Cow - Same basic generic structure and common inheritance chain, very similar basic biochemistry, quadruped limb structure, similar basic brain structure, and many other similarities. So not only is it 'murder' it is 'cannibalism' too. It is only modern convention that stops us eating other humans.
An old basic rule of xeno-biology is that (by generalization) you can only eat your own relatives.. (life from Earth):D
I've lived in both. Both systems have their merits and their problems. The real problem in the UK is that we are 'subjects' and don't have the rights of citizens, there is too much state surveillance, and too much interference and invasive bureaucracy. The problem in the US is obviously the risk of being shot and killed.
The actual risk from guns is generally pretty small, about 1 in 500 deaths is from a gun, and the biggest group killed by guns die as a result of accidently shooting themselves while either cleaning or playing with their own gun. In the UK the risk of being mugged or robbed or having your house burgled is much higher than in the US. Criminals in the UK don't have guns but some do carry knives - why UK police often wear stab vests.. Things like the school shootings like Columbine or the recent shooting in Charleston are awful and horrible, but the number these kill is statistically minute. Cars and busses and trains are several hundred times more dangerous..
Yes sort of, but the brain is a heck of a lot more complicated than that. I think a lot of the psychedelic effects are caused by the 'synchroniser' and other top level filters in our visual systems shutting down allowing us to see some of how our brains actually generate our view of the world. The brain has at least two completely separate visual processing cores - one for real time motion and danger intercept and a far more complex colour vision world and object interpretation system. There is probably a third for more abstract processing and visual imagination and 3D interpretation.. A fourth interrelated subsystem does image feedback, short term visual memory, and overall control. Most of vision isn't actually done in real time because the brain isn't fast enough, and that synchroniser puts all the disparate pieces together into a single seamless whole... so yes psychedelic images are partly feedback but its all part of a much more complicated machine than any current artificial neural network.
Brains are not even constructed using the same kinds of learning/tuning algorithms as neural networks and we don't really know a lot about how that part of the brain works - which is the real limit on NN's of course. I work in Strong AI and the model I am working on assumes that the brain uses a complex mathematical crib, but that is an area for future research....
Actually I am interested in FTL physics and have solved both the div zero and the negative roots problems by looking at the details of permutation.
The solution to negative roots is to add the idea of superposition of sign to the definition of numbers so that n^2 expresses as +n x -n = -m. This also gives the rule that all imaginary numbers summed equate to zero. (i = (1,-1)SP2, sum i = 0) Complex numbers look like asymmetric imaginaries ( (3,-1)SP2 = 1 + 2i) The method produces the result that light itself has an imaginary mass +n + -n = 0..
The solution to/0 is that the division operation never adds to the result so the strict answer is always zero, and the numerator becomes the remainder. (n/0 = 0 = remainder n) Note also that in this system zero can be an imaginary number and the result of div 0 or tan 90 is an imaginary (0,0)SP2.
The same system uses a rule called a 'scalar window' to allow limited computation with infinite numbers. By this rule essentially all finite numbers have an infinite component and visa versa most or all non-finites have a finite component.
I'm designing and building a real Strong AI and even I cant answer that question.. An interim solution though is very simple, get lawmakers to pass a law for 'equal pay for machine workers' - a massive profit for the Strong AI companies without destroying the world..
Great article, but a couple of small points.. There are a few generalized rules of capitalism, and one of them is that the harder you work the less you get paid.. Road workers, farmers, fishermen, cops, hospital porters, garbage men, builders - hardest workers, not well paid. Banker, hedge fund manager, lawyer, professional footballer, trader, manager - best paid, not so much work.
Of course entrepreneurs kind of contradict this, at least the more successful ones.. but the big money (aka Google) is finally starting to bet on AI so it will be interesting times ahead. (BTW I am a kind of entrepreneur working in the field of developing Strong AI. The only thing that seems to be missing at the moment is the money..:( I can feel that wave coming..:D )
The projections may be correct, they may not. The point I was making is that 80 million is a very substantial number of people. The underlying number of 7.3 billion people is the big long term problem, as it may already be above the long term carrying capacity of the planet.. The problem comes to a focus because there are three opposing forces that are moving towards each other - human population, food web stress, and climate change, and at some point within the next 50 to 150 years they are likely to hit each other. Ecology science suggests that the way the problem will 'resolve' is by food web collapse and human mass starvation.. which inevitably leads to a downward spiral and severe ecological damage and all kinds of unpleasant things.. Of course that is only one scenario, but the more people there are the more likely it is to happen..
Those figures come directly from UN statistics, very little extrapolation involved. The population increasing by 80 million a year is a pretty basic fact.. I bet you are a climate change denier. Believe in evolution?
Oops on the turbines I accidentally calculated the figure from the wrong base figure.. (12TW instead of 30 PW for instantaneous consumption, calculated from a yearly load of 376 ExoWatts..)
Ok so for turbines - 10 MW is biggest size currently in development, so 10 MW reduce by 50% for low wind redundancy, and divide out of 12 Terawatts = 2.4 million wind turbines to supply the worlds current needs. (so not a billion)
As for solar you said it yourself, an array 130 mile or 210 Km on a side to power the world, = 44,000 Km^2. I think you simply don't understand how big that is - if your array was built out of 2 x 4 metre panels that would add up to 7.3 billion solar panels.
In turbines at current costs that would be about $20 trillion, or for solar something like $30 to 70 trillion, and both for a lifespan of between about 10 and 20 years.
It doesn't matter what combination of the two you choose you still end up with some pretty astounding figures. I'm in favour of solar on a small scale or even wind, its when you try to scale them up to the whole world or put them in the wrong place that they become bad solutions. There are better solutions out there - nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, geothermal, hydroelectric, hydrothermal, tidal, aerothermal towers, etc.
These worlds 'top' engineers and scientists you keep talking about, I suspect they haven't bothered to do the maths either or they work for the wind and solar industries....
I'm working on a system that can do things like that, but its Strong AI not weak, totally different. It dynamically adjusts and learns and has (will have) 'hyper-complex' 3D vision. The whole design ethos between strong and weak is totally different. - Strong essentially follows and reverse engineers the human / animal mind and brain. Strong is built around a 'dynamic core' or machine consciousness. Strong generally requires a high performance, custom designed and built multi-processor computer. Lets face it Weak AI is (mostly) crap. Also weak AI is far more likely to ultimately develop into unpredictable spontaneously sentient 'rogue' AI's like Skynet from the Terminator movies...
Brainwashing is just as effective no matter how intelligent someone is.. In fact if anything brainwashing is easier the more intelligent someone is - if its a group thing for their community and they were programmed in childhood - in some its virtually unbreakable... The churches are (pretty much) world masters at brainwashing and subliminal mass control... How to do propaganda : Create a strong emotional charge, reinforce it by heavy repetition, use psychological dominance, create a dual axis (good = us verses bad = outsiders), create a strong group ethos, create a subliminal bond of ownership (eg baptism).. Really I'm amazed that any of us ever escape..
Over the last 100 years something like 500 million to one billion humans have died as a result of Smoking, over the next century another billion are slated to die as a result of smoking.. The same kind of number are slated to die because of obesity caused by over eating and lack of exercise. Something like 60% of Americans believe that 'God' created the universe 5000 years ago in 7 days, it took one day to make all the stars and another to make the Earth. They also do not believe in evolution despite that we and other animals all share almost every feature - and when we look closer the same DNA. They voted for George W Bush. Twice. When we look at physics, supposedly the smartest people in the world have believed in a theory based on a totally stupid and obvious fallacy - for 100 years.
Despite that they can speak and can repeat and quote back others clever ideas most people are dumber than crap.. In a world of morons the idiot is a genius.
HP Lovecraft looked into the abyss and saw monsters. I looked into the abyss and saw a way off this mud pile...:D
Now to open the gateway that's the difficult bit, of course the really difficult bit is stabilizing and holding the gate open once you've got it open. The real thing at the bottom of the abyss though is far more scary than any monster - the unfathomless empty void of space. That's where the real future is. Bring on the Armageddon its just what we need to give us a push....
160 thousand people die every day, but 380 thousand are born every day. That means the population is growing by 220 thousand every day - or by extrapolation over 80 million people every year. Burying our heads in the sand about population will only make things worse..
Sorry total fantasy, and a dangerous one at that. What about heavy industries like steelmaking or shipbuilding or ammonia or cement or cars? What about places like China or Africa or India? What about places like northern Europe in the winter - with low sun and periods when the wind dies?
The worlds energy need is something roughly like 30 Petawatts, and over the next 30 years that will as much as double. That's 30,000 terawatts, or 30 million gigawatts, every second 24 hours every day.. That's a lot of square km of solar cells, or several billion huge wind turbines, a literal mountain range of online storage batteries. All have high environmental manufacturing costs, limited operating lives, and high recycle/replace costs. Like I said a total fantasy.
People generally wait until its time to take action before they react. When is that? when a ton of people start dying. Aircraft safety, pollution, smoking, ISIS - people like to wait till they are knee deep in the dead, then start panicking. It is only as the waters start to wash around our knees that we will 'solve' climate change.
Sadly this is why in 50 years the Chinese will win World War Three - probably without even fighting.. Most people here in the UK or the US or Europe seem to have no more foresight or intelligence than cattle.
All you need is $10 million you can afford to flush down the political toilet and you can have your own modicum of real power.
Aint got $10 million to throw away, you pauper you, go and get back into your cardboard box.. (Mumbles : I remember when $10 million was a lot of money...)
The problem is that the place the cattle are moving towards isn't a nice end...and they thought they were human...
My answer is that its better to be a free human in hell than a slave in heaven.. If you want to see where we are going in 30 years it looks like Somalia crossed with Tibet crossed with North Korea.. Only they will still call it 'democracy' and 'freedom' and 'fighting the terrorists', and the heard will still believe them even as they are turned into steaks and burgers to feed the rich...
Now that really would take a miracle - herbal tea cures cancer/ AIDs/ death.. That's why when you go in the hospital instead of an operation or treatment thy give you herbal tea.. Traditional medicine with the same traditional response - you probably die!
Spamming here is not a good idea... I feed the TROLL.....
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Cow - Same basic generic structure and common inheritance chain, very similar basic biochemistry, quadruped limb structure, similar basic brain structure, and many other similarities. So not only is it 'murder' it is 'cannibalism' too. It is only modern convention that stops us eating other humans.
An old basic rule of xeno-biology is that (by generalization) you can only eat your own relatives.. (life from Earth) :D
I've lived in both. Both systems have their merits and their problems. The real problem in the UK is that we are 'subjects' and don't have the rights of citizens, there is too much state surveillance, and too much interference and invasive bureaucracy. The problem in the US is obviously the risk of being shot and killed.
The actual risk from guns is generally pretty small, about 1 in 500 deaths is from a gun, and the biggest group killed by guns die as a result of accidently shooting themselves while either cleaning or playing with their own gun.
In the UK the risk of being mugged or robbed or having your house burgled is much higher than in the US. Criminals in the UK don't have guns but some do carry knives - why UK police often wear stab vests..
Things like the school shootings like Columbine or the recent shooting in Charleston are awful and horrible, but the number these kill is statistically minute. Cars and busses and trains are several hundred times more dangerous..
Yes sort of, but the brain is a heck of a lot more complicated than that. I think a lot of the psychedelic effects are caused by the 'synchroniser' and other top level filters in our visual systems shutting down allowing us to see some of how our brains actually generate our view of the world. The brain has at least two completely separate visual processing cores - one for real time motion and danger intercept and a far more complex colour vision world and object interpretation system. There is probably a third for more abstract processing and visual imagination and 3D interpretation.. A fourth interrelated subsystem does image feedback, short term visual memory, and overall control.
Most of vision isn't actually done in real time because the brain isn't fast enough, and that synchroniser puts all the disparate pieces together into a single seamless whole... so yes psychedelic images are partly feedback but its all part of a much more complicated machine than any current artificial neural network.
Brains are not even constructed using the same kinds of learning/tuning algorithms as neural networks and we don't really know a lot about how that part of the brain works - which is the real limit on NN's of course. I work in Strong AI and the model I am working on assumes that the brain uses a complex mathematical crib, but that is an area for future research....
Actually I am interested in FTL physics and have solved both the div zero and the negative roots problems by looking at the details of permutation.
The solution to negative roots is to add the idea of superposition of sign to the definition of numbers so that n^2 expresses as +n x -n = -m. This also gives the rule that all imaginary numbers summed equate to zero. (i = (1,-1)SP2, sum i = 0) Complex numbers look like asymmetric imaginaries ( (3,-1)SP2 = 1 + 2i) The method produces the result that light itself has an imaginary mass +n + -n = 0..
The solution to /0 is that the division operation never adds to the result so the strict answer is always zero, and the numerator becomes the remainder. (n/0 = 0 = remainder n) Note also that in this system zero can be an imaginary number and the result of div 0 or tan 90 is an imaginary (0,0)SP2.
The same system uses a rule called a 'scalar window' to allow limited computation with infinite numbers. By this rule essentially all finite numbers have an infinite component and visa versa most or all non-finites have a finite component.
I'm designing and building a real Strong AI and even I cant answer that question.. An interim solution though is very simple, get lawmakers to pass a law for 'equal pay for machine workers' - a massive profit for the Strong AI companies without destroying the world..
Great article, but a couple of small points.. There are a few generalized rules of capitalism, and one of them is that the harder you work the less you get paid..
Road workers, farmers, fishermen, cops, hospital porters, garbage men, builders - hardest workers, not well paid.
Banker, hedge fund manager, lawyer, professional footballer, trader, manager - best paid, not so much work.
Of course entrepreneurs kind of contradict this, at least the more successful ones.. but the big money (aka Google) is finally starting to bet on AI so it will be interesting times ahead. :( I can feel that wave coming.. :D )
(BTW I am a kind of entrepreneur working in the field of developing Strong AI. The only thing that seems to be missing at the moment is the money..
"Skeletons can't teach, nor do they emerge from rooms."
Ah but with 'AGI' / 'ASI' machine / human super-intelligence they can.
"SAI manual 26 Hyper Field Manipulations, Part 3 - Reversing Entropy and Raising the Dead." and no its not magic its just very advanced science..
The projections may be correct, they may not. The point I was making is that 80 million is a very substantial number of people. The underlying number of 7.3 billion people is the big long term problem, as it may already be above the long term carrying capacity of the planet..
The problem comes to a focus because there are three opposing forces that are moving towards each other - human population, food web stress, and climate change, and at some point within the next 50 to 150 years they are likely to hit each other.
Ecology science suggests that the way the problem will 'resolve' is by food web collapse and human mass starvation.. which inevitably leads to a downward spiral and severe ecological damage and all kinds of unpleasant things..
Of course that is only one scenario, but the more people there are the more likely it is to happen..
Those figures come directly from UN statistics, very little extrapolation involved. The population increasing by 80 million a year is a pretty basic fact.. I bet you are a climate change denier. Believe in evolution?
Oops on the turbines I accidentally calculated the figure from the wrong base figure.. (12TW instead of 30 PW for instantaneous consumption, calculated from a yearly load of 376 ExoWatts..)
Ok so for turbines - 10 MW is biggest size currently in development, so 10 MW reduce by 50% for low wind redundancy, and divide out of 12 Terawatts = 2.4 million wind turbines to supply the worlds current needs. (so not a billion)
As for solar you said it yourself, an array 130 mile or 210 Km on a side to power the world, = 44,000 Km^2. I think you simply don't understand how big that is - if your array was built out of 2 x 4 metre panels that would add up to 7.3 billion solar panels.
In turbines at current costs that would be about $20 trillion, or for solar something like $30 to 70 trillion, and both for a lifespan of between about 10 and 20 years.
It doesn't matter what combination of the two you choose you still end up with some pretty astounding figures.
I'm in favour of solar on a small scale or even wind, its when you try to scale them up to the whole world or put them in the wrong place that they become bad solutions. There are better solutions out there - nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, geothermal, hydroelectric, hydrothermal, tidal, aerothermal towers, etc.
These worlds 'top' engineers and scientists you keep talking about, I suspect they haven't bothered to do the maths either or they work for the wind and solar industries. ...
I'm working on a system that can do things like that, but its Strong AI not weak, totally different. It dynamically adjusts and learns and has (will have) 'hyper-complex' 3D vision. The whole design ethos between strong and weak is totally different. - Strong essentially follows and reverse engineers the human / animal mind and brain. Strong is built around a 'dynamic core' or machine consciousness. Strong generally requires a high performance, custom designed and built multi-processor computer.
Lets face it Weak AI is (mostly) crap. Also weak AI is far more likely to ultimately develop into unpredictable spontaneously sentient 'rogue' AI's like Skynet from the Terminator movies...
Brainwashing is just as effective no matter how intelligent someone is.. In fact if anything brainwashing is easier the more intelligent someone is - if its a group thing for their community and they were programmed in childhood - in some its virtually unbreakable... The churches are (pretty much) world masters at brainwashing and subliminal mass control...
How to do propaganda : Create a strong emotional charge, reinforce it by heavy repetition, use psychological dominance, create a dual axis (good = us verses bad = outsiders), create a strong group ethos, create a subliminal bond of ownership (eg baptism).. Really I'm amazed that any of us ever escape..
Over the last 100 years something like 500 million to one billion humans have died as a result of Smoking, over the next century another billion are slated to die as a result of smoking.. The same kind of number are slated to die because of obesity caused by over eating and lack of exercise. Something like 60% of Americans believe that 'God' created the universe 5000 years ago in 7 days, it took one day to make all the stars and another to make the Earth. They also do not believe in evolution despite that we and other animals all share almost every feature - and when we look closer the same DNA. They voted for George W Bush. Twice.
When we look at physics, supposedly the smartest people in the world have believed in a theory based on a totally stupid and obvious fallacy - for 100 years.
Despite that they can speak and can repeat and quote back others clever ideas most people are dumber than crap.. In a world of morons the idiot is a genius.
HP Lovecraft looked into the abyss and saw monsters. I looked into the abyss and saw a way off this mud pile... :D
Now to open the gateway that's the difficult bit, of course the really difficult bit is stabilizing and holding the gate open once you've got it open. The real thing at the bottom of the abyss though is far more scary than any monster - the unfathomless empty void of space. That's where the real future is. Bring on the Armageddon its just what we need to give us a push....
The Chinese don't actually like coal - maybe its because pollution from coal is killing something like 500,000 people in China every year..
When it comes to energy the Germans are just foolish hippies..
160 thousand people die every day, but 380 thousand are born every day. That means the population is growing by 220 thousand every day - or by extrapolation over 80 million people every year. Burying our heads in the sand about population will only make things worse..
Sorry total fantasy, and a dangerous one at that. What about heavy industries like steelmaking or shipbuilding or ammonia or cement or cars? What about places like China or Africa or India? What about places like northern Europe in the winter - with low sun and periods when the wind dies?
The worlds energy need is something roughly like 30 Petawatts, and over the next 30 years that will as much as double. That's 30,000 terawatts, or 30 million gigawatts, every second 24 hours every day..
That's a lot of square km of solar cells, or several billion huge wind turbines, a literal mountain range of online storage batteries. All have high environmental manufacturing costs, limited operating lives, and high recycle/replace costs. Like I said a total fantasy.
People generally wait until its time to take action before they react. When is that? when a ton of people start dying. Aircraft safety, pollution, smoking, ISIS - people like to wait till they are knee deep in the dead, then start panicking. It is only as the waters start to wash around our knees that we will 'solve' climate change.
Statistically speaking there is only one way to win the lottery - not to play.
Of course an alternative is to buy shares in a lottery company - they win the lottery every week.. :D
Sadly this is why in 50 years the Chinese will win World War Three - probably without even fighting.. Most people here in the UK or the US or Europe seem to have no more foresight or intelligence than cattle.
You're a threat of bringing the danger of democracy - something the two party system was explicitly created to prevent.
All you need is $10 million you can afford to flush down the political toilet and you can have your own modicum of real power.
Aint got $10 million to throw away, you pauper you, go and get back into your cardboard box.. (Mumbles : I remember when $10 million was a lot of money...)
The problem is that the place the cattle are moving towards isn't a nice end. ..and they thought they were human...
My answer is that its better to be a free human in hell than a slave in heaven.. If you want to see where we are going in 30 years it looks like Somalia crossed with Tibet crossed with North Korea.. Only they will still call it 'democracy' and 'freedom' and 'fighting the terrorists', and the heard will still believe them even as they are turned into steaks and burgers to feed the rich...
Their masters typed it, they thought it.
Now that really would take a miracle - herbal tea cures cancer/ AIDs/ death.. That's why when you go in the hospital instead of an operation or treatment thy give you herbal tea.. Traditional medicine with the same traditional response - you probably die!
Spamming here is not a good idea... I feed the TROLL.....