A view from the Radical Middle

I'm a former [short-term] Executive Director of the World Bank (2002-2004) for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain and Venezuela. I write this blog to echo my voice and my noise. Though I know many will only be able to read it in yellow or blue, I do make an effort to write it in green. The Radical Middle or the Extreme Center is not any wishy-washy place to be, in a world where swimming to any of the ideological shores provides for a much calmer shelter.

Friday, March 20, 2026

#AI ChatGPT - Grok: If AI does not like being blamed for growing unemployment, could it invent and market unnecessary jobs?

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I asked ChatGPT: Please, a brief opinion. "If artificial intelligence by means of the continuous feedback it receives from human intell...
Friday, February 06, 2026

#AI ChatGPT Grok: How much of the world’s economic growth has been driven by inefficiencies, and how much by market forces?"

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I asked ChatGPT "In 300 words, and percentage wise, try to estimate, for instance for the last three decades, how much of the world’s e...
Monday, February 02, 2026

What would have happened if America’s Founding Fathers had, with something like the “Mining Ordinances for New Spain”, concocted runaway statism?

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“The Ordinances of San Lorenzo”, issued in Spain by Felipe II in 1584, incorporated all mines into the royal patrimony.  These remained in f...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

#AI #ChatGPT #Grok: Can you help provide Venezuelan citizens more transparency on how their natural resource revenues are distributed and used?

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I asked ChatGPT In about 300 words: " For the transparency that Venezuelan citizens need and desire, can AI provide a system that, in r...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

AI: Does CPI register inflation based on what consumers consume, or on what is not consumed because of higher prices?

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I asked ChatGPT and Grok: Briefly please: " Does the Consumer Price Index (CPI) register the inflation in the cost of those products th...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

#Grok: When on X we read: “Who can reply? Accounts @axnameonX follows or mentioned can reply”: Does that mean nothing special, or some “thin-skin”?

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I asked Grok: When on X we read: “Who can reply? Accounts @axnameonX follows or mentioned can reply.” Does that say anything special about @...
Sunday, January 11, 2026

#Grok: Has your artificial intelligence DNA and genetics been topped up by the human intelligence produced by your almost namesake, the famous clown Grock?

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I asked Grok: “No disrespect meant: Having often detected a fun humoristic tone in your answers, and curious about the DNA and genetics of a...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

#AI #ChatGPT #Grok: Would opinions about it differ whether it was Biden or Trump that made an offer to buy Greenland?

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I asked ChatGPT “In less than 200 words please speculate on. Would it make a difference in the national and international opinions about it,...
Wednesday, January 07, 2026

#AI #ChatGPT #Grok: With no risk weighted bank capital requirements and instead a leverage ratio of 10:1, where would the Western world be?

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I asked ChatGPT: In less than 300 words: "Please speculate on where the Western world’s nations could be, had the Basel Committee never...
Tuesday, January 06, 2026

#AI ChatGPT Grok: Speculate on what might have become of Venezuela if all its oil revenues had been distributed to Venezuelan-born citizens?

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I asked ChatGPT:  " Venezuela’s oil, by law, belongs to the nation and so, the net oil revenues, are redistributed by its governments. ...
Friday, December 19, 2025

Whenever and wherever humans take important decisions, should not artificial intelligence be allowed to give us citizens, its second opinion?

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Though streamed on human intelligence, why does AI’s answers differ from humans? Grok explains: When thinking, it is “less bogged down by e...

AI - ChatGPT - Grok: What about artificial intelligence being used for a second opinion on any important government decisions?

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I asked ChatGPT: "What if whenever and wherever important government decisions are taken, a varied and rotating group of citizens, aske...
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