What I'm doing now

I'm working on Make Your Laws, a practical project to turn governments into liquid democracies.

I make CogSai - a YouTube series on cognitive science, help run the Language Creation Society, hack things, give talks, and occasionally consult.

I'm also involved in a couple actions against the TSA for their practice of violating the rights of disabled travelers.

Talk to me about:

• cognitive neuroscience of empathy
  • accuracy vs intensity of emotional perceptions
  • neural correlates of and methods to create high empathy
  • mirror neurons
  • objective empathy measurements as predictive of learning of complex motor tasks
• brain/computer interfaces
• meditation & metacognitive qualia
  • contrastive neural correlates of different meditative techniques
  • objective optimization of meditative techniques
  • quales of consciousness proprioception
• practical AI
• social distance metrics on large-scale communications data
• text classification
• any-hat hacking, Ruby/Rails, p2p botnets, practical e-democracy, smart social games
• conlanging, tactile language, non-linear writing, polyglotism, ASL singing, poetry
• alchemy, gnosticism, agnosticism, magic, meditation, worldview-multiplism, Discordianism
• empathy, vegetarianism, aikido, friendship
• sapiosexuality, bisexuality, polyamory, non-genderedness, hedonism
• cathood, cat owneeship
• piano, harpsichord, ocarina, Iron Chef WTF, costuming

This site was last updated 17 July 2013.