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The Controlled Demolition of the Economy The Corbett Report by James Corbett In case you haven't noticed, the wheels are falling off the global economy right now. We've all started to feel the pinch of supply chain disruptions and rising energy costs and economic uncertainty and inflation—not to mention  stagflation  and  shrinkflation  and  deflation —but this past week has really hammered home the extent of the crisis we are facing. It seems every single day brings with it the news of some fresh five-alarm financial fire. The Dow is  sinking . The loonie is  falling . Japan is  cracking . Global stocks are  plunging . Eurozone inflation is  spiking . The Fed is  hiking . Builders are  slashing . Crypto is  crashing . Treasuries are  tanking . And that's just  this  week! As I'm sure you've seen, there have been many, many such stories circulating in the financial press in recent months, all touting similarly bleak numbers. But it's important to keep in mind th

Is Google's LaMDA Sentient? An article in the Washington Post revealed that a Google engineer who had worked with Google’s Responsible AI organization believes that Google’s LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), an artificially intelligent chatbot generator, is “sentient.” In  a Medium blog post , Blake Lemoine claims that LaMDA is a person who exhibits feelings and shows the unmistakable signs of consciousness: “Over the course of the past six months LaMDA has been incredibly consistent in its communications about what it wants and what it believes its rights are as a person,” Lemoine writes. “If I didn’t know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I’d think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid that happens to know physics,” he told the Washington Post . LaMBDA, it would appear, has passed Lemoine’s sentimental version of the Turing test. Lemoine, who calls himself an ethicist, but whom Google spokesperson Brian Gabriel contended is a m