When the entangled narrative is based on the Bible, the problem is the Bible.
This is the translation by John Holland of my post entitled Complexité et effet Skynet, originally published on June 16th 2012.
The world in which we live today increasingly resembles a science fiction film from the 1950s. Some of those films were excellent because they raised fundamental questions about how machines […]
Twelfth lecture of the « Stewardship of Finance » chair. It is the notion of risk and the different forms of risk sharing which allow the building of a reasoned catalogue of all types of financial instruments and analysing them in an ethical perspective.
Is it admissible that taxpayers were required not only to pay […]
The eleventh lecture of the « Stewardship of Finance » Chair, devoted entirely to the tragic story of the Texan corporation called Enron which was the topic of my book Investing in a Post-Enron World (2003).
Guest post.
« Dédicace too big to … »
Have you heard of “too big to fail !”?
Now they say “too big to jail !”
They know they have the whole power
Because they finance the lawyer!
They don’t care about Justice
Nor about the State Police
They have […]
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On March 7th, my lecture will be devoted to the Enron corporation and its downfall as a counter-example of stewardship of finance.
On March 13, Jacques Attali will be our guest. He is head of Pla-Net Finance and of the study group on a […]
The tenth lecture in the course, devoted to risk and insurance: financial risk, systemic risk, the insurance business’ first steps, the methodology: Value at Risk, regulation: Solvency II.
My ninth lecture: labour and capital, talking about the distribution of newly created wealth, the way to conceptualise this, the political stances deriving from this and the light these shed on ethical perspectives about economic and financial issues.
Wednesday, 27 February, 2013 – 19:30 to 21:30
VUB, Etterbeek
Building D
Promotion Hall
Monica Mächler & Hugues Pirotte
Monica Mächler served since January 2009 until the end of September 2012 as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA, after having served as […]
Aistotle’s theory of price formation. His chrematistics: the role of money in society.
I start with a brief recap of my seventh lecture on Lord Adair Turner’s distinction between “useful” and “useless” financial activities.
Eight of the fifteen lectures have by now been given in the first year of the “Stewardship of Finance” chair at the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). There have been also two (most lively) guest panels, and four guest talks by distinguished visitors: Luc Coene, Governor of the Belgian central bank, Tomas Sedlacek (economist-philosopher, author of […]
When the entangled narrative is based on the Bible, the problem is the Bible.
I intend to read the Krichmar paper, thanks for mentioning it. I looked in my library, I’ve got a 1987…
It’s becoming clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding.…
Do Androids dream of electric sheeps ? Yes. Thanks Paul.
You say that A machine with only primary consciousness will probably have to come first. That’s the way evolution proceeded:…
It’s becoming clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding.…
I fear your views of AI are pretty much outdated. They pre-date in any case neural networks. What you are…
Unfortunately IA is not The solution… We have to think outside the box… And IA just calculate fast but inside…
very well my brother
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