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Linguistic Engineering

I’m going to found the field of Linguistic Engineering. I wish to study the relationship between what people think (algorithms) and what they say (programs), with the end goal being a set of design principles for the creation of programming languages for specific problem domains (ex. parallel computation and quantum computation ). This subject has [...]

Humanity’s self-conception

In most of the Sci-Fi that I’ve read humans are depicted primarily as a wild unknown of unequalled potential.

When Jane and the Bugger Queen discuss humanity, it is pointed out that humans have a crude system by which many ideas are tried in parallel, most of which are poor ideas, but the best ideas [...]