Charles Hugh Smith·Aug 5The Joyless Pantomime of Optimizing EnnuiWe all know that geopolitics, the stock market, AI, the unemployment rate and all the rest of what’s presented as “explaining” everything…A response icon1A response icon1
Charles Hugh Smith·Jul 6Sailing the Stormy Seas of AISmall business owner and San Francisco correspondent ‘Sparx Eightthreetwo’ (found on facebook under the same name) has a metaphor of the…
Charles Hugh Smith·Jun 17What AI Is and Is Not — or, When Electrocution of Innocents Becomes ProfitableWhether we admit it or not, we are collectively making an epoch-changing bet that AI is fantastic, unstoppable Progress with a capital P so…A response icon4A response icon4
Charles Hugh Smith·May 28Could Instability Trigger Radical Change In Your Life?My five most recent essays (listed below) lay out an account of the present era that is radically different from the conventional…A response icon2A response icon2
Charles Hugh Smith·May 20When Unfairness Is Systemic, the Consequences Are Flight, Resistance, RevoltLet’s weave together two threads that look different: systemic unfairness and civilizational psychosis. As I often note, social species…A response icon2A response icon2
