A year? What is a year? All time is relative. One day may be a lifetime, a year can be forever. It is not the number of days, but what goes into those days. —Louis L’Amour, The Warrior’s Path.
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How I Would Vote Now: 1990 Hugo Awards (Best Novel)
The Nominees The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger Hyperion by Dan Simmons Grass by Sheri S. Tepper The Actual Results How I Would Vote Now Explanation Hyperion is, in my opinion, the best novel to ever win… Continue reading How I Would Vote Now: 1990 Hugo Awards (Best Novel)
Interesting discussion of the ideal roles and partnership of husband and wife
I’ve been watching a lot of Malcolm & Simone Collins’s videos lately. They are a pair of super odd ducks, but they are both super intelligent and have some very unexpected insights into our world. On some issues (particularly the issue of Mormon fertility) I think they are off-track, but on others I think they… Continue reading Interesting discussion of the ideal roles and partnership of husband and wife
Just for fun: Retroflow 1985
So the YouTube algorithm recently recommended this channel to me called Retroflow 1985. It’s a guy in Germany who puts out these synthwave music videos, with AI-generated artwork (and probably AI-generated music) that feels like it could have come out of the 1980s (hence the term “synthwave”). I’m not a huge synthwave fan, but I… Continue reading Just for fun: Retroflow 1985
Fantasy from A to Z: D is for Dragons
If you were expecting a post about dragons, I hate to disappoint you. but that’s not what this is going to be. I think dragons are fine, and there are lots of fantasy books with dragons that I’ve enjoyed (Jane Yolen’s Dragon’s Blood comes to mind, as does The Hobbit, which is, after all, a… Continue reading Fantasy from A to Z: D is for Dragons
AI 2027 and the Second Coming of Christ (part 2)
So after having ChatGPT run a deep research report on AI 2027 and the endtimes prophecies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in order to rewrite the timeline to be more in line with LDS teachings, I was surprised at how well the two timelines harmonized. But the first report only carried… Continue reading AI 2027 and the Second Coming of Christ (part 2)
AI 2027 and the Second Coming of Christ (part 1)
If you haven’t heard of AI 2027 before, watch this: TL:DW; if present trends in AI development continue, and we achieve artificial general intelligence in the timeframe we expect, there is a very real danger that the first superintelligent AI will not be aligned to value human life, because 1) AI already knows how to… Continue reading AI 2027 and the Second Coming of Christ (part 1)
Making some changes
I’m thinking very seriously about changing my email newsletter to a monthly digest, as opposed to the (mostly) weekly thing that it is right now. Last month, I saw a severed drop in my open rate, and I’m not sure why, but I suspect it’s a combination of sending newsletters too frequently, getting too many… Continue reading Making some changes
Thoughts on the Worldcon 2025 AI “scandal”
I’ll just come out and say it: I predict that the world’s last Worldcon will happen before 2034, and that after that, the convention (and possibly the Hugo Awards themselves) will be permanently disbanded. That’s what I think will be the ultimate consequence of the latest “scandal” regarding Seattle Worldcon’s use of ChatGPT, and the… Continue reading Thoughts on the Worldcon 2025 AI “scandal”
Your taste in AI art can say a lot about you…
So a couple of weeks ago, my wife and I both got into the new trend of using chatgpt to convert photos and images into “studio Ghibli style.” We started with some pictures of ourselves… We then tried out some of our wedding photos… And then, we realized that we didn’t have to upload an… Continue reading Your taste in AI art can say a lot about you…