Why philosophy is important (the movie)

#IWasThinking S01E03: Why philosophy and questioning our reality is important

We should also be looking for the next leap in philosophy trends, we need new forms of interpreting reality to have a leap in technological progress. (just the way the introduction of “science” (scientific method, testability) propelled us to the world in which we are now) Learning and living philosophy is REALLY important. Just as […]

Girl Reading, Miami Beach, FL

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Temptation, Miami Beach

Temptation Miami Beach FL, August 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

How to fix Samsung HD TV from making movies look like British Mistery Soap Operas

So you got a new HD TV from Samsung and when you’re about to watch that Bluray or stream that 1080p HD stream, movies and tv shows look like they were shot with an amateur camera… Here’s the fix. 1. Menu 2. Picture: Mode [Enter] 3. Picture Options [Enter] 4. Auto Motion Plus, set it […]

#IWasThinking E01S02: American Nutritional trends and how they will affect our future

Something as simple as the invention and adoption of bread was a key driver for the foundations of agriculture and the evolution of civilization. I think the outlook of the future is not so good when we look at the eating habits of the average american person, which seems to be similar to other consumption […]

Photoshop: How to Convert a Path into a Shape

So you wanted to create a Custom Shape on photoshop but you started drawing a path because of the nature of what you were doing (or because you forgot to change the pen mode to Shape) and now when you want to right click > “Define Custom Path…” it’s disabled in the menu. Here’s the […]

#IWasThinking E01S01: The complexity of the world depends on human interaction.

I suck at small talk, I like to think about other things, all my true friends aren’t here so I thought I might as well meet some other like minded people by recording a series of thought starters. On this first episode I talk about realizing that the complexity of the world depends directly on […]

can you imagine being at least 25 years old and connecting to the internet for the first time today?

I realized last night that the possibility our minds have to create mental models outside the physical world (abstractions) the internet works so well. I think my mental model of the internet reality is several orders of magnitude larger to that which I’ve experienced in the physical world, and in a way sometimes it seems […]

Godel, Turing and Church make the best criticism against Kurzweil’s singularity capabilities

Reading the chapter on Criticisms against the singularity, the strongest one so far, the one to which Kurzweil makes a really weak argument using the example of the “Busy Beaver” problem is putting Godel’s incompleteness theorems and Turings and Church’s findings of the limitations of logic and math to solve problems. Kurzweil basically has no […]