I’m Too Dumb to Use Artificial Intelligence
by James Wallace Harris, 1/19/24 I haven’t done any programming since I retired. Before I retired, I assumed I’d do programming for fun, but I never found a reason to write a program over the last ten...
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Reading Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five at Ages 18, 55, and 72
by James Wallace Harris, 2/8/24 When I first read Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut back in 1970 I thought of it as an antiwar novel. The Vietnam War overshadowed everything back then, and I was...
View ArticleChatGPT Isn’t an Artificial Intelligence (AI) But an Artificial...
by James Wallace Harris, 2/12/24 This essay is for anyone who wants to understand themselves and how creativity works. What I’m about to say will make more sense if you’ve played with ChatGPT or have...
View ArticleWe’re Never Going to Change
by James Wallace Harris, 4/15/24 Years ago, I read This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein. It was a passionate plea to act on climate change because if we didn’t everything would change. Her new book,...
View ArticleIf Ignorance is Bliss, is Knowing Suffering?
by James Wallace Harris, 6/27/24 This essay is about how keeping up with current events is hard on our mental health. Is there a point in becoming informed that turns self-destructive? Happiness seems...
View ArticleWill We Ever Be Able to Know Why There is Something and Not Nothing?
by James Wallace Harris, 6/29/24 Is there one question you’d love to know the answer to before you die? For me, it’s always been “Why is there something rather than nothing?” Religious people want to...
View ArticleI Want to Argue with Carlo Rovelli
by James Wallace Harris, 7/1/24 Can I understand science if I’m not a scientist? I read popular science books, but that doesn’t mean I understand the work that went into making the scientific...
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What I See Outside My Window vs. What I See on My TV Screen
by James Wallace Harris, 7/5/24 The picture above was taken from my dining room window. Not much is happening. It’s quiet and peaceful. In my den, looking through the sixty-five inch window of my...
View ArticleWaking Up Sentient in an Indifferent Reality
by James Wallace Harris, 8/5/24 What if you had absolute free will, what would you do with your life? This assumes you have disciplined your biological urges for food, sex, and other physical needs....
View ArticleTell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
by James Wallace Harris, 9/24/24 I’m a huge fan of Elizabeth Strout. I just finished her new book that came out just a couple of weeks ago, Tell Me Everything. It was wonderful. Now I could just say...
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