Ninety-ninety Rule Of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
Category Archives: Books
Continual Learning is Consciousness.
My book A Level of Consciousness, was not about AI, it was about humans, but in several areas went deep into my thoughts on the mysteries of consciousness, with several parallels that translate to the singularity/sentient/not-sentient arguments raging today. I … Continue reading
Artificial Super-Intelligence May Require a Level of Trust We’re Not Willing to Give
If I (as user Alice) open an AI session (and choose your AI poison here) then type into it a unique statement of fact that neither the internet, nor anybody else in the universe knows. Then, at another computer, in … Continue reading
The Internet is Rotting from Within
As I mentioned at the end of my previous post, my 3 months trial of social media is currently at an end as I cannot get on X, basically because I cannot verify I am a human. I tick the … Continue reading
All My Novels are Now Free to Download/Read
I am in no particular rush to finish my next novel, the timeline is this year, but it is not as if I have hoards of fans clamoring for it, so it will come when it is good and ready. … Continue reading
Posted in A Level of Consciousness, Books, Publishing, Science Fiction, writing
Tagged Free eBook, Free ePub, sci-fi, Techno-Thriller
The X Factor
To do a good technical post that will get a few thousand clicks from a technical audience, you really need to do something interesting that has not been done before. Nobody is going to click on another digital alarm clock … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Philosophy, Publishing, The Ramblings of an Old Man, writing
Three Technologies I want to see before I die:
Number 1: The ORAC Computer I will start with what I think is going to be the easiest, an AI Computer, that can interact with voice, gestures and understands every nuance of interacting with a human. When I was a … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Ramblings of an Old Man, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Eagle Transporter, Fusion, Orac, Space 1999
AI Coding: 2022 Sci-Fi, Versus March 2026 Reality
I was researching some bare-metal assembly code for a 2D shooter RP2350 arcade board I am developing as a personal project, and got to a segue where things were going a bit too well on the coding front; so I … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Other Programming, Philosophy, RP2350, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Holy Shit!
The Utopian AI Problem Few People are Talking About.
The current bunch of AI’s out there are smarter, and in some cases even more empathetic than many people I have dealt with, yet I would turn these AI’s off without a seconds though if needed. I would not however … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Philosophy, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Ramblings of an Old Man, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged AGI, ASI, consciousness, life, Sentience
Cross Genres At Your Peril!
I have seen books torn to pieces for being too long, too short, too complicated, not complicated enough, too violent, not enough action.. Well the list goes on. Yet as a writer, when you come to write the blurb, and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Funny, Publishing, writing
Download My First Book Trilogy eBook For Free!
After finishing a painful two month round of editing of my first book series The Summer of Reasoning, based on some readers feedback (big thank you to Steve and Jen in the UK). I have cut out a few threads … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Books, Philosophy, Politics, Publishing, Science Fiction, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Summer of Reasoning, Uncategorized
Tagged Free eBook, Free ePub, the summer of reasoning
Humanity Needs Aliens to Survive
We are a weird bunch. Does it really matter if somebody likes Android over iPhone, a Ford over a BMW, or even the Labour party over the Conservative party, considering none of these entities have any interest in you whatsoever … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Books, boz, Funny, Philosophy, Politics, Speculation, The Future
Tagged Aliens
Harry Potter and the Junior Prompt Engineer
I’ve been trying to stay off the Internet and for the last week and get myself back into some novel writing. Unfortunately I have hit a bit of a plot road-block in my next serious “Boz” novel, so I’ve decided … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Books, boz, Boz NZ, Funny, Philosophy, Science Fiction, Singularity, Speculation, The Future
Tagged Harry Potter, Holodeck, Prompt Engineering
