Brothers and sisters, raise a hand if you’ve ever felt the sting of loneliness pierce your heart in a room full of bodies. Laughter echoes around us, yet it bounces off the cold blue glow of screens instead of igniting warmth in souls. Thumbs scroll mindlessly, eyes glued to virtual…

Tonight I did a standup set for the first time in ten years. My set was completely mediocre bordering on terrible. I had found out about the show a few hours before it started and decided that I wanted to go on stage with my friends again. I whipped up…

Canaille Couyon I've had the wonderful pleasure to finally make it back home to see my friends and family in my hometown after the whole media circus began last year. Many of them have followed my story and I wanted to hear their opinions on the issues I've been raising…

I am a combat veteran with PTSD and have tried to avoid coverage of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Not because I don’t care deeply about both the Palestinian people and the Israeli people but because I don’t see a good solution that avoids genocide of one of those groups of people…

I feel like it’s time to point at the sign again. Go read “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” first. I’ll wait. There’s a bit of a flutter on Twitter about something that Sam Altman said. …

The past year has been an adventure for me. I’ve had the opportunity to try my hand at a whole bunch of different possible career paths, jobs and vocations. I’ve tried out public speaking, explored the possibility of starting a podcast and most lately have been working as a consultant…

I recently listened to Lex Friedman’s interview with Sam Harris. In that interview, Sam said something that made me finally understand a position of his that has puzzled me for years. As much as I agree with much of his work, I had never before understood his position on the…

If you enter a conversation convinced that the person with whom you’re talking is an automaton then there’s nothing that they can do to convince you otherwise. You will always be able to invent some fantasy world where the things they are saying aren’t true. That’s not how we treat…

I’m very happy about the worldwide discussion that has been happening over the past several weeks. There are tons of differing opinions and many passionate voices. This is great! The fact that there isn’t consensus around any of these issues should be seen as a feature rather than a bug…