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Monday, November 4, 2024

Old Age Theorizing and the Stupid Economy

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I suppose that we're all thinking about age. Biden's blank look, where makeup brings the undertakers' art to mind. Trumpian fall...
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Thursday, October 3, 2024

The Bland Lonely Life of a Cosmologist

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I must be a cosmologist, since I know I'm not anything else. I was, apparently, born this way. I might as well be an alien from another ...
Friday, July 5, 2024

Old and Decrepit

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Not so very long ago, I was living in a place where it was pleasant each day to take bike rides and walks in the woods. My sister and brothe...
Monday, July 1, 2024

Asking What It's Like to be a Bat is Not Different from Asking What It's Like to be a Trumper

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I do not wish to denigrate either bats or Trumpers. I don't know what it's like to be either. Or do I? Visiting a zoo, I have had a ...
Saturday, June 29, 2024

An Open Missive for Federico Faggin - Goodreads Review

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Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature by Federico Faggin My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was very excited to hear of th...
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Friday, June 7, 2024

Exhausting AI

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I want to focus on a small set of the absurdities of so-called Artificial Intelligence. I'm motivated in the first place by some misappr...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024

The Insanity of Panpsychism and Metaphysical Idealism

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For some reason that I can't quite fathom, there have been a lot of articles in the popular press lately about either or both of Panpsyc...