Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.

The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible.

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label '13' in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact).