Comment on the Japanese influences of The Last Jedi “He brings to mind the famous zen teacher, Suzuki Shosan, a famously combative monk who lived in feudal Japan. Shosan was originally a Samurai, and an accomplished fighter who decided to retire from life as a warrior to pursue enlightenment. He was famous for being disruptive […]

Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear “Billionaires like Bill Gates and Elon Musk assume that a superintelligent AI will stop at nothing to achieve its goals because that’s the attitude they adopted. (Of course, they saw nothing wrong with this strategy when they were the ones engaging in it; it’s only the […]

Estonia, the Digital Republic “I asked Kaevats what he saw when he looked at the U.S. Two things, he said. First, a technical mess. Data architecture was too centralized. Citizens didn’t control their own data; it was sold, instead, by brokers. Basic security was lax. “For example, I can tell you my I.D. number—I don’t […]