6 Things That Blew My F*****g Mind – 2\ The Drawbridge Exercise

Ethics can be tricky.   What is it?   The original story can be found here, but I’ve reprinted it below for you: As he left for a visit to his outlying districts, the jealous Baron warned his pretty wife: "Do not leave the castle while I am gone, or I will punish you severely …

6 Things That Blew My F*****g Mind – 3\ Intelligence in evolution

Thinking is weird and doesn’t make much sense. It also kinda sucks.   What is it?   I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor …

6 Things That Blew my F*****g Mind – 4\ Maxwell’s Demon

I don’t know how to explain this one quickly. Basically, a tiny demon can violate the laws of physics and this tears apart everything we know about reality. I think.   What is it?   Okay, brief overview. Entropy: Shit falls apart. Shit will always fall apart. The universe tends towards disorder. Stop resisting and …

6 Things That Blew my F*****g Mind – 5\ Roko’s Basilisk

Nerds freak out about whether they’ll go to hell or not   What is it?   Roko’s basilisk is a variation of a well-known thought experiment in game theory called Newcomb’s Paradox. Imagine an alien comes down on Earth and offers you two boxes. Box A has one thousand dollars in cold hard cash. Box …

6 Things that Blew My F*****g Mind – 6\ Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems

Obviously. I’ve written about this a few times. What is it? Godel’s theorem is mathematical theorem that shows that self-referential statements inevitably occur in a system of axioms, leading any system of axioms to either be incomplete but consistent or complete but inconsistent. This is, of course, an informal introduction. I like this explanation: The …

Some Thoughts on Education – Pt. 2, Possible Solutions

Obviously, I have some thoughts as to possible improvements. One thing I want to shy away from is “Let’s make learning more fun!” or “We need better teachers”. I mean, I agree with those things, but how do we do those things? Just saying it doesn’t make it so. Will these work? No idea. I’m …

Some Thoughts on Education – Pt. 1

The answer is, seemingly, always more education. Any conversation about large issues ranging from voter fraud to climate change inevitably ends with the tract “Well, we need to have better education…” or “In a more educated population, we wouldn’t have this issue!” And it goes on. Excuse me, while I clear a cough that sounds …

An Engineer’s Apology – A Metamodern Take on Becoming a Dasein Ronin

This blog seems out of left field if you were to simply look at my credentials on paper. Why does an energy engineer write about ideasthesia or anarchism or other esoteric ideas? It’s somewhat simple – they actually do relate to engineering. In fact, engineering is the common thread. It is a truism that we …