02Nov 2026 by Post

How Small Became Beautiful: A Brief History of Information Storage

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, compact discs, Computational Sciences, computers, Delft University of Technology, DNA, electronic storage, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Engineering, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, George Gaylord Simpson, gigabytes, Gordon Moore, hard drives, heat-assisted magnetic recording, IBM, information, Kryder’s law, Macintosh, Mark Kryder, megabytes, Michael Denton, Microsoft, molecular calculation, Moore’s law, nanometers, Pan Am, physics, printing, quantum holography, RAMAC, Richard Feynman, Stanford University, Technology, terabyte, Thomas Newman, University of Washington, volumetric density
For readers whose eyes may be glazing over with all these large exponentials for measuring DNA storage, let me offer an observation from Michael Denton. Source
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31Oct 2026 by Post

Legal Liability for the AI Geniuses? It’s So Far Largely Undiscussed

AI agents, ambition, Anthropic, artificial inteligence, Axios, banks, Computational Sciences, Coyotec, Gary Marcus, Gizmodo, grade school, Hugging Face, irresponsibility, Jason Clinton, Journal of the American Medical Association, Kate Knibbs, laziness, Legal Science (jurisprudence), medical training, murder, Philadelphia, Sam Altman, Sophie Warburton, Stanford University, stupidity, Technology, This Is Money, White House, Wired
AI can become a serious social pest without rogue superagents or cyberDoomsday. Human stupidity could do all the heavy lifting. Source
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29Oct 2026 by Post

For Students, Less Tech, Not More — Please!

Andrew McDiarmid, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intimacy, chatbots, ChatGPT, classroom, Common Sense Media, Computational Sciences, Education, focus, friends, Grok, Internet, iPads, Jewish schools, laptops, LLMs, lovers, Mayans, New York Post, Parents, religious beliefs, schoolwork, Sherry Turkle, skydiving, smartphones, social skills, Technology, teens, therapists, video games, willpower, XBOX, young people
This is a struggle going back to before anyone worried about AI. One of my worst decisions as a parent was to allow an XBOX into the house. Source
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26Oct 2026 by Post

A State of Emergency in Our Dependence on AI

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intimacy, attachment, chatbots, Computational Sciences, emergency, human relationships, humanity, intimacy, Los Angeles Review of Books, machines, MIT, New York Post, psychology, relationships, schools, Sherry Turkle, Social media, social skills, thinking skills
I sat down with Dr. Turkle for a conversation about her new book. We covered all the things about relationships we stand to lose if we depend on AI. Source
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18Oct 2026 by Post

Choose Your Own Doomsday: Select from These Alarming Options, Scientists Say

Annihilation, Antarctica, apocalypses, Artificial Intelligence, Big Tech, cloning, Computational Sciences, computer simulations, COSM 2026, Daily Mail, doomsday, Elon Musk, Geology, humans, Kevin Hunt, longtermism, Michael Marshall, minds, Mouth of Hell, Nicaragua, Nick Bostrom, Nottingham Trent University, planets, Skeptic Magazine, space, sun, Technology, The Conversation, The Shimmer, thought experiment, Volcán Masaya, Wiliam Hunter
In one scenario based on a sci-fi movie, something called "The Shimmer is interfering with the fundamental patterns of life, redefining evolutionary code." Source
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06Oct 2026 by Post

Evolutionary Computing: An Audit of Smuggled Information

Baylor University, Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Computational Sciences, Darwinian evolution, David Thomas, Denmark, displacement, Evolution, evolutionary computing, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, George Montañez, Harvard University, Iain Strachan, information, Intelligent Design, Isak Dinesen, Jakob Wolf, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), Nature (journal), Niels Bohr, Niels Bohr Institute, Richard Dawkins, Richard E. Lenski, Robert J. Marks II, Robert T. Pennock, smuggling, Steiner trees, Thomas Schneider, University of Copenhagen, William Dembski, Winston Ewert
The most significant stop for me in Denmark was a lecture that Jakob Wolf arranged for me to give at the Niels Bohr Institute. Source
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05Oct 2026 by Post

“Displacement,” or Offloading, and the Mysterious Million Dollars

algorithm, Computational Sciences, David Wolpert, displacement, Evolution, evolutionary computing, information, intermediate sequences, My Personal History with Information, natural selection, No Free Lunch theorems, offloading, random sequence, Richard Dawkins, target, target sequence, The Blind Watchmaker, William Macready
imagine trying to explain how Alice came into possession of $1,000,000. It would be one thing to say that, based on skills and effort, she earned $1,000,000. Source
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12Sep 2026 by Post

How Much Should Students Use AI? Preferably Not at All

academic year, adults, Artificial Intelligence, chatbots, ChatGPT, Chicago Tribune, Claude, Cleveland, Computational Sciences, creative power, Creativity, Energy, Gemini, Grok, guardrails, habits, images, Intellect, Kamar Samuels, learning, New York City, Parents, relationships, school districts, schools, science education, Sherry Turkle, students, teachers, Technology, text, Videos
New York City recently announced a moratorium on AI use in K-12 classes for the 2026-2027 school year. Source
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11Sep 2026 by Post

AI Hysteria: Take a Deep Breath and Ask, “Who Benefits from Apocalyptic Claims?”

9/11 attack, Anderson Cooper, Anthropic, artificial inteligence, Atomic Doomsday Clock, Bill Gates, Computational Sciences, danger, Fast Company, Gary Marcus, Gizmodo, human extinction, Islamic terror, Jacob Coxon, Jay Richards, Nostradamus, OpenAI, panic, political power, Ro Khanna, Sam Altman, science media, Science Reporting, security hacking, Silicon Valley, Telluride Film Festival, Wired
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit and posted at X last Tuesday, to over 25 million views, that “No other human activity poses this level of danger.” Source
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