August 2012
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JFDI
It has to start somewhere.
It has to start sometime.
What better place than here?
What better time than now?
-Guerilla Radio, Rage Against The Machine
We have this bizarre sense that the rest of the world is working on things, fixing our problems, curing our cancer, making sure global warming or nuclear warfare won’t actually kill us all. It’s the sense that “there are problems, but they’ll...
April 2012
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December 2011
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The Universe Deluded By The Mind: trying to find...
The vast macrocosm we live in is frustratingly unknowable. We can squeeze a lot into our three-pound brains, but trying to understand the nature of the universe is just too enormous a feat. Logically, the universe is either infinite or finite. If the universe is infinite, it was not created and it will not terminate. Contrastingly, if the universe is finite, the universe began and will end...
November 2011
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The Singularity: Technological Phenomenon or...
Over the past 60 years, computers have shrunk from room-sized to pocket-sized. According to Moore’s Law, technology is improving at an exponential rate. Futurists like Ray Kurzweil claim that technology is advancing so quickly that in the next 50 years there will be an intelligence explosion, creating an era in which machines will be more intelligent than people. At some point, man and machine...
October 2011
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My life is ridiculous and some of it should be...
2011 has been the craziest year of my life. It has been absolutely amazing and absolutely horrible. My experiences this year have been overwhelmingly intense - but because there have been so many of them, compacted in such a short amount of time, the experiences/memories I’d normally NEVER FORGET have easily been swept under the rug and forgotten about.
This is a time in my life that I...
