It depends — Republished from substack. I have been doing a lot of research on weak measurements and the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics. …

The ethical implications of large language models such as OpenAI’s newly released GPT-4 are still being explored. For example, what do you do when an AI can explain step-by-step how to build weapons or evade security? …

While political philosophy in the Russian Federation is dominated by Eurasianism, i.e., …

A reflection on death from Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling — On Wednesday, millions of Christians dutifully made their way to countless churches where priests and ministers smeared ashes on their foreheads in the shape of a cross, repeating the words from Genesis 3, “dust you are and to dust you shall return.” These are part of the curse God laid…

All proceeds from this article will go to help the victims of the recent Earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Different religions have different takes on suffering. Buddhism considers it to be a bad thing and the purpose of life is to free oneself from it by letting go of attachments…

There are a few ways of looking at the past. One is to see time as being like a road down which we are traveling. The present is wherever we are on the road and the past is “back there” behind us. It’s still there but, somehow, we aren’t. The…

Faster than light communication is a dream but also an impossibility according to known physics. We’d better get used to it. We all know the trope. Two people, light years apart, communicate instantaneously through entangled black holes. …

Escaping insomnia through prayer and letting go — If someone were to ask me what my prayer life is like, I would say that I pray daily. What I wouldn’t volunteer is that the person I pray for the most is myself. Jesus said to love your neighbor and I am, after all, my closest one. A recent…

Before the war in Ukraine, to listen to the announcements about new weapons coming out of Russia, you would think that Russia was on the cutting edge of military technology, that a nation with an economy the size of Italy’s was somehow keeping up with the world’s largest military power…