Month: April 2015


  • My thinking had become very uptight…

    I may go so far as to say if you don’t like The Big Lebowski, stop reading this blog. (I’m just kidding. Come back. P-please?) One of the amazing things about the Coen Bros’ story is the way The Dude experiences epiphanies that ultimately enlighten no one but him. He’s like this sub-Philip Marlowe upon […]

  • Scarier than Skynet

    Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, essentially an academic paper on the concerns around AI, the possible ways by (and speeds at) which it may lap human intelligence, and the multiple potential outcomes of those scenarios is smart, more comprehensive than you can imagine, and really fucking scary. Scary because it’s often as dry as […]