Phil Osborn

Lost my blog in Stardock Software Stardock Forums

When I went to my blog, it wasn't there. Instead, I had a message from jafo to the effect that he was worried about an article that referenced ongoing legal matters. I don't think that I had anything dangerous in the blog. I specifically asked the victim witness officers if it would cause a problem, and they told me "no." Nonetheless, I understand jafo's concern, and am happy that he took the side of caution. What I am concerned about is the deletion of everything else,

Over Soon Enough in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

A note to God...

Victim / Witness in Off-Topic JoeUser Forums

From: "Selin, Anne" To: "[email protected]" <phil

The Grand Integration in Singularity JoeUser Forums

Here we go: The universe is a whole. No part can contradict that. (thought experiment goes here) Dimensions of analysis: Art, Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Decision Theory, Evil, Freedom, Justice, Limbic Resonance, Love, Perceptual Reaffirmation, Personal Trust, Perversion of Thought, Physics, Property Theory, Sex, Singularity, Social Contract, Sociopaths I'm using my algebraic analytics. While I adopted this methodology

Diary in Politics JoeUser Forums

05/19/2017: Appt w Dr. Joo Lee re aftermath of assault on 04/29/2017 at Orange library. Shot of steroids in shoulder. Request for Xrays of cervical spine by Apex. Already have similar request from Dr. James Lee* - or was it Dr. Pathak Forgot to mention problem with left foot. 05/20/2017: In a mental fog again. Computers at Orange library not helping. Strange Hispanic guy showed up at office unit and hung out in the alley across f

The Buck Stop in Politics JoeUser Forums

There's a lot of mystical, teary-eyed attachment, especially among my fellow libertarians, to the idea of a hard backing such as gold for the dollar. The reality is simple supply and demand. People need dollars to pay their taxes. There is effectively no substitute. Mortgages and other financial instruments in the U.S. are also tied to the dollar and there is no sign that somehow bitcoin or any other replacement - including gold - is immediately

Being Bad in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

(170812) Yesterday spent at work correcting product listings on the website. Some 40 entries, three of which were corrupted, yielding nonsense on the front end, and blank data entry forms on the back end. This followed several months now of correcting links to the newest version manuals, doing a poor job because of conflicting source material. The company hardly has any real web presence any more, as measured by Google's keyword page return. Two years ago, th

Yet another TOE in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

http://www.kurzweilai.net/neural-networks-promise-sharpest-ever-images Imagine applying this to everyday audio/video via something like Google Glass. Imagine refining huge samples such as a novel or a physics compendium. Maybe we already have enough data, g

How to Deal With Mental Decline? in Health & Medicine JoeUser Forums

Interesting program on NPR regarding the fairly common problem of pre-frontal lobe atrophy. Ravel was coming down with it as he wrote Bolero, and the structure of the piece reflects the removal of the moderating circuitry in the pre-frontal lobe. Typically, victims will go thru a phase in which they generate amazing repetitive pattens... I'm thinking about my "On Morals" blog, but there are nu

How to deal with sociopaths? in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

03/05/2017 I've decided to take the plunge and go positive for a change. Other people will pick up the negative slack, I'm sure... With regard to the depressing coverage below, numerous researchers in fields such as neuro-psychology have pointed out that the evidence strongly suggests that empathy is and has been for several decades on the decline. Anecdotal evidence abounds for this position, although usually othe

Reply to A General Solution to Poverty in Economics JoeUser Forums

Just testing the comment function. Wonder why no one is commenting altho the readership keeps growing?

On Morals II in Singularity JoeUser Forums

Phil Osborn, February 27 th , 2008. On Morals:* (Restarted 10/02/2016 due to glitches) Overview and summary of “On Morals,” by Phil Osborn Wherein I present a new, independent and powerful reason why we would want to be "good," even when we would benefit

OC Complaints Roster in Singularity JoeUser Forums

Update: 10/04/16 My link to this from the Orange County Science Fiction Club has been taken down. For at least a couple of decades now, I have attended the monthly meetings of the OCSFC on a fairly regular basis. What could go wrong at a science fiction club? Murphy's Law rules, but recent meetings have clearly more to do with M

On Subjectivism in Singularity JoeUser Forums

I recently developed a really great relationship. My new friend has read so many of the same books, seen the same movies, enjoyed the same sf, thought the same thoughts that it often feels like talking to myself. And, she has a great sense of humor. It looked like a dream come true. We sometimes disagreed, but we both took the disagreements as opportunities for exploration and growth. About time, damn it! Until she suddenly made a declaration to the effect t

Reply to Economic Singularity: The Gods and the Useless in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

To say that this was a great article would take understatement to a new level. I've written on this subject as well, here and elsewhere, as in my article on a solution to poverty, as well as my On Morals piece. I'm effectively blacklisted by many libertarians for the solution piece. Thanks

Alien Evolution in Singularity JoeUser Forums

In response to today's "Scholars' Circle" on KPFK - Sunday, 09/04/2016 12 noon: I wrote: Thanks for an XLNT program. I believe we met years ago at Chapman University at the Yu Torture Memo presentations. Regarding bird communication capability: I have informally studied crows and ravens for about three decades, and for several years I had a red-front Amazon parrot. After several years during which my parrot had virtually no contact w

Another New Entry to the Fermi Paradox in Singularity JoeUser Forums

So, I'm sitting at the public computer at the Tustin Library as usual, and there is the typical encounter of the hostile kind - gang-banger with girl with noisy baby. Which primed me for a discovery. Sometime later, after the security guard once again intervened between me and the gang banger, I was watching the Fermi paradox video on the Kurzweilai.net site, trying to screen out all the noise from yet another kid who can't be bothered to shut up, more precisely

Future Fair in Singularity JoeUser Forums

Check out O'Keans across the street from the Tustin library, OC CA US Oddly enough, this coffee shop is a kind of intellectual nexus for the area, one of several. At seemingly random times, some group - Christian intellectuals, Japanese families, Korean families, etc., college students, philosophers, gamers, digerati ... somehow arrive as a cohort and take over the space. There is just enough room inside for 2 or 3 such groups to cluster with a few seats left.

Reply to A General Solution to Poverty in Economics JoeUser Forums

For whatever reason, I have been blocked from commenting off and on lately. It started with my attempt to comment on some of FrogBoy's xlnt blogs. Then I convinced a friend to review this blog "A Solution to Poverty." So far, he's been unable - or unwilling, perhaps - to get back to me. So, I'm at the blog. Let's see if this makes it through.

Know Where Man in Economics JoeUser Forums

Update: 08/28/2016 http://www.kurzweilai.net/clear-and-present-danger-to-your-life-as-of-now-from-cyberblitzkrieg http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/AI-Work.html http://www.kurzweilai.net/one-second-after July 25, 2016 I opened the OC Register at work this morning and almost skipped over the front page article "Zoltan, a presidential candidate for the future." <a hre

How to Rescue Donald and Hillary in Current Events JoeUser Forums

After listening to a fair amount of the Republicrat's venting and angst last week, and now the Democans pretty abstractions - trying to paint a new face on a tired progressive philosophy, I've come to the conclusion that we ought to do something. Soon. The real problems - climate change, hair-trigger nuclear holocaust, new plagues, aging, massive corruption, 1 billion people on the edge of starvation, looming massive unemployment due to robotics, intellectual property us

Reply to First World Problems: July 2016 in Politics JoeUser Forums

Tort reform is desperately needed. Our current tort law system was contrived in order to force all businesses into the corporate mold. This was the goal of the proto-progressives in the 19th Century. The old common law used to forbid arbitrary punitive damages. I.e., the court considered its job to be that of restoring equity. You hurt someone - you compensate them. Punitive damages were instigated a

Reply to First World Problems: July 2016 in Politics JoeUser Forums

Tort reform is desperately needed. Our current tort law system was contrived in order to force all businesses into the corporate mold. This was the goal of the proto-progressives in the 19th Century. The old common law used to forbid arbitrary punitive damages. I.e., the court considered its job to be that of restoring equity. You hurt someone - you compensate them. Punitive damages were instigated as part of the theory that the over-arching role of t

Planning for LOSCON 2016 in Singularity JoeUser Forums

Welcome back. REM: November 8th, Election... November 25~27, LOSCON... www.loscon.org I've done this sort of thing several times now, each time from a different angle. Why? I have a dream ... of a time when we have the credibility matrix that I suggested publically in 1999 at ICANN https://forum.icann.or

Reply to The coming AI apocalypse in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

Darn. Every time I work on this, I screw up... Sorry frogboy. What a great blog! History making! #58 glitched into Chinese script until I found the hidden language button that someone had pressed but only works here. When I tried to recover, I was blocked from saving. Same thing again today with the comment editor. The correction that I wanted to make was to my dunderheaded failure to clearly state the connection that wa