York city all the way out to the west coast in california. With that. And Silicon Valleys zen master will join us today. This is the guy that the tech giants like google turn to when it wants to boost productivity and innovation and spark creativity in workers. Youre going to meet him, down at the nyse today. Thats going to be an interesting segment. Are you channeling your inner trader, ty . I am in a zen state of mind, sue. And stocks unfortunately are not in a zen state of mind, down about 73 points right now on the dow, the s p 500 is off about 5 and the nasdaq is down just fractionally. Think about the week we have just gone through. It began with the removal of Larry Summers as a leading candidate to be the fed chief. Then the tragic shooting in washington. The nontaper day on wednesday. And now, votes in washington about defunding obama care and continuing resolution. Theres a lot for investors to mull. The first week with a lot of unsirtsty. China did not fall apart. We saw eur
Read the book and i have got parts to argue with on that question, men are in trouble. Give us the premise of the disaster. Host men are having a harder time adapting to the economy and women are adapting wisely. I can tell you why. Just to say to this period entry, then as education and credentials of the kami is fastchanging and who knows what its going to throw at us. Women seems to get getting those credentials at a faster rate than men are and they tend to be more nimble and that filters down into our society so in the book i talk about how that changes marriage and fatherhood in what manner he can and cant do in families and how young people have and make decisions and so you really start to see it having an influence in our culture. Host give me some of the numbers. I think many people, we have heard for so many years if theres a crisis with girls and they have to learn differently and not as strong in math and science. I think it will come as a shock to learn that women far out
Host youre watching booktv on cspan2, and now joins us live is the author of flash boys. Michael lewis, what is a flash boy . Guest the heroes of the book are the flash boys, and theyre people that discover the stock markets got something funny going on and seek to find out what it is and then build a mechanism to prevent predators in the stock market from getting to prey. Its called flash boys for a couple of reasons, actually. One is that the solution that the main characters come up with requires them to be faster than the highspeed traders who are the predators in the stock market. So theyve got to be, i wanted speed in the title, but i also wanted kind of superhero in the title because they were these, i mean, these characters presented the story, i felt. Theyre not doing anything unnatural, but they do have these weird powers in the Financial Markets right now, and the powers are powers to explain complicated things to people, the power to kind of engender trust in others. But th
Like the way internet discussions work. Or if you were like and not a Computer Programmer but like an economist or political sciences, maybe institutional innovations eyed Prediction Markets are other ways to ensure that we can raise the quality of public liberation. Those would help with ai that they would also help us deal with a variety of other mega challenges. So it might be for a lot of people is i want to contribute, theyre not doing a specific stuff but just make the world wiser and saner. Again, would be the best way to contribute. So we already have selfreplicating programs and we ourselves are selfreplicating ai. What is the probability you think that we will see selfreplicating ai programs . Well, its certainly easy to do in as much as company, a computer virus is in effect, its not intelligence but its a program that self replicates. Uk mansion you could imagine. I dont think theres any intrinsic urge to replicate, although what you will find i think is a wide range of fin
Media. Our handle on twitter is cspan wj. Facebook. Com cspan and post there. Or you can send us an email at journal cspan. Org. E is what justice evens Justice Stevens says in his book those are the five words he is proposing. We want to get your thoughts in that. Justice stevens wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post on friday. He says this the adoption of rules that will lessen those incidents should be a primary concern to both state and legislatures to state legislatures. It is those legislatures, rather than federal judges, whos hould make the decisions this is the former justice writing in the Washington Post. He goes on to say he goes on to argue this what are your thoughts on this . Five extra words to fix the Second Amendment. 2025853881. Democrats, 2025853880. And independents and all others, 2025853882. They we want to focus on what Justice Stevens is saying that the Second Amendment. From louisiana, republican,. A member of the nra secondont believe the amendment s