Key to Marital Bliss
Here is a short story about how a cowboy found the key to marital bliss.
Battles Too Small to Fight
Many companies owe small sums of money to us. Should we ignore it because the sum is small, or fight it because their loot is huge?
Work and Life, Corporate Life
Uninsured by Default
On the shady reimbursement practices of insurance companies.
Autism and Genius
There is a only a fine line separating insanity from true genius. Why is that? Here is a possible answer.
Topical, Computers, Philosophy
Man as Chinese Room
Wrapping up this series on the so-called strong artificial intelligence with a closer look at Prof. Searle’s arguments.
Topical, Computers, Philosophy
Minds as Machine Intelligence
Is Turing Test enough of a test to detect consciousness in machines? Prof. Searle proves that it is not. I beg to differ.
Topical, Computers, Philosophy
Problem of Other Minds
How do you know other people have minds as you do? It is an unsolved problem in philosophy – the Problem of Other Minds. Before asking the question whether computers could have minds, we have to address this problem. Otherwise, how would we know even if computers actually had minds?
Computers, Philosophy, Topical
Brains and Computers
Could our brains be computer hardware and minds be software running on them? Could computers have consciousness and intelligence? Could they have minds? If they had minds, how would we know?
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Where to Go from Here?
Winding up this long series with book recommendations. All right, recommending my own book…