Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
"How Light Travels Without Moving: The Feynman Reality Check”
This lecture is completely created by AI. I have listened to Richard Feynman's lectures on YouTube, and this made-up lecture is completely consistent with his lectures. It is probably taken from his writings or other lectures.
I think that it is actually a good lecture.
2 weeks ago
Maybe if I smoke another joint, I'll finally get it.
I wrote this in 2020
Where are we in terms of technology compared to 10 or 20 years ago? There have been some major advances, but most of it has been incremental. Smartphones and tablets are roughly a decade old. In the year 2000, not everybody had internet, but we were definitely headed in that direction. We have gone from VHS to Blu Ray, and from CRT to big screen TV's. I first got cable internet in the early 2000's, and since then I have gone from 3 MbpS to 100 MbpS.
It appears to me that technology in the coming decade will explode. Some of it will be incremental, but some of it will be revolutionary. I am convinced that a decade from now many of our lives will be very different.
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
20 Tested and Proven Longevity Hacks | Longevity
https://vocal.media/longevity/20-tested-and-proven-longevity-hacks
I don't know how true these recommendations are, but I would like to see the evidence, so I will try to do some research.
At least some of these recommendations seem like good advice.
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
My first science video in 3 years!
Physics Girl, who I used to watch regularly, had long COVID and was bedridden since July 2023. Reportedly, she has been slowly improving.
@john2001plus
0 seconds agoWelcome back!
Monday, March 2, 2026
I wrote this 7 years ago
I see a danger to the future existence of the human race, and it is the kind of thing that people should think about and prepare for now. Sometime in the next 50 years machines will be smarter than people. There are major technical hurdles to overcome, such as the inevitable end of Moore's Law, which probably means that it is not right around the corner or even within the next couple of decades, but it will happen, and easily within this century. And if for some reason it does happen within the next couple of decades then that means the results will be upon us that much sooner.
We can predict what will happen next and follow it to its logical conclusion, which is a future without people.
We can predict what will happen next and follow it to its logical conclusion, which is a future without people.
As machines become smarter, people will become increasingly reliant on technology. We can see that already with smartphones, which have only been with us for barely over a decade. Eventually machines will do all the heavy mental work, which will make our lives easier, but also make us more dependent.
And since we will be so dependent on the machines, we will start incorporating them into us. This will evolve over time until we are no longer purely human, but human machine hybrids. Perhaps when your biological brain dies, the machine part of you will be able to continue with all your memories intact. Maybe it would have an artificial body or maybe it would exist in a virtual world. It is likely that some would prefer to live in a virtual world where they can do more things than they could in the real world. Taken to the eventual extreme, our descendants would no longer bother with biological bodies and prefer to exist as machine intelligences either in the real world or in virtual ones.
The evolutionary pressure will be against purely biological people. Having machines incorporated into you will make you more productive, competitive, and increase your quality of life.
The future I describe might be long distant, but if it is not the future we want for the human race then we should start thinking about it now. Maybe we could have a Pure Human movement that would prohibit the merging of machine intelligence with human intelligence? This could be roughly analogous to the current legal ban on human cloning, because we very likely have the technology right now to clone humans, but countries ban it because they are uneasy about the implications of where that might take us.
However, we might not be able to prevent it. Linking machines with human intelligence is likely to happen in such small steps that we will easily adjust to it. It is sort of happening already with our dependence on computers. It could also start as a series of military applications where having the most effective soldiers determines who wins the wars. And once the genie is out of the bottle, we will never get it back in.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
P.S. Seven years later, I think that energy consumption and cost might become limiting factors in machine intelligence, at least in the short run.
The laws of physics won't allow us to make chips much smaller, and I just saw an article saying that it might be physically impossible to run a processor at 10 GHz. Right now, in theory, the only way to get more computing power is to have more processors, unless we invent a new technology like optical processors. However, upscaling requires more energy consumption and more cooling.
Saturday, February 28, 2026
Thursday, February 26, 2026
This is why they say never put your compost piles near your house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1kSSxxhOvs
Decomposition will produce heat because it uses oxygen. Not sure how much heat.
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Sunday, February 22, 2026
Friday, February 20, 2026
The Incredible Evolution of Computers
I like the video. Unfortunately, it is just the first part of four.
The first microprocessor, the 4-bit Intel 4004, was created for Japanese companies that wanted to make the first electronic calculators. I have seen 4-bit devices used for cheap electronics, like low cost chess playing computers.
In the first half of the 1980s, 8-bit computers were the norm, with the Apple II costing up to $1,300, and the IBM models costing considerably more. The Atari 800 started at $1,000, and the Commodore 64 started at $595, which adjusted for inflation would cost $1900 today.
Sinclair, along with Timex, were offering budget models that created a dedicated fan base.
In the second half of the 1980s, the industry was moving to 16-bit, so the 8-bit models were being heavily discounted. The C64 sold for $100 or less.
The 1990s saw a slow transition to 32-bit computers, and the 2000s saw a slow transition to 64-bit. There is almost no reason to go to a higher number of bits, except for graphics cards that range from 64-bit to 384-bit.
Thursday, February 19, 2026
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
THIS Is Why Doctors Can’t Make You Healthy
This is an interesting take on health. I hadn't thought of it in this way, but it rings true.
Age related diseases seem inevitable. Genetics are also a factor. Doctors can help us when prevention doesn't work.
Sunday, February 15, 2026
Saturday, February 14, 2026
An atheist explains the most convincing argument for God
This argument has a physics way of thinking, saying that there must be a fundamental force behind the workings of the universe. However, physics has already identified the four forces that it believes are fundamental. Whether those fundamental forces have a cause might be impossible to determine, but if they did then they wouldn't be fundamental. And there may be no underlying cause because they are fundamental, meaning they are simply are.
One doesn't have to think about physics to believe in a god. Everything we see is created by something else. How far back in time does that go? So the religious argument is that you can't have creation without a creator. My problem with that line of reasoning is who created God and how far back does that go?
Logically, I have a problem with infinities. I assume that you can't have infinite anything, because infinite matter would have an infinite gravitational attraction. However, we assume that every moment in time had a moment that came before it and another that follows. Likewise, for every location in space, we assume that there is something beyond it. Does space go on forever?
What I am trying to say is that the universe makes no sense. It is either infinite or finite, and if it is finite, what lies beyond? Nothing? However, the toughest question to answer is why there is something instead of nothing at all? Either the fundamental cause was physical or something else. If you want to say that God was the fundamental cause, I can't prove you wrong.
I don't know that we will ever be able answer these questions. Religion is a failed science because it provides imperfect and usually false answers to why things are the way they are. Modern science has done a really good job of explaining how things work, but not necessarily why the universe exists.
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
This might be my hottest take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlThPXIVE8Y
@john2001plus
3 years ago
I would also kill all the mosquitoes.
3 years ago
I would also kill all the mosquitoes.
Saturday, February 7, 2026
🤯WAIT FOR IT!!! #lakebaikal #baikal
15 seconds ago
The Earth's atmosphere is somewhat turbulent. I am surprised that the atmosphere doesn't even out temperatures more. Instead, we have all the extremes.
@john2001plus
2 minutes ago
What a way to make a snow cone.
Monday, February 2, 2026
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