Moon Of Life

If we cannot answer the annoying question of why there is something rather than nothing, perhaps we can at least answer why there is only something rather than everything. Perhaps existence is the default.

Getting pretty sick of people referring to school as “child prison,” prison requires due process & commission of a crime

There is no hidden reserve of smart people who know what they're doing, anywhere. Not in government, not in science, not in tech, not at AppAmaGooBookSoft, nowhere. The world exists in the same glorious imperfection that it presents with.

You throw a corpus into word2vec and a 1-d submanifold pops out that’s just different intensities of “fnord”.

I would present "Frontiers in Using Linear Models and Calling It AI"

You can't explain a seemingly magical system in reductionist terms unless it was designed from the beginning to have a hidden explanation.

A human should be able to play a status game, play a status game, play a status game, and play a status game. Specialization is for insects.

Great philosophy helps predict outcomes of deterministic computation. The best philosophy changes them.

Going meta and being aroused are both easier to do when observing other people.

if we expect to transcend easily we should split into two civilizations so we can both transcend and have two seats at the galactic table

The general principle, an instance of which is: provide spell-checking during editing, but don't have red squiggly lines on the printout.

Can we all agree to stop saying "Type I" and "Type II" errors and just say "false positives" and "false negatives"?

A Lannister always pays his debts because precommitment to tit for tat is the least technically advanced way to beat prisoner's dilemmas