Daylight Cannot be Saved
The real curiosity is that we keep fighting over which flavor of wrong the clock should be, instead of asking whether the clock needs to be wrong at all.
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History
A collection of 5 issues
Maintaining Divergence
The synchronization tax is the price of building the bridge. Maintenance is the price of keeping the bridge standing. Transmission is the price of crossing it.
A Tribute to Peter Putnam
Every intelligence leaves a trace. What we experience from the inside — the felt texture of perception, the recursive awareness of our own awareness, the striving that drives our mattering projects — expresses itself outward through action, and those actions broadcast signals. Upon death, the inside experience ceases. No future observer can
Invention as Exploration
Richard Sutton's Bitter Lesson is that general methods leveraged by more computation beat specialized intuition encoded in domain-specific algorithms. The Bitter Lesson gets lots of attention these days because of its implications for artificial intelligence. But for a patent lawyer like me, it's more interesting for
Community in Silicon Valley
I've been thinking about an essay by Chris Arnade called How to build the perfect city for the last few weeks. To sum it up in my own words: Everybody, everywhere wants the sense of belonging that comes from community.
Where is community in Silicon Valley? I have