Christopher G. Moore
The Enigma of Emotions: Before the Time of Emotionally enabled AI
The reports from the AI battlefield have been grim for the self-esteem of the human race. We’ve acknowledged defeat with our best chess...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Aug 21, 2015
- 5 min
A Slice of Post-bomb Bangkok Reality
In Bangkok, press reports of the bombing said at least 20 people had been killed and more than a 100 people were injured at Erawan...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Aug 15, 2015
- 5 min
The Hot Countries (2015) Soho Crime by Timothy Hallinan
Reviewed by Christopher G. Moore Ever since Paul Theroux’s classic Saint Jack, with its Singapore, appeared in 1972, and Jack Flower...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Aug 6, 2015
- 6 min
Working Magic in the Shadow of Time
This week the producers of the Calvino series are in LA working to put together a deal. Maybe they will or maybe, as in the past, it...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Aug 3, 2015
- 3 min
Bangkok Beat by Kevin Cummings
Bangkok Beat ebook and POD editions available at Amazon. Reviewed by Christopher G. Moore The Bangkok artistic scene is a puzzle locked...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Jul 7, 2015
- 9 min
Ideologies of Consent
Albert Camus wrote “Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality,...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Jun 12, 2015
- 12 min
Dis-Consent and Political Legitimacy
My last book of essays is titled The Age of Dis-Consent📷. This unconventional title calls out for an explanation. It is difficult to...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Jun 1, 2015
- 12 min
Anslinger’s 100-Year War
Harry Anslinger I’ve been thinking of winners and loser, peacemakers and warriors, victors and the vanquished. These binary extremes...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Apr 8, 2015
- 5 min
An Oscar for Snowden’s Black Mirror
Watching the John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight featuring an interview with Edward Snowden in Moscow is a parody of Black Mirror, the...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Feb 8, 2015
- 21 min
Drinking from A Silver Urn
There are streets in Jaipur, an old Rajasthan city in North India, that seemed unchanged over long spans of time. You can spot a...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Dec 19, 2014
- 3 min
Farewell
In mid-2009 I had the idea to start a blog with crime writers posting weekly essays about crime, politics, corruption, police, courts,...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Dec 11, 2014
- 12 min
The Astrologer’s End Game
I’ve been thinking about the current government’s plan for Thailand to create a digital economy, AI and H.P. Lovecraft. Digital is a...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Dec 5, 2014
- 7 min
When Your Number is Big
Like most people, I have a great deal of trouble comprehending very large numbers. We read that there are between 100 to 400 billion...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Nov 20, 2014
- 5 min
Losing Your Breakfast/Losing your Privacy: A story of one man’s loss in Bangkok
I have a confession to make. I’ve been secretly dismissive of timeline photos and stories people post about food. If I really come...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Nov 13, 2014
- 9 min
Reputation
The difference between a man with a big reputation and one with no reputation is very little. That is the stone I want to put in your...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Nov 6, 2014
- 6 min
The Lake Wobegon Effect
Lake Wobegon is a mythical town in Minnesota. Garrison Keillor created this fiction place that is a shorthand expression for our human...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Oct 30, 2014
- 8 min
What Should We do?
In every age the same question is asked when a band, tribe, or nation is confronted by a challenge, dilemma or catastrophe. If we...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Oct 23, 2014
- 3 min
The Shadow of Freedom
Last light as night falls in Rangoon. Shwedagon Pagoda framed against the twilight. It is like watching a great diva knowing in less...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Oct 16, 2014
- 6 min
Collective Amnesia
What we forget may play as large a role in our lives as what we remember. Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence, Paths, Dangers and Strategies...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Oct 9, 2014
- 6 min
In Defense of Liberty: A Digital Appellate Court of Netizens
Forensic science is no longer a mystery to the general public. It has technical components that require expert knowledge. However,...
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