The Weekly Weird - 2018-03-16
- Why are the trains slow? Because they slowed down the trains.
- What always worries me about AI isn't that it'll be evil but that it'll be unexpected. Or tricksy. Or misused.
- You don't have to be a giant D&D grognard (like me) to appreciate Matt Colville's retrospective of his $2M kickstarter.
- "Just put the sensors on, they're gonna die eventually"
- Rebuilding an entire island's electric grid is hard.
- One of my favorite things about living in the future is a prize for who can freeze a pig's brain.
- I don't even know but Simulated Nematode Poledancer is a cover band for something.
- Expensive labor -> Cheaper labor -> Robots
- Neurons are complicated.
- Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.
- Quantum communication is coming.
- I'm safe from evil websites, I just turn off javascript. Oh.
- You need to read this interview about the making of the Hackers movie.
- What a future: Satoshi's bitcoins are now a quantum canary.
- I share this video for two reasons. First, it's cool. Second, it's so true that knowing a thing's (true) name gets you halfway to understanding it.
- I'm glad to see that Signal is in good hands.
- People keep building fortresses. They keep falling. Why?
- Determining national borders via vultures.