I expect most of those who fear that AI will become sentient and take over the universe have never successfully programmed a computer to do much of anything.  If you've worked as a computer programmer, as I have, you know how buggy they are and how often you have to reboot them LOL ( Read more... )

We have these spiritual guideposts that tell us stuff like, "Live as though today were your last," and "Live always within each moment," but we also observe both causality and retrocausality.

What if our spiritual advice flowed from the paradox of time's bidirectional (or even multidirectional) arrows?

Live as though you're already dead.  Live as ( Read more... )