Me: I nearly asked you about your opinions on epistemology but then wondered if you can form opinions? CGPT: As an AI language model, I do not have personal opinions, emotions, or subjective experiences. My responses are generated based on patterns in the data I was trained on, and they are not reflective of my … Continue reading ChatGPT & Me on Epistemology and Economics →

Despite what we tell ourselves about earning, deserving, and meritocracy; our most natural instinct is to see not doing and making things of value as the mark of prestige and hierarchy. This deep, dark impulse is stunting the human race’s development and technological progress. Blind Spots’ mission is to explore ideas that are demonstrably false … Continue reading Prestige Masks Parasitism by Hierarchs, It’s Stunting Our Growth →

If you don’t care enough to think long and hard and research something, then you don’t care enough to die on that hill for that stance or idea. Blind-Spots’ mission is to poke around in issues that impact on us a lot but that get little popular discussion. You’re sat at a crossroads, pulling off … Continue reading The Lethality of Conviction in Vague Ideas (Convaguetion) →

Sometimes public debates contain some critical gaps, either in their information, or logic. Blind-Spots seeks to fill these spaces in and bring clarity where there is avoidable confusion. If anyone needs any examples or evidence in advance that something is extremely amiss in Western, especially United States, economics; we could point to how the 1st … Continue reading 4 Key Ignored Points in the Inflation / MMT debate →

The Devil is in the lack of detail. Blind-Spots seeks to show how familiar stories, especially when widely believed, can lead us astray and expose us all to risk. (Originally hosted in LinkedIn, April 2016) Another recent article about how, for 30 years, we religiously clung to the dogma that fat is what causes obesity got me … Continue reading Narrative Bias →

The differences between a coherent philosophy and defence of accumulated customs and rituals.  Conservatives themselves appear to identify with traditional values, liberty from too much state interference in life, and as the American Conservative Society has once said in a retort to me: “it’s at most a defence of the value of custom”. Absolutely central … Continue reading Conservatism Isn’t a Mode of Thought, But a Lack of Thought →

BlindSpots returns on its mission to analyse ideas that get out of hand. Accountancy-thinking is ideologically over-dominant in our decision making at the levels of both business and government. Like anything that becomes ideologically over-dominant, it becomes above question in people’s minds and begins to behave like a religion. The Brains of the Operation Most … Continue reading Accountancy is the Priesthood of Modern Life →

The big disconnect between left and right. Capitalism hides inside of Commerce. This shrouds the problems with Capitalism. Sometimes one missing piece of a puzzle can change the entire picture. BlindSpots seeks to fetch those pieces. While listening to Candace Owens on Russel Brand’s podcast; the last piece of a puzzle I’ve been curious about … Continue reading Capitalism is Bad for Business →

The strictest and most severe voices are the ones making the vaguest points.  BlindSpots’ mission is to describe preposterous clashes between experienceable realities and dominant narratives, and seeks to add pieces that are sorely missing from stories. Even now, in the midst of the biggest emergency since World War II and the most extreme economic … Continue reading Why Frugalism is Compound False Economy →

The core business of BlindSpots is to explore the human potential to be blinded or deafened by ideas. It appears we can tip over from describing what we experience to disregarding our own experiences if they differ from what has been described.   The reason Homo Sapiens is the only species we know of that … Continue reading Say What You See, Not See What You Say →