To Exist or Not? — The Question
In perusing Bill Beaty’s crazy website, I came upon not only an example of my former self-reference experiment, but also, an interesting subset of the English Language known as E-Prime. In order to increase my mental strain I shall henceforth…
Citizen and Liberties
The government should purpose itself to maintaining and defending the freedoms of its citizenry. These freedoms should not only entail what has been written in the Constutition of the US but also those regarding patents, copyrights, and so forth. The…
Bill Beaty
Bill Beaty’s website is full of crazy coolness. One of the few people simultaneously interested in expression as well as content.
Tyranny of Corruption
Voting is an interesting process. Ideally it gives a democracy much power for the public to get what they want. Though there are many different systems of voting, they are all possesed of various flaws, so let’s examine just how…
Noticeability
“Son — Just do something important that people will want.” Leroy may have been drunk when he said this but it did cause me to rethink my approach to things. I have been assuming that if I did whatever the…
Organizational Design
I was reading /. today and I realized that the entire GNU/Linux community has had a remarkable underground success, that can be attributed to a few key assumptions about people in general. Individuals are semi-intelligent, and don’t always act in…
Icons for Government
It occured to me that if I’m to create a new country I also have to create symbols for that country to rally behind. For a flag I’d want to have something that incorporates Freedom and Chaos. But there are…
Words, Thought, and Meaning
Studying German I realized that, much of what I think consists not of pictorial representation nor of idealogical conceptualization of objects, but rather of linguistic terms. My thought are formed by, and therefore controlled by language. More importantly, my thoughts…
Terminal and GUI
The power of the linux os is in the terminal. It was arranged from a few very powerful utils that can be piped with each other. This modularity needs to be extended to the gui, for the gui to be…
Axiomatic Law
I was reading some article on Asimov’s 3 Laws, and thought that they have some difficulties. 1. The laws are in english, a language that is inherently ambigious. This ambiguity is difficult for machine implementation, but may imbue the robots…