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Haunted by the ghosts of materialism

I like philosophy. Not all of it is profound — there are two dozen treatises on the ontology of holes — but the field is accessible and can be eye-opening.

Alas, the only flavor of philosophy that’s popular with techies is what I’d call e...

9 days ago
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A SKILL.md for commenting on Hacker News

Roll a d6.

If you rolled “1”:

  1. Read the article.

  2. Find and quote the weakest sentence. Must be tangential to the main thesis.

  3. Say “This makes me not want to read the article.”

If you rolled “2”:

  1. Do not r...
17 days ago
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The “C” word

I dislike the punditry that surrounds generative AI. Perhaps on brand, much of it is machine-generated. The rest is mired in near-religious fervor, flames fanned for financial or political gain. There’s also simply too much of it. I have op...

18 days ago
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What little hope remains

I am alone now. I don’t know who else survived.

We think it started in a lab. A team of scientists wanted to create a self-replicating machine, just to see if they could. They stored the program in a polymeric ribbon; they made the machine...

25 days ago
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“The Secret Life of Circuits” is here

I try to keep marketing in check: I’ve been working on my latest book for more than a year but only posted about it once. At the time, the book was still going through layout and editing, so I didn’t expect many subscribers to pull the trig...

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