Recently patrissimo posted some videos from the Singularity Summit: http://patrissimo.livejournal.com/1252373.html I knew that the "Singularity" had something to do with anti-aging and eventual immortality. Yet despite working with, around, and on AI problems for most of my life I wasn't aware that the "Singularity" was also about artificial intelligence. Specifically, the technological...

patrissimo writes concerning hate crimes legislation, what I think is a fairly standard and not unreasonable position held generally by conservatives and probably most libertarians: The idea of passing a hate crimes law based partly on Shepard's death is ludicrous. The poor kid got *murdered*. Murder is already illegal. If murder isn't illegal enough, then it should be more fucking illegal...

My Playa Adventure -Burning Man 2009 Lovely. Via patrissimo

In a similar vein as patrissimo , I'm also getting rid of a ton of stuff in the process of consolidating 3 apartments and moving. Less crappy stuff up for grabs (list will get much longer as I go through boxes): Large Escaflowne movie poster, basically pristine. Large Star Ocean 3 poster, less pristine. Some never-worn t-shirts from E3s of yore: FF11 XL, Quake 4 XL, a game I don't...

I'm starting another blog! One focused on a specific topic area: Evidence Based Parenting . The idea is that most parenting advice I see is experience based rather than evidence based, and there isn't really a place for the general public to talk about studies and scientific evidence as they relate to raising kids. It's an interesting area, to me, in part because it's so hard. If you read some...

I have a lot of sympathy for many of the ideas behind libertarianism, from a consequentialist point of view. Our government is large, and its very size, not to mention many of its policies, cause lots of problems. In a lot of ways, it would be nice to be able to trade in our large government problems for the different set of problems you get with a very small government, for the change of pace if nothing...

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Libertarian/anarchocapitalist commentary on today's moonwalk anniversary celebrations: patrissimo : it was a big government boondoggle. whatever. when they go to the moon and make a profit, I'll cheer. Anonymous commenter: I am as anarchocapitalist as they come but...THEY FUCKING LANDED ON THE MOON! Can you honestly say this was not the most awesome use of stolen money in history...

In a discussion on a study about what possessions really made people happy, iainuki said: What is it with houses? I don't understand the psychology, I don't think, or the motivation. I don't entirely understand it myself, but I am deeply effected by it. One of the stories about me I like to tell is when Nancy and I were buying this house it stressed me out so much I temporarily dislocated...

The subject of what it means to be an adult--or rather, how you decide whether or not someone else is one--has been coming up a lot lately. Last week in a locked post, a friend said that one of her benchmarks for adulthood was the ability to deal with the realities of bodily functions--specifically, "if you are highly interested in portions of someone's anatomy, that you'd better be able to cope with...