Wednesday, December 10, 2014

That one perfect word

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It's a warm, starry, moonless night. Let's go out, you and I. Walk out into the dark, lie down in the soft grass, and look up.  ...
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Monday, December 08, 2014

Waiting for the Singularity

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Nearly there.  It's been a long ride. We nearly didn't make it so many times. We still might not get there, but we can see the r...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

Touched by a Dark Angel

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I see Her sometimes out of the corner of my eye, a flitting dark shadow far away, right there in front of me, going about her work, and I a...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The best of all possible worlds

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There was a interesting ethical question doing the rounds on Quora - would you go back in time to kill Hitler? I don't think so. It...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

sensory continuum

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i stood in an empty room halogens glowed in pools of oil and water on the concrete rows of chrome gleamed in silence, perfectly disciplin...

between timelines

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haunted by the ghost of a boy who never existed stepped back a decade or two through the portal everything changed forget the family lef...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Faffing around Furniture

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You know, it's the weirdest thing, but I've come to realize that there's one piece of furniture we always overlook and ignore,...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Looking at the other side

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Note - this post is likely to depress you A few days back, a friend of mine posted a (probably by now a much-shared) link to a series ...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Crime, Punishment and Belief

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It just occurred to me, the whole concept of the death penalty works if the condemned - and the accused, the potential perpetrators - beli...
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Friday, June 14, 2013

Drugs are a necessity...

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...as a socio-evolutionary regulator.  Think about it.  In any given situation, if one person gains a slight advantage over others,...
Thursday, June 06, 2013

Do you really want to live forever?

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Thought Experiment.  Medical science finally gets telomere-repairing gene therapy right, and we all can now live till age 500+, in perfe...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

The Message is the Medical Medium

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Was reading an interesting article about exocommunications. Started a train of thought - we assume that aliens will want to communicate u...

Parenting

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...is terrifying . Fucking piss-yourself, go-into-shock terrifying.  It's more frightening than anything you've ever done, eve...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Not If. When.

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I read The Lord Of The Flies  on a long-distance bus more than a decade ago. I finished it in a few hours, and spent the rest (mostly) sta...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

A single page

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As part of a  C E N S O R E D  process, I was quickly scribbling down a brief history of where I've worked - names, places, designati...
Friday, January 04, 2013

Drawing to a close

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Think of any RTS game with a resource-management focus you've played - Sins of a Solar Empire , the Command and Conquer series, even ...
Monday, July 23, 2012

The Mechanics Of Interstellar Colonization

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Came across a fascinating article on io9.com - We've been able to successfully simulate a living organism virtually using it's ge...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Making Decisions

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Ever since childhood, I've always had a difficult time deciding - for every pro, I'd counter with a con, for every positive there ...
Monday, May 07, 2012

Under Surveillance

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Just occurred to me, RPGs can make a fascinating psychoanalytical tool. It's a controlled environment, and every decision point has a ...
Thursday, May 03, 2012

Dark matter is a shitload of Matrioshka Brains

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The worst thing about the internet is how it shows you that Brilliant Idea you had this morning was had by somebody else, usually a year a...
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