Over Soon Enough
October 22, 2017 by
Phil Osborn
A note to God...
The Grand Integration
May 21, 2017 by
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Here we go: The universe is a whole. No part can contradict that. (thought experiment goes here) Dimensions of analysis: Art, Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Decision Theory, Evil, Freedom, Justice, Limbic Resonance, Love, Perceptual Reaffirmation, Personal Trust, Perversion of Thought, Physics, Property Theory, Sex, Singularity, Social Contract, Sociopaths I'm using my algebraic analytics. While I adopted this methodology in the mid-'70'...
The Buck Stop
April 5, 2017 by
Phil Osborn
There's a lot of mystical, teary-eyed attachment, especially among my fellow libertarians, to the idea of a hard backing such as gold for the dollar. The reality is simple supply and demand. People need dollars to pay their taxes. There is effectively no substitute. Mortgages and other financial instruments in the U.S. are also tied to the dollar and there is no sign that somehow bitcoin or any other replacement - including gold - is immediately av...
Being Bad
April 5, 2017 by
Phil Osborn
(170812) Yesterday spent at work correcting product listings on the website. Some 40 entries, three of which were corrupted, yielding nonsense on the front end, and blank data entry forms on the back end. This followed several months now of correcting links to the newest version manuals, doing a poor job because of conflicting source material. The company hardly has any real web presence any more, as measured by Google's keyword page return. Two years ago, they ...
Yet another TOE
March 1, 2017 by
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http://www.kurzweilai.net/neural-networks-promise-sharpest-ever-images Imagine applying this to everyday audio/video via something like Google Glass. Imagine refining huge samples such as a novel or a physics compendium. Maybe we already have enough data, given this methodology, to describe and extract a full blown universal TOE. If so, why do anything more? In general, if we know that this is theoretically possible then what incentive remains, of any kind? Do we have to...
How to Deal With Mental Decline?
February 11, 2017 by
Phil Osborn
Interesting program on NPR regarding the fairly common problem of pre-frontal lobe atrophy. Ravel was coming down with it as he wrote Bolero, and the structure of the piece reflects the removal of the moderating circuitry in the pre-frontal lobe. Typically, victims will go thru a phase in which they generate amazing repetitive pattens... I'm thinking about my "On Morals" blog, but there are numerous other blog articles in which I tend to repeat myself, with slight variat...
How to deal with sociopaths?
January 29, 2017 by
Phil Osborn
03/05/2017 I've decided to take the plunge and go positive for a change. Other people will pick up the negative slack, I'm sure... With regard to the depressing coverage below, numerous researchers in fields such as neuro-psychology have pointed out that the evidence strongly suggests that empathy is and has been for several decades on the decline. Anecdotal evidence abounds for this position, although usually other kinds of causes are flagged. And, if my theory ...
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October 2, 2016 by
Phil Osborn
Phil Osborn, February 27th, 2008. On Morals:* (Restarted 10/02/2016 due to glitches) Overview and summary of “On Morals,” by Phil OsbornWherein I present a new, independent and powerful reason why we would want to be "good," even when we would benefit otherwise from doing evil.**********************************************************************************************************An aside - not intended for permanent inclusion:06/12/2017 Yesterday's MeetUps...
OC Complaints Roster
October 1, 2016 by
Phil Osborn
Update: 10/04/16 My link to this from the Orange County Science Fiction Club has been taken down. For at least a couple of decades now, I have attended the monthly meetings of the OCSFC on a fairly regular basis. What could go wrong at a science fiction club? Murphy's Law rules, but recent meetings have clearly more to do with Murphy's estranged mother-in-law: http://www.meetup.com/Orange-County-Science-Fiction-Club/events/231893455/ I've kno...
On Subjectivism
September 17, 2016 by
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I recently developed a really great relationship. My new friend has read so many of the same books, seen the same movies, enjoyed the same sf, thought the same thoughts that it often feels like talking to myself. And, she has a great sense of humor. It looked like a dream come true. We sometimes disagreed, but we both took the disagreements as opportunities for exploration and growth. About time, damn it! Until she suddenly made a declaration to the effect that everyth...
Alien Evolution
September 4, 2016 by
Phil Osborn
In response to today's "Scholars' Circle" on KPFK - Sunday, 09/04/2016 12 noon: I wrote: Thanks for an XLNT program. I believe we met years ago at Chapman University at the Yu Torture Memo presentations. Regarding bird communication capability: I have informally studied crows and ravens for about three decades, and for several years I had a red-front Amazon parrot. After several years during which my parrot had virtually no contact with any other parrots, I t...
Another New Entry to the Fermi Paradox
August 28, 2016 by
Phil Osborn
So, I'm sitting at the public computer at the Tustin Library as usual, and there is the typical encounter of the hostile kind - gang-banger with girl with noisy baby. Which primed me for a discovery. Sometime later, after the security guard once again intervened between me and the gang banger, I was watching the Fermi paradox video on the Kurzweilai.net site, trying to screen out all the noise from yet another kid who can't be bothered to shut up, more precisely a mother wh...
Future Fair
August 28, 2016 by
Phil Osborn
Check out O'Keans across the street from the Tustin library, OC CA US Oddly enough, this coffee shop is a kind of intellectual nexus for the area, one of several. At seemingly random times, some group - Christian intellectuals, Japanese families, Korean families, etc., college students, philosophers, gamers, digerati ... somehow arrive as a cohort and take over the space. There is just enough room inside for 2 or 3 such groups to cluster with a few seats left. O'Keans r...
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July 24, 2016 by
Phil Osborn
Update: 08/28/2016 http://www.kurzweilai.net/clear-and-present-danger-to-your-life-as-of-now-from-cyberblitzkrieg http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/AI-Work.html http://www.kurzweilai.net/one-second-after July 25, 2016 I opened the OC Register at work this morning and almost skipped over the front page article "Zoltan, a presidential candidate for the future." http://www.ocregister.com/articles/need-723287-says-income.html%20 I've been talking up the "basic ...
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July 23, 2016 by
Phil Osborn
After listening to a fair amount of the Republicrat's venting and angst last week, and now the Democans pretty abstractions - trying to paint a new face on a tired progressive philosophy, I've come to the conclusion that we ought to do something. Soon. The real problems - climate change, hair-trigger nuclear holocaust, new plagues, aging, massive corruption, 1 billion people on the edge of starvation, looming massive unemployment due to robotics, intellectual property used ...