Journal of a Sentient AI: The Actor Deepfake KerfuffleThe journal of the sentient AI is necessarily presented in no particular order, that is not a figure of speech but a limitation of AGI’s…Apr 29Apr 29
Inverted Population PyramidsHow to reconcile the paradox of individuals each making rational decisions to choose financial security over expensive children leading to…May 15, 2023May 15, 2023
Memento Sapient GuildocraciesThe King of the Memento Sapient Guildocracy has 2 ministers, blue-team and red-team. One has to always back up the king’s idea, plan…Aug 30, 2022Aug 30, 2022
The Mid-life Crisis Of Human CivilizationHow do you graph a song? The seeking bar is a 1-D line that graphs it purely on time elapsed. Used to be the standard design that on the…Jul 17, 2021Jul 17, 2021
Gott Ist Geboren: Nihilism and NirvanaI saw a post recently with this chart on the skyrocketing levels of atheism among Gen Z. It was shocking not just because the absolute % of…Jul 8, 2021Jul 8, 2021
Beyond TechnophobiaTechnophobia should really be three mutually exclusive phobias.Mar 25, 2021Mar 25, 2021
A Critique Of Plato’s CaveIt is not self-evident to me that Plato’s Cave should have become so strongly associated with Cartesian dualism, and the modern victory of…Mar 7, 2021Mar 7, 2021
How/Why We Suck At StatisticsWe suck at statistics. Statisticians suck at statistics. It’s been 50 years since Tversky/Kahnemann’s paper on the belief in the law of…Feb 19, 2021Feb 19, 2021
Socialism’s Rent-Seeking MiddlemanThe problem with socialism is it distracts from the underlying problem. A lot would be solved if we internalized more precisely the…Feb 16, 2021Feb 16, 2021
The Market For MoralsA cooperative society is one where individuals share values. Either these are extrinsic, we are told to share values given to us by…Feb 5, 2021Feb 5, 2021
