Prediction: Even if we had Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), our printers would still not work.
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Control and Innovation are opposing forces.
"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them." < This is why there are very few people thinking about truly groundbreaking and dangerous ideas in publicly visible science and technology today. Control and Innovation are opposing forces.
#Ideas #Science #Technology #Cryptocracy #Education #Culture #Business
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Buddhism & Artificial Intelligence
Emergent artificial intelligence poses a problem for many religions, especially those that ascribe a special place for humanity and for human consciousness in the cosmos. Buddhism may be the one system of religious thought that not only accepts but will actively embrace any AIs that we produce as a species.
Later [Buddhist] texts illustrate that animal life is just as capable of becoming enlightened as human life is, and recently many Buddhist thinkers have begun to include plant and microbial life as well. Buddhism may have in fact been the first philosophy to find personhood beyond the human. Would it accept artificial intelligence in the same way? The simple answer is that, from a Buddhist view of the mind and consciousness, all intelligence is artificial.
Buddhism famously denies the existence of a “self”. This is a departure from how many people view themselves. Buddhism instead describes living things as composed of five “heaps” or “piles”: our physical forms, our feelings, our perceptions, our mental formations, and our consciousness
None of the heaps are under our control, and none by themselves can be ascribed as who we “are”. Together they create a living thing, but taken apart they are simply temporary amassing of energy that will eventually dissipitate of their own accord.
Text from an ancient disinfo.org article that is now offline
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Non Von Neumann Architectures
The development of "Non Von Neumann" Architectures and keeping it covert and controlled for decades, was a great success for them.
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Were the NSA's old and the new supercomputer buildings are located. If you ever forget your password or accidentally delete your data, don't worry. These guys can help.
Where might the rest of it be?
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Evolution of sanitation throughout human history
Evolution of sanitation throughout human history, from 'Early civilization and the middle ages Era', to the 'sanitary awakening and advent of water-borne sanitation era', through to the 'waste water reclamation and eutrophication control Era', and possible future 'Ecological sanitation Era'. Source: Redrawn from Gumbo (2005).
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Garbage In Garbage Out. No matter how advanced your PhD's, Models and Supercomputers are - this simple idea remains true.
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"Listening for extraterrestrials with a home computer" (1983)
"Signal processing flow chart for an amateur SETI stations"
Sigma Draconis Star System
For the ufo-curious, @Berlinghoff_R made an infographic of recommended readings
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MycelioTronics: Fungal mycelium skin for sustainable electronics - A mycelium electronics hybrid device prototypes, that may improve several fields of sustainable electronics.
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"Mankind had been doomed from the start." - Generative AI Art by WeavingWithAI
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"Today’s struggle isn’t a technological one, it’s psychosocial. The technology of sovereignty is only part of the battle, particularly if that technology is further down the tech tree than non invasive wireheading." - @realGeorgeHotz (Source)
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Especially when dealing with shinny new technological tools/toys, today's systems designers tend to neglect doing a thorough and honest Cost-Benefit Analysis. The "Anything that can be done, must be done" philosophy is highly wasteful and destructive.
#Design #Economics #Technology #Infrastructure #Philosophy #Comment #Ideas
