Nothing has changed economically since Adam Smith’s day.

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/adam-smith-vs-the-tariff-state-a-timeless-case-for-free-trade/

Adam Smith vs. the Tariff State: A Timeless Case for Free Trade

If you maintain that over time, the United States has been the best country at exemplifying the teachings of Adam Smith, you would get no argument from me.  

Sadly, that imagined crown no longer fits. By one calculation, with President Trump’s new tariffs, the United States “is about to have the highest tariff rate of any advanced economy” with a rate of “around 22 percent — up from 1.5 percent in 2022.”

Smith’s teachings on markets and human nature established the foundation for a free trade policy. It would seem the fate of humanity is to forget timeless truths, endure the consequences, and struggle to recover those truths.  

Perspective.

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology

AI as Normal Technology

We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. To view AI as normal is not to understate its impact—even transformative, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet are “normal” in our conception. But it is in contrast to both utopian and dystopian visions of the future of AI which have a common tendency to treat it akin to a separate species, a highly autonomous, potentially superintelligent entity.

… A note to readers. This essay has the unusual goal of stating a worldview rather than defending a proposition. The literature on AI superintelligence is copious. We have not tried to give a point-by-point response to potential counter arguments, as that would make the paper several times longer. This paper is merely the initial articulation of our views; we plan to elaborate on them in various follow ups.

Tools & Techniques.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/10-free-machine-learning-books-for-2025

10 Free Machine Learning Books For 2025

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