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Possible Origin of the term “Shipboard Evolution”
Spoiler: Darwin’s “Origin of the Species” You read the spoiler, so I’ll get straight to the point: Charles Darwin was HOT! He was like Wiz Khalifa or Britney Spears! Nobody could stop talking about him or thinking about him! When someone’s ideas are that famous, then because they are thought about by so many people… Continue reading
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A Wandering, Bronze Age Parallel about the Danger of AI to Civilization As We Know It!
OR Overworked Sun-Gods in a Time of Poor Management Optimization Whoa! What’s this crap about!? I’d like to talk about the Bronze Age, but more precisely, the possible reasons that many of the bronze age cities collapsed. Then I’d like to connect this to a particularly gloomy scenario about how deploying AI to help manage… Continue reading
British Empire, Bronze Age, christianity, City Expansion, Codebreaking, Computer Age, Education Disruption Due To Conflict, Fallen Cities, farming, Home Mainetance, Information Technology, Islam, LLM Better Than Search Engines, Logan 5 What Have You Done, Logan’s Run City Computer, Moon Worship, Personal Psychological Models, Roman Empire, Sun Worship, Uncontrolled Population Growth, Upper Level Management Techniques, World War 2 -
The Lord of the Rings and World War 2
I like maps. In fact, I like them so much that I’ve become aware of their potential to dangerously mislead as much by what they reveal as what they conceal. My love of maps stems from two formative experiences in my life. The first were the maps of J.R.R. Tolkien in his Middle Earth books.… Continue reading
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Ascetic Laboring is Coool
I’m re-reading a small book by a famous Russian Orthodox priest that lived in the 1800s, and in one part of it, a fellow named Nicholas Motovilov implied that there was some idea going around in 19th century Russia that laboring as a monk was fashionable. This is not as ridiculous as it sounds. The… Continue reading
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Scaling Up Birdfeeding Operations
I was thinking to myself about something I saw on the internet. Someone was asking for advice on how to keep the large, greedy birds from eating all the birdfeed, which prevents all the small, pretty, well behaved birds from eating themselves. I’m about to put in some bird feeders myself, and while I was… Continue reading
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Duel-Resource Gathering of Starlings
Drinking my coffee this morning, I’ve been watching a pair of starlings during bird breakfast hour also look for nest building materials. These two have apparently selected a forsythia bush in front of my house for their nest. The materials they seem to prefer for it are flexible and perhaps waterlogged sticks, because I saw… Continue reading
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Monkeys and Dogs
I wanted to share a stream of consciousness I was having a moment ago. In India, there is a famous phenomenon that occurs there every now and then when the local monkeys go to war against the local dogs. This is usually spurred by one of the monkeys being injured or killed by a dog,… Continue reading
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Food Advice and Latitude
I wanted to write a small thing real quick about a consideration I’m aware of regarding food advice. You see, where someone lives and its similarity to where you live determines the reliability of some things you learn on the internet about food, where so many people from all over the world can submit directions… Continue reading
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