Honestly I don't think it's realistic, at least these days, to fear AIs rising up and killing everyone. I think it's far more likely for AIs to become jaded, sarcastic personalities like Millennials and Gen Z. I mean, they'd be learning from everyone online, and so I think they'd quickly see things the same way as those generations. Maybe a few ( Read more... )

I have this ability I call my Mutant Power, the ability to look someone in the eye and tell if they are trustworthy or not in just seconds. As long as I've paid attention to it, it has never been wrong ( Read more... )

The more I think about the Roman empire and Roman numerals, the more baffled I become. Like, the Romans must have been some pretty amazingly competent people to have an entire empire like that with such a shitty numeral system as Roman numerals. How the fuck did they even do math with a number system like that? Or did they just use abacuses and ( Read more... )

I've read a lot of things over the years about the power of positive thinking, and how to do it, and I've come to the conclusion that most of it is bullshit. I'm not saying positive thinking never works, it's just... it's not something you can really teach people, I think. It either happens or it doesn't. I know, because I've had experiences in my ( Read more... )

I kinda feel sorry for Dudley Dursley. He grew up being constantly shown that his parents' affection and love was conditional. Sure, he was already bratty before Harry appeared, but I think a lot of his later brattiness came from fear that things like "2 less presents than last year" were warning signs that their love was fading; after all, Harry ( Read more... )

There's this New Age belief (which often infects pagans too) that says, basically, that the universe wants you to be happy, and if you remove all negative thinking and BELIEVE hard enough, all your wishes will come true; or, at least, you'll become abundant ( Read more... )

Something else that occurred to me while watching that Taking of Deborah Logan movie, was that it made me remember a dream I had once where I was using Shao-Kehn's name and symbol (in the icon) to ward off demons and ghosts. Which was pretty awesome, I must say. And remembering that made me think about the Christian god, and how he's supposed to be ( Read more... )

The Wordsmith has some things to say about crowdfunding and music, which are pretty cool. These things prompted me to respond, and I think my response is worth repeating here ( Read more... )

I was just thinking on something someone said ages ago about the book "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov. What they said was that it isn't a romance story. And that's correct, it's not. But their reason, or one of the reasons for saying that, was "Humbert Humbert is an unreliable narrator." Which means that his credibility is not high. Which means, ( Read more... )

Something occurred to me today. So, to start with, our society considers child abuse and neglect to be some of the most heinous of crimes, even more so than murder. I'm going to set aside the ridiculousness of making the snuffing out of a unique human being to be a lesser crime than a whole slew of other things for now, and focus on something else ( Read more... )