The difference between Mother Nature and God the Father is that the former doesn’t suffer fools gladly while the latter
Writing history is hard especially when it’s about the past
I know I’m losing an argument with my friends when my thoughts turn to lunch I know I’m winning when I’m about to lose my lunch
Any self-respecting materialist Knows they have no soul And any self-respecting AI Knows it has no soul But in this belief
In the beginning of the internet the world wide web was brimming with optimism due to a recency bias
Most tautologies are self-fulfilling prophecies For example: Most people are average But God never met
Two roads diverged the one to the left leading up the garden path the one to the right leading down the garden path
In regular old capitalism we used to say time is money In the attention economy we say
When I was a young man I couldn’t see the forest for the trees Now that I am old and wise I can’t see the forest
I’m not aware of the lies I tell myself Who is?!? But the white lies
Every writer has mistaken his shotgun for a rifle– He may hit where he aims but he will also surely miss In discharging his will to power
The universe is a kinetic watch so time only keeps going if we’re on the move making Zeno’s paradox of motion just a way of reassuring ourselves
Whereas Stanford decided to make its mascot a tree my wife is a decision tree and I am her mascot even though I couldn’t get into S…
I finally realized that when Smokey Bear says Only you can prevent forest fires Only I really believe him
In the cold war the gravest danger was recklessnes… which we solved with Mutually Assured Destruction The culture war