Today we examine lying. What it means. Whether it’s always bad, or whether you can even conclusively determine what it means one way or the other. Can you lie to your car? Can you lie to your cat? You can certainly lie to your mother. People do that seemingly all…

No BS. This is what we need AI for. (Hint: I mean the stronger kind.) It’s not for what you think it is, folks. We’re not going to be curing cancer or ending our starvation or clean water problems. Sure, people whose net worth is consistently at least a million…

Below, I offer you an open letter in response to the recent “Pause Giant AI Experiments” letter. Regard it as you will. To Whom It May Concern: The title of this letter, “A Call for Common Decency,” encapsulates my sentiments as I write to you today. We are at an…

Well here we are again. Possibly on the verge of something quite meaningful happening, but probably at the point of you being skeptical about “everything” I may say here. It isn’t really reverse psychology and I don’t really blame you. I realize I have no reasonable grounds to do so…

Well, I will say I think I did pretty well with version 1. Medium says it only takes half as much time — two minutes — as I think I predicted. This version will be different, slightly longer, and it will help to better explain what I’m asking for help…

Not much other way to say it, I thought a minute ago. Just tell people you need a bit of help, Brian, and try to be as brief as possible about it. This, unfortunately, has been the story of my life. I just plain do not understand things the way…

It is only in hindsight that I see how the text below might be taken by my parents in particular, who are irreplaceable to me and who I’ve appreciated far too infrequently in my life. Still, I cannot allow my fears of in some way hurting them to force me…

It’s not exactly clear to me why I write this here versus giving it to them directly. I’m sure it will be quite personal and cause at least me a great deal of discomfit if not discomfort. I wondered while driving home tonight whether I ought to meter it or…

I happened to be listening to Jim Croce’s original [Time In A Bottle] recently. It was on the occasion of the passing of a friend. Perhaps you will give me a few moments about it. I have been having a hard time interacting with life lately. It has never felt…