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November 13, 2011
July 7, 2011
July 3, 2011
June 22, 2011
Reality check
Lots of hooks for thought (in a prog philosophy jam way) here in Charles Stross’s demolition of the prospects for the singularity/mind uploading/Matrix-style simulations.
Need to dig up the Pigs In Cyberspace piece too: what would it look like if we were to give in and adapt to an online existence that wasn’t a physical simulation of some kind?
Sure, “what does it feel like to be an AI?” is about as unanswerable as “what does it feel like to be a bat?”, but even the vaguest notion of a consciousness driven by information rather than driven by sense impressions (sight for most of us; sound for the bats) is an interesting one.
February 7, 2011
January 10, 2011
I had never seen this shot of a young Steve Jobs, um, saluting IBM before. Love it.
(via McCarron)
October 1, 2010
Tumbled Logic: Of ads and blocking
There’s also option 5: a war between ad publishers and ad blockers. Right now, publishers make it easy to block ads — they’re served from domains like ads.lotsabucks.cashcashcash.com, they’re in separate divs or elements easily hidden with CSS, etc.
If ad blockers reach the sort of levels where they’re a problem, that’s going to change.
August 24, 2010
June 11, 2010
“Americans want government off our backs … that is, until a folding crib crushes the skull of our baby; Toyota accelerators speed us to our death; banks blow our savings on gambling sprees; and crude oil smothers the Mississippi.” — Greg Palast » Slick Operator: The BP I’ve known too well
