I could also fart hard enough to reach orbit. I probably won’t… but I could.
I’m not going to do the math, but I’m pretty sure you can’t. The forces required would probably destroy your body before you left the ground.
The crazy thing about speculative economy is that by releasing this article, businessinsider might scare some of the investors and so create a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I’ve always thought that about recession predictions. After all, economists measure consumer confidence and define the meaning of the results as
if consumers are optimistic, they will spend more and stimulate the economy, but if they are pessimistic then their spending patterns could lead to an economic slowdown or recession.
It’s clearly reasonable to think that publishing panic-inducing articles like “stock market will soon CRASH 49%!!” would decrease consumer confidence.
I think that’s pretty much what the foundation series was about, predicting a system changes it.
AI and related companies are here to stay for the most part. Overvalued in the short term but not in the long term, as again, this stuff is going to stay.
Bears have predicted 11 of the last 2 crashes, this isn’t news
