Let ChatGPT Index Your LaTeX Documents

Indexing documents is an ongoing chore. You would think picking out “good” book or article index words would be a trivial pseudo-sampling-sorting task, but that is not the case. Building a useful index requires something like “comprehending” the text. You must read the document, understand what’s in it, and then judiciously select words that elucidate, … Continue reading Let ChatGPT Index Your LaTeX Documents →

Morals are Demons that People Actually Believe In

Too much has been written about “morality.” It almost pains me to add to the deluge of drivel this topic has inundated the world with, but pains aside, here goes. If you are human and reading this1, you’ve probably been advised and instructed for your entire short life to be a “good moral person.” It … Continue reading Morals are Demons that People Actually Believe In →

J graphviz’s Euclid’s Elements

In Sarah Hart’s new book Once Upon a Prime she relays John Aubrey’s account of the philosopher John Hobbes’s1 first exposure to Euclid’s Elements. Being in a gentleman’s library Euclid’s Elements lay open, and ’twas the forty-seventh proposition in the first book. He read the proposition. “By God,” said he, “this is impossible!” So he … Continue reading J graphviz’s Euclid’s Elements →

A Call for Mandatory Universal Mind Broadcasting

Recently AI has been applied to decoding MRI brain scans. The researchers claim that it’s possible to reconstruct parts of what the scanned subjects are “thinking or seeing.” Despite a laundry list of caveats, and the tentative limited nature of these claims, the misleadia jumped all over this and declared, with bed-wetting urgency, that the … Continue reading A Call for Mandatory Universal Mind Broadcasting →