Robert Blumen

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


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, th... 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 depen... 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 b... Read more.

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