Author Archives: Raelifin

I’ll Just Leave This Here

By Raelifin | Published: April 26, 2012

Full rundown, including code, to come sometime in the future. (Probably.)

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First Flash Project

By Raelifin | Published: March 5, 2012

Once upon a time Adobe Flash was locked down. To make anything in flash you had to either buy or steal Adobe’s software to do anything with it. Nowadays though it seems that has changed. Using nothing but free software from FlashDevelop and GreenSock. I was able to build this chess software in about eight [...]

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Is Consciousness Real? A Practical Answer.

By Raelifin | Published: January 31, 2012

This is a conversation I had back in October, but I haven’t posted anything recently, so I figured I’d copypasta it here for posterity. A friend wrote: Do you think consciousness is (i) A real phenomenon (ii) Unreal phenomenon ? Real here means that there exist (a) physical process/es (in the brain) that causally correspond [...]

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Extremist Language

By Raelifin | Published: November 4, 2011

On the 27th, which was 8 days ago, now, Jon Stewart had Andrew Napolitano on The Daily Show. I am a self-described libertarian. I voted for Ron Paul in 2008 (yes, I know he wasn’t on the ballot). I also love The Daily Show and Mr. Stewart; I think he’s insightful, wise, and funny. Here’s [...]

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Re: Conversations on Strong AI

By Raelifin | Published: August 1, 2011

I am having a conversation with Rod Furlan over on his blog about the possibility of self-preservation being an emergent property of intelligent systems. Just, you know… in case you were curious what I’m up to. Edit: I am commenting. I did not send the original email.

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