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- Roger McGough: Let Me Die A Young Man’s Death
I stumbled on this poem a while ago – and it makes you think: you want to get old, but then, it shouldn’t become boring, right?
Let me die a young man’s death
Let me die a young man’s death,
not a clean … - Violence Declining
Steven Pinker talks about the History of Violence and shows that, despite the feeling we get from news and press, violence is strongly declining in human history. The main questions are then, why …
- Bacn
Bacn is on purpose spelled wrongly and relates to Spam – and it indeed becomes a growing problem of my inbox … see the definition from http://lifehacker.com/software/ask-the-readers/how-do-you-handle-bacn-291688.php:Email you receive that isn’t …
- Orson Scott Ender: Ender’s Game
A multi-faceted story set in some future of humanity: on one hand it is about highly gifted children and how this separates them from the rest: Ender is not only special compared to the average children, but even in the …
- Vernor Vinge: Rainbows End
Another very nice story situated in the near future. New treatments allow to recover various existing diseases, though not every one and not perfectly. In any case, an old poet being in Alzheimers coma is now brought back – and …
- Startups As Future Way Of Work
Paul Graham has written an article Why to not not start a startup: it is interesting to see his reasons all speaking for doing startups – though they unfortunately (luckily?) do not fit …
- AI Engineering To Singularity
Fascinating article by Ben Goertzel about Is AI Engineering the Shortest Path to a Positive Singularity?: he says that with a ‘AI Manhattan Project’ an artificial general intelligence could be built within about …
- Einstein: Free Will & Religion
Nice article about Einstein with some good quotes regarding god and free will – cited by Scott Adams in his blog – in the Time Magazine
Boston’s … - Enhanced Senses: BodyHacking
Very interesting Wired article about extending or adding senses to the human body: I very much like the idea – and would love to try it – of the belt of vibrating units …
- 6 Word SF
From Wired 14.11 – very short stories – science fiction in 6 words.
Some are really very funny and creative – my favorites:
Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket.
- William Shatner
Computer, did we bring batteries? … - About Conversations
After some long conversation with a very good friend about a difficult topic where our opinions (seemed to) differ, I wrote down a few things to remember:
very important is to feel the gap between the participants in their respective …
- Bruce Schneier: CYA Security
Again a very good, though sad, blog entry by Bruce Schneier speaking about CYA security: the reason for security related actions are very often not for the sake of security, but just to …
- Camera Toss Photography
Today I discovered a place describing this method to generate some beautiful (though kind of random) pictures. Some serious danger for your camera is involved … but some pictures are indeed worth it.One of my favorites is this …
- Paul Graham: Wisdom & Intelligence
Interesting article by Paul Graham considering wisdeom versus intelligence at http://www.paulgraham.com/wisdom.html.Whereas wisdom comes through humility, it may actually help, in cultivating intelligence, to have a mistakenly high opinion of your abilities, because …
- Dan Gilbert: TED Talk On Happiness
About happiness: we synthesize happiness, we are not finding it. Synthetic happiness is as strong as found happiness.- quoting lots of nice stories … impact is much overrated, e.g. paraplegics & lottery winners show same happiness after the event …
- David Deutsch TED Talk
One important thought from David Deutsch in his a TED talk was considering how to deal with crises – e.g. global warming: if we come to the understanding that it is too late …
- Richard Dawkins: The Root Of All Evil
Richard Dawkins observes the growing turn to ‘faith’ and fundamentalism nearly everywhere (e.g. not only in arabic countries, but in US & England …), turning against science although our times profit and rely on science more than any time before….
- PhilosoTainment
Scott Adams introduced the term philosotainment for things he is doing e.g. with his book God’s Debris.
Interesting term … in his words:
It’s philosophy for the sole purpose of entertainment, not enlightenment. And it doesn’t try to be right, or further … - W D Hillis: Intelligence as an Emergent Behavior or, The Songs of Eden
Hillis considers here that intelligence might be a symbiotic phenomenon, exemplified with apes having the ability to copy, and songs starting to evolve ontop of this substrate.He argues that it could be possible to construct a different artificial substrate …
- Haiku For People
Nice background to Haikus with a long list of examples – from old to current.Link: http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/No skyno earth – but stillsnowflakes fallHashinFirst autumn morning:the mirror …
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