Election Lore

  • USING AI WITH THE SAFETIES OFF – A USER ERROR WAITING TO HAPPEN

    On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump announced a comprehensive tariff plan. This post was prompted by recent speculation that the White House’s plan for broad reciprocal tariffs may have been shaped—at least in part—by AI. Whether that’s true or not, it raises a serious question: What happens when powerful decisions are driven by prompts…

  • Solving SSA’s Problems: A Voter’s Perspective

    Most of my posts are about solving problems. And SSA does have problems—that’s not my opinion; their own internal audits say so, and the GAO backs it up. I’m not making this up or pulling it from AI. I’m using SSA as an example because DOGE and the White House are fixated on it, which…

  • Why Drug Prices Are Unnecessarily High

    The root problem in our drug pricing system isn’t just high prices—it’s how those prices are set. In a normal market, buyers and sellers see the price and make decisions accordingly. But in pharmaceuticals, the system is built on information hiding and artificial scarcity. LIST PRICES AREN’T REAL Manufacturers set list prices arbitrarily high, but…

  • Maximizing AI in Education: The Path to Personalized Learning

    What if every student had access to a personalized tutor, mentor, and coach? That’s the potential of AI—not to replace learning, but to accelerate it. AI-assisted writing isn’t about students getting AI to do their work—it’s about training students to communicate effectively, a skill more critical than ever. We didn’t stop teaching math when calculators…