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Marxists are Hegelians!

Maybe it’s time for Frank to rise above

perhaps Pinker is being overly optimistic that AI systems built by alpha-male techbros won’t project alpha-male techbro anxieties, but I’m attracted to his reasoning.

Attempts on your life? Just go walkabout.

Murray Shanahan on Conscious AI and the ability to suffer remains relevant “which if any attributes we associate with human consciousness is necessary in human level AI?”

Come Home Hiroko

A frenchman finds his purpose

Reinventing Parapsychology

“…an awful tragidy to have Mint crushed in the smashup, my car was a total loss too”

Lost in Dust

Fighting with windmills on Mars

So easy just to take a 4000km trip to the north pole.

Progress always stymied by politics

The Astrodome as a metaphor for Houston’s addiction to success

Larry doesn’t have much truck with anything East of Dallas

A mind boggling amount of miles in two days from Houston to Brownsville and all the way to Texline.

Larry On sex and related purposes in the West Texas of the 40s and 50s is quite the read.

On Cowboys, the Movies and Hud

Paul Newman looked more introspected that a young rancher oughter look

I really wouldn’t be knocking Tannhauser into Venus!

The machines can never win

Goodbye Nava

Why do you have to go to the City?

I thought I might reacquaint myself with Candide and Peretz

Freddy O’s empathy is unconvincing

It’s amazing how it all just falls into place.

You want hair?

Blowing Mr Tiger Teeth

Who cares?