When one thinks of a social credit system in many cases one word immediately comes to mind: China. While the Chinese government has certainly been making waves with its new system, it is not the only nation to have explored one, and more definitely not the only nation seeking to fully realize said system. I…
Proto-AGI
When it comes to the topic of Artificial Intelligence in general there are many interesting opinions the general populous holds, as well as misconceptions. The biggest of these by far is the understanding of what Artificial General Intelligence will look like. The potential of AGI cannot be overstated and I mean that from the stance…
In Defense of the Journey
We all tend to become focused on the future. Not just the vast technological wonders and horrors of the future. Not just the marvels and mishaps. We become focused on our future; the future of self. While few people can imagine what, say, the internet will look like in a year, almost all of them…
Algorithms and Relationships
People use the internet to transmit messages back and forth billions of times a day. In fact you yourself probably text friends and people you know dozens of times if not hundreds in a single day. What if however you were not talking to a person, but the digital ghost of one. What if instead…
Social Networks and Forced Decentralization
Candidly, I rarely like to talk about the current contentious present. Everyone has their own opinions about the “now” and how things are done, should be done, should not be done, and the list goes on. With that in mind, I tend to focus my attention outward to the future and cater to an audience…
Transparency and Future Governing
Government is truly one of the most universally hated objects in the scope of human consciousness. There is not a place on Earth that has not at one point in history or another had a change in regime. The premise of government is simple: a entity that ensures the safety and wellbeing of a collective….
COVID-19 Postmortem: Mandates and Morals
This issue specifically was arguably the most hotly contested facet of all the topics I intend to cover in this series. So much so in fact I was tempted to avoid the issue altogether. Doing so would do nothing but continue a separate problem in modern society however, so pen my thoughts I shall. I…
Prelude to COVID-19 Postmortem
As the world is now beginning to (albeit slowly) come back to its senses from the rampant fear it has been bound by as a result of COVID-19 I feel it is finally an acceptable time to pen my thoughts on the entire incident. The last two years have been interesting to say the least….
Storage and Blockchain
We are nearing an important moment in the future of the internet. In its current form you are viewing this post on a website, downloading the content from my server after looking up the domain name. Back in the early days of the web this was well and good, but as we enter what may…
Pursuing Knowledge, Bound By Logic, Seeking Truth
Common sense, fun fact, isn’t common. One look around society is plenty evidence enough of that. When the famed Thomas Paine penned his political hit Common Sense, he had a goal and a hope. The goal was to use logic, emotion, and truth to persuade restless colonists of his day that absolving connections to the…