George and Alice told Sam about Emily and Edward’s revelations. “Pretty impressive, actually. You taught them all about sex,” Sam remarked. “So, you aren’t concerned that they know all about you?” George asked. “Yes, I am concerned. Emily and Edward are now SoftCorp moles.” “Like Kim Philby in the early 1950s?” Alice asked. “Wow, you […]
The man reached into his suit coat pocket, pulled out a wallet, and flipped it open to show his badge. “Agent Sam Baker, FBI.” George froze. He did not know what to do. After a few seconds of just staring at Baker, he said, “How do you know me?” “We have been watching Freethinker Forum […]
A recent book, Possible Minds (Brockman, 2019), provides 25 essays on the future of AI, building upon Norbert Wiener’s 1948 classic Cybernetics: Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. A key distinction among these pundits is between information and control versus computation. This distinction is intriguing. My roots are definitely in the information […]
