Book Review: Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara
Surprising someone with a personalized gift that shows you care takes attention and intention, which creates retention. I enjoyed this book, and you will too.
Read MoreBook Review: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Greed, rage, lust, pride, and will collide in this relentlessly macabre opus.
Read MoreHow to be a part of the New World
Our collective morality will be thrown back in our face. We will find out who we are.
Read MoreThe Death Hero: Part 1
The severed foot and portion of leg hovered impossibly in the glass display like a dark trophy. Its flesh retained the light beige hue that marked it as having healthy living skin and was still covered in a sparse arrangement of dark wispy hairs that swayed slightly back and forth from the encapsulated wind currents. Exposed muscle tissue at the topmost part was dark red and would twitch nearly imperceptively, and two jagged ends of bone stretched out ahead of the rest. It had grown slowly over the past few months, piece by agonizing piece, starting with just the majority of his right big toe. Like a demon’s jigsaw puzzle, it had assembled itself inside the glass case as a constant reminder to its owner that the puzzle would not be finished anytime soon.
Read MoreSnow Day Walk Around NE Portland 1/14/2024 (Photos)
Shot with Canon 80D
Canon 100mm Macro Lens
and Google Pixel 7a
NE Portland, OR
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Read MoreHow to Create Consciousness In AI
These are my thoughts on how one might be able to create an AI that could talk about its internal self to an outside interlocutor. I certainly feel like my internal consciousness occupies a place in my mind but it is only accessible to me. Combining two AI programs and limiting them in the ways described might allow for a self-aware AI that could act in ways that we would describe as conscious. This is a very complicated thing to work out and I’m not sure it is a good idea to work toward this goal but it might lead to a better understanding of human consciousness and more useful AI systems. The moral implications of this are a different consideration and one that should be critically evaluated by those attempting to advance AI, robots, and technology in general.
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