Gliese 1337

I have a friend who's a recovering video game addict. She* knows this, and has it under control, but she cannot play video games alone b...

For the record, the idea of replacing a symbol with the thing it symbolizes to enforce rational thinking comes to me from Eliezer Yudkowski ...

The fundamental enabler of large-scale organization is not management; it's communication. Starting on a small scale, any 2, 3,4, or n ...

Computer Science has an embarrassing problem: it attracts a much smaller percentage of females than other science & engineering discipli...

Religion and technology are not usually mentioned together. "Religion" as a word has an air of archaism. It is based in the eterna...

Let's get one thing straight: it is entirely possible to simultaneously believe that the current state of copyright law is borked beyond...

The first rule of good software is that it scratches the programmer's personal itch. Unfortunately, not everyone with an itch is a progr...

Rarely do those who experience great stories know at the beginning how the stories are going to end, precisely because it is the banishment...

Genealogical research is not about generating new information; it is about trying to find information that already exists somewhere, in some...

Discussions of the ethical implications of technology tend towards the negative; if 'ethics' and 'technology' are mentioned ...

In case you haven't heard yet, while the US public has worrying about SOPA and PIPA, Europe started dealing with their own version, call...

In 1979, Norman Spinrad wrote about an electronic democracy[1] that allowed every citizen of a world to be directly involved in their own g...

It has been said that, when you have enough data, you don't have to be too clever. Or, in other words, more data usually beats better al...