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Psychological Bias and Ageism Against Young People

In this writing, I want to show how common psychological biases lead to the (largely incorrect)...

The Lifelong Teenage Brain: Do Many Adults have the brain of a 13-year-old?

Many have advanced the idea that adolescent anatomical brain development justifies denying adolescents...

Does the “right to future liberty” justify infringing on youths’ liberty? Or is it just age discrimination? Parens Patriae vs. Age Egalitarianism

In an earlier article [1], I outline the case that, contrary to traditional legal presumption...

Minority vs. Legal Incompetence: The case for lowering the age of majority to 13

The right to make one’s own legal decisions is typically denied for two reasons: Youth (minority)...

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Radiation, Quantum Electrodynamics And Information Technology

Radiation, Quantum Electrodynamics And Information Technology

Sep 12 2013 | comment(s)

Moore's Law, originating in 1965 [1], is an observation of transistor density on a single CPU core increasing exponentially with time. Futurists such as Ray Kurzweil [2] extend this to the claim that CPU-core computation rate (operations per second) will also increase exponentially with time, allowing for a technological explosion of super-intelligent machines in soon-to-come decades.

Two 'Facts' in Modern Physics Courses that everyone learns but just ain't so...

Two 'Facts' in Modern Physics Courses that everyone learns but just ain't so...

Jun 19 2013 | comment(s)

I have had my fair share of confusion and straightening out over the years, mostly something I accept as a challenge (life wouldn't be fun without challenges...) But it struck me as strange when I finally found out that two things they taught me when I took the undergrad 'intro to modern physics' course are not true. And I had spent a long time horribly confused by these two myths before I finally came to an understanding.