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Hello and welcome to my journal! Here I write about my own ideas and promote others' ideas. I mostly talk about computing, philosophy, spirituality, privacy, and society but this journal is not limited to those topics.
[Video] Atheist Debates - Supernatural Causation
Date: 16 January 2021
Read time: 1 minute
Summary: Matt Dillahunty discusses the difficulty of demonstrating the supernatural.
[Video] Fixing Social Media for Good
Date: 14 January 2021
Read time: 3 minutes
Summary: Recent events have brought the issue of social media censorship to the forefront. Luke Smith proposes federated platforms as a permanent fix for social media censorship.
[Video] TikTok - a Trojan Horse into China's Dystopia
Date: 11 January 2021
Read time: 2 minutes
Summary: If you're a US-based company that endangers national security through personal data collection and manipulation of public opinion through propoganda (Facebook) you get a slap on the wrist from the FTC while the NSA pats you on the back. If you're a Chinese-based company doing more or less the same (ByteDance) you get an executive order banning you from doing business in the United States.
[Fable] The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant
Date: 09 January 2021
Read time: 3 minutes
Summary: Rockstar philosopher Nick Bostrom uses fable to convince us why humanity must cure death as quickly as possible.
Date: 09 January 2021
Read time: 1 minute
Summary: Find out what's new on my blog.
[Podcast] The Key to Trump's Appeal
Date: 07 January 2021
Read time: 3 minutes
Summary: About 40% of the US population is wondering how the hell someone like Donald J. Trump ever became president. The other half of the country offers a range of different answers, none quite convincing. Sam Harris suggests an underlying psychological factor that is a counterbalance to the left's political correctness.
[Podcast] Why Trump is Unfit For Office
Date: 07 January 2021
Read time: 1 minute
Summary: In his Making Sense podcast Sam Harris talks about why Donald Trump is unfit for public office. For reference, these clips come from Making Sense episodes #38 and #45. They were recorded before the 2016 presidential election but the past 4 years have only shown how right Harris was in his judgement of Trump.
Date: 06 January 2021
Read time: 16 minutes
Summary: Can blockchain live up to the hype? Can its problems be fixed? What is its future? What about DAGs? What is the future of cryptocurrency? I have several predictions.
Date: 30 December 2020
Read time: 1 minute
Summary: Sam Harris talks about how lying is more harmful than most people imagine. From white lies, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy to more serious political deception, Sam makes the case for not lying in any situation.
[Essay] The Simulation Argument
Date: 30 December 2020
Read time: 1 minute
Summary: Nick Bostrom proposes that we are living inside a computer simulation with a 1 in 3 probability.
Date: 29 December 2020
Read time: 1 minute
Summary: Darkmatter2525 explains punitive prison systems
Date: 28 December 2020
Read time: 5 minutes
Summary: The more steps you take to enhance your privacy, the more interesting you become to 3 letter agencies and the more likely that more targeted surveillance methods will be used on you. So should you just give up your privacy or should you go all out? What's the optimal strategy?
Date: 27 December 2020
Read time: 1 minute
Summary: Find out what's new on my blog.
Date: 25 December 2020
Read time: 5 minutes
Summary: There aren't enough IPv4 addresses to go around. IPv6 is long overdue. Find out how IPv4 still works and why we haven't fully transitioned to IPv6 yet.
Date: 24 December 2020
Read time: 2 minutes
Summary: Find out what's new on my blog.
Unless otherwise noted, the writing in this journal is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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