Irreni World Scale

Hi! Happy Saturday! Yesterday I posted an observation that there are pressures on employment of average intelligence: automation and computer intelligence. Average intelligence is about the capability of the brain, not high school education. To whit, education level will be irrelevant if one has average intelligence because for most average intelligent tasks computers will be able to perform such tasks and much cheaper. Today I'm going to write about the Irreni World Scale solution to the average intelligence employment dilemma. Before we begin let me remind the dear reader that Irreni has at it's core two fundamental principles: Innovation replaces revolution. Irreni advocates continuous improvement by a million upgrades over one-hundred years and not revolution of government overthrow or wholesale disruption.  Experimentation where science is key to innovation. Innovation starts small and only scales to large numbers after scientifically proven success of claims. Re

Hi! Happy Friday! The average brain is unemployable. Yesterday I blogged about a radio podcast where a conservative pundit promoted going back to a nuclear family model of mom, dad, the kids and a high school diplomas. I was beside myself, wearing a red dress :-), that someone could say such things seriously. The average brain is unemployable. That's really all I wanted to say in this blog post. Well, that and we need to face this fact head on. I read an article on the web the other day which asked the question: when will computers be smarter than people? I would rephrase that question to when will computers be effective enough to replace people at almost any task? Prior to 1900 some 90% of Americans were involved in agriculture. Today just 2%.  Why is easy enough to understand: food prior to 1900 had to be grown in your back yard without the technology of the plane, train and automobile. And refrigeration. Think about how many bank tellers have been put out of a job

Hi! Happy Wednesday! The Pope is visiting America this week and much is being made about it in the media. I thought this would make an excellent teaching moment about deconstructing the Pope. Not me. I'm not deconstructing the Pope. I'm deconstructing the people who are deconstructing the Pope. There are two reasons I'm not deconstructing the Pope: Anti-atheist banality. An anti-theist like myself picking on the Pope? Like that hasn't been done a million times.  Solutions. Irreni World Scale is about solutions, not punditry.  What solution? you ask? This is a perfect teaching moment about thinking in world scale. The Pope is discussing global topics such as climate change and capitalism. So let's dig in, shall we? Today I'm deconstructing a WCGO Chicago radio podcast. The program is called "Coffee and Markets" and is a prime-time morning-drive talk show. Further, the hosts and the guests are decidedly conservative. I can't really say

Hi! Happy Friday! The genesis of Trump. It is no surprise that America wants reality T.V. for politics, at least to the panelists for today's blog post. This blog post is simply a video to watch a prescient panel in a 2008 . It is rather chilling to watch,  especially Hitchen's glass-of-cold-water-in-your-face warning about the totalitarian path that a demagogue like Trump will lead us down. The video is quite fun and funny...an educational fun if you have 45 minutes to watch. The setting is 2008 after Obama clinched the Democratic nomination. The panels predication by description of what new media means is spot on in predicting a Trump candidacy. Trump may be a first, but I guarantee you what he represents has a new norm written all over it. Below are some quotes: "Youtube video needs to be shocking to get viewed." - Trump is shocking. "Celebrity status gets you far these days." - Trump is his own celebrity. "Presidential candidates should st

Hi! Happy Thursday! Capitalism is dead. R.I.P. The proof is one word: zero-percent interest. Ever ask yourself what the Fed will do when the next bubble bursts? They've been printing money, quantitative easing,  and lending at 0% interest going on seven years now. Think about it. A child born in 2008 would be 7 years-old. Imagine you are a parent and are about to explain money to your seven-year-old for the first time. What do you say about savings? A entire new generation is about to be raised where saving money is the wrong thing to do. And yet our entire capitalist banking system was built upon an assumption of a savings economy. That savings economy doesn't exist any more and never will again. So neither does capitalism. R.I.P. The Fed made their scheduled announcement today : no raise to the interest rate: The Federal Reserve announced on Thursday that it is keeping its benchmark interest rate at or near zero, maintaining a policy that is likely to allow t

Hi! Happy Sunday! How ya' doin'? Humans do not understand and relate well beyond the number ten. Stalin phrased it like this, "kill one person it is murder, kill a million and it is a statistic." Our empathy and our understanding are limited by our genetic inability to think in scale. But think in scale we must...there are after all seven billion people on this Earth and counting. I bring this topic up because today I saw the following graphic on my Facebook feed: This graphic is representative of our collective inability to process emotionally and intellectually beyond the number ten. The fact is that violence among humans is at a historical low. I highly recommend that everyone read Steven Pinker's book, " The Better Angels of Our Nature. " Pinker's book represents a failure of sorts for me in our modern information age. The reality of statistics is not being disseminated to the masses so as to correct the sensationalism in the medi

Hi! Happy Saturday! Pumpkin is in season! I can say that because pumpkin just showed up at Starbucks! There is a cultural statement in there somewhere. Today is a lesson in systemic solutions. America's problems today, and the world's problems today are firstly systemic. Our systems need to be upgraded to scale to the new global economy, the new global workforce, the information age of technology and an ever increasing population. We need to replace jobs with tribes where the Irreni opening size of tribe is thirty people. We should no longer hire individuals. We need to change our laws such that only tribes can be hired. John C Goodman is a conservative columnist who recently made a couple of statements contrasting the conservative position regarding no minimum wage vs the liberal position of a $15-an-hour minimum wage: Flash forward to last Saturday. In an editorial endorsing a $15-an-hour minimum wage, the editors of The New York Times repeat the canard that the

Hi! Happy Tuesday! Ok, much ado has been made in the US about the country clerk in Kentucky who would not issue gay marriage licenses. Should we accommodate religious bigotry? I'd like to offer an Irreni solution take on things. The solution comes in the form of a question: Is there only a single world view that we want? The advent of the Internet and instant mass communication is quickly aligning the variety of world views to a unified view, but is that what we want? I would argue no. Not only is it not what we want, but humans are so diverse that such a thing is not possible. What we are seeing today in Kentucky is just a smell of how demanding uniformity will play out. When is it okay to have different sub-cultures with differing world views? How are the boundaries defined? Is it okay to discriminate under the mantle of religion? The Irreni solution is a system that supports and promotes the greatest diverse moral relativity as we  can stand and does so with a model