Monthly Archives: February 2012

Debunking Artificial Intelligence — while programming your computer to be almost as smart as your dog.

Everything you’ve been taught about Artificial Intelligence for your whole life is false. AI researchers are not frauds, I don’t think, but they’re exuberant when they talk to reporters, and the reporters are ignorant, thoughtless and brash. In real life, … Continue reading

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Building the perfect beast: A round-up of my recent technology posts.

Caveat lector! The words you are about to read are unvetted, unhomogenized and unlicensed. One of my longer-term projects is to write essays on reasons why you should dismiss the things I have to say. I’ve only done two so … Continue reading

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“That indicates that the brain vulnerabilities had a family origin, though somehow the siblings of addicts — either due to environmental factors or other differences in brain structure — were able to resist addiction.”

Somehow. The only motivation of purposive human behavior is free will. If you fail to understand this, even in the face of obvious evidence, you just might be an academic. Meanwhile, never doubt it: Making absurd, hysterical claims about human … Continue reading

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