The New Blather

“The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play,” said Arthur C. Clarke. Seems a reasonable guess, considering the promises of technological innovations. But I’d say the technology is already here, today. We have it. We have the technology to allow us to play the days away, living life enjoying each other’s [...]

I’ve heard it theorized that if we ever contact sentient intelligent aliens from other planets, we may have no way to relate to them because their methods of thinking will be too outlandish for us. They will think in fundamentally different ways. Nonsense, I say! While there may be some variations on thought processing speed, [...]

Haven’t posted much in a while. Continuing to work on my novel; my progress can be read about on my writing blog. Also making some slow progress on my search for Strong AI. Anyway, he’s a post about thinking. As humans, we don’t very often turn our brains off, save for the deeper cycles of [...]

It’s almost Easter! So how about a little post on Christianity and science fiction? I recently read this article: Christianity vs. Science Fiction I must admit, with all the political correctness going on the sci-fi world (perhaps from the strange recent mainstream popularity of “geekdom”, mostly comprised on wannabes who consider themselves geeks because they [...]

I think there’s a lot of stress and fear out there. The basic fears: Will I find a job? Will I have enough money? Enough food? Shelter? And then there are deeper fears that claw at one’s heart, even if people are too afraid to challenge them face to face: Am I good-looking? Am I [...]

I’m reading Mastery, the latest book from author Robert Greene (author of the classic book The 48 Laws of Power).  On page 42, Greene writes about Buckminster Fuller.  A depressed Fuller was on his way to commit suicide when he heard a voice from within himself that said: “From now on you need never await [...]

I find it curious to consider the nature of three-dimensional space as an experience of physical interaction more than some physical reality in and of itself. Spacial dimensions do not exist in the experience of thought, after all. If one thinks of a chicken, then thinks of a brick wall, one does not have to [...]

Last month, or the month before (it’s all a bit of blur), I started programming what I thought could be a general purpose AI engine.  And it works!  It can find any pattern that is computational, and thus solve any computationally defined problem.  But it’s unfortunately completely inefficient for most interesting tasks.  If it wanted [...]

As the media continues to celebrate sexuality in an ever-increasing “anything goes” manner, Christians may find themselves unsure of what to make of it. On the one hand, we do want to be fair and equal people, treating each other with dignity and respect. How can we not want each other to be truly happy? [...]

Forgive me if this seems a preachy post. It is part confessional, as everything mentioned here are things I struggle with, so it’s not as if I am spouting some dark judgment upon the rest of the world from some lofty superior position of perfection. But we can’t get past our faults if we’re too [...]