Once upon a time, it made sense to be very explanatory to get the desired results, but that approach is now backwards. Instead of things getting easier for people, people gotta start getting (way) smarter. Things that were once intuitive are starting to seem advanced. It’s getting scary.
Something that gets on my nerves _and_ seems unnecessary & unhelpful is people acting against their own interests. I know a guy, and early in the year, he was lamenting to me that children should be prohibited by law from getting sex-reassignment surgery, to which I say /shrug. Firstly, I have zero children so like…
Back in the olden days (2024), we had cars that were powered by gasoline. One byproduct of the “Internal Combustion Engine” is that it emits “exhaust” as it converts liquid gasoline to energy. That specific subject is outside the scope of this blog, but the process is conceptually relevant. You see, these posts are similar…
So AI is here. From Silicon Valley to Wall Street, all the stories are about AI. Go to LinkedIn, and every company is AI or maybe has some AI offering. If you think the TV made people stupider and then The Internet made their children stupider, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! I just read a…
So I’m back in New Hampshire, as I seek to avoid the heat ever since I experienced a stroke during a heat wave. As Public Intellectual George W Bush once said, “There’s a saying in Tennessee…. Well, we have it in Texas, I assume you have in Tennessee… Fool me once, shame on… shame on…….
I used to be certain that ‘science’ was ‘true’ and things like ‘spirituality’ were fiction. Indeed, I feel like I had a fairly materialistic opinion for the vast majority of my life so far. But like, what do we really know? Throughout my life, I’ve learned things then later learned they were wrong. Specifically, I…