The Great Filter The Fermi Paradox is basically why we can see no effort of extraterrestrial species if any are more advanced than us and presumably with have left signs that we would notice, even in our relatively early technological progress. I have a theory. For every evolved technological species there comes a…

This was about some rosy articles on Drip Network. Author of those has seen to block me for saying why I am not so sure it is a good thing. Basically the following. Note also that amount you make increases if you persuade others to sign up and use your…

Even EFF, usually a bastion of online freedom of speech seems to see nothing wrong with the treatment of Parler social media in the last few days. See this article for instance. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/during-elections-and-always-platforms-should-listen-their-global-user-base So even EFF seems no longer unambiguously about freedom of communication on the internet. This and other…

What is Freedom? The freedom spoken of here is the right to live your life as you see fit, seeking to acquire and keep your own values while respecting the right of others to do likewise. In short you may do anything you like as long as you don’t initiate force to remove…

Happy New Year! Many of us are so very thankful that 2020 is over. The year has changed but many of the worst aspects of the 2020 are still with us. I decided to create Freedom Always because 2020 brings home with a vengeance how fragile a thing freedom is and how few…

How would you like to be in perfect health, in the prime of your life for as long as you want? How would you like to be as physically attractive as you wish and as intelligent as you wish? How would you like have all the financial resources needed to…

What happened to all the gung-ho hyper-optimistic transhumanists, myself included? When and how and why did we lose our wild deep optimism? Perhaps some of for many of us that were around for the hyper-optimistic 90s and early 21st century we simply got older. But this doesn’t seem accurate. …

The latest near silver bullet technology seems to be serverless or Function As A Service. Many have trumpeted the goodness of not having to worry about servers or even containers for microservices. But is this the entire story? I think there are some ways to fix some of the problems…

Part 1 — In theory automation, AI and especially full nanotech can bring an age of unprecedented abundance. This would be an age where the cost of production of all material goods drops precipitously. To put it another way, productive capacity explodes. Why would it do this? Let us take machine phase nanotech…