Some issues with many of the platforms of the Internet is that they
The idea of centralized control here is that by doing something like uploading a video …
read moreI've been doing some listening/watching of Jonathan Pageau's Symbolic World content which has got me thinking about symbols and meanings of lots of things around me. In this post I want to share a brief analysis of ways to interact with a computer and how even in this area …
read moreLooking at the tools we have in front of ourselves today, an exercise you can do is to ask what sort of thing is some modern invention. For instance, before automobiles there were chariots. Now, we have digital tablets but in earlier times there were stone/clay tablets. There are …
read moreIn this post I am going to summarize some useful ideas on training. We train ourselves to be able to do things we wouldn't be able to do without training—for example, you might physically train for more strength or you might memorize some procedure to do some work, or …
read moreOne major time sink is to do destructive activities to oneself and then have to spend a lot of time undoing or repairing the consequences of these actions. Sometimes, our work gets thwarted by events outside of our control; for instance, one might set out clothes to dry in the …
read moreTwo areas in which many modern people are lacking development are memory and muscle. The urban, modern person is told to constantly make use of new technology which substitutes for these both. Why remember anything when Google can do it for you? What use is muscle mass in the twenty …
read moreThe weather is getting colder as we advance into December. Many people seem to be just waiting for current stuff to clear up. With respect to state-wide policy and other administrative issues, most of us don't really have any say in how stuff goes. Overshadowing all of this is glowing …
read moreMuch of what we are taught in school amounts to speculation. We're taught many "facts" that are established by "science"—what exactly does this mean?
A dive into the philosophy of science will introduce you to many issues such as the problem of induction as well as issues of epistemology …
read moreLots of this lock-down business comes down to telling other people what to do. Rather than operating on a principle of personal responsibility whereby we care for ourselves (and maybe family), we are now being pushed into a system wherein every other person is considered a potential threat. The default …
read moreTalk about how information technology works is often cast in mystical terms for the "uninitiated". For example, we're often told about these things called "algorithms" that will replace jobs, protect national security/privacy, and so on and so forth.
We should frame these things in simpler, more transparent terms. All …
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