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Facebook is Shiri’s Scissor

Posted on December 24, 2018December 24, 2018 by bj campbell

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

Posted on November 15, 2018 by bj campbell

I did a podcast. It was pretty fun.

Social Justice is a Crowdsourced Religion

Posted on October 31, 2018 by bj campbell

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

Posted on September 25, 2018 by bj campbell

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

Posted on July 17, 2018 by bj campbell

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

Posted on July 14, 2018July 14, 2018 by bj campbell

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: (?)

Posted on July 14, 2018July 14, 2018 by bj campbell

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…

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