Gordon's Notes

I'm putting this down as a marker for me to look back to in a few years. When autonomous vehicles are able to operate in Minnesota winte...

In advance of Nov 5 2024, some thoughts on  Muskism. Because I can't resist this kind of thing. Musk and his fellow tech oligarchs more ...

These days my social media experience is largely Mastodon. There's something to be said about a social network that's so irreparably...

TL;DR: It's not that ChatGPT is miraculous, it's that cognitive science research suggests human cognition is also not miraculous. &q...

I generally have opinions on things even in the absence of science or data. They are often wrong. Even so, for my own future amusement, here...

Sucks to get old. At 60 my night vision is probably half of what it was at 25. I drive slowly at night to reduce the risk of missing a pedes...

There are several software products I want nobody will build. For example, I want a “screen saver” that will randomly select from a collect...

I am a strong-AI pessimist. I think by 2100 we’ll be in range of sentient AIs that vastly exceed human cognitive abilities  (“ skynet ”). Su...

I haven’t written recently about why Crisis 2016, sometimes called Crisis-T , happened. For that matter, why Brexit. My last takes were in 2...

We know the shape of the socioeconomic future for the bottom 40%  in the post globalization post AI   mass disability world . But how do ...

This is what I think socioeconomic support will look like in 2040 based on cognitive [2] quintiles. The bottom quintile (0-20%, non-voters)...

I knew Google Trends was “a thing”, but it had fallen off my radar. Until I wondered if Craigslist was going the way of Rich Text Format ....

Seven years ago Clayton “Innovators Dilemma” Christensen wrote .. Clayton "innovators dilemma" Christensen: Apple will fail … t...

I haven’t read Picketty ’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century . I’ll skim it in the library some day, but I’m fine outsourcing that work to...

Cash-only real estate speculation in LA, Boston, Miami, San Francisco and so on (emphases mine) ... Cash Is Fueling Quick Home Sales - NYT...

Fifteen years ago, I predicted sand-based tablet devices would soon follow the price-collapse trajectory of the pocket calculator . They wou...

Stocks are overpriced again . It's probably not too much of a bubble (yet), but we continue to be significantly above "trend"...

In the Fever Days after September 2011, I wrote a bit about " the cost of havoc ". The premise was that technology was consistentl...

To be plausible, I've read, a novel must avoid reality. What novel, for example, would start the 21st century with al Qaeda's attac...

Is Stephen Hawking disabled? Obviously this is a rhetorical question. Hawking is 70 and retired from the Lucasian chair, but he remains a ...