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October 13, 2024 Why is life so complex, and can it be simplified? Life is complex because of the practically infinite (PI) number of variables and factors involved. Life has been evolving on Earth for about 4 billion years. Despite its underlying biological complexity, life can be lived in simplified and optimized in many ways. There is a practically infinite (PI) number of philosophies (thinking systems), scientific discoveries, and advanced technologies (tools and methods), already developed and to be developed in the future, that can be leveraged to simplify the process of being alive. In our opinion, a way to simplify--if not oversimplify--life is to master what we call the Law of Perceived Convenience (LPC). LPC stands for the proposition that when given the choice, living organisms choose whatever they perceive to be more convenient to them from a pain / pleasure computation standpoint. The LPC can simplify the understanding of "free will" and help in making prediction...

October 12, 2024 Why so many black Americans will vote for Trump? In one word: racism.   In another word: convenience. Some blacks are as racists against immigrants as Trump and the rest of MAGA supporters. Some blacks are counting on benefiting socioeconomically from Trump's closed border and anti immigration policies. Blacks, as all other humans, votes based on perceived convenience. For many, the perceived convenience is to stick to the tradition of voting for the Democratic party to secure more socioeconomic privileges and protections. For some blacks, voting for Trump looks convenient because they see immigrants as their competition for socioeconomic privileges in our country. Both views make sense. While Harris will carry the vast majority (80%) of the black vote, Trump may get up to 20% of the black vote, which would be a record. We predict that Trump will win these elections by a comfortable electoral college margin higher than the one in 2016.  Why will Trump win? Rac...

October 11, 2024 What is fast fashion and who is the King of Fast Fashion? Fast fashion is a "quick copycat" business model in the clothing industry. Fast fashion copies or adapts high-end fashion trends to quickly produce and distribute look-alike designs sold for less. It allows the general public to wear the less expensive knockoffs of high-end fashion. Fast fashion relies on cheaper materials, cheaper labor, and cheaper fabrication methods that can have adverse environmental and societal impacts.  The trick of Fast Fashion is to be: fast, affordable, trendy, and scarce (FATS). Fast: Fast fashion brands typically take as little as a few weeks to get new styles from the design phase to the retail shelves, compared to traditional fashion cycles that can take months. This is made possible by copying the design of others and send them to production and distribution by highly efficient supply chains. Affordable: Fast fashion focuses on mass-producing high-end-looking clothing a...

October 10, 2024 Are we ready for WWIII?  No, we're not. No one is. Hopefully it never happens. A third world war, World War III (WWIII), would be devastating for all nations involved.  Let's begin a series exploring the world beginning with Europe. In the European Theater of WWIII, Russia would most likely be the main enemy of the west. Depending on the timing of WWIII, the current Russian-Ukrainian war may be seen by future historians as one of the first chapters of WWIII.  Let's learn, little by little, more about Europe. A typical question is how many countries are in Europe. Believe it or not, there is no consensus on the answer. The range varies from 46 to 51. For our purposes. we follow the United Nations list of 47 countries within Europe.  Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic (Czechia) Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhs...

October 7, 2024 Can Trump's wall stop the storms coming from Mexico? The Gulf of Mexico keeps producing costly storms that are devastating our Southeast and beyond. Even Asheville, North Carolina was recently destroyed by a hurricane coming from the Gulf of Mexico. Someone has to do something about this.  Can Trump help us?  No. Trump cannot help because Trump believes that global warming is a hoax. Trump is a science denier. Just like Trump failed us during COVID19 and literally killed millions of Americans and caused massive inflation, Trump has failed and will continue to fail combating global warming. More and more storms will come. Thanks for nothing, President Trump.  Will Trump win the elections? No one knows because the future has not been created yet. Our prediction and bet is that Trump will win again. The election results in 2024 may be very similar to those in 2016 and for the same underlying reason: racism. The majority of voters in key battleground states, e...

October 6, 2024 Is there an AI bubble or an AI boom? Who knows? Probably a combination of both. The technology sector seems overvalued with a  bubblelicious level of speculation related to artificial intelligence (AI). Open AI's launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022 wa an AI milestone waking up investors and clever business story tellers about how much money can be made integrating AI into human society.  Human civilization began with fiction, improved with science, and is now realizing the many promises of science fiction.  The AI Revolution promises to be more significant than the Industrial Revolution and the Agricultural Revolution combined. While the Agricultural Revolution and the Industrial Revolution changed human society, the AI Revolution may end up changing not only society, but also the very nature of humanity. We are of course referring to transhumanism and freeing life from the shackles of evolutionary biology to be replaced with artificial life powered by ...

October 6, 2024 Will Trump solve illegal immigration or make it worse for political gain? Trump will not solve illegal immigration. Trump will make illegal immigration worse for endless political gain.  Trump is a smart old man. Trump knows our American minds as Darth Vader knew Luke Skywalker's one. Trump knows that what humans want is to be happy. Trump knows that what most Americans want is to be "whappy" (white and happy). Trump knows that most Americans want to believe that complex problems have easy solutions. Trump knows that Americans would like to go "back" to an imaginary perfect past and live happily ever after in a warm and snowy whiteness wonderland.   P Diddy is going to jail. Trump is going to the White House.  Break. Break. Quick break to insert our prediction that music producer Sean Combs is going to jail, maybe for life, on federal human trafficking, racketeering, and obstruction of justice charges. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is headed back to th...

October 5, 2024 How did we get here? Where are we going next? The "creatix" take on the universe and life on Earth.   1. What is the universe? No one knows for sure. At Creatix, we see the universe as a matrix. A matrix is a place or platform where things are created. To create is to transform. To transform is to turn input into output upon application of a force or process. The universe is a place or platform where energy is transformed into different combinations, shapes, and forms.  2. What is this universe made of? No one knows for sure. Almost everything in this universe seems to be "energy", which is defined as the capacity to do work. The universe seems to be made of this "capacity to do work", which is constantly being "worked up". Energy is continually transformed into forces that transform input into output. The output of one process becomes the input for another process as in an eternal chain reaction of energy processing over time. Ev...

September 30, 2024 What will the future bring?  That's a tricky question. No one knows for sure because the future has not been created yet. Predicting the future is not as straightforward as forecasting the weather. The same principles apply, but there are far too many variables involved. We need for artificial intelligence (AI) to integrate all relevant data and make more accurate forecasts of future human-driven events. Eventually, we will get there and that is what the future will bring. The future will bring more and more AI. In turn, AI will help humans produce more and more. There will be more of everything.  Artificial intelligence (AI) will be the defining technology of the rest of the 21st century. From now on, during the rest of your life, you will witness the expansion of AI. Intelligent computer programs will gradually penetrate every single aspect of human life. This will eventually lead to transhumanism, but that is millennia away from now.  We're still at ...

September 26, 2024 Is there a point in learning a foreign language now that AI can translate and interpret in real time?  Well, there is no real need, but it is always a good challenge and mental exercise to learn a foreign language. Technological progress liberates us from having to do many things. Yet we can still do them for fun. Take cooking for example. No one really "needs" to cook nowadays when there are so many restaurants and pre-cooked meals available. Nonetheless, cooking can still be a fun and relaxing activity. The same goes for taking the challenge of learning a new language.  The best method to learn a new language is immersion. After you immerse yourself in the target language for about 10,000 hours, the language will become natural for you. Your brain will spit out words and phrases just like generative AI does. Your brain will predict what word to put after another.  In the first 5 years of study, do like babies and toddlers. Forget abour formal grammar ...

September 24, 2024 What will AI bring in the next 10 years? More. If you want to know what artificial intelligence (AI) will bring in the next 10 years, the answer is simple: more. AI will expand everything that exists today. Everything that is "good" and everything that is "bad" will expand and increase with the help of AI.  AI is the new industrial revolution. If you want to predict how AI will change the human world, learn as much as you can about how the industrial revolution changed the world.  Economic Impact of the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution, which began in the 18th century, began a transition from agrarian societies to industrial ones.  1. Increased Production and Efficiency: The introduction of machinery and new production techniques, such as the factory system, allowed for mass production. This increased efficiency and lowered the costs of goods. 2 Job Creation: Machines eliminated jobs, and created even more jobs. New industries creat...

September 23, 2024 Doughnut Trump is an accidental political genius, a genius populist actor (GPA). His most recent, and maybe best populist proposal of all time? A temporary cap on interest on credit cards.  How does Trump come up with these great populist ideas?   Like all geniuses, Trump connects the dots between different concepts and ideas.  Trump saw in the news that the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates citing among other reasons that Americans are holding record high balances on credit cards. Trump knows that credit card debt is the worst kind of debt simply because interest rates are relatively high. Voila!  That's all Trump needed to know to come up with a fantastically popular populist idea of temporarily capping interest rates on credit cards at 10%. The banking industry is already super opposed and Trump is back heading all political news headlines. Genius! Capping interest rates is such a socialist if not communist or Taliban idea that no one in th...

September 20, 2024 Who will win the 2024 U.S. presidential elections? Doughnut Trump Prediction: Trump will win again. We're back to 2016. Kamala is the new Hillary. We're still a majority racist country under the electoral college system.  Kamala will win the popular vote. We're no longer a majority racist country overall. Nonetheless, the popular vote is irrelevant. The vast majority of states are racist states.  Our country, just like all others in the "New World", was established on the basis of European-centric racism. The country has been gradually moving away from white supremacy, realizing the benefits of diversity and inclusion. The majority of Americans are not racist. However, the majority of racists remain concentrated in traditionally Republican states.  Kamala Harris will fall short of obtaining the 270 electoral college votes needed to win. Trump will get there before. The collective hate of nonwhite immigrants in battleground states will make Trump...