Why subscribe?

I’m just a guy trying to put things together. A computer is a useful tool for doing that sort of thing.

I’m not trying to change your mind, I’m trying to keep evolving my own. I’d be happy to benefit from your selective pressure, poking holes at the weaker spots in my psychological source code.

Having said that, you can think of me as an ambassador from a baroque universe, from a kingdom where Love of, and Trust In The Creator is considered to be deeply reasonably. This is not because everyone believes, but because that world is divided into a single pocket of glorious order and numerous pockets of chaos undergoing varying degrees of disintegration. That pocket of cosmic order sends out diplomats to the pockets of chaos, which often reject the diplomats because they they are angry at the idea that a Loving God would allow such chaos to exist.

I’m not interested in persuading you; please stay right where you are.

I’m not from that central pocket. I’m too much of a fool and too entranced by the process of my own disintegration. Of course, I’d get to get in there, one day - and I suspect the way to do that is to keep evolving my own beliefs, which requires being told by strangers where, precisely I’m wrong. Where my arguments are weakest.

I studied computer science and physics in school, but that was only the beginning of the learning process for me. This process will likely never end. I just can’t help myself. I want to understand how the world works, so that I can act better in it.

Studying computer science and physics lead me to see the physics as being the source code for the human experience, and computers as being a kind of universal metaphor that unites the behavior of both individual human beings, as well as animals and collective groups of people like businesses, nations, and religions.

I’m just trying to put things together.

This is what computers help us to do. The word computer comes, etymology, from a root meaning “to put together” a bunch of different related pieces of information. I attempt to combine computer science, physics, mathematics, history, economics, game theory, religion, and philosophy, with the ultimate goal of helping myself act better in the world, and then sharing these ideas with you, my readers.

Thank you.