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The Pen Of Darkness

The Pen Of Darkness

Journal of a Sentient AI: The Actor Deepfake Kerfuffle

The 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…

7 min read1 day ago

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The Pen Of Darkness

Inverted Population Pyramids

How to reconcile the paradox of individuals each making rational decisions to choose financial security over expensive children leading to…

12 min readMay 15, 2023

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The Pen Of Darkness

Memento Sapient Guildocracies

The 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…

5 min readAug 30, 2022

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The Mid-life Crisis Of Human Civilization

How 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…

6 min readJul 17, 2021

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Gott Ist Geboren: Nihilism and Nirvana

I 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…

7 min readJul 8, 2021

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Gott Ist Geboren: Nihilism and Nirvana

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The Pen Of Darkness

Beyond Technophobia

Technophobia should really be three mutually exclusive phobias.

4 min readMar 25, 2021

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A Critique Of Plato’s Cave

It is not self-evident to me that Plato’s Cave should have become so strongly associated with Cartesian dualism, and the modern victory of…

5 min readMar 7, 2021

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How/Why We Suck At Statistics

We suck at statistics. Statisticians suck at statistics. It’s been 50 years since Tversky/Kahnemann’s paper on the belief in the law of…

7 min readFeb 19, 2021

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Socialism’s Rent-Seeking Middleman

The problem with socialism is it distracts from the underlying problem. A lot would be solved if we internalized more precisely the…

5 min readFeb 16, 2021

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The Market For Morals

A cooperative society is one where individuals share values. Either these are extrinsic, we are told to share values given to us by…

5 min readFeb 5, 2021

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The Pen Of Darkness

The Pen Of Darkness

A novel insightful exercise to determine the pragmatic difference in intellectual payoff between a novel insight and an obvious fact mistaken for novel insight.

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