“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”
In this latest Domain Query, I address a rather interesting question from LRFotS Randale6 that touches on the thorny and tricky issue of thinking machines and artificial intelligence, while referencing the greatest sci-fi novel ever written. Here’s the...
Dr. James Tour’s name should be fairly familiar to regular readers of this site. I have mentioned him a number of times before, particularly with respect to his seminal presentation about the known problems with Origin-of-Life (OoL) research. Dr. Tour is a...
The main Didactic Mind podcast is finally back with a new episode. In this one, I argue that we are already in a World War – whether you call it World War III or IV at this point, I don’t know or care, but the fact is that we ARE dealing with a global war...
In this day and age of constant stimulation, the ability to enjoy one’s own company is a great gift indeed. Most people would not consider it to be so, because most people are afraid to spend time by themselves. Yet, for those of us who are naturally very...
On September 30th, 2022, the Neo-Tsar signed treaties with the formerly Ukrainian regions of Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozh’ye, and Kherson, and he gave a speech in the St. George Hall (technically the Hall of the Order of St. George) within the Grand Kremlin...
The Domain Query series is finally back, after a long hiatus. This week’s question comes from a reader and subscriber to my Telegram channel – be sure to subscribe if you have not done so already, it’s a great community of like-minded men who...
Note: the following post is an expansion of a series of lengthy comments that I made on my Telegram channel earlier today. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conference wrapped up in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (not Astana, Kazakhstan, which is what I mistakenly...
The past five days or so have been rather bewildering ones for those of us following developments in the 404 War. Starting on September 9th, basically, the Ukrainians launched a major counteroffensive designed to take back territory in the Kharkov region in the...
You all know what today is. You all remember where you were, 21 years ago today. Think about that span of time carefully. If your child was born in that year, that same child would already have passed the ages of maturity for driving, voting, and drinking in the...
This post likely isn’t what you thought it was when you opened it up. It is actually about a butch lesbian named Norah Vincent, whose name may be familiar to some of you. Nearly 20 years ago, she conducted a rather bold experiment in which she decided to live as...
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