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When I was about three, I asked my mother what happens to us after we die. We were standing together in our shadowy old house on the coast of South Carolina. Old, but not big. Continue reading Not sure yet: Thoughts about consciousness and knowing
Hello! It’s been a minute. Sorry about that. I’m still here. A great deal of effort has been spent on trying to figure out what makes an ideal society. I don’t have an answer for Continue reading What is an ideal society? And do we really want one?
I’ve been reading Ray Kurzweil’s book The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI (singularity is the term for when AI becomes conscious) and already I find he’s a little alarmingly gung-ho about it. As Continue reading This is a test! Quantum Computers and Weird Aspects of the Sentient AI Problem (Part 2)
As I was jotting down some of my thoughts today, as they drift, I noticed there’s one that keeps circling back around, and I must say, it has bothered me. People have been expressing a Continue reading Embrace the Mess
I was having an email conversation with a friend today – a day off before another grueling multi-day marathon at the tax office starting tomorrow. What a treat to be able to write a friend, Continue reading The Pursuit of Everything
A few days ago during my appointment to have my hair cut, my stylist, I’ll call her L, received two calls from her partner, S. The repeated calls were a signal. L apologized, telling me Continue reading Quiet-as-a-mouse sentient AI?
What can I say? The months since I last posted for you have been long, long, long. More has come to light concerning the potential uses and misuses of generative AI. Now, of course, as Continue reading In the New Era of Generative AI… Context is Everything
This is a hot topic among writers, and a tough one. As I’m trying to gather my thoughts on how AI will likely affect me and others like me, the technology races ahead. Everywhere I Continue reading The Great Human Hack (& Dueling Fiddles)
John Oliver beat us to it! Just joking. Others have been hinting at the same. I made similar observations in a recent post about LaMDA and in one of my first posts back in 2015, Continue reading Souped-up Chatbots: Humanity has a Mirror
There’s been so much going on. I’ve been finding it hard to stop my brain from switching back and forth between images from the stories I’m trying to write and stories of real people, if Continue reading Distraction in a Time of War: Vikings and Raised by Wolves