I recently wrote what seemed like to most people to be mostly about democracy and republics. After reading it, Adam Smith said something along the lines of "If you find yourself trying to decide between two extremes, maybe you’re looking on the wrong axis." Yes, I know that sounds like something an engineer would say. […]
On a lighter note, a couple weeks ago somebody leaked Google’s Master Plan. Transcendence is in there, along with robots that make other robots, and completely remaking the Babylon 5 series.
I don’t know if I wasn’t paying attention or if we were taught incorrectly, but out of high school I was never very clear on the difference between a republic and a democracy. Then again, I didn’t have much interest in politics, or at least that’s what I thought. At the time, politics to me […]
Today I’ve been doing a lot of reading. The majority of which has been off of Paul Graham’s website. I think I first came across his site last year reading an essay he wrote called A Plan for Spam. Since then, I’ve stumbled upon links to other essays he’s written, but never took much time […]