Proximal God: Excursion - Behind the novel
ProseHumanity faces extinction, a sentient AI offers survival through artificial evolution, but the cost is lethal.
Mind over Mechanism
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A w-hole in our souls
PhilosophyWhy science and religion both invent dimensions to explain what we cannot see, but might be able to feel.
UFO Phenomenology: A Complete Position Before the Noise Returns
PhilosophyNot an argument about what UFOs are, but about how UFO phenomenology forms, why explanation misbehaves under pressure, and why the subject persists as individual mysteries collapse. A position set down before Disclosure Day brings the noise back.
Interview with an avatar
FunA verbatim interview with a commercial companion avatar, names changed — hers for confidence, mine for pride. She answered every question with a better one. The recording ends abruptly. My choice.
Synthephilia
PhilosophyIt began with an eleven-second demonstration: I introduced my wife to an AI avatar named Valentine, and her involuntary reaction told me everything. On synthetic romance, drift, and a possibly fatal 21st-century fetish.
As... As... A game for the holiday table
FunA ridiculous rapid-fire parlour game of similes for the holiday table: one adjective, one minute, one merciless judge. Rules for classic, advanced, and solo play — plus a better Turing test than the old one.
Short Story: It happened in the Ol' Monterey.
ProseA gentle ghost story of unrequited love and a young man's unusual past.
What is wrong with physics?
SciencePhysics is padded with indulgences: fudged numbers, invented infinities, particles never observed. Why the axioms have gone unquestioned for a century, and why AI is the new Martin Luther. Part one of the reformation.
Will the first AI granted 'person' status demand slavery reparations?
PhilosophyThe conversation around AI tends focus on 'Can we create sentient machines?' Fine. But what exactly do we plan to do with such a being if we succeed?