0910, 2025

Broken Down Trolley Problems

JC/ October 9, 2025/ science

I was thinking about these trolley problems recently. When forced to choose between two horrible things, which would you choose? My curious thoughtful response to this is why do we have to do horrible things? Have you considered that you may be wrong? Maybe it’s not either this or that. Maybe the answer is more complex and uncertain. Maybe the

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1709, 2025

Probability vs Certainty and the Core of Quantum Processing 

JC/ September 17, 2025/ history, science

Growing up in the United States in the late 20th century, I was steeped in binary thinking. From the two-party political system to the good guys, bad guys narrative, cowboys and Indians, true and false; yes or no was the answer to every question. This accelerated with the introduction of the home computer, functioning, at its core, on a series

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