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Choosing sides - and better tactics? - for the battles aheadFirst a few culture notes : Like will someone please report back here about the sci fi time travel satire " Command-Z "? And...
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Can dumb apes plan for future AI demigods?Wired Magazine bought and published a concise version of my unusual take on Artificial Intelligence: Give Every AI a Soul-- or Else . I...
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Can we get practical? Is utilitarianism the basis of our society? (And fixing our House.)Writing this during the month after D-Day commemorations, I want to start by linking to a fine essay about how the world changed after World War...
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An inverted social contract? War against the IRS? Ukraine and more...First, briefly: Another international levy that could be a win-win-win (for all except oligarchs... and a titan exporter) ... pushed...
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A 'questionnaire on ideology'... The Great 'Libertarian' Hypocrisy... and Strategic Reserves of Oil etc.First a blast about old older piece of mine that still may be (I've been told) a fast-track to at least some kinds of wisdom. My...
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Ah, the Unabomber... And Why Almost Every Maven in Artificial Intelligence gets the Big Picture All WrongI have a major piece about Artificial Intelligence under submission to some zines. It details the many simplistic stances about...
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Biotech, bioscience & human originsI've been swampd with interviews on Artificial Intelligence and writing missives to try (in expected futility) shining some light amid the...
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The FACT Act and other proposals for the Union side (the D-Party) in this Culture WarYesterday I gave a talk for the Tech and Internet Caucus of the California Democratic Party. I've done it before. A few years ago I was...
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Another one-page screenplay! "DIASPORA"Okay, another 'shut up and play your guitar" posting. I originally submitted two scripts to the 2016 One Page Screenplay...
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The AI saga continuesFollowing up on my last posting on advances - and worries - about Artificial General Intelligence.... Peter Diamandis's latest tech...
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Pushing back at lies - and liarsOkay, I've devoted my last few blogs to wonderful science news... and ongoing not-so-wonderful arguments over how to get max benefits and...
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Galactic matters & supermassive black holes!Been taking a break from the tsunami of "AI stuff" - pokes and pods about the Chat GPT and the absurd "moratorium petition" and...
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Convergence: rethinking a lot of assumptionsAs I prep for a (hopefully) minor medical procedure, here's an early weekend posting, to keep y'all from going too ravenous! Here’s...
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Danger, the skAI is falling!Is the AI sky falling? Well so it seems in April 2023. Or… why clever guys offer simplistic answers to AI quandaries....
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Stories by folks who know their science!Let's talk science fiction for a bit. But first... After finishing my duties in DC with NASA's Innovative & Advanced Concepts...
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The only way out of the AI dilemmaOkay, despite wars and bugs and politician indictments, what crisis is obsessing so many right now? Of course it's...
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Ideologies of betrayal - several cogent essay/articles you might not want to miss. Oh, and a distilled "Marx for dummies!"A decade ago, I joined a small mélange of folks trying to revive interest in Adam Smith the enlightenment thinker and fierce opponent of...
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All those 'chat' programs... and the End of Photography as Proof of Anything At AllThe latter half of this posting will consist of a chapter from The Transparent Society (1997) that feels like it was written yesterday, about...
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One page screenplay explains the 1980s! "The Bargain."Okay, here's another 'shut up and play your guitar' posting. I originally submitted two scripts to the 2016 One Page Screenplay...
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Saving the world? Hopes rise - but worries remainBeen busy shoveling mud here in SoCal... The last atmospheric river left a trail of damage across California, with catastrophic...
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Afficionado Part III - a stand apart excerpt from EXISTENCEConcluding my "shut up and just play your guitar" moment... here's the concluding section of that stand-alone chapter from...
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Surveillance & technologyI was planning to publish today the final section (Part III) of "Aficionado" - a stand alone novella that's part of EXISTENCE. Alas, my website...
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Aficionado Part II - part of a stand-alone excerpt from EXISTENCEContinuing my "shut up and just play your guitar" moment... ( But no, I won't shut up! I'll append to the end of this story...
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Isaac Asimov, Karl Marx & the Hari Seldon ParadoxLet's try looking back at the Foundation universe ... which some of you have read... considering Isaac Asimov's sci fi classic in light of his...
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Science Fiction roundup - and predictive milestones! And the worst timing for a movie release ever!Let's start with a pair of eerily almost-exact predictions. First h ere's a prophetic image from my graphic novel, ...
