…by winning it? This article is weird. Please bear with me, because it’s hopeful, and hope is good, and in woefully short supply even among the people like you and I who…
Category: Futurism
Facebook is Shiri’s Scissor
There are a lot of reasons to hate Facebook. They collect data on you, and sell it. They even do it when you’re not logged in to Facebook. They do it even…
Benjamin Boyce Podcast
I did a podcast. It was pretty fun.
Social Justice is a Crowdsourced Religion
Future historians chronicling the Grand American Culture War of the Twenty Teens will identify three mostly distinct factions. The Blue Tribe, who vies for control so they may push Blue values on…
On the “Universe is a Simulation” Garbage
For some reason, this has become a hot topic among physicists, astrophysicists, astronomers, and philosophers, and I have to admit I simply don’t understand why. Here’s Nick Bostrom, in 2003, laying the…
The Social Media Catastrophe
Smart People are Very Worried, but Not Worried Enough There’s a fantastic Cult Classic horror movie from 1984 called “Cathode Ray.” You’ve probably never heard of it. What made it truly amazing…
We Are All Apes Behaving Like Ants
Greetings Fellow Formicidae There’s a prevailing opinion among some intellectuals that by virtue of our intelligence, the human species is now in a post-evolutionary state — that language, technology, and economics have separated us…
Gary Gygax: (1), Charles Murray: (0), Artificial Intelligence: (?)
Or, “Modeling the Socioeconomic Future with Dungeons and Dragons” When I get too fed up with the relative noise level in the media about whether Charles Murray is or isn’t racist, or James…