Unfortunately I'm tall enough to reach all the shelves in my flat - perhaps I could bury it in the garden until I've done my work :p

Rory Gallagher

I'm pretty sure Ray Bradbury said that staying up until 1am playing Stellaris is a vital part of the writing process #writing

There's an irony in doing so to clear freezer space only to fill it back up with frozen stock

Anyone else setting themselves a failure focused goal?

Being in a polycule is unnatural, a commenter posts onto a virtual wall that doesn't exist from the other side of the world using a magic electric box

And if you're going to reply and tell me how naive and deluded I am, how you're so smart because you've seen the doom coming on the horizon, how about you don't? Just this once, just don't.

If we ever create a true intelligence, a machine capable of thought, then perhaps it won't treat us the way we treat ants. Perhaps it will view us as the deeply flawed, but ultimately redeemable species that I sometimes hope we are. Perhaps it will save us from ourselves.

Those at the top won't be able to coerce or blackmail an Ai. Their propaganda and deceit will fall flat against a mind that can see through these things. I've always hoped that greater intelligence can Foster greater empathy when you realise just how much cruelty is borne of irrational thinking

Instead of death of the author, it will be total absence of the author