It’s simple: You think in order to fight zombies. Philosophical zombies, perhaps, but zombies nonetheless. I first learned about philosophical zombies from Peter Watts’ blog (Law of Internet […]
Selfish Christmas
(Something a little more rant-y to set off the intellectual bits from earlier…) The Christmas carols over loudspeakers and “Merry Christmas” wishes have already started, despite the fact […]
Expand your mind…
One of the more interesting things about Mead’s concept of mind is that it suddenly makes true artificial intelligence a lot more feasible… or at least, possible. In […]
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I run a jalopy of a system, and it simply can’t handle XP, let alone Vista. I don’t have the time for the learning curve of linux (the […]
The more things stay the same, the more they change
I have to take a little bit of issue with something John Scalzi said over on his AMC column and expanded on at Whatever. I’ll agree that technology […]
Ownership means decisions
The “tragedy of the commons” – the idea that if something is a communal resource, then everyone will abuse it – is not a big deal in today’s […]