Epstein Secrets

of central planning collapsed under its own weight with the USSR in 1989, 32 “Is there a greater tragedy”: F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 32 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018264 In our own age, a fundamental conflict lingers as well. This is the struggle between individual liberty and conn

tually the entire world was pulled into the fire. “In the autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes,” the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote after the Paris Peace Conference settled The Great War, dimly aware that an even deader season lay somewhere in the future in the form o

of signals and intuitive actions that produce the 5! Mary Catherine Bateson, 1999 foreword to Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972): xi. %? Steps to an Ecology of Mind, p. 452. 3 Tbid., pp. 467-8. 179 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016982 movements of life partnered with an electro-m

ovement of goods is largely automated, as are many services. What’s left for humans to do? In 1930—long before the advent of computers, let alone AI—John Maynard Keynes wrote, in an essay called “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren,” that as a result of improvements in productivity, society could prod

of signals and intuitive actions that produce the 5! Mary Catherine Bateson, 1999 foreword to Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972): xi. %? Steps to an Ecology of Mind, p. 452. 3 Tbid., pp. 467-8. 179 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016399 movements of life partnered with an electro-m

ovement of goods is largely automated, as are many services. What’s left for humans to do? In 1930—long before the advent of computers, let alone AI—John Maynard Keynes wrote, in an essay called “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren,” that as a result of improvements in productivity, society could prod