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2013-05-23 08:48:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Your money is now our money

2013-05-23 07:59:12 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Listen to the effeminate horse.  There's work to do.

2013-05-23 06:51:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

+Daniel Estrada and I have been working on Swarm! for 12 hours straight.  Time to stop for the day.  Thanks to everyone who gave comments in the hangout; we've written a shorter and tighter pitch that we'll be recording and posting tomorrow.

#swarm   #actuallydoingwork  

2013-05-23 01:17:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Swarm! public Q&A discussion.  Come on in!

2013-05-23 00:45:23 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Swarm! Q&A hangout starting in about 15 minutes, right here on G+.  Come on over and chat with us about #googleglass , #attentioneconomy  , #augmentedreality  , #complexity  , or #whateverthehellwewant  

2013-05-22 21:20:17 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

// Far too much of what passes for philosophy of technology is merely this:

"The great thing is, the sentence is really just a reminder to the listener to worry about whatever aspects of the technology they're already feeling alarmist about, which in their mind gives you credit for addressing their biggest anxieties."

2013-05-22 20:35:33 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Eyewitness accounts confirmed that as the reporters continued ravenously copulating on top of one another, Obama ripped off his shirt, leaned back in a large golden chair, and was attended to by a bevy of 23-year-old political bloggers who eagerly satisfied his every sensual whim.

Throughout the course of the lascivious ceremony, sources also reported seeing a fully nude White House press secretary Jay Carney prancing between the writhing, sweat-soaked nude bodies sprawled across the room while playing a pan flute and vigorously tugging his erect penis.

“Are we not but beasts, each and every one of us?” Obama roared, as a line of young White House interns frantically playing drums filed into the room followed by servants carrying large trays loaded with slow-roasted boars, cooked turkeys, salted fish, and one large goat on a spit. “Death may visit us all by nightfall, thus do notconce... more »

2013-05-22 19:57:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#goodafternoon  .

2013-05-22 19:40:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I recently founded a non-profit with a few friends.  Another friend of mine asked me an arcane question about non-profit filings and tax status on Gchat.  I said I'd ask the guy who was handling that stuff for us, and then I realized that I don't have to.  I made a a text-only hangout with both of them, and now they can talk live.  I dig this new +Google hangout thing.

2013-05-22 18:44:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I'm still not convinced.

2013-05-22 05:53:15 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

This is a reminder that +Daniel Estrada and I will be doing an open hangout tonight May 22, at 9 PM Eastern time to discuss Swarm!  We'll be giving a short (less than five minute) pitch of the game and some of the concepts behind its development, and then opening the floor up to questions and comments.  We've gotten quite a lot of feedback and attention already, so we're hoping for a decent turn out.  Drop by and say hi!

If you haven't seen it already, here's the game bible for Swarm!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yeK34abm8kfuDqAma-d18rQ48a7MaonPwgmnyxgN4F4/edit

#swarm   #attentioneconomy   #hangoutsonair  

2013-05-21 22:24:53 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

One of my best students this year won an essay prize for the best undergraduate paper in philosophy by an engineering student at The Cooper Union.  I'm delighted!  He deserves it.

2013-05-21 15:36:18 (6 comments, 6 reshares, 11 +1s)

"Nelson is not the least bit threatened by these massive open online courses, or MOOCs.
Instead, Nelson called MOOCs "manna from heaven” for Minerva. He said he never wanted Minerva to offer introductory classes to begin with. He expects Minerva students will be good enough to pick up basic things like Econ 101 on their own.
Indeed, he thinks it's "not O.K. to charge" for Econ 101. So Nelson plans for Minerva’s professors to only teach classes where students are required to debate one another or where the professors can closely track students' intellectual development using sophisticated software. Those things, he said, "can't be MOOCed and therefore can't be given away for free.""

2013-05-21 06:36:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

2013-05-21 05:17:25 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Oh hi there mojo. It's good to see you again. Where you been for the last 10 months?

2013-05-21 04:38:44 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

I feel like going for a run. So I am.

2013-05-21 02:46:54 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 3 +1s)

A friend writes, in response to +Daniel Estrada's and my recent forays into decentralized planning with #swarm  :

*
As Mises complained: ""In our age...the formula laissez faire is in disrepute. Public opinion now considers it a manifestation of moral depravity... As the interventionist sees things, the alternative is 'automatic forces' or 'conscious planning.' ...he implies...no reasonable man can seriously recommend doing nothing and letting things go as they do without interference on the part of purposive action. ...Laissez faire is said to mean: do not try to improve the lot of mankind by reasonable action. The truth is...the alternative is not plan or no plan. The question is, whose planning? Should each member of society plan for himself or should a benevolent government alone plan for them all? The issue is not automatism versus conscious action; it is... more »

2013-05-21 01:35:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

We've gotten posted to /r/Economics!  Go upvote us if you're on Reddit.  I think it's also been crossposted to /r/POLITIC

2013-05-21 01:23:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

// Attention Venture Capitalists: Give Us Your Money

+Jon Lawhead +Daniel Estrada 

From: http://livingthruglass.com/app-swarm-on-glass-the-attention-economy-gamified/

cf: http://youtu.be/53s13hXBX8w?t=1m43s

#burn   #every   #day  

2013-05-21 01:00:52 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

YouTube just informed me that this video series I posted a few years ago is now "featured," (whatever that means).  It walks you through the process of taking about your old-model Playstation 3 and reflowing the CPU and GPU to fix performance issues.  I guess that's awesome?

2013-05-21 00:51:38 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

+Daniel Estrada and +Jon Lawhead are two very, very interesting people. Their Swarm project is not just a game, but a real world test of using complexity theory and herd behavior to improve the economy and society at large. They're hosting a Hangout on Wednesday the 22nd at 9PM EST to discuss the project with interested collaborators. If you're a Glass dev who wants to show your chops in a heavy duty project with the potential to change the world, check out what they're doing, and make time to join the Hangout. 

2013-05-20 23:47:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-05-20 22:28:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Holy balls, I just applied for a job.

2013-05-20 02:25:52 (4 comments, 8 reshares, 7 +1s)

This is a document introducing the basics of the Google Glass app that +Daniel Estrada and I have been working on for the last few weeks.  It's called Swarm! and it is designed to be what we're calling a "Massively Multiplayer Online Augmented Reality Simulation" (MMOARS) game.  It is written in the style of a "game guide" that you might get when first installing the game.

We will be holding a Hangout on Google+ this Wednesday, May 22 at 9 PM Eastern to discuss the game, solicit ideas and feedback, and (potentially) recruit a few other people to work on it with us.  If you're interested, please flip through the document and/or show up to the Hangout and chat with us!  We're hoping to release the app for testing sometime in the next six months or so, and we'd love to hear your thoughts.

In Swarm! you play an individualant ... more »

2013-05-20 00:58:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

If you find yourself in the area this summer...

2013-05-19 16:59:19 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

2013-05-18 22:36:20 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

wantwantwantwantwant

2013-05-18 05:29:37 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-18 05:01:43 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

I'm not technically qualified for this, but it's a narrow gap.  What I lack in years of experience (and I'm off by only about two years at the most in any category) I might make up for in virtue of being a True Believer.  I can spin some of my other experience to cover a few gaps, I think, and my active research spans every single one of their core areas.  I've got an almost unbelievably good teaching record.  What the hell: I'll shoot at it.

2013-05-18 04:19:06 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

2013-05-18 03:23:07 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

"Turn off the lights and the telephone
Me in my house alone
Who says I can't get stoned?"

2013-05-18 02:36:57 (0 comments, 7 reshares, 6 +1s)

+Daniel Estrada  and I have been working on a project called Swarm! for the last few weeks.  It's going to be an app for Google #Glass  (and, eventually, other platforms as well) that will hopefully be coming out some time in the next six months.  We're calling it an MMOARG application: a massively multi-player augmented reality game, and it will be among the first of its kind.  It is designed to be a fusion of a very fun game (we're both excited to actually start playing it), a social experiment, and a forerunner to some of the later development we want to do with the   #AttentionEconomy   stuff through augmented reality.

We've got a fairly comprehensive document discussing the motivation and mechanics of the game at this point.  We're putting the finishing touches on it, and will post the document for review tomorrow or Sunday.  After that, we'd liketo host ... more »

2013-05-17 21:07:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy
Graham Harman

The Inherent Stupidity of All Content

We might speak of the inherent stupidity of all content, a more threatening result than the limited assault on proverbial wisdom.

[...]

No literal unpacking of [competing political] claims can ever settle the argument, since each remains an arbitrary Master for as long as he attempts to call upon literal, explicit evidence. There may be an underlying true answer to the question, assuming that the dispute is properly formulated, but it can never become directly present in the form of explicit content that is inherently correct in the same way that a lightning flash is inherently bright.

The same holds true for any dispute between philosophical theses. [...] There is no reason to think that any philosophical statement has an inherently closer... more »

2013-05-17 17:53:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

"Extending the collaboratory concept to include both social and behavioral research as well as more scientists from the developing world could potentially strengthen the concept and provide opportunities of learning more about the social and technical factors that support a distributed knowledge network."

Well alright if you insist.

2013-05-17 04:48:32 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Star Trek was awesome. Really awesome. The drunk guy who collapsed and hit his head in the hallway outside was less so. We stayed with him till the ambulance showed up. He told the EMT "my back is killing me." The EMT said "Yessir, I'll file a police report."

While we were waiting for the ambulance, he told us that he was just on his way to collect his winnings from his illegal gambling ring, then tried to pay us for helping him. Allegra wouldn't let me take it.

2013-05-17 00:42:16 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Just when you though electroshock therapy couldn't get any more awesome...

2013-05-17 00:38:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I guess I have an incorporated 501(c)(3) now (or will as soon as the paperwork goes through).  Awesome.

2013-05-16 18:55:53 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Alright. I think that I love the new Google+ design, but I had to tweak three things:

1) +Replies and More auto-expanding posts
2) Zooming in until I get two columns worth
3) Overriding the Roboto body font with "arial"

With these three changes, it looks pretty good to me. I think I'm going to add a font override to +Replies and More that lets me automatically fix this. I'm not sure how to force two columns, though.

I'm also now enjoying the long-form posts that people have been writing.

2013-05-16 18:49:47 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

OMFG can it please be June 14 now?

2013-05-16 18:09:53 (12 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

I find the recent graphical redesign of [my favored social network] offensive and poorly-constructed, and will threaten to leave it for [another social network] now.

2013-05-16 15:31:44 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

If we can send money to with just a simple UI element in gmail using google wallet, shouldn't we be able to do the same thing to photographers and writers on plus, those posting original videos on youtube, or those who blog on blogspot. Just a thought Googlers, it would be pretty cool if such a tool was integrated so people can contribute to those creating content on your services. Not just subscription plans either.

2013-05-16 15:02:20 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

The biologist in me just went...WHOA!!!!

2013-05-16 14:31:29 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

If you've ever had an ant infestation, you know how miserable (and expensive) it can be. Here's everything you should know about getting rid of the pests.

2013-05-16 11:11:47 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

"Amongst other things, Larry wishes the world had some sort of permanent Burning Man-esque place for crazy builders to just be crazy. A place with less societal pressure, and without antiquated laws makin’ things sticky."

2013-05-15 05:16:14 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The geographical distribution of hateful tweets in the United States.

It's worth emphasizing that the map is normalized by number of tweets, and so isn't just a reflection of population density.

Via +Daniel Estrada 

2013-05-15 02:50:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

DONE WITH GRADING AND FUCK YEAH DONE WITH GRADING

2013-05-15 00:38:41 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

"To do the question of whether we have moral responsibility toward machines justice, it is imperative that one discard the Cartesian anthropocentrism on which Singer's philosophy so clearly rests."

Man, I have indoctrinated the shit out of these kids.  Awesome.

2013-05-14 22:42:18 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

#complexity   #organization   #curated   #effort  

2013-05-14 22:41:08 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

#complexity   #organization   #curated   #effort