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Open to (or: sticky ends)

DNA fragments may have single-stranded bits at the end, hungry to pair and bond with any complementary strands they encounter. These ideas are sticky in that sense, for me - despite my overcommitted state, I would eagerly connect over them, and find some way to align efforts: * small-d democracy in

How to Bell the AI Cat

published at https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/26/how-to-bell-the-ai-cat/

A Language of Meaning and Action

There is really only one question, ever. Given the state of the world to my knowledge, what should I do next? Answered shallowly, the answer may be order pizza for dinner drink a beer finish a task on my list continue or start a conversation with a friend post on

Untitled post

walking over a bridge in san jose, costa rica after talking to an Israeli ex-pat in the hostel and preparing for RightsCon tomorrow, i realized why i haven't been writing, at least one of the reasons the work is not so much to pull a thread of sense

Mr Rosewater

If oxidative damage causes aging then we all burn up in the end, Mr Vonnegut One cannot have subtlety without context. re The volunteer firement trying to prevent their loved ones from combining with oxygen, in God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

the selfish-ness gene

suppose there were a gene that made the bearer feel entitled to other people's things. would it spread? And before pointing fingers, remember...the bearer would not think of them as other people's, or that they were taking anything by their actions.

a scientific definition of logic

logic exists (and a given problem is logical) if you can put 100 people in separate rooms with the problem and they converge on the same answer a logical problem is interesting if they converge over time, but generally do not agree given a very brief time

From the Evolution Desk...

male: "I'm going to have a million kids or die trying" female: "how do I make sure all my children survive and also everyone else I'm related to?" Unfortunately part of the female strategy is to try to get the "successful&

Sense and Cents

The power of making sense... The positive side of capitalism is a free flowing distribution of efforts and resources Downside is that it is subject to both parasites and cancers The real thing is the flow of information, effort and fixed resources. And this flow is more interesting if one

good intentions

...not combined with good patterns/best practices not only pave the way to hell, the road is a bit bumpy. in a hospital, the nurses not only desire not to kill patients, they check 3 times that the actions they take are correct similarly best practices are important, esp when