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…
Balancing Tyranny In DAOs
In the last year the rise of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (more commonly referred to as DAOs) have gone parabolic. What was once a method of democratizing in the most technologically savvy circles of individuals has rapidly become a popular phenomena on the entire cryptocurrency sector. It is even in some cases hailed as the future…
Artificial Intelligence, Universal Basic Income, and Technocracies
Society as in decline. There are many, many reasons why this is the case. However, in this particular post I would like to explore specifically the impeding clash between the working class of the world and algorithmic replacement of jobs. This is a topic not unknown to the written work or discourse but seeing as…
Media In The 21st Century
For centuries people have been documenting thoughts and conveying them through a medium. First it was depictions of objects carved deep into stone. Then came more structured pictures forming the first recorded thoughts. As time went on we turned from stones to papyrus, and from papyrus to scrolls, and from scrolls to books. Our written…
Trolley Car Problems
Ethics and morality concern all people, however practicality and technicalities are abundant. Indeed, while one might simply quote a religious text, or even simply claim to possess a “gut feeling” for morality, the fact of the matter is neither of those truly provide a concrete, one and done solution to certain situation. One way to…
Is Creativity Dead?
After watching a movie recently I had an interesting thought: When does creativity end? We all have thought something uncreative before, so where is the line that all creativity and originality end? First off, we know that despite the occasional time something seems uncreative to us most of the time we perceive things to be…
Preface to Blog
All opinions on this page are PixlFlip’s and may or may not represent the philosophies’ of the other projects under the PixlFlip brand. If you aren’t thick skinned or are a firm believer any absolutely anything it is recommended you leave. Choosing to stay is just that: your choice. You clicked on the link that…
Thoughts On Free Will
A short story with a question: You are walking home one day. The weather is cold and beginning to drizzle. You don’t want to get wet and are nearing your home. Then suddenly you have two choices. One is to run the remaining distance, the other is to cross the street early as there is…