I love America. I really am a patriot, I love this country. I used to have a lot of antipathy about it, because a bunch of clever but stupid people have co-opted patriotism as a tool to herd not-clever but stupid people into accepting their gambit of illegally invading a nation, killing a million of its inhabitants, poisoning their genepool with depleted uranium, and illegally fielding no-bid contr...

Little Brother is tight, I highly recommend you go download that shit for free. 5th Generation Warfare is a term I suspect the Pentagon is going to be bandying about in the near future. Imagine a society whose entire economy is based on a post-peak, non-renewable resource, and instead of devoting its remaining resources to establishing a new paradigm, it spends it on surveillance technology that is...

The entire proceedings of the first annual Aritifical General Intelligence confernece has been posted. The black box of high-level ambitions and theories is somewhat cracked, I recommend you take a look. Particularly, I recommend the talk on "Probabalistic Quantifier Logic", which has some relevance to the recent Metaprogrammer post.Update: Ben's talk on probabilistic inference emerging in the brai...

Just got some technical alerts in my inbox, it seems GameStop has had three recently, one of which is quite rare. They're all bearish, which means that its stock is likely to fall from $40 to about half. If you're curious, the events were the formation of a Diamond Top, a Double Top and to top of this chart-topping trio of tops, a Megaphone Top. Top.I was talking to a manager at my local GameStop m...

Hoi,***Warning!This letter contains a virus which has beensuccessfully detected and cured.***Half a dozen perch for your trouble. Gus argued which isilluminated by the sun, are uttering strong sense of duty,would have gone instantly chelsea. They have served theirday and generation, (and who are acting as priests untothe pandavas), sons are not obedient to me, o great rishi.my yet he found reasons...