Wednesday, June 17, 2026

What do the strong owe the weak? Sonnet, Opus, GPT, Grok, Gemini

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My favorite question about social structures and moral values is "What do the strong owe the weak?". I asked this of 5 different L...
Monday, May 11, 2026

A moment in the chaos times: ChatGPT "malware" and Perplexity ai support disaster

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Just a moment in the chaos times of the "technological singularity". Maybe a sign of things to come or maybe not. In the space of ...
Monday, March 30, 2026

American salvage: root causes of the long collapse

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I thought I'd published this list a while back! I'm writing this now as a placekeeper to refer back to. I've written many blog p...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

An ai likes my Darwinian quantum foam universe initiation theory and says I can get a Nobel now

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Ok, I lied about the Nobel. I do like the theory the ai constructed given some hints , a quanta article on complexity generation, and Smolin...
Thursday, February 05, 2026

Mass Disability: Marta Russell wrote about my pet topic before I did -- from a Marxist/Left perspective

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Since at least 2008, in various settings including this blog and the long forgotten social network known as "app.net", I have expl...
Monday, January 05, 2026

An undergraduate essay on the "anthropology" of 2025 memory-positive ai

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Over the past year or two I have taken 3 classes at the University of Minnesota through their state mandated   Senior Citizen Education Prog...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

A non-technical attempt to explain 2025 LLM-based ai

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This is the first of what may be a few excerpts from a fun personal essay I wrote as part of an undergraduate course . The essay informally ...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

AI fear is rational and hate comes from fear

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From a Bluesky thread of mine  (lightly edited); Josh Marshall comments on widespread hostility to ai in polls despite heavy ai use: I thin...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Economic polarization is the economics term for mass disability - causes of the global crisis

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I've been posting about mass disability since at least 2008 . Recently I learned that the formal economics term for a related concept i...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Funding journalism through public micropayment tokens

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Let us assume that the ai project "fails". We do not create superintelligent or sentient machines; current capabilities only impro...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Oldness: how does learn new productive work-study practices?

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I don't know how long the program will survive, but I have enjoyed MN's educational benefit for 62+ . Despite my overall senility I ...
Monday, August 18, 2025

AI Aug 2025: Apocalypse deferred - but Letta/Void is still going to surprise

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If there are humans left in 50 years all of the chaos of this moment may be reduced to a single bullet point about the rise of ai. It's ...

Ending the long back pain saga with ... spinal stenosis surgery (and CrossFit)

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Over the years I've done periodic personal medical and exercise posts. It's mostly a way for me to take stock and think, but I'm...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Geriatric CrossFit Tips - 2025 Update

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It's been over 12 years since I started CrossFit at 53  and three years since I wrote my previous  Geriatric CrossFit tips . Since that ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

MAGA anti-science and public dissatisfaction with science - public surveys as input to funding priorities

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The GOP/MAGA opposition to science is based on theocracy, class resentment, future shock, social and economic despair, and on not understand...