nickgold42

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• Commented on Circumstantial connections
  Don't forget about... The Langoliers......
• Commented on Can We Merge Minds and Machines?
  As someone who intuitively leans toward belief in both the "simulated reality" hypothesis (although with a different perspective than most I'd wager), as well as panpsychism, I am not inherently troubled by the idea of mind becoming less fleshy and...
• Commented on Can We Merge Minds and Machines?
  Can we merge minds and machines? Kind of a funny question. We already HAVE. It began with the telegraph, and the ability to communicate essentially instantly with other minds that were at a significant distance from our own. Then we...
• Commented on The Singularity Is Further Than It Appears
  I would love to hear about AI researchers looking seriously at the notion of panpsychism, and seeing if they could look at the problem very differently. Of course, this would have to assume that they took a bit of a...
• Commented on Beer, Brooklyn NY, this Thursday
  I may have to swing by and see if I can convince a buddy to come along. I'll gladly buy you a round if I make it....
• Commented on Why Make A Movie Within A Computer Game?
  Hugh, you're an excellent guest poster here, and obviously have big shoes to fill in Charlie. Thank you for breaking down an art form that I admittedly had kind of personally "written off" (at least so far as my personal...
• Commented on Commercial announcement
  Very excited to hear that these are about to come out in the USA, I've been waiting to read them until the re-writes became available here. :)...
• Commented on Commercial announcement
  I remember reading about the UKUSA years ago -- this is what is also referred to as Five Eyes. In fact, the NSA's web site has a page about it: http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/ukusa.shtml So certainly the existence of this pact was not...
• Commented on Trust Me (I'm a kettle)
  I wouldn't call myself an atheist, although the religion of Illumination, which I think is cool, definitely does believe that the Abrahamic religions actually do, in fact, worship Satan....
• Commented on What scared H. P. Lovecraft
  David Marusek's science fiction (Counting Heads, Mind Over Ship, and perhaps especially his short story collection Getting to Know You) are some of the most intense near-future science fiction pieces I've read, in the sense that instead of my normal...
• Commented on In the pulp
  Son of a gun, now I really have to get off my butt and finish 2312. brucecohenpdx: Is Pink Noise any good?...
• Commented on Crib sheet: Accelerando
  I just adore Accelerando, probably my favorite Stross book so far that I've read. In fact, immediately upon finishing I seem to remember emailing Charlie saying something along the lines of "THANK YOU!" Let's not forget it's inherent humor, and...
• Commented on The World Shrinks Under The Weight of Madness
  However, what if the craft had to be already airborn at a certain altitude, before the "Biefield-Brown ionic wind drive" could be safely activated? Surely at a certain altitude, the risks of the ejected ions would be relatively minimal. A...
• Commented on The World Shrinks Under The Weight of Madness
  Anybody who is interested in and/or skeptical of "exotic propulsion technologies" should look up the Biefeld-Brown effect, otherwise known as ionic wind, demonstrated by a funky type of contraption called a "lifter." If memory serves, Nick Cook talks about this...