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• 27.04.2021 Kyle McDonald has been doing more research on “Per-Transaction footprint responsibility models”. The model that I use is what he calls “model_gas”. In his analysis he looks at eight different models…

Trigger Warning: This post mentions #FlatEarth #YoungEarth #Creationism and similar ‘theories’.

It’s no secret that I’m obsessed with religions and gods, and a lot of my work and writing is theological in a sense (or at times, related to the tensions between science and religion).

I’d like to share just one of the many reasons why I’m obsessed with religions. I’m sure in the future I’ll write about some of the others.

We are a fascinating species, with quite remarkable achievements. Even these words that I’m typing right now, are an archaic, ancient…

You haven’t built / you’re not collaborating with “An Artificial Intelligence”.

This is a quick brain dump that I can point to when needed (rather often).

Just one of the many reasons I’m not fond of the term Artificial Intelligence, is because it’s worded in such a way that it creates confusion between the research field, and a characteristic of being.

I’ll try to use Biology as an analogue. While this is not a one-to-one correspondence, I hope it will be useful.

Life (noun) / alive (adj.) — like intelligence (noun) / intelligent (adj.) — is a category invented by humans. Unlike intelligence, we have managed to formulate slightly more…

Part of a series of articles I’ll be posting over the next few days & weeks regarding thoughts from the past few years I’m only just getting round to writing about.

I believe many of the situations we face are generally of vastly complex nature and high dimensions, such that it is impossible for us to be able to see any situation in its entirety. All that we are able to perceive at any given time, is perhaps a tiny slice from a very specific perspective. And the best we can hope for, is to attempt to widen that slice…

Part of a series of articles I’ll be posting over the next few days & weeks regarding thoughts from the past few years I’m only just getting round to writing about.

I believe many of the situations we face are generally of vastly complex nature and high dimensions, such that it is impossible for us to be able to see any situation in its entirety. All that we are able to perceive at any given time, is perhaps a tiny slice from a very specific perspective. And the best we can hope for, is to attempt to widen that slice…

Part of a series of articles I’ll be posting over the next few days & weeks regarding thoughts from the past few years I’m only just getting round to writing about.

I believe many of the situations we face are generally of vastly complex nature and high dimensions, such that it is impossible for us to be able to see any situation in its entirety. All that we are able to perceive at any given time, is perhaps a tiny slice from a very specific perspective. And the best we can hope for, is to attempt to widen that slice…

It’s all about the Journey.

(Ok, there’s no sex. That was clickbait).

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

Ash: “That Frank is such an awful person…”

Bobby: “Yea totally. I heard he had X killed to eliminate competition!”.

Ash: “Oh wow, I’m not sure about that. I mean, he’s an awful guy but I don’t think he’s actually murdered anyone.”

Bobby: “Oh you like Frank do you!?”

Ash: “No! I hate him, I just don’t think he’s murdered anyone.”

Bobby: “Oh I see, you’re a Frank-apologist, you disgust me, get out of…