Category Archives: Thoughts

Written On The Bus

By Raelifin | Published: December 15, 2009

This blog comes straight from the middle of Kansas. The low rumble of the bus engine underscores the bleakness, as most other passengers on the bus are catching up on the sleep they were unable to get during the night. My mind is so active that I don’t easily become bored, but there’s something about [...]

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Back to School

By Raelifin | Published: October 10, 2009

I just got back from vacation yesterday. I’m taking physics this term in school, and while I was away I’ve been keeping up-to-date with various websites provided by the instructor. I’ve also been enjoying some lectures put up by Yale. I hear MIT has some good content on the subject too. Over the past few [...]

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On the utility of game-changing technologies

By Raelifin | Published: September 28, 2009

A friend of mine posted a question to facebook that was roughly “what areas of society would you want people to invest in?” He suggested robots, colonizing Mars and researching anti-aging therapies (like SENS). I said that I agree about robots, but not about Mars. I was asked about my position on curing age-related disease. [...]

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Facebook and Politics

By Raelifin | Published: August 1, 2009

I’ve been turning into a Facebook zombie. Once upon a time I was content to feed off of Google Reader, but in the past week I’ve been spending increasing amounts of time stalking my friends and answering random quizzes. Speaking of quizzes, I took one by The Political Compass which was very well done (in [...]

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The Next Paradigm

By Raelifin | Published: May 23, 2009

Terminator 4 came out this Thursday. I haven’t seen it yet. I hope it’s better than Star Trek. Robotics confronts me continuously online, to the point where I cease to keep track. In terms of military equipment there is Ember, TROPHY, and the old news predator UAV, which I was unhappy to learn now advertises [...]

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