The haze left no room for shadows. Dawn's luxuriant light was stripped of its radiance, repackaged, and scattered by particulate. The whole of the district was cast in an uncanny amber glow. There was no direction Arthur could face where his eyes were not forced into a precarious squint by the corrupt light. Arthur was… Continue reading Chapter I: Arthur
The Omega
The air was cold, crisp, clean. Even at his elevation, the wind still bore traces of peat. He surveyed his ancestral homeland, now abandoned. Not a foreign soul for miles. Eline shivered, wrapping her shawl around herself more tightly. All the souls belonged to him. Eline did not appreciate the cold. Shivering. Reacting. Like an… Continue reading The Omega
In Genuine Praise of So Called Folly Audio
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Tantalus Audio Recording
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Tantalus and How to be Unhappy: No Roads Lead Directly to Non-optimization
There are the three Greek damned, Sisyphus doomed to roll a boulder up a hill, the most famous of the three, Ixion rarely talked about because his punishment, being bound to an endlessly spinning wheel of fire being rather pedestrian, and Tantalus where we get the word tantalize. Like all ancient myths, there are many… Continue reading Tantalus and How to be Unhappy: No Roads Lead Directly to Non-optimization
Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer is Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis in Reverse
Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer is the story of a young reindeer discriminated against for having a red nose. It is also my favorite Claymation Christmas movie that I watch every year with a sweater and some hot chocolate. In the end, it turns out that his “deformity” his bright shining red nose has utility as… Continue reading Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer is Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis in Reverse
Receptor Theory Audio Recording
I thought I would try my hand at recording, the quality is probably not the best, nor the editing, nor the reading itself but it is my first attempt at doing so. I started with the second of my current essays because it is so far my favorite. Any advice is welcome!
In Genuine Praise of So Called Folly: Why Only Nonoptimization Matters
Audio here The title of this article might seem a strange one coming from an economist. This is the third of three planned essays. The two preceding articles in this series, the first of which built a lens to observe life from a tautology and the second, took reasonable scientific inference from the first. In… Continue reading In Genuine Praise of So Called Folly: Why Only Nonoptimization Matters
Receptor Theory: Why Fiction is “True”
Audio version here This is a continuation of the last article on The Universal Lens. But only two claims from that article are needed. -All life must in some way be a statistical response model to its environment. This is because for life to continue, it must fulfill the dual mandates of gathering energy from… Continue reading Receptor Theory: Why Fiction is “True”
The Universal Lens: Basic Logic of Any Self Organizing System
(of which so far constitutes only life, but this logic applies to any and all future robot overlords[1]). All systems tend towards the inevitability of entropy. A drop of ink placed in a glass of water quickly and with statistical necessity will become a glass of tinted water. A rock placed in the water would… Continue reading The Universal Lens: Basic Logic of Any Self Organizing System
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