Here’s the cover of Dan Blanchard’s excellent book A Fighting Chance: A 40-Year Journey from My Birth until My Brother’s Death. First, let me say that until I read this book, that…
Why Did The Western Roman Empire Fail?
Why Ancient Rome failed is an interesting question with answers strangely reminiscent of today. Well, some of the reasons are: Inflation. they debased their currency with less and less gold. The Roman…
Does AI Mean Artificial Intelligence Or Alien Intellect?
W e’ve posted here on AI (Artificial Intelligence) on this blog before. lets talk about a different definition for the acronym–AI. Let’s call it Alien Intellect. Why? Because it’s non-human sentience running…
AI The Third Possibility
Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to non-human machine intelligence, meaning machines that are as intelligent as people. What happens when these machines become more intelligent than we are is an unanswerable question ……
Paint A Picture With Words
Don’t say it’s a beautiful day. Don’t say the sunset was lovely. Don’t say the woman or man was good looking. Rather show it, by writing a picture in a few words…