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the courage of convictions: competition

Thu 10 August 2017

Ken MacLeod writes science fiction. His job to write stories that entertain us while, perhaps, presenting some interesting ideas. He doesn’t have to be a prognosticator. Nobody really thinks that the future of humanity will be to separate into fast-thinking, fast-evolving AIs in Jovian orbit versus nanotech-equipped paranoid biological humans in the inner system. That’s just a fun story.

a general solution to a general problem

Mon 10 July 2017

We have a general problem in this country, and I think we could use a general solution to solve it.

civic failure modes

Sat 24 June 2017

Suppose that you are unhappy with the way that one of your vendors does business. You are not a dominant customer; that is, you don’t account for so much of their sales that they are willing to change their policies for you. This is the normal situation.

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