tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post249888224887721651..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Autor's Alibi and the Lump of Jackson HoleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-48531413277136199282014-08-31T01:41:15.335-04:002014-08-31T01:41:15.335-04:00Achilles and the tortoise running all the way to a...Achilles and the tortoise running all the way to ancient China:<br /><br />"A good runner can go 100 paces while a poor runner covers 60 paces. The poor runner has covered a distance of 100 paces before the good runner sets off in pursuit. How many paces does it take the good runner before he catches up the poor runner."<br />[Answer: 250 paces]<br /><br />The Jiuzhang suanshu or Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art is a practical handbook of mathematics consisting of 246 problems intended to provide methods to be used to solve everyday problems of engineering, surveying, trade, and taxation.<br /><br />(Chapter 6: Fair Distribution of Goods. Problem 12)<br /><br />http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/Nine_chapters.htmlMagpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07528637318288802178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-58517484526568479642014-08-28T20:43:25.084-04:002014-08-28T20:43:25.084-04:00Reading your post and the beginning of Autor's...Reading your post and the beginning of Autor's paper (I don't think I will read the whole thing) I had the feeling I had heard a similar discussion before.<br /><br />It just dawned on me: the argument Autor and the anti-Luddite crowd make is very similar to Zeno's well-known Achilles and the Tortoise Paradox (Achilles being technology and the tortoise being, well, you know who).<br /><br />For a refresher on the paradox:<br /><br />"What Is the Answer to Zeno’s Paradox?"<br />By Brian Palmer<br />http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/03/zeno_s_paradox_how_to_explain_the_solution_to_achilles_and_the_tortoise.htmlMagpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07528637318288802178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-23444543711346003382014-08-25T20:55:51.563-04:002014-08-25T20:55:51.563-04:00Trust a computer scientist, his analysis of artifi...Trust a computer scientist, his analysis of artificial intelligence progress is just as flawed. There has been a quantum leap in the last decade, which he appears to have missed. His analysis seems to stop at about 2004.Mary Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12953349287856947944noreply@blogger.com