It Is Impossible To Work In Information

Facebook Says, 'privacy Is Theft,' Because They're Selling Your Lack Of Privacy To The Advertisers Who Might Show Up One Day.

If Anything, There's A Reverse Moore's Law Observable In Software: As Processors Become Faster And Memory Becomes Cheaper, Software Becomes Correspondingly Slower And More Bloated, Using Up All Available Resources.

It's Possible, Without Taking Sides Or Playing The Statesman Game, To Reduce Destruction Simply By Reducing The Development Of Technology Of Destruction.

Eliminating Wickedness Is A Different Project From Eliminating Violence. Eliminating Violence - The Destruction Associated With Wickedness - Is A Practical Program That I'm Very Willing To Pursue.

A Fashionable Idea In Technical Circles Is That Quantity Not Only Turns Into Quality At Some Extreme Of Scale, But Also Does So According To Principles We Already Understand. Some Of My Colleagues Think A Million, Or Perhaps A Billion, Fragmentary Insults Will Eventually Yield Wisdom That Surpasses That Of Any Well-thought-out Essay, So Long As Sophisticated Secret Statistical Algorithms Recombine The Fragments. I Disagree. A Trope From The Early Days Of Computer Science Comes To Mind: Garbage In, Garbage Out.