Someone has translated in English the Italian documentary on Andrea Rossi’s cold fusion reactor:
For background story, click on the tags, “Andrea Rossi“, “E-cat“, or “LENR“.
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Someone has translated in English the Italian documentary on Andrea Rossi’-s cold fusion reactor:
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This morning, I wrote that I disaprove Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’-s Giving Pledge operation, because I rather favor billionaires investing in young startups lead by visionaries. Well, just after the publication of that post, I stumbled on the “-Audacious Optimism”- event, which satisfies my request.
The Thiel Foundation is encouraging philanthropists to donate more money to scientific pursuits that could lead to big breakthroughs in medicine, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology, among other fields.
Note that Peter Thiel draws a distinction between “extensive” technologies, which “take things that are working and replicate them”-, and “intensive” technologies, which try to “take the things that are best in the world and make them qualitatively and dramatically better”-.
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc., speaks at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, about entrepreneurship and his experiences during the early days of Apple (April 22, 2008).
The Kauffman Foundation is organizing a meeting of economics bloggers. I was not able to join them, this time. I will be watching the webcast, today.
2010 Economics Bloggers Forum
Hosted by the Kauffman Foundation
8:30 a.m. Welcome by Tim Kane
8:45 a.m. Keynote Speech by David Warsh
9:30 a.m. Panel 1 – Great Recession: Impact on America’s Future?
Paul Kedrosky, Bob McTeer, Megan McArdle, and Mark Thoma
1:00 p.m. Persuasion and Norms by Paul Romer
1:30 p.m. Panel 2 – Is Growth a Mystery? Haiti, Afghanistan, Africa…-
Tim Kane, Alex Tabarrok, and Allison Schrager
2:45 p.m. Panel 3—U.S. Fiscal Mess: How Does It End?
Robert Litan, Donald Marron, Ryan Avent, Ken Houghton, and Mike Shedlock
3:45 p.m. Closing Remarks by Carl Schramm, President and CEO, Kauffman Foundation
VIEW WEBCAST at
http://sites.kauffman.org/EconBlogForum/template.cfm?page_id=1283
Webcast begins Friday March 19, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. –- 5:00 p.m. EDT
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About the European startup scene:
Chris Masse is seeking business partners to create an Internet agency, an event business, and a popular news blog (fed by prediction markets, of course). If you are interested in becoming rich (or in losing your money), then hit the contact button.
[…] What I think PirateMyFilm will bring to the copyright reform party is the idea that films and music can be collectively financed, i.e., crowd financed, with both the artistic creator and the art consumer participating in the revenue streams.
To me, economics, markets and finance are an artistic medium in their own right and, as such, can be modeled, molded, manufactured and modified in artistic ways reflecting self expression as easily as paint, words, clay or plastic.
All of the projects I’ve been involved with for the past 15 years: [Hollywood Stock Exchange], KarmaBanque, GulagWealthFund, PirateMyFilm and my yet-to-be-publish novel, “Buy Love, Sell Fear,” all share this common characteristic of seeing price discovery and market making as a form of self expression and artistic freedom.
Folk activism broadly corrupts political movements. It leads activists to do too much talking, debating, and proselytizing, and not enough real-world action.
He asks the libertarian people to stop investing in ideas but, rather, in actions:
If a fraction of the passion, thought, and capital that are wasted in libertarian folk activism were instead directed into more realistic paths, we would have a far better chance at achieving liberty in our lifetime. We must override our instinct to proselytize, and instead consciously analyze routes to reform. Whether or not you agree with my analysis of specific strategies, my time will not have been wasted if I can get more libertarians to stop bashing their heads against the incentives of democracy, to stop complaining about how people are blind to the abuse of power while themselves being blind to the stability of power, and to think about how we can make systemic changes, outside entrenched power structures, that could realistically lead to a freer world.
Cato’-s Tim Lee rebuts his ideas.
His own daddy rebuts his ideas, too:
My conclusion is that while something like seasteading or crypto anarchy may indeed be the most hopeful path to a freer future, those are not the only sorts of approach worth attempting. An alternative, for academics, authors, newspaper columnists, anyone able to produce ideas and information and put them into circulation, is to try to alter the mix of free information that drives the coarse control mechanism of democracy.