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A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.| davidbrin.blogspot.com
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.| davidbrin.blogspot.com
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.| davidbrin.blogspot.com
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.| davidbrin.blogspot.com
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.| davidbrin.blogspot.com
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.| davidbrin.blogspot.com
For your weekend pleasure - or else your daily drive to work - here's another interview that probes issues that are far more important today than they were, even then.| CONTRARY BRIN
Things are spinning fast and anyone with sense is justifiably worried about War Secretary Pete "DF" Hegseth's demand that 800 top generals and admirals drop every other duty, in order to fly - expensively - to Quantico, congregating in a single place for an unprecedented 'meeting.' | CONTRARY BRIN
Been distracted from posting. Trying to prep my long-gestating Big Book on Artificial Intelligence! (Isn't everyone writing one?) But let's zoom in on current events.| CONTRARY BRIN
Last time I promised to post this, in order to illustrate how a single hero might turn the tables on blackmailing tormentors, perhaps saving the nation, as well as himself. It's a chapter from a novel in-progress. One that stalled, because I am too old now to drop everything for a year just in order to learn FBI procedures and all that. | CONTRARY BRIN
While I never believed that Trump had died, I'll certainly join a well-intentioned betting pool over whether he will shuffle off by natural causes before end-of-term. Or even before the 2026 mid-terms. Which makes it important - even now - for us to contemplate potential transitions... or end games.| CONTRARY BRIN
While striving to find time to finish a first draft of my big new book on AI - (isn't everyone writing one?) - I figure we'll take a break from political/social upheavals, in order to talk about a topic that's on (or inside) everyone's minds.| CONTRARY BRIN
Turning the U.S. military into a domestic police force. It's just one of many Project 2025 nightmares-come-true that sound like Nazi Germany or the USSR, right?| CONTRARY BRIN
While I strive to finish my own book on Artificial Intelligence - filling in what I consider to be about fifty perceptual gaps in current discussions,* I try to keep up with what's being said in a fast-changing landscape and ideascape. Take this widely bruited essay by Niall Ferguson in The Times, which begins with a nod to science fiction...| CONTRARY BRIN
As Robert Heinlein's predictions keep coming true... (e.g. "crazy years" followed by oppressive theocracy)... I hear more formerly moderate/accommodating friends refer to the scenario in Heinlein's REVOLT IN 2100 as the only likely way that decency, honor and sapience can ever be restored to the Republic.| CONTRARY BRIN
All right, it's been 3 weeks without a posting. Busy, as we finally move back home after 6 months in exile. And sure, there's plenty going on in the world. Which I'll comment on soon, once my 3-week lobotomy has had a chance to settle in. (All hail Vlad and the New USSR and Vlad's orange-quisling U.S. prophet!)| CONTRARY BRIN
A majority of recent postings have to do with either our dire political landscape or else updates on many aspects of science that show how wondrous it is to be part of a real civilization, looking ahead to the future.| CONTRARY BRIN
I've long urged friends and acquaintances who are on the more privileged side of life – specifically those who rationalize that today’s Republican Party still bears even a vestigial connection to patriotism, or market competition, or even sanity – to reconsider the wisdom of killing the goose that has laid all of their golden eggs: a mixed society that’s been vested – ever since the WWII generation – in science, infrastructure, rule-of-law, rising-tolerance, pragmatic negotiatio...| CONTRARY BRIN
== Americans hate history ==| CONTRARY BRIN
Okay, the secret is out. David Brin is writing a book about AI. In fact, it is 3/4 done, enough to offer it to publishers. But more crucially, to start posting bits on-blog, getting feedback from the smartest community online.| CONTRARY BRIN
And now... some intellectual stuff, if that's what you are holding-out for!| CONTRARY BRIN
By now, you all know that I offer contrarian views for Contrary Brin hoping to shake calcified assumptions like the lobotomizing ‘left-right spectrum.’ Or sometimes just to entertain… | CONTRARY BRIN
In another post I distilled recent thoughts on whether consciousness is achievable by new, machine entities. Though things change fast. And hence - it's time for another Brin-AI missive! (BrAIn? ;-)| CONTRARY BRIN
I'll avoid political hollering, this weekend. Especially as we're all staring with bemusement, terror -- and ideally popcorn -- at the bizarre displays of toddler-hysteria foaming from D.C. In fact, some wise heads propose that we respond by rebuilding our institutions - and confidence - from the ground up. And hence:| CONTRARY BRIN
Back to politics this weekend. Starting with:| CONTRARY BRIN
The power of Reciprocal Accountability| CONTRARY BRIN
Returning to the AI Wars | CONTRARY BRIN
Before diving into the Biggest Question - Are we alone in the universe? - I'm pleased to announce new volumes in my Out of Time series of novels for teen readers who love adventure laced with history, science and other cool stuff.| CONTRARY BRIN
Nathan Gardels – editor of Noema magazine – offers in an issue a glimpse of the latest philosopher with a theory of history, or historiography. One that I'll briefly critique soon, as it relates much to today's topic. But first...| CONTRARY BRIN
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.| davidbrin.blogspot.com
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.| davidbrin.blogspot.com
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.| davidbrin.blogspot.com
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.| davidbrin.blogspot.com
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.| davidbrin.blogspot.com
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.| davidbrin.blogspot.com
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.| davidbrin.blogspot.com
