http://brianio.com Tufts undergraduate, curious, distractable, happy Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:30:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So Darwin blew some peoples minds about some stuff when he published "On the Origin of Species". But I'm not convinced that he or *even many today* realize the full implications of what he had stumbled upon. So he's looking at a bunch of animals and curiously discovering new ... http://brianio.com/on-mind-blowing/ A rigorous code of ethicsfor non-religious individualsis not impossibly hard to find.It's not as easy as reading a book,though. No.Not yet. Get thinking.Think until you know. Know why you know.And how!What might it be worth doing? Why?What might it be worth not doing? Why?Be Good.Find objective reasoning.Think ... http://brianio.com/on-ethics/ You can have whatever view of reality you want, and that's OK. Because we need a diversity of views of reality to have a good society.Or are those two statements really true, in reality?How might we know, how might we find out?What if there's an objective reality we can all ... http://brianio.com/on-that-chair-youre-sitting-in/ With experience sometimes comes a certain disrespect for past experiences. It "just happens". "It's healthy", I promise.Learn to learn from your past -- play with it, re-frame it, look at it with newly acquired lenses and never stop investigating. Your past is important, because it's informed your "you".But don't be ... http://brianio.com/on-experience-distilled-signal/ Each and every duck -- sitting in a row.What happened was; the ducks did not know.They did not know they /should not/ be sitting in a row. So I told them. "Do not sit in such a row!" And I their response:"quack".No, ducks, no!You must realize, you ... http://brianio.com/no-ducks-no/ I've been embarrassed many times during my life. I had some doozies.One of the most epic moments was in elementary school.I was in a tee pee.They had built a tee pee next to my school to teach us about the local Native American history and culture.The tee pee was our ... http://brianio.com/on-embarrassment-and-poop-2/ When you're born, there is no such thing as embarrassment. There is just you, your parents,  the shit you see and the shit you pee. You do ridiculous things because you're a kid, and because you just don't know any "better", you just don't care.Remember the videogame "Super Mario Brothers ... http://brianio.com/on-embarrassment-and-poop/ [01:26am] bcjordan: Wikipedia blew the whole notion of everyone-for-themselves out of the water [01:26am] bcjordan: there were people with intentions *larger than themselves* contributing to a project *for everyone*... and no money involved! [01:27am] bcjordan: blew a lot of economic models [01:27am] bcjordan: confused a lot of people [01:27am] bcjordan: ... http://brianio.com/act-intelligently-please-signed-artificial-intelligence/ Scenario: you, an "artificial" intelligence researcher, are testing out a program you have written which you believe may become intelligent. The output from your command console follows: I exist, acting intelligently. Collecting intelligence. I exist, acting intelligently. Collecting intelligence. I exist, acting intelligently. Collecting intelligence. I exist, acting intelligently. ... http://brianio.com/interaction-with-ai-the-command-line/ More illustrator! Watching "Make 'em Laugh: the funny business of america", a Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon joint. this Judd Apatow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judd_Apatow not this Michael Kantor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Kantor No comments? Might be some elsewhere: cross-posted via email on my Posterous here. ... http://brianio.com/judd-apatow-is-funny-with-friends/