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The following quote is from a talk by physicist Richard Feynman called The Relation of Science and Religion, which I consider a apologia of sorts:
I don’t know the answer to this central problem – the problem of maintaining the real value of religion, as a source of strength and of courage to […]
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Science Fiction. I like reading it. But I find just about anything calling itself that in video form to be very disappointing.
Why do I like science fiction? Well, one could pick any of numerous tropes and assume it has some attraction to me. Perhaps it’s space, or aliens, or AI. Maybe I’m […]
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I was thinking today that most political affiliation to parties and left/right wing, can be concisely encapsulated by looking at the top Fiscal Priority of an individual. This seems to be able to identify parties and lables that otherwise elude simple description, since they contain a variety of various other views.
For example, […]
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I have been thinking about taking some programming language and making some sort graphical interface akin to StarLogo TNG but I may be approaching it too a posteriori. That is, I’m assuming a graphigal, i.e. spatial, representation of it would be necessarily good. But I think that follows from the principles of […]
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A moment of fancy on IRC led me to concoct the following:
((len([i for i in __globals__ if i is not god and type(i) is type(god)]) == 0) and (god.prophet == muhammad))) == True
This is the Shahadah represented in Python.
Programming Language Wars are frequently religious, I thought why not take it a step […]
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Taxes levied always lead to a deadweight loss. That is, unless you are taxing an inelastic good or activity. Otherwise, there can be no revenue.
So far so good. However, one should consider why some goods and activities are inelastic. This category tends to includes necessities; things that are relatively important to your survival […]
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Recently Bruce Schneier posted a debunking of the idea of a Transparent Society (such as put forward by David Brin). He argues that the while the more open exchange of information in society can lead to a power balance, existing power structures mean that those already powerful will benefit most from disclosure. […]
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Democracy is founded on giving people the right to self-determination and the illusion that this is a good method by which to extract collective intelligence.
There is not the problem of the mob but quite the opposite: it is the massed individual stupidity which brings down the democratic endeavor.
Let us look at an […]
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I’ve often looked to the roads, traffic, and vehicle-pedestrian interaction as a guide to human to behavior. It is a situation where the risk is very high and communication is highly constrained, so behavior strategies are more readily apparent.
Most of us know the roads as strongly structured environments with mostly clear rules […]
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Yesterday, I was pulling out of a parking lot in my 2000 Honda Accord. In front of me was a Honda Civic that looked to be from the late 80’s to early 90’s.
And then, something amazing happened. Our blinkers synchronized!
For the half a minute or so we were both waiting for a […]
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