Even our brain makes assumptions — You might already have come across this funny little video, or some version of it. Many will dismiss it, because I think it makes us all a little uncomfortable. I mean, how can you hear different things from the same recording depending on what you’re reading? This is different to…

God doesn’t play dice, but humans do — First of all, a necessary disclaimer: I’m not an expert on artificial intelligence, as so many seem to be these days. The real experts are people who work on creating or “optimizing” AI, and these people are, to the best of my knowledge, coders. So, unless someone really knows what…

Will end with us kicking the bucket — I’m a serial procrastinator. My car’s air conditioning needs regassing and I’ve known this for months. It was something I would see to next week, and then the next and the next after that. Now it’s summer, the heat waves are coming one after another and I’m roasting alive during…

And now they don’t even care to hide it any longer — There have been statements to that effect in the past. Better them than us. But they were mostly coming from the military. You can always excuse the military for viewing things through the lens of the forever war for the (so-called) defense of Democracy. The Price of Liberty is Eternal…

How you misunderstand “doomers”. — Cassandra (or Kassandra, as us Greeks prefer to spell the name), was one of many daughters of King Priam of Troy in Greek mythology. She was “blessed” with the gift of foresight and simultaneously cursed in that no one would believe her prophecies. …

A time for mourning and petty politics in Greece — Disaster has struck. The recent train crash at Tempe, Greece is especially tragic when considering that many of the victims were young students, returning to their universities after spending the Clean Monday long weekend with their families at home. The stories are too much to bear, even for people who…

It’s just three things, I think — Jessica Wildfire asked a very good question in her piece, “What’s So Great About Civilization?” This might be one of those questions that have long troubled our great thinkers. I imagine that someone, when studying history or personally experiencing some terrible calamity, a great war, a plague or even the…

We just throw money and promises at the problem — I didn’t really have high expectations from COP27, the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Following marathon negotiations, the international community has agreed to establish a fund to help poorer nations weather the effects of the steadily escalating climate crisis. In other words, developed countries have agreed to do what amounts…

Once the world’s greatest empire, now spiraling into madness and idiocy — I recently wrote in a Medium comment that although the fall of Great Britain is bad for the West, it won’t matter too much, as it has already taken steps to burn its bridges. I’ll agree with the reply I received. It’s painful to watch. Obviously, Great Britain as an…