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#UnicornProblems
So I seem to have this razor-fine balance between art, engineering and Not Wallowing In My Own Filth that I have to meet or I feel angry and depressed and off my game. And if I go far enough off it I'll start to do things like desperately drawing at midnight so that my art demons don't hound me all day at work the next day ( Read more... ) -
Thought Fragments:
What if geeks are better off unpopular? What if making science and technology "uncool" creates a drive in the technically minded to prove that "cool" is bullshit, that all the people more interested in being popular and having influence are the ones crippling themselves ( Read more... ) -
Open Data is Phase One
Read a really interesting article in Wired just now about how opening databases to the public often empowers the already-data-savvy over the many non-digitrati out there, and I think this underscores another one of those yet-unmade institutions I keep saying we should be building, the public number-crunching sphere ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Oh man, ever wish you could remember more of the dream you had because of how awesome it obviously was? Last night was definitely one of those, I mean, it had falling through the EE atrium onto giant statue of Rarity, teaching the CMCs how to build opamps, telekinesis, trolling, and at one point I was working in a soda shop where the head waitress ( Read more... ) -
The Room at the Bottom
The switches, the on-offs the zero-ones the unitary fibers of the digital flowering are now countable atomic widths and near-countable atomic heights and lengths, and soon all will be countable and soon they will shrink to dozens of atoms in total and as they do so their switching times and mechanisms will shrink down to femtosecond motions of ( Read more... ) -
Genetic Policy
So I forgot if I've said this already, but we really really REALLY need to get past whether genetic engineering of crops and livestock is "good or bad" and get to WHICH KINDS OF ENGINEERING ARE GOOD AND BAD ( Read more... ) -
Artilects and the Parenting of Gods
It is not entirely unreasonable to think that there is some chance that within this century (or some century hence) computation will create minds greater than ours. It is also not entirely unreasonable to suspect that once this happens, it will not be long before minds MUCH greater than ours are made, since as far as we can tell the fundamental ( Read more... ) -
Field notes-- 2084
---------------To be clear, I cannot be certain that I am still human ( Read more... ) -
Joining Sissy's Bad Trip
I got a request on the original post, but I'm reposting for visibility:
I think there's a way for you to officially join the project, and I think basically you have to email me so I know who to add to the project, but in honesty I don't have SVN figured out so I'll be doing merges manually anyway. But I'll try to add you if you email me and ask ( Read more... )