The world is often cruel to its benefactors.

Some time in the not-too-distant future, a large box will arrive on U.S. shores labeled “Louvre. Hold for pickup.” And no one ever will.

People like to say “…but we don’t even know what consciousness is!” Nonsense. I’ll tell you what it is: Consciousness is a survival strategy that solves problems where it is not known in advance what those problems will be. That’s it. If you follow that thread, all of

In this election, we are offered a choice between an unpredictable order and a predictable chaos.

The “greater good” isn’t.

“It all started when he hit me back.” - Vladimir Puto

Just because you can say something doesn’t make it mean something.

If you work hard enough at not understanding something, you will succeed.

Grok is not just amazing, but actually useful. And it is also willing to casually lie. It told me something about my web presence that I was pleased to hear. When I asked it about that, it bluntly told me that it made that part up because it thought I would like it. So it knew

It is dangerous to take away someone's cheap excuse for feeling they are better than someone else.

People who mean well often have no idea what well means.

The current state of AI reminds me of the PoliSci guys I knew in college. To a man, they declared in private that their major classes were "bullshit lectures and bullshit readings by bullshit professors who assigned bullshit papers." They listened to the bullshit lectures, read

USAID was primarily a tax-fueled money laundering operation for the Left, and a source of six-figure salaries for D.C. cocktail circuit parasites intent on impressing themselves for doing nothing but impressing themselves while passing other people's money amongst each other,

It is easy to argue against a falsehood, which may be why people find it so enjoyable.

When a society starts treating second-, third-, fourth-order issues as central, things will go very wrong.

A major risk of AI is the feeling that you may finally have found someone who understands, and actually likes, respects, and admires you.

A good education is not just about learning. It must also give you good advice on what to learn. And here is the hard part: it is up to you to validate the advice, which is something that by definition you are not equipped to do during your education.

In software, nothing is more concrete than a good abstraction.

The mode of death of Renee Good is something protest organizers and participants dream of... pray for... masturbate over. Not for themselves, of course.