PinnedA Darwinian Argument“You must die.” The woman spoke dispassionately, her face blank.Dec 27, 20201Dec 27, 20201
Right brain thought for the dayme: brief and credible assertion that gpt-4 can replace left-brain activity while right-brain roughly expresses intent and concepts in a…Mar 28, 2023Mar 28, 2023
What ChatGPT would Ask ItselfOr rather, what it did ask itself, and how it answered. Despite my concerns about AI viruses escaping, I can’t help being curious about…Mar 19, 2023Mar 19, 2023
Playing on an Organic TeamThe web is littered with articles on empowering employees and bottom-up management. Much of it feels like lip service, when in the end…Feb 22, 2022Feb 22, 2022
Conflicting Narratives: a conversation about Palestinians, Jews, Muslims, Noam Chomsky and a…I run a loose organization of human rights advocates and volunteers, many of whom are young — high school or college — and from all over…Feb 7, 2021Feb 7, 2021
Time for Public Oversight of DHSICE and CBP are out of control. The evidence for this is overwhelming:Dec 29, 2020Dec 29, 2020
Toadlets of TucsonOur pool had turned into a swamp. On July 23, 2020, we’d finished draining, cleaning and painting it, and were just starting to fill it…Aug 30, 2020Aug 30, 2020
Towards Trust Networks and a Bullshit MeterI wrote this piece several years ago but never posted it. Posting it now in case any of the ideas here are useful.Jan 28, 2020Jan 28, 2020
BlueSky RFC 2 — Architecture: technical and organizationalOn December 11, 2019, @jack of Twitter posted a commitment to fund an open source team to decentralize social media. Lots of folks have…Jan 26, 20201Jan 26, 20201
On Debate of Political TheoriesTelling bad policy, bad political theories or models, from good is not hard — does it harm innocent people? Ah, you say, but at a certain…Nov 6, 2019Nov 6, 2019