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More About Me

I'm passionate about

Practical Philosophy, the future in general and the long term benifits and faults of advancing technology.

An idea worth spreading

Love is when you do something stupid for someone, true love is when the other person joins you.

People don't know that I'm good at

Finding solutions to pretty much everything. The key is everything has more than one use.

My TED Story

This is where I belong and Ive never belonged anywhere.

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• A comment on Conversation: What is the best movie you have ever seen?

  Dec 19 2011: No one has said Donnie Darko or Predator!?

• A comment on Conversation: Have you ever felt like you don't belong in your family, group of friends, culture, or country? If so why?

  Dec 19 2011: You may think that your not particularly good at anything but I bet your imagination is where youd rather be.

• A comment on Conversation: WIll building smart self-aware robots endanger our existence in the future?

  Dec 19 2011: I personally cannot understand the interest in creating a self aware AI. why create another problem when we can use the resources and energy we have now to solve people problems. The only motivation I can think of with creating a self aware AI is companionship or extreme laziness (for the workloads), both of which can be solved with people or smart unaware robots.
  
  I just dont understand the facination with AI.

• A comment on Conversation: It's now about how much money you own, it's about what you do with it that matters! (alternative view on 99% vs 1% debate)

  Dec 19 2011: Is it really a matter of the AMOUNT of taxes or is a matter of where the tax money goes? Maybe tax payers should get to choose where a portion of their taxes go?

• A comment on Conversation: WHO IS GOD?

  Dec 19 2011: God represents everything we do not know and cannot control. Once the knowledge and control of a object or situation is mastered god always seems to take a back seat.

• A comment on Conversation: As humanity evolves is the ego doomed to extinction?

  Dec 19 2011: "Anything any man does is because of women." AL Bunde
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  A comment on Conversation: How has TED Impacted You and your life specifically?

  Dec 19 2011: TED gave me and gives me hope.
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  A comment on Conversation: What is the best way to get our kids thinking green?

  Dec 19 2011: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1642371480/the-power-families-clean-energy-kids-books-project
  
  Getem while their young!

• A comment on Conversation: What is your secret?

  Dec 19 2011: Everything has more uses then you think. Identifying the connections between anything is the key to success.

• A comment on Conversation: Free energy is avilable everywhere

  Dec 19 2011: Can you produce a smaller experiment?