has of turning out to be a good way to prevent Covid. And when it fails, which won't take long, Trump will at first deny that it is failing but when that denial becomes impossible he will insist that the colossal blunder was entirely Joe Biden's fault and he had nothing to do with it. I mean how could it, it failed yet Trump never fails therefore the only logical conclusion is that Trump must've had nothing to do with those astronomically high tariffs. It's a simple Aristotelian syllogism. Right?* *> Starmer seemed to be good with it* *Trump said that. Starmer most certainly did not.* *> Roll the dice and see if this pays out* *In other words you and Trump are advocating that the economic policy of the USA should be random mutation and natural selection. Well that's the way biological brains got invented but it took about 3 billion years to go from the first living cell to something that could be called a primitive brain. It also entailed an astronomical amount of suffering. But humans, or at least most humans, have brains so we could do things much faster; the first electronic computer is only about 80 years old but today we have an AI that is smarter than most people about most things and much smarter than any person about some things, and they are still evolving at a far far faster rate than anything biological evolution can manage. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* abe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2P7t_W10TWUiucYJRpW-MjDOGQUOFLu%3DXCK5cx7NjD%3DA%40mail.gmail.com.
