by me, Kerry Burgess, 08/20/2026 1:59 PM
Artificial Influence.
Google: removing bias from decision making
using objective data, seeking diverse inputs, and pausing to challenge initial assumptions. Implementing specific debiasing habits helps teams and individuals make clearer, more rational choices.
Princeton computer science professor Arvind Narayanan studies how the public misunderstands technology, co-authoring AI Snake Oil to separate real algorithmic utility from hyped marketing claims that mislead consumers, media, and policymakers.
Key Focus Areas of His Critique
Hype vs. Reality: Clarifies that artificial intelligence is an umbrella term for distinct tools, not a single magical entity.
excerpt
https://x.com/random_walker/status/1937143148838326272
Arvind Narayanan @random_walker
There are two competing narratives about AI: (1) there's too much hype (2) society is being too dismissive and complacent about AI progress. I think both have a kernel of truth. In fact, they feed off of each other.
6:38 AM June 23, 2025
excerpt
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/princeton-ai-snake-oil-author-070000702.html
Yahoo! Tech
Princeton’s ‘AI Snake Oil’ author says the real fear isn’t thinking machines—it’s that AI exposes who already knows how to think
Fortune
Nick Lichtenberg
Wed, August 19, 2026 at 12:00 AM PDT
excerpt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Snake_Oil
AI Snake Oil
From Wikipedia
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference is a 2024 non-fiction book written by scholars Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor.
Narayanan and Kapoor argue that many individuals do not yet have the literacy to detect functioning aspects of AI
From 6/6/1980 ( ) To 10/15/1999 ( ) is 7070 days
7070 = 3535 + 3535
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/8/1975 ( from The New York Times newspaper: Report On Spying Released By C.I.A. ) is 3535 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth
Pete Hegseth
From Wikipedia [retrieved 08/20/2026]
Peter Brian Hegseth (born June 6, 1980) is an American government official, veteran, and former television personality who has served as the 29th United States secretary of defense since 2025.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 03/06/2026 4:58 PM
Not For Merit.
Stargate SG-1
"Past and Present"
TV-series season 3 episode 11, 10/15/1999
KE'RA
Tell me of Linea.
DANIEL
Well, uh, basically, we met her on a visit to another planet, during which we were imprisoned, unjustly, and Linea helped us escape.
KE'RA
Surely there is nothing wrong with that, if you were imprisoned unjustly.
DANIEL
Well, she was imprisoned justly. It was only after we escaped that we learned this nice, older lady we thought Linea was, was in fact a very, very bad, older lady, who had committed terrible crimes.
KE'RA
What crimes?
DANIEL
She created a plague that almost wiped out an entire people. They called her the Destroyer of Worlds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hopfield
John Hopfield
From Wikipedia
John Joseph Hopfield (born July 15, 1933) is an American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University, most widely known for his study of associative neural networks in 1982. He is known for the development of the Hopfield network. Before its invention, research in artificial intelligence (AI) was in a decay period or AI winter, Hopfield's work revitalized large-scale interest in this field.
In 2024 Hopfield, along with Geoffrey Hinton, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for "foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks."
From 1981 to 1983 Richard Feynman, Carver Mead and Hopfield gave a one-year course at Caltech called "The Physics of Computation". This collaboration inspired the Computation and Neural Systems PhD program at Caltech in 1986, co-founded by Hopfield.
In his doctoral work of 1958, he wrote on the interaction of excitons in crystals
Hopfield published his first paper in neuroscience in 1982, titled "Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities" where he introduced what is now known as Hopfield network, a type of artificial network that can serve as a content-addressable memory, made of binary neurons that can be 'on' or 'off'. He extended his formalism to continuous activation functions in 1984. The 1982 and 1984 papers represent his two most cited works.
June 14, 1956, is the official first book publication date of Alfred Bester's science fiction masterpiece The Stars My Destination, which originally debuted in the United Kingdom under the alternative title Tiger! Tiger!.
Author: Alfred Bester
Original UK Title: Tiger! Tiger! (named after William Blake's poem "The Tyger")
If you'd like, I can share more about:
Its influence as a precursor to cyberpunk [ technobabble ]
From 12/25/1957 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Millionaire"::"The Regina Wainwright Story" ) To 10/8/2024 ( ) is 24394 days
24394 = 12197 + 12197
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/26/1999 ( the "Melissa" computer attack appears ) is 12197 days
From 3/8/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Terrier MK 152 guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex Operator (expert technician for all maintenance and operations, down to printed-circuit-board component level diagnosis and repair, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - CF-division, Missile Plot, USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, following my graduation Naval Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia ) To 10/8/2024 ( ) is 13363 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/4/2002 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Modern Marvels"::"The Manhattan Project" ) is 13363 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere USA film "Stargate" ) To 10/8/2024 ( ) is 10938 days
10938 = 5469 + 5469
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/23/1980 ( referenced here, regarding Ronald Reagan - for me after 05/10/2006: my biological maternal genetic grandfather, along with Jane Wyman as grandmother ) is 5469 days
From 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) To 10/8/2024 ( ) is 11445 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/4/1997 ( {puppet-in-chief} Bill Clinton, 42nd president of USA federal government 1993-2001: Remarks Announcing the Prohibition on Federal Funding for Cloning of Human Beings ) is 11445 days
From 11/20/1985 ( as Kerry Burgess my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: advancement from US Navy enlisted paygrade E-3 (undesignated) to E-4 - Fire Controlman Petty Officer Third Class (FC3) - US Navy fleet warship weapons-control - USS Taylor FFG-50, US Navy ) To 10/8/2024 ( ) is 14202 days
14202 = 7101 + 7101
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/12/1985 ( ) is 7101 days
From 11/20/1985 ( with no capability for any meaningful contribution from Bill Gates to that product or any other product, past or future, debut Microsoft Windows 1.0 ) To 10/8/2024 ( ) is 14202 days
14202 = 7101 + 7101
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/12/1985 ( ) is 7101 days
From 5/9/2015 ( premiere USA film "Tomorrowland" ) To 10/8/2024 ( ) is 3440 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/4/1975 ( Bill Gates founds Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico ) is 3440 days
From 1/20/1953 ( Jeffrey Epstein ) To 10/8/2024 ( ) is 26194 days
26194 = 13097 + 13097
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/11/2001 ( ) is 13097 days
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/press-release/
The Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024
Press release
8 October 2024
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 to
John J. Hopfield
Princeton University, NJ, USA
Geoffrey E. Hinton
University of Toronto, Canada
“for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428055/paving-way-reagan
National Review
Reagan and His Favorite Magazine
by LAURENCE R. JURDEM December 5, 2015 4:00 AM
The impact of WFB and NR on America s 40th president.
On October 23, 1980, William F. Buckley Jr. wrote a confidential note to the Republican presidential nominee, Ronald Reagan. It was twelve days before the election that Buckley and other conservatives believed would result in Reagan's becoming the 40th president of the United States. Buckley, who was scheduled to be in Brazil on November 4, instructed his office to post the letter only on the condition that Reagan was elected.
In the note, Buckley reminded Reagan that back in 1964 he had teased him by introducing him to an audience as governor, unaware that just two years later the fictional title would become a reality. Obviously you didn't know when to stop, Buckley mused to his friend
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19850412-01.2.12&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
(Colonial One {interstellar faster-than-light converted passenger-star(s)ship} - Dr. Gaius Baltar is alone, with paperwork spread out before him)
Six: I see they've put you to work. (He looks over, sees her sitting next to him.) Ignoring me won't help.
Baltar: No, I've decided you're an expression of my, uh, subconscious mind playing itself out through my waking states.
Six: Oh, I'm only in your head?
Baltar: Exactly.
Six: Hmm. Have you considered the possibility that I could very well exist *only* in your head? Without being a hallucination? Maybe you see and hear me, because while you were sleeping, I implanted a chip in your brain that transmits my image right into your conscious mind.
Baltar: No, no, see that's me again. My subconscious self is expressing irrational fears, which I must choose to ignore.
Six: (moving closer to him) What are you working on?
Baltar: If you were really a chip in my head, I wouldn't have to tell you, now would I?
Six: Indulge me.
Baltar: I'm trying to figure out how you managed to pull this kind of an attack.
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/21/1969 ( described publicly only by me, the Princeton University doctor of medicine degree graduation of my biological brother Dr Thomas Reagan MD and the 1973 law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England ) is 1296 days
2592 = 1296 + 1296
From 6/10/1926 ( biographical - from Wikipedia: Antoni Gaudà - dead ) To 7/15/1933 ( ) is 2592 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hopfield
John Hopfield
From Wikipedia
John Joseph Hopfield (born July 15, 1933) is an American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University, most widely known for his study of associative neural networks in 1982.
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The Time Machine (2002)
Quotes
David Philby: A professor from Columbia University should not be corresponding with a crazy German book keeper.
Alexander Hartdegen: He's a patent clerk, not a book keeper, and I think Mister Einstein deserves all the support I can give him.
From 12/7/1998 ( as Kerry Burgess my first day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle until 02/06/2004, employed as technical accounts manager in Microsoft Premier Support for Enterprise and then Microsoft Premier Support for Developers - title: Applications Development Consultant ) To 3/4/2002 ( ) is 1183 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/28/1969 ( illustrated here below ) is 1183 days
From 10/28/1955 ( Microsoft Corbis Bill Gates the transvestite and 100% female gender as born to brother-sister genetic-sibling mother and father ) To 2/27/1992 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Separate Vocations" ) is 13271 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/4/2002 ( ) is 13271 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/16/1994 ( premiere USA film "Timecop" AND premiere USA film "Princess Caraboo" ) is 10545 days
21090 = 10545 + 10545
From 6/6/1944 ( the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War - often referred to as D-Day ) To 3/4/2002 ( ) is 21090 days
From 1/17/1991 ( Operation Desert Storm begins and Task Force Normandy - date of record of my US Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 3/4/2002 ( ) is 4064 days
4064 = 2032 + 2032
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/27/1971 ( Richard Nixon, president of USA federal government 1969-1974: Remarks of Welcome to King Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia ) is 2032 days
From 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (expert technician for all maintenance and operations, down to printed-circuit-board component level diagnosis and repair, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) To 3/4/2002 ( ) is 5386 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/1/1980 ( premiere USA film "The Final Countdown" ) is 5386 days
From 11/26/1976 ( desperate for oxygen replenishment from loss due to accident months earlier, my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in solar system deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day makes his first landing the Jupiter moon Callisto - from his successful strike 145 days earlier in the outer solar system beyond planet Saturn to divert comet nicknamed "Lucifer", threatening the existence by death and destruction of all life on this planet Earth ) To 3/4/2002 ( ) is 9229 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/8/1991 ( premiere USA film "Sleeping with the Enemy" ) is 9229 days
From 10/9/1971 ( described publicly only by me: my biological brother Thomas Reagan the 1969 medical-doctor graduate of Princeton University and the 1973 law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England, becomes United States of America board-certified surgeon ) To 3/4/2002 ( ) is 11104 days
11104 = 5552 + 5552
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/14/1981 ( premiere USA film "Scanners" ) is 5552 days
From 10/7/1920 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: MEDICAL CLUB WILL HOLD INITIAL MEETING TO-NIGHT ; Both Undergraduates And Graduate Students Are Eligible - Lectures By Prominent Doctors Planned. ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 26542 days
26542 = 13271 + 13271
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/4/2002 ( ) is 13271 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268695/releaseinfo/
IMDb
The Time Machine (2002)
Release Info
USA 4 March 2002 (premiere)
Guy Pearce ... Alexander Hartdegen
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=WeeklyBulletin19690125-01.2.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------
The Simpsons
"Separate Vocations"
Season 3 Episode 18
Aired February 27, 1992
Quotes
Dr. Pryor: Here's your scientifically selected career.
Janey: Architect.
Kid: Insurance salesman,
Ralph: Salmon gutter?
Milhouse: Military strongman.
Martin: Systems analyst. Systems analyst.
Dr. Pryor: Systems analyst.
Martin: All right!
Lisa: Homemaker?
Dr. Pryor: Mm-hm. It's like a mommy.
Bart: Police officer? Well, I'll be jiggered.
excerpts, The Time Machine (Heinemann text)/Chapter I
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Chapter 1
'Don't you think you would attract attention?' said the Medical Man. 'Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms.'
'One might get one's Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato,' the Very Young Man thought.
'In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little-go. The German scholars have improved Greek so much.'
'Then there is the future,' said the Very Young Man. 'Just think! One might invest all one's money, leave it to accumulate at interest, and hurry on ahead!'
'To discover a society,' said I, 'erected on a strictly communistic basis.'
'Of all the wild extravagant theories!' began the Psychologist.
'Yes, so it seemed to me, and so I never talked of it until—'
'Experimental verification!' cried I. 'You are going to verify that?'
'The experiment!' cried Filby, who was getting brain-weary.
'Let's see your experiment anyhow,' said the Psychologist, 'though it's all humbug, you know.'
The Time Traveller smiled round at us. Then, still smiling faintly, and with his hands deep in his trousers pockets, he walked slowly out of the room, and we heard his slippers shuffling down the long passage to his laboratory.
The Psychologist looked at us. 'I wonder what he's got?'
'Some sleight-of-hand trick or other,' said the Medical Man
(for example)
by me, Kerry Burgess, 06/29/2026 7:56 PM
Here now another instance of a process I have experimented with in my original-work
Episode 3 became available days ago.
I avoided it.
Until within this hour today. I paused the video as illustrated here to check for a pattern I recognize and that is because I accepted the impulse in my conscious-mind
From 12/6/1979 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" ) To 3/23/2019 ( ) is 14352 days
14352 = 7176 + 7176
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/26/1985 ( premiere USA TV "Reaching for the Stars" ) is 7176 days
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 4:49 PM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 08/20/2026
