Part I
Autobiographical Introduction
p. 3Chapter 13
My Note to Readers3
A Letter to My Fellow Travelers (The “Dosco” Reflection)6
A Side Note About Earth8
Why Write a Book in the First Place10
Difficulty Reading Some Unknown's Biography13
The Prophetic Birth Was a Pipe Dream16
King of Pain — My Constant Companion19
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Prologue
p. 23The autobiography proper — from India, through Austria and the cruise ships, to Washington, SMAC, the lawsuit, FedMine, and retirement into the questions the rest of the book is about.
He Is Writing About AI23
My New Revised Autobiography25
The Missing Deity, Written by Me, Not Some Machine27
The Belligerent Yahoo of Immigrants of Failure29
Austria: The First Reboot33
America: Ten Dollars and a Universe of Uncertainty37
The Long Ships37
He Is Coming to America42
Cape Canaveral44
Ship to Shore44
Printing Press45
Cleveland47
The Deafening Printing Press Experience47
Jerry Paints Plymouth Duster47
Washington, D.C., Nation's Capital49
Flying Plymouth Duster Chased by Cops49
McDonald's and the Start of MBA50
Computers52
In Washington, DC55
MBA Success in Hanging a Smacked AI Degree58
From Rags to Riches — The Physics of Ascent59
Artificially Intelligent With Pain59
SMAC, My First Smacking Entrepreneurial Debut60
Fame With Explosive Growth64
The Seesaw of the Second Law of Thermodynamics66
The Lawsuit66
My Lessons74
Adezza Days76
In and Out of the Basement77
Recursive Exit to Retirement77
FedMine — The Sassy King78
Rags to Riches Part II78
No Time to Waste Waiting81
FedMine84
Justice Is Served84
Retirement88
First Scientific Lens88
The Invisible Threshold93