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Category: philosophy

Good at Aiming: AI Doom, Lions, and Who Profits From Fear

Ben Affleck on why AI doom is bad marketing, why we hear threats louder than good news, and the one AI risk worth taking seriously.

November 6, 2026
Emotional Intelligence in the Quran – Surah Kahf

Emotional intelligence involves listening to someone, and really hearing them. That entails listening without passing judgement, and without having to be right. It also means listening and just hearing, not responding or trying to provide solutions. If we are trying to learn from someone, it also means having a degree of trust in our teacher.…

February 5, 2024
when can I haz photos?!?

If I could get a copy or what you shot – one way or another (flickr, Dropbox, etc.) that would be great. Sometimes I find that even ‘not so great’ shots / blurry etc. can be cropped or adjusted to make for a cool photo. Hi <redacted>, just a quick note –

March 15, 2016
Astrology

one of most hilarious things I ever read..post in MAD magazine years ago as a kid. In the astrology section (or whatever they call that part of the newspaper where they predict your future based on when you were born),

December 4, 2015
Eid ul Adha

There are three life experiences I’ve had, that I strongly feel every adult should experience. They are things that have opened my eyes to reality in a way that only experience can do; knowing something by being taught it or hearing about it is never the same as experiencing it for yourself.

September 25, 2015
Apple’s Official Hamburger Menu iOS control – iOS 9 beta 0.9

there are some strange factors that come into UXD it seems,

November 12, 2014
refactor your heart (or, “how not to collapse on the road with cramping triceps while trying to learn the Swift Programming Language”)

I came across this post by Janie Clayton-Hasz where she paints a frightening picture of her spending every waking hour, plus hours where she is supposed to be sleeping, engaged in an epic struggle to ingest the vast sea of knowledge that is the iOS development platform. I didn’t get it; I asked her on twitter…

July 25, 2014