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Two AI Pioneers, Two Bizarre Suicides
BotnetZombie writes "Wired tells the quite sad but very interesting stories of Chris McKinstry and Pushpinder Singh. Initially self-educated, both had the idea to create huge fact databases from which AI agents could feed, hoping to eventually have something that could reason at a human level or better. McKinstry leveraged the dotcom era to grow his database. Singh had the backing of MIT, where he eventually got his PhD and had been offered a position as a professor alongside his mentor, Marvin Minsky. Sadly, personal life was more troublesome for them, and the story ends in a tragic way.
It's a coverup there are not dead they have changed name like the guy who made the AI in war games they said he died in a suicided but they changed his name.
Having played in bands for the last two decades, I have had plenty of drug experience.
I can attest to the benefits of psychedelics for certain people. However, that recommendation should come with a strong warning:
IF YOU ATTEMPT TO USE ANY PSYCHEDELIC, HAVE A CHAPERON, BE IN GOOD PHYSICAL HEALTH, AND MAKE SURE YOUR STOMACH AND MIND ARE CLEAR AND READY.
It helps if your chaperon continually reminds you, "It's OK! You're tripping on drugs! Just try to relax and enjoy it!"
Further, for most people I recommend "Shrooms" over LSD. Shrooms seem to provide a similar experience, but not as jarring and physically draining. Plus they are found in nature, so I feel they are less dangerous. With any psychedelic, the dosing is very important, and it can be hard to figure out just what is right for each person. It is not as simple as alcohol, where a weight to consumption ratio is generally straightforward.
Also be warned, that consuming illegal substances can be VERY dangerous, because you might not be getting what you think you are getting. It would suck to die because you got "shrooms" that were actually a poisonous mushroom of a different kind.
In addition, I think that our public education (and legal system) regarding substance abuse need to be completely rewritten.
Any opiate is highly addictive and can lead very quickly to malaise, crime, poverty and death. The same is also true for methamphetamine, however that seems to be a little less of a sure decline, compared with heroin, or the other opiates.
Cocaine can also be dangerous to a person who lacks confidence.
Alcohol's dangers should be well understood and documented at this point.
Weed could potentially make you fat and lazy. That's also true with beer.
Caffeine is a glorious gift from god.
That's all the advice I have. I'm not going to lie to you like they did at school and say, "Weed leads to heroin, which leads to death!" I know tons of people who are regular Marijuana smokers and have no interest in doing hard or dangerous drugs like heroin or speed.
I hold very few opinions. I hold information based on observation and fact. If you wish to disagree, please use facts.
- "A human body" doesn't exist, and will never in the foresee-able future : you need at least some oxygen
... and some nutriments ... and some photons ... and some gravity field ... and ... you get the point, "body" doesn't exist.
- The same goes for "mind", as the brain (if it's really here that it resides
... neurologists seem to have doubts) isn't self-sufficient
- Take care of the physical corpse's needs only, without any contacts, and any newborn will die within weeks (adults will wither)
- Take care of the brain only while eating junk & exercising little, and the body & brain will deteriorate
- Physical exercises increases the physiology, which in turn increases the neurological system's capacity
- Some old scientific experiments proved that muscles exercised themselves when one dreamt of using them
The whole body/mind distinction, along with the various technological analogues for Humans are flawed- Hydrolic systems in the 18th century ? Mechanical systems in the 19th ? Computers in the 20th ? What flaw will the 21st come up with ? As an exercise of the same kind, try to explain what "purple" is to a born-blind adult
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- All those systems have a common flaw : the more knowledge (control) you add, the less responsive they become
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- ... for Humans, it is the exact opposite, and no simple analogy can be used to describe that
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- ... except maybe other living organisms's interactions
... but nobody understands them fully while everybody know (more or less) what it's like to be one !!!
Of Course, "Joe Sixpack" will think that he cant help it if he's not smart--
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