A Message to the Reader

When I was young and naïve, I never would’ve imagined writing the following text. You, the reader, may consider it “sour grapes”. However, imagine spending approximately 120,000 hours of your life trying to achieve a goal and then being blocked right before the finish line. A hard-won victory turned into a waste of time. Realizing this when you don’t have very much time left.

I implore you to closely examine what is stated on this page. A decision made some 30+ years ago has put me in a position where my life’s work—and I as a person—have been effectively erased by the relentless marketing hype of the billionaires who run the United States.

I am bewildered why Americans are following the lead of billionaires who openly say they want to take away your job. That is the stated goal. I mean, I am at the end of the road. But I have kids and I like to think they will have a future. Whereas I created a technology that works with people and creates jobs. Read these pages it’s all here. No hype, all proof that I am a credible resource. Unfortunately, I have passed my expiration date.

Thirty years ago, I created a product called Floater, sold by Floater Corporation. It was a personal finance program with a unique core: it was designed specifically for working-class people whose expenses exceeded their income. It analyzed payment due dates and used cash-flow management techniques—similar to those used by banks—to juggle payments to benefit the user. This was powered by what I called the Floater Artificial Intelligence engine. I used the term “AI” because it was popular in science fiction, but I never claimed the application did any original thinking. The engine learned the preferences of the user and, when decisions were required, relied on what the user would prefer. It was much closer to cybernetics than to what is now called AI.

Soon after receiving funding, my path crossed with the father of all tech billionaires: William Gates. It was Bill Gates who decided that there should be one software company—Microsoft. Most smaller software companies were crushed through Microsoft’s unfair competitive practices. If that hadn’t happened, the Floater AI engine would be 30 years further along today, and the current AI hype cycle might not even exist. But it did happen, and Floater AI vanished.

Approximately 13 years ago, I began working on a project to assemble my entire life’s work into a single platform called Reflex. Reflex contains an evolved version of the Floater AI engine. Reflex AI does not resemble the AI being pushed today. The only things they have in common are the letters “AI” and the fact that neither Reflex nor mainstream “populace AI” is actually artificial intelligence. Both are software applications taking vastly different approaches.

Reflex was built using a variety of techniques developed by original software engineers from 1982 to the present. Mainstream populace AI sits on top of a stack of old libraries combined with complex statistical mathematics. Neither model is actually thinking. Reflex AI utilizes an invention that teaches a computer how to understand human behavior. It does not rely on scraped data, does not simulate human thought, and therefore does not suffer from hallucinations. Populace AI, on the other hand, is built on scraped human data stored across the internet—data that was never intended for AI and must be heavily manipulated to fit accessible formats.

The creators of populace AI like to liken their neural networks to the human brain. (I cover this topic in depth on my Substack, linked below.) A neural network may resemble a brain in the mind of a self-proclaimed “father of AI,” but I have never heard that claim backed by anyone working in medicine or neurology. I believe I am uniquely qualified to speak on this.

I began my working life as a marine biologist. At 18, I was chosen over hundreds of qualified graduate students to serve as the research assistant to the world’s leading shark researcher, Dr. Samuel Gruber. I was selected for a reason no one could quantify at the time, but today I’d put it simply: I was a hacker (I figure sh*t out). Today, however, just as the word “AI” has been corrupted, so has “hacker.” If I need a more formal term, I’ll call myself what I am: a Polymath Hacker.

My research involved shark vision and neurobiology. I worked directly with central nervous systems and biological brains. From hands-on experience (on the page detailing that job, you can see a photo of me physically holding a shark), I can tell you unequivocally: my sharks were smarter than populace AI. A neural network is not a biological brain.

There is one more factor that proves comparisons between the human brain and a neural network are invalid. If you ask a top psychiatrist or neuroscientist, “How does human thinking actually work?”—if they are secure in their status, they will answer: “We don’t know.” So how is it that the proponents of populace AI claim to have this knowledge? My substack article

Today, the word “hacker” implies a criminal. The earliest documented technical use appears in MIT’s Tech Model Railroad Club minutes from April 5, 1955. Unless adult men playing with model trains is a crime, there was zero connection between hacking and criminality. When I use the word hacker throughout this site, I am referring to those early programmers who built the foundation of all modern technology.

Put aside the notion that a person becomes irrelevant past a certain point in life. Imagine one of the original hackers who succeeded in commercializing an invention without venture capital or corporate hand-outs—driven purely by perseverance to make Floater a reality. Venture capitalists used to talk about an entrepreneur needing “skin in the game.” Imagine putting up your home and all your possessions, only to have it wiped out by a megalomaniacal billionaire. Imagine watching that billionaire structure a world where only other billionaires could succeed and raw intelligence was rendered irrelevant.

Now look at the experiences outlined on this website. Do I have the credibility to claim that the technology I built is of great value without making claims about events happening in the future?

How is it that the man crowned as the first trillionaire has also stated that empathy is a weakness, while others like me are canceled. Please read the article about the Layoff Support Network. I funded that effort with retirement money. I’m just saying, maybe you were not affected at the time, but I would bet your parents or someone you knew was. So how about paying it forward a little? If you are in media, write an article about my technology. If you have a connection with a foreign government interested in AI, why not point them in my direction? It would be greatly appreciated!

Allow me to make a statement that represents the feelings of many Americans over 60.
Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. I still exist!