Monthly Archives: September 2018

Sep 13

I have the beginnings of a story about “warmware,” androids that can do things like raise children because they’re…

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I have the beginnings of a story about “warmware,” androids that can do things like raise children because they’re emotionally intelligent.

Sounds like there are other New Zealanders thinking about this stuff as well.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

What We Have to Gain From Making Machines More Human https://suhub.co/2oZMRtD

Sep 11

Interesting, if a little wordy.

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Interesting, if a little wordy.

Why do people confuse “adopt” and “adapt”?

Originally shared by Winchell Chung

The politics of space mining – An account of a simulation game

Highlights

•The realization of space exploitation will disrupt world politics.

•The simulation highlighted the political tensions and different interests.

•Inclusive international process is needed to reach fast adaptation.

•Creative mechanisms are needed to allow sharing of new global wealth.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576516311584

Sep 09

I personally think this article’s perspective is somewhat naive.

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I personally think this article’s perspective is somewhat naive. It also tries to have it both ways: Decentralization will solve problems because people will be able to figure out the truth for themselves; and also it’s important to have experts trained in science within government, because non-experts are no good at figuring out the right thing to do with science and technology.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

Outdated Evolution: Updating Our Governments to Cope with Disruptive Technology https://suhub.co/2QhaSZC

Sep 09

Just received an email from a short story competition I’d forgotten about entering.

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Just received an email from a short story competition I’d forgotten about entering.

I won.

My story “Gatekeeper, What Toll?” (which is quite possibly the best story I’ve written so far) will appear in an audio anthology from Remastered Words.

http://www.remasteredwords.com/?p=3192

Sep 07

Does anyone know what time it is?

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Does anyone know what time it is?

In your story, I mean. Do you know what words and phrases people used and, importantly, did not use during that time?

Google knows.

Originally shared by Karen Conlin

I was sure I’d written about this before, but no. So. Google Ngrams is a great, easy-to-use tool for finding the frequency of a word or phrase in printed material. Let’s say you want to know how popular the phrase “try and” is, compared to “try to.” You…

http://grammargeddon.com/2018/09/07/tool-time-using-google-ngrams/