Left-right is important in how we think, don’t get me wrong. But too often we forget about the libertarian (privacy)-collectivism (totalitarian) axis that’s arguably more important. Community-mindedness I prefer to call this axis the ‘community mindedness axis’ that distinguishes how self / privacy focused (libertarian) vs community-minded / collectivist (totalitarian) you…

Ch 2. Survival Well, at the start of a post-apocalypse we need to worry about immediate survival. FOOTNOTE | Here’s Chapter 1: Assorted apocalypses. This book is not really a survival handbook, it’s about how to recreate technologies from scratch, but in this short chapter, let’s take a very quick look at the…

The unnecessarily divisive debate — more like an attack — initiated by some neural network skeptics is near-pointless. Disconnect The main disconnect that’s going on has a 4-fold origin: Large language models (LLMs) including OpenAI’s ChatGPT / GPT-3 and Google’s LaMDA, undeniably do amazing things that AI has never done before…

Over the next month I’ll release my new upcoming book, chapter-by-chapter. Here’s the Preface & Chapter 1 to get us started. New chapters every few days. Publisher sought. Enjoy! Preface On a nearly daily basis my strange predilections remind me that the raw planet earth and its environs — are actually…

Full self driving (FSD) is one of the toughest tech challenges in active development today and, contrary to noisy stock and court room drama reports, the real proponents are actually winning. If you based your assessment of the fundamentals on autonomous vehicles (AVs) and FSD (the smarts that powers AVs)…

I’m now going to call it. The mainstream media are mysteriously and disingenuously UTTERLY moronically misleading on Tesla. We all know everyone listening to the mainstream media on Tesla has been losing money listening to them for the most part of a decade. …

I don’t know about you, but when I look around, I can actually see, can perceive, an actual visual field. I’m not just detecting objects and responding to their positions like some camera-sporting AI. I can damn well see them. So (1) visual perception, and consciousness as a whole, is…

Instead of austerity approaches to global warming it’s become clear that emerging technologies that solve climate change will — simultaneously — vastly transform our lives through unprecedented increases in GDP, standard of living. …

This week people are talking in the street about OpenAI’s ChatGPT. I’m clueing you in on progress against MND. Humanity went back to the moon . . almost. We can x10 global GDP and solve global warming at the same time. …