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All our lauded technological progress, our very civilization, is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. - Albert Einstein.
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All My Novels are Now Free to Download/Read
I am in no particular rush to finish my next novel, the timeline is this year, but it is not as if I have hoards of fans clamoring for it, so it will come when it is good and ready. … Continue reading
Posted in A Level of Consciousness, Books, Publishing, Science Fiction, writing
Tagged Free eBook, Free ePub, sci-fi, Techno-Thriller
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The X Factor
To do a good technical post that will get a few thousand clicks from a technical audience, you really need to do something interesting that has not been done before. Nobody is going to click on another digital alarm clock … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Philosophy, Publishing, The Ramblings of an Old Man, writing
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Three Technologies I want to see before I die:
Number 1: The ORAC Computer I will start with what I think is going to be the easiest, an AI Computer, that can interact with voice, gestures and understands every nuance of interacting with a human. When I was a … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Ramblings of an Old Man, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Eagle Transporter, Fusion, Orac, Space 1999
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NOW is the Time to Eat Their Lunch
Not sure where to start on this one. We are in the most rapidly evolving time I have ever lived in, it seems like everything in the world is going crazy, then the icing on the cake, along comes AI. … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Critical Thinking, Efficiency, Management, New Zealand, Office Politics, Philosophy, Politics, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Ramblings of an Old Man
Tagged change, Go for it!, re-structuring, redundancy, singularity
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Random Emails from Strangers are Still Nice to Get.
The one positive aspect from having a blog site, and being an author is the occasional person who decides to write you an email out of the blue. The first time it happened was back in 2017, I had written … Continue reading
Preparing For the AI Future Should be Top of Your List!
Humans are creatures of habit, and you may not like this, but almost everything meaningful you do in your day to day life can be reduced to a series of prompts. Ditto for your work, especially if you are sat … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, New Zealand, Philosophy, Politics, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Ramblings of an Old Man
Tagged Disaster Planning, OpenClaw, Worst Case Scenarios
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AI Coding: 2022 Sci-Fi, Versus March 2026 Reality
I was researching some bare-metal assembly code for a 2D shooter RP2350 arcade board I am developing as a personal project, and got to a segue where things were going a bit too well on the coding front; so I … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Other Programming, Philosophy, RP2350, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Holy Shit!
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The Utopian AI Problem Few People are Talking About.
The current bunch of AI’s out there are smarter, and in some cases even more empathetic than many people I have dealt with, yet I would turn these AI’s off without a seconds though if needed. I would not however … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Philosophy, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Ramblings of an Old Man, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged AGI, ASI, consciousness, life, Sentience
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AI Slop is caused by Humans, Not AI’s
Let’s think about the catch phrase all the ‘smart people’ in the world have been using for the last few months “AI Slop”. Yeah, “AI Slop!” It has a certain ring about it, doesn’t it? yet the phrase is both … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Speculation, The Future
Tagged AI SLOP
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Where have all the Utopian Futures Gone?
I have told anyone who will listen to me, that come the end of the world, I want to die in the first few milliseconds, (preferably after sex and a good pizza), and not live for the rest of my … Continue reading
Posted in Funny, Philosophy, Science Fiction, The Ramblings of an Old Man, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged Dystopian, Utopian
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Don’t look Behind The Curtains!
My recent goals to work with and learn some newer, more popular, micro-controllers, and to try some different programming languages, has made me also take another look at the ways things have progressed since I started my career. My programming … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, ESP32-C3, Other Programming, Pascal Programming, Philosophy, PicoMite, Programming, Retro, RP2040, RP2350, Speculation
Tagged Ramblings of an old man, The Stack
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My first week with Kubuntu/Linux
I guess it is early days, but generally I would class the migration as a great success. There are not many caveats in this, I went hard this first week, and it can do all the things I want it … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, FOSS, Pascal Programming
Tagged Kubuntu, Lazarus, Linux Migration
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Small Blinkenlight Update
I loaded the MM Edit program onto my new Linux/Kubuntu desktop and wanted to test it out with a Raspberry Pi Pico development board to ensure everything was working. As my Pico board was all the way over in my … Continue reading
Posted in blinkenlights, Other Programming, PicoMite, Programming, Retro, RP2040
Tagged MMBasic
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