The Robot Wisdom pages


"...to forge in the smithy of my soul
    the uncreated conscience of my race."
         James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The Robot Wisdom pages
Home of the new, conservative-left Responsible Party
Maintained by Jorn Barger (jorn@mcs.com). Last updated: Aug99

The traditional ideal:
A world ruled by wise, loving, responsible elders

The present reality:
A world under the thumbs of utterly cynical predators

The strategic analysis:
Their weak point is their need to rationalize their acts, by sophistries

The radical proposal:
Create a computer model of the human predicament, that can unflinchingly put the lie to their rationalizations (ie: Robot Wisdom)

Most popular page on this site: Robot Wisdom Weblog offers hot news-links updated continually

This Web site includes a broad variety of topics, with 'Robot Wisdom' as the unifying theme. Detailed overviews of the following are offered:

IQ Infinity: the Unknown James Joyce. Joyce was the most unflinching analyst ever of the human predicament, and so provides a starting point for modelling human personality (includes unabridged Joycelinks portal and the New Game FAQ)
The Outsider's Guide to Artificial Intelligence: showing what's been solved and what's not (includes Anti-Math and a look at the Erasmatron story engine)
NEW: Solace: a textbook of romantic psychology
20th Century Social Science: a Complete Fiasco? offers a detailed look at how the social sciences went wrong
HyperTerrorist's Secret Lab for Web Design Theory: looks at the serious puzzles of information design posed by the WWWeb (includes the HyperTerrorist checklist of design errors, the Multicolored-Text Research pages, and a draft of an alt.etext FAQ)
The Sociology of Netnews: bozos and flamers, potentials and trends (includes the Elvis Index, Bill Bixby haiku, the Newsgroup Finder, and Doctress Ana Voog)
The life story of the site-maintainer showing how these ideas have been evolving (includes favorite authors and newsgroups)

For an 'overhead' map of this WWWeb site.
Five thousand of my netnews postings sorted into 200+ newsgroups, as archived by Deja.com

Other topics: <angle brackets> indicate offsite links and {{double-curlies are DejaNews archived messages}}

Kate Bush, as the most passionate artistic idealist of our time <in her own words>
Krishnamurti's psychological revolution <Krishnamurti pages>
The return of the Goddess
Oscar Wilde's 1895 martyrdom for 'indecent acts'
The revolutionary sayings of William Blake
Some wild hypotheses in the sciences: snowflake formation, air pressure, muscle contraction, punctuated equilibrium and sexual selection, memory molecules, ESP, neural evolution

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The Robot Wisdom Pages include far more text than anyone could be expected to read online, so within the next few months we hope to offer most of it in a $20 hardcopy edition-- some two megabytes of text in a 240-page, large-size format, divided four ways between James Joyce, artificial intelligence, internet culture/ hypertext design, and miscellaneous topics. If you'd like to be informed by email when this becomes available, please send me email with the words 'hardcopy list' as the subject or in the body. [More on the hardcopy edition]