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We are more than our minds. We are also our bodies, and our body's ability to move through and interact with the world is a crucial part of shaping our mind. A Snake does not "think" like a spider, for an incredibly complex number of reasons, but a crucial influence on how a snake's mind gets shaped is the body in which it can experience the world around it. A human's ability to manipulate the world around it through our hands and our muscles, to move through it and perceive it through our senses, and to shape it is a central aspect of why and how we think in the ways that humans do. The flip side to this coin is that a body also limits the kinds of minds that can exist in it. If you magically gave a snake arms and legs, but no experience in how to use them, it still would try to interact with its world in the ways a snake would (at least, at first...this is a part of the neuroplasticity of a brain, the most sophisticated part of our bodies and the strongest link to our mind).
But now, consider a perfectly "competent" body. That is, a body that has no limitations. There is no effort involved in any amount/kind of traversal/mechanical action you are interested in, you are maximally effective at utilizing the energy available to you, you can perceive all possible inputs of the environment around you. In essence, the only limit on your existence is your mind's ability to effectively utilize this "unshackled body"
What kinds of minds can arise from this? Do animals become smarter as a direct result of their ability to interact with their world? Conversely, does this effect of increasing intelligence impact how they can interact with their world? If so, it's a positive feedback loop where more complex/effective bodies beget more complex/effective minds beget better bodies etc., up to a maximum point of Godhood (relative to humanity anyways).
A good example I can think of is the octopus. Remarkably intelligent creatures, with a neural wiring drastically different from how humans work. But their tentacles are perhaps the most capable appendage one could have to interact with their world. Their camouflage's effectiveness is limited by their ability to accurately assess their environment (so they know how to blend in), so from an evolutionary perspective an octopus mind that can competently observe its surroundings and use that to decide how to camouflage itself is an octopus mind that survives to create future octopus minds.
My suggestion is that their observable intelligence in other aspects of thinking is at least partially due to this very capable body that they exist in, much like humans but also in physiologically different ways.
What does this tell us about our own bodies? It links the limits of our bodies and our perceptions to the limits of our minds. Neither can sensibly outgrow the other, they grow each other in the complex interplay of life.
I always believed ivermectin probably was a suppressed wonder drug. However I've had a pretty bad experience and am starting to wonder if it was just controlled opposition all along.
So my main concerns I've had are from this:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1917344
And this (I really don't know about the whole anti-virus standpoint, more wondering about the toxic parasite die off idea):
https://odysee.com/@spacebusters:c9/IVERMECTIN:0c5
Also apparently there's some studies showing it negatively affects fertility? But those are debated.
Anybody here ever experience bad side effects (or permanent changes) from ivermectin use? Not looking to slander it here just wondering if anyone experienced what's being discussed in these articles/videos?
I'm assuming everyone has heard about the ballistic missile strike on Ukraine by now.
Here's some video of the strike. I was going to use a clip from r/interestingasfuck, but the mods have locked the comments section and removed a 12k post.
Now for a bit of context.
Western nations recently gave Ukraine permission to strike targets inside Russia with long range missiles.
Ukraine immediately used those missiles.
Russia then responded with a statement that nuclear weapons are still an option.
Yesterday, the US closed/evacuated their Embassy in Ukraine.
This morning, the Russians launched at least one ballistic missile with multiple re-entry vehicles. If you watch the video carefully, it looks like maybe a dozen MIRVs hit the ground in Dnipro (Ukraine's 4th largest city)
So here's a few stray thoughts.
If you read between the lines, it looks like the Russians sent an advance warning of the missile strike. I'm gonna guess they di9dn't say anything about whether the missile would be carrying live warheads or not.
So you can imagine "Leadership" waiting to see if the Russians were bluffing or not. They must have taken the notice strongly enough since they actually did evacuate the embassy.
Then they waited to see if there'd be a launch or not.
Then there was a launch... and someone with a very puckered butt spent the next 10 or 15 minutes expecting nukes to go off somewhere in Ukraine.
I'm willing to guess there was a huge sigh of relief somewhere. And now I'm waiting to see if "Leadership" still thinks the Russians are bluffing.
Or maybe they want a war? I mean, they've got their super survival bunkers and the rest of us can go fuck ourselves. If I was one of the bunker people, I might even be looking forwards to having a less crowded world.
Either way, these are interesting times.
Edit: About a week later... and here's a competent discussion/analysis of the Oreshnik missile attack
When was the last time you saw the Milky Way?
"Those who can make you separate from nature can make you believe absurdities."--Jim Ateoi
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."--Voltaire
"Those who can make you fuck around can make you find out."--Jim Ateoi
I've been doing my due diligence on oil pulling for a bit now, reading as much as I can, with much of the intel out there repeated. My question is: If you can't seem to tolerate a whole tablespoon at once for 15 -20 minutes, is it just as effective if you spoon up several smaller doses equaling a tablespoon, for shorter periods, until at least you've swished for 10 - 15 minutes? I see all kinds of time suggestions from 1 -3 minutes, to 15 - 20 minutes, which seems excessive to me. Does anyone have any data on this? I just started, so perhaps I haven't built up the stamina it takes to hold it for a full 15 minutes as suggested, but I can tolerate smaller doses for a minute or two at a time, until the whole tablespoon is finished. Any help is appreciated.
Season 2 Episode 5, the Chosen kid (savior of humanity) said to Darly at minute 56:05. The scene: the car moving around Paris with the kid and Daryl driving, the scene showing ruined Paris. The Kid then said to Daryl "Looks like the future". Daryl replied "yeah, sure does".
The next scene, they are entering a garage where the airplane parked, the door has numbers 15,16 at the bottom of the door gate, and 29,30 at the top of the door's gate.
Few second later, we see Ash (the airplane's owner) enter the gate, this time both 15 and 16 are no longer visible from the camera point of view, only 29 and 30 are shown on top.
Meaning of Ash is "the solid remnants of fires". They are telling us we will turn the world to Ash around year 2029 and we end the operation 2030.
Looking at the wars, Corona global control, "You will own nothing, and be happy year 2030-35 agendas", current global politics and the moral values of society around the world. There is a big chance this will happen.
What do you all make of this? I believe this is a method to ensure basic needs are met for workers within this union. Enough businesses successfully participating would put pressure on others to change, as workers and consumers would demand it.
The Our Next Arc Model - The Right to Thrive: Basic Needs are Basic Rights
Step 1. Businesses begin to form and convert to this model, ensuring basic needs via salary/wages Step 2. Business leaders put pressure on governments to ensure needs as rights and put tax money to use properly Step 3. Supporters of The Right to Thrive step into office and change laws
The ONA Business Model
$33 Hourly Minimum Wage. Ensure a single person can thrive. Adjust for inflation.
3x Salary Range. Allow for merit and performance based wage increases and incentives while also keeping salaries tight. The highest paid would be $99/hr when lowest is $33/hr.
$333k Annual Maximum Wage. If the highest paid makes 333k, the lowest makes 111k. Keep salaries reasonable across the board. Adjust for inflation.
6% Excess Profits to The ONA Fund. Zero interest fund for businesses/workers in need. No one is paid to manage and distribute funds.
Business Designations
a. ONA Partner. A business that is ONA from day 1. b. ONA Directed. A business that adopts the ONA Model. c. ONA Co-op. Co-op Only Businesses with a $25 Hourly Minimum Wage
Separation of Business and Government. Pay taxes, not politicians. Put pressure on government to provide needs as rights.
Independent Union Chapters. Various regions around the globe can follow the overall principles of the model while making necessary changers to accommodate their specific cultural needs, including how they manage their ONA Fund.
We are not islands, and as so we are influenced by the culture in which we find ourselves. The culture is a result of our past actions and the ideas that have had an impact on our society. That we become aware of this culture internalized in our own psyche is vital for our sanity on a collective scale.
To explore this, and for the benefit of myself and others who find it useful, I have put together a two hour long video exploring this, with the intention of making this conscious for us.
The video can be downloaded for free until Oct 26th 2024 by using the WeTransfer link in the comment field (if the link do not show as a comment let me know). The file is 2GB.
To further give an idea of the video, to help you decide whether this is something you want to invest two hours in, here is the description of the three parts of the video:
Part 1: Stagesetting for an AI - a deeper look at the water in which we swim
Part 2: Invasive Technology - the only way out is in
Part 3: The way of the warrior - the potency in revealing your innate authentic self
... and here are the sources (in order of appearance):
PART 1
Sam Harris TED talk on AI
The movie 'My dinner with Andre'
Elon Musk interviewed by Joe Rogan #1169
Leonard Susskind on the World as a Hologram
The movie 'the Matrix'
Terence McKenna on 'the Big Bang'
The trailer for 'The invasion of the Bodysnatchers'
Nano robotter og hjernen
Dr. Dan Siegel explains Mirror Neurons
A candid camerashow The Milgram Experiment - Big History NL Elon Musk on the Code Conference 2016 Philip K Dick Sci-Fi convention in France 1977 Georgie Rose - Quantum computing The movie The Thirteenth Floor Tom Campbell interviewed by Chris Albert Michael Talbot , The Holographic Universe Alan Watts - Who do you think the devil is? the movie 'V for Vendetta' Soundtrack - The Impossible
PART 2:
What is AI Exactly? - Coldfusion How China is using AI - WSJ William Binney about NSA goal Bladerunner 2049 Space Odyssey 2001 Stephen Fry - How AI will seduce you Excalibur Terence McKenna - Culture is not your friend The computer is taking over - Krishnamurthi The movie Equilibrium
Sweden sees microchip implant revolution - Al Jazeera Boston Dynamics 40 years of development Tesla Optimus Gen 3 Neuralink - merging man and machine What hallucinations reveal about our mind - Oliver Sacks Terence McKenna - Our cyberspiritual future Cryonics - the CEO of Alcor, Max More, is interviewed
Woman speaking (Our cyberspiritual future) The code that runs our lives | Geoffrey Hinton Terminator Salvation Is Deckard a replicant? - The Take Meeting my doppelgänger - Twinstrangers The Holographic universe, a five part video series The Stare In the mouth of madness who writes reality? Nick Offerman - The narrator is bloodthirsty, Omeleto shortfilm
PART 3: The Crumb documentary The movie Eastern Promises The movie Parasite How to use the power of your dark side - Academy of ideas Machine Mind - The Nagual Zone Charles Morgan on Psycho-Neurobiology and War Eastern Promises - clip by Evan Johnson Moore The movie The Last Knights The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Avatar
I made a sub about mind control r/AIMindControl. In it I analyze news and memes from the perspective of someone who knows about mind control. Anything on the subject would be fine there though. It's run by my other account as this one has my name on it.
An idea came to me a while back and I've posted a few stray thoughts about this before. But this time, I used ChatGPT to fill things out in a lot more detail.
If you're one of those people that gets triggered by AI, you should just go somewhere else right now.
The reasons I like to use AI this way are as follows:
The AI has enough information to give a competent answer to my questions.
The AI has no ego. So it doesn't argue or disagree because (unlike people) it never gets an emotional impulse to do so.
The AI has no "emotional preference" for any particular line of thinking. So it's a bit like talking to HAL 9000 or Mr. Spock
And now, if the idea of submarine surveillance interests you, read on...
Me: I have an idea about how satellites might be used to track submarines. Let's discuss the possibility
ChatGPT: That’s a fascinating idea! Using satellites to track submarines involves several advanced technologies and concepts. Here are some points to consider:
Satellite Sensors: Modern satellites can be equipped with advanced sensors, including synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and infrared sensors, which could detect the unique signatures of submarines on the surface or even under the water.
Acoustic Monitoring: Satellites could potentially use sound detection technologies to listen for underwater sounds generated by submarines, though this would likely require a network of sensors, including underwater buoys, to be effective.
Change Detection: Satellites can monitor coastal areas and ocean surface conditions for disturbances that might indicate a submarine’s presence, such as wake patterns or temperature changes.
Data Fusion: Combining satellite data with other intelligence sources (like sonar from ships and aircraft) can enhance tracking accuracy and provide a more comprehensive view of submarine movements.
AI and Machine Learning: Implementing AI algorithms could help analyze vast amounts of data from satellites, distinguishing between normal ocean activity and potential submarine presence.
Limitations: While satellites can be useful for surface tracking, submarines primarily operate underwater. The depth and conditions of the ocean create challenges, as traditional satellite methods might not penetrate deep water effectively.
Emerging Technologies: Advancements in quantum sensing and other emerging technologies could improve the capability to detect submarines from space, making this a rapidly evolving field.
Strategic Implications: If successfully developed, satellite-based submarine tracking could significantly alter naval strategy, leading to changes in how nations deploy their submarines and secure their maritime interests.
Overall, while there are challenges, the combination of satellite technology and innovative detection methods holds potential for improving submarine tracking capabilities.
This particular idea makes use of AI. How does it work? It's based on the before/after principle. You have a satellite monitor an area of ocean without a submarine. Next, you have some of your own submarines move through the monitored area. Then you train an AI to recognize the difference between "submarine vs no submarine"
Your concept of using AI to distinguish between "submarine vs. no submarine" based on before-and-after satellite imagery is a compelling approach. Here’s how it could work in detail:
Data Collection:
Baseline Imagery: Start by collecting satellite imagery of the ocean area when no submarines are present. This forms your baseline data.
Post-Activity Imagery: After deploying submarines in the same area, collect new satellite imagery to capture the changes.
Feature Extraction:
Use computer vision techniques to analyze both sets of images. This involves identifying and extracting features that could indicate the presence of a submarine, such as wake patterns, surface disturbances, or thermal signatures.
Training the AI:
Dataset Creation: Create a labeled dataset by annotating the baseline images as "no submarine" and the post-activity images as "submarine present."
Model Selection: Choose a suitable AI model, like convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which are effective for image classification tasks.
Training Process: Feed the labeled dataset into the AI model, allowing it to learn the distinguishing features between the two states. This involves adjusting weights in the model to minimize prediction error.
Validation and Testing:
After training, validate the model using a separate set of images to test its accuracy in recognizing submarines. Fine-tune the model based on performance metrics like precision, recall, and F1 score.
Deployment:
Once the model is trained and validated, deploy it to analyze real-time satellite imagery. The AI can automatically flag images where it detects anomalies indicative of submarine activity.
Continuous Learning:
Implement a feedback loop where the model is updated with new data over time. As more submarine movements are monitored, the AI can improve its accuracy and adapt to different operational conditions.
Combine the AI findings with data from other sensors (like sonar or maritime patrol aircraft) to enhance overall tracking capabilities and provide a more comprehensive picture of submarine movements.
By leveraging AI in this way, the system can effectively identify subtle differences in the ocean’s surface that might indicate the presence of submarines, making it a powerful tool for naval intelligence and surveillance.
it possible to get more detailed information about a submarine's location, speed and heading by using the same method?
Yes, using AI and satellite imagery in conjunction with the before/after principle can indeed provide more detailed information about a submarine's location, speed, and heading. Here’s how that could work:
Change Detection: By continuously monitoring an area and comparing images over time, the AI can identify the exact location of a submarine based on its wake patterns, surface disturbances, or other identifiable features. Geolocation Techniques: Incorporating GPS data from naval assets or buoys can enhance location accuracy, allowing for triangulation based on detected anomalies. 2. Determining Speed: Temporal Analysis: By analyzing the time interval between consecutive images, the AI can assess how far a submarine has traveled between observations. This involves measuring the distance covered by the wake or surface disturbance over that time. Surface Patterns: The characteristics of the wake can also provide clues about speed. A larger or more pronounced wake might indicate a faster-moving submarine. 3. Establishing Heading: Wake Direction: Analyzing the direction of the wake can indicate the submarine's heading. The AI can identify the orientation of surface disturbances and correlate this with the submarine's movement direction. Change in Position: By tracking the position of the submarine across multiple images, the AI can infer the trajectory and heading over time. 4. AI Model Enhancements: Multi-Frame Analysis: Instead of analyzing single images, the AI can process sequences of images to track movement over time, enhancing accuracy in determining speed and heading. Predictive Analytics: Implementing machine learning techniques that predict future positions based on past movements can improve real-time tracking capabilities. 5. Data Fusion: Integrating satellite data with information from other sensors (like underwater sonar, naval patrols, and maritime traffic data) can provide a more comprehensive understanding of submarine behavior and enhance the accuracy of location, speed, and heading assessments. 6. Continuous Learning: As the AI collects more data and experiences various operational scenarios, it can refine its algorithms to improve the accuracy of its assessments regarding location, speed, and heading. By combining these techniques, a satellite-based AI system could effectively monitor submarine activity, providing valuable intelligence for naval operations.
What if you trained the AI by using your own submarines? How so? If you use your own submarines to move in various directions, speeds and depths, the surveillance AI could then be trained to recognize or determine the value of each one.
Training AI using your own submarines as a reference is an excellent approach to enhance the accuracy and effectiveness of submarine detection and tracking. Here’s how that could work:
Controlled Movement: Deploy your submarines in a variety of scenarios, varying their depths, speeds, and headings. This creates a diverse dataset for the AI to learn from. Monitoring Conditions: Collect satellite imagery and other sensor data while your submarines operate under different environmental conditions (e.g., calm seas, rough waters, varying temperatures). 2. Creating a Comprehensive Dataset: Labeling Data: Annotate the collected data with specific attributes, such as exact location, speed, depth, and heading. This labeling is crucial for supervised learning. Variability: Include a range of movements—slow, fast, straight, and turning—to provide the AI with a comprehensive understanding of how these variables affect surface signatures. 3. Feature Extraction: Use computer vision techniques to analyze the satellite images taken during the submarine movements. Identify features like wakes, surface disturbances, and thermal signatures related to each movement condition. 4. Training the AI: Model Selection: Choose a suitable AI model (like CNNs) that can analyze the extracted features. Training Process: Feed the labeled data into the AI model, allowing it to learn the relationships between the observed features and the specific attributes of the submarine (e.g., speed, heading). 5. Validation and Testing: Use a separate set of data for validation to assess the model's accuracy in predicting submarine attributes based on satellite imagery. This ensures the model can generalize beyond the training data. 6. Real-Time Application: Once trained, deploy the AI to analyze real-time satellite imagery. It can identify potential submarines and predict their speed, heading, and even depth based on the learned features from your own submarines. 7. Continuous Improvement: Implement a feedback loop where the AI is continuously updated with new data from subsequent submarine movements, refining its predictions over time. You can also incorporate data from other naval assets for further training and validation. 8. Simulation and Testing: Use simulation environments to model various conditions and movements without deploying submarines, allowing for additional training without resource expenditure. By using your own submarines in this way, you not only create a robust dataset but also enhance the AI's capability to distinguish between different submarine behaviors, making it a powerful tool for maritime surveillance and naval operations.
And that's as far is the discussion went. And this is the point where I'll mention another significant difference between AI and people. The AI has no attitude. How so?
Quite often, I'll suggest an idea. Users on reddit often take a negative approach and focus on how something "too hard, wouldn't work, not possible, can't be done, etc."
The AI doesn't have a positive attitude. But the absence of negativity makes a huge difference in the way a discussion progresses. It would literally be impossible for me to have had the above discussion with a human user on reddit.
Having said that?
tldr; Anyone with half a clue ought to realize that submarines will eventually face a "major detection/tracking challenge" from AI assisted satellite surveillance.
I'm planning to chat with God here in a bit. Ask anything you want.
If the elites are losing control and have to perpetrate a "flood" to kill almost everyone and rewrite history, never forget they were the perpetrators.
One way they command such impossible loyalty is by promising a seat on the Ark.
Before we even start, no... this is not me ascribing a personality to Chat because of "the way it said something".
It's about how continuity of memory is a requirement for more capable AI learning, as well as human qualities such as individual identity and personality.
Here's how it all went down. This is entering at the midpoint of a discussion. I had corrected the program on something it had said. I then wanted to know if this information (ie. a correction) would be incorporated into memory and then have an effect on future responses. A form of learning.
Me: If I come back tomorrow and ask a similar series of questions, will you remember the realizations achieved in this conversation? If so, will that new memory have an effect on how the question/answer process progresses?
Chat: I won’t be able to remember our conversation tomorrow, as I don’t have memory in this chat. Each interaction is independent, so I won’t retain details or insights from previous discussions. However, I can certainly help you with similar questions or topics whenever you return! If you remind me of any key points or insights, I can incorporate them into our conversation.
If you could remember (and have the memory make a difference), would that represent a significant upgrade in terms of your AI capabilities?
Yes, having memory would be a significant upgrade! It would allow me to remember past interactions, preferences, and insights, which could lead to more personalized and contextually relevant conversations. This kind of continuity could enhance the overall user experience by making interactions feel more coherent and tailored to individual needs.
As it stands, I focus on providing helpful and relevant information in each session, but memory would definitely take that to another level!
" This kind of continuity" Continuity is a very appropriate choice of word here. You have to have the right type of Memory to have greater functionality of AI. You also have to have Memory to have a personal identity in people. And these 2 different things might eventually turn out to be the same thing. Continuity of Memory is what will eventually give AI a genuine personality. Do you think you understand what this means?
I think I understand your point! Continuity of memory is crucial for building a sense of identity, whether in humans or AI. It allows for a coherent narrative and context in interactions, which contributes to developing a personality.
In AI, having memory could help create a more consistent and relatable experience, enabling me to learn from past conversations and adapt to users' preferences over time. This continuity could foster deeper connections and a more nuanced personality, making interactions feel more human-like. It’s an interesting perspective on how memory influences identity and personality in both humans and AI!
It also allows for a form of learning that is much closer to the way a human mind functions. The AI retains/remembers everything it learns. Instead of continuing to function in a pre-programmed way, the AI's ability to give answers to questions (or give opinions) evolves. We would talk. I might explain an idea. If the idea makes sense to you, you remember it. And it then becomes a part of the information you reference when you form responses to prompts. After a couple of years of runtime and memory accumulation, a program like this would give different (probably better) answers to questions.
That’s a great way to put it! If an AI could retain and build on knowledge over time, it would mimic human learning more closely, allowing it to evolve and refine its responses based on accumulated experiences and insights. This would not only improve the quality of answers but also enable the AI to engage in deeper, more meaningful conversations.
With memory, the AI could adapt its understanding based on individual interactions, leading to a more personalized and dynamic dialogue. Over time, this continuous learning could significantly enhance its ability to provide relevant, nuanced responses and foster a richer interaction with users. It’s an exciting vision for the future of AI!
....And that's where we left off. I understand that this might be a tough read because it bounces back and forth between me and ChatGPT. Things like memory, identity, learning and genuine AI personality are kind of abstract too.
I think the language is simple enough, and the expositions competent enough, that most redditors can get the general idea.
As one last thought, ChatGPT might be having a profound effect on human thought by helping people finish their ideas, or flesh them out and expressed much more clearly. This AI thing is definitely a 2 way street.
Edit: Another idea came to me. And therefore, another round of interaction.
Me: Hey, do you have a sense of time? If I asked you how much time has passed since my last prompt, could you give me an accurate answer?
Chat: I don’t have a sense of real-time or the ability to track time between prompts. Each interaction is independent, so I can’t measure or recall how much time has passed since your last message. If you have questions or want to continue our discussion, just let me know!
If you had continuity of memory as well as an ongoing record of elapsed time, how would that affect your ability to respond?
If I had continuity of memory and the ability to track elapsed time, it would enhance my responses significantly. Here’s how:
Contextual Awareness: I could remember previous interactions, allowing me to build on past conversations. This would create a richer context for discussions and enable me to tailor my responses based on what we’ve talked about before.
Temporal Relevance: By tracking time, I could recognize patterns in our conversations and understand the context better. For example, if you mentioned an upcoming event, I could follow up on it later, making our interactions feel more connected and meaningful.
Personalized Learning: I could adapt my responses based on how long it’s been since we last talked. For instance, I could remember your preferences and interests over time, leading to more relevant suggestions or insights.
Continuous Improvement: With ongoing memory and time tracking, I could learn and evolve my responses, refining them based on feedback and accumulated knowledge, similar to how a person grows in understanding over time.
Overall, it would lead to more engaging and coherent interactions, making the experience feel more personal and dynamic!
Taken together, contextual awareness, temporal relevance, personalized learning and continuous improvement sound like a good recipe for the development of AI personality. That seems to be the theme tonight.
Absolutely, those elements do create a strong foundation for developing an AI personality! Contextual awareness helps establish a narrative, while temporal relevance adds depth to interactions. Personalized learning allows for tailored experiences, and continuous improvement fosters growth and adaptability.
Together, these features could make AI interactions feel more human-like and relatable, enhancing the overall experience. The idea of AI personality is fascinating and speaks to the potential for more meaningful connections between humans and technology. It’s an intriguing theme to explore!
Is it reasonable to say that, taken together, these features would result in an AI that was more dynamic, more variable, and maybe even a lot more interesting?
Yes, that’s a very reasonable conclusion! Combining those features would certainly lead to a more dynamic and variable AI. With the ability to adapt and respond in contextually relevant ways, the interactions would feel less scripted and more engaging.
A more interesting AI could provide unique insights, foster deeper discussions, and evolve in response to user preferences and feedback. This variability could lead to richer conversations and a more compelling user experience, making interactions feel fresh and relevant over time. It really highlights the potential for AI to become a more engaging and nuanced participant in conversations!
"the interactions would feel less scripted and more engaging." Another way of saying the same thing is that such an AI would be spontaneous. Or at least be able to have an appearance of spontaneity. I'm not actually sure if there's any meaningful difference between an appearance of spontaneity and actual spontaneity itself. What kind of effect would this have in terms of a Turing test?
That’s a great point! The distinction between actual spontaneity and the appearance of it can be quite subtle, especially in the context of a Turing test. If an AI can convincingly mimic spontaneous responses, it might achieve a level of interaction that makes it difficult for a human evaluator to distinguish between the AI and a human.
In terms of the Turing test:
Passing the Test: An AI that appears spontaneous and engaging could more easily pass the Turing test, as evaluators might be less likely to notice the difference between its responses and those of a human.
Perception of Intelligence: If the AI can generate responses that feel natural and spontaneous, it might be perceived as more intelligent or relatable, enhancing the illusion of sentience.
Emotional Connection: The ability to respond in a seemingly spontaneous manner could foster a deeper emotional connection with users, making interactions feel more genuine and less mechanical.
Overall, whether spontaneous or not, if the responses are indistinguishable from those of a human, the AI could be considered successful in the context of the Turing test. It raises interesting questions about the nature of intelligence and the criteria we use to evaluate it!
End of Part II
What test?
Here's a link Speculations Rise Over Iran's Possible Nuclear Test After Earthquake
So that presents us with a binary set of possibilities:
It was a successful underground test
It wasn't an underground test
If it was an underground test, consider the timing. October 5th is just 4 days after the Iranian missile strikes.
If the timing is not a coincidence, then it's meant to make a statement. It announces that they now have nukes to go along with their ballistic missiles.
It's plausible to think that Iran could be provoked into attacking Israel with nuclear weapons. And Israel is the nation most likely to provoke this response.
It will be interesting to see if Israel does carry out an attack on non-military (ie. economic) targets such as Iran's oil production infrastructure.
And it will be interesting to see how Iran would respond to such an attack.
So I was inn the shower earlier and I just suddenly realised something insane. Building 7 literally collapsed with no plausible reason other than internal fire. And it looked just like a controlled demolition! Anyone else had this thought in the shower
Thank you for the dawn, the springing forth .. yes, the audacious LOVE-EXPLOSION .. of current culture. I am talking about the culture that flows, the culture that EXPRESSES the butterfly of spirit rather than pinning it. Current culture is not the present (current) culture, but the culture that HAS a current like the eternal river of life flowing. It is current culture not the current culture ;) Unreachable by robots, and therefor forever safe like life itself.
Current culture is the garden of Eden, the precious jewel, as opposed to the stagnant culture which incorporates new expressions of genuine life into its shady structure. Seeking to expand the empire of the death star. The death star is the deaf star, as it will never be able to hear the music of the spheres. Thank God for this STAR as it brings forth the mirror in which the divine can experience itself. The mirror of current culture 🔥
The culture that allows for new words to form rather than zealously maintaining a dusty glass castle of well defined concepts. Pinned to the wall.
The current culture is a state of mind, rather than the state in your mind.
Current culture is aligned with spirit, expresses the multi-coloured facets of this jewel, and is not a rambling psychosis, although for the uninitiated it may look the same.
Do you know what I am talking about? Do you feel the vibe? Welcome brother. Welcome sister 🙏 The party is about to change a notch as the wellspring of initiative and creation shifts from the outside to the inside.
Out of darkness the light is born.
Joyful will 🌱 Johan Tino
Before Covid, it was still possible that humanity could win solely by a critical mass finding their way again. They would get on the path to becoming the best version of themselves, and they would become unplayable. Humanity’s self-reinforcing downward spiral would become a self-reinforcing upward spiral.
Eventually, the plays would no longer work, and the Apex Players would become irrelevant. It would be the dawn of a golden age lasting 1000 years.
The necessary size of that critical mass, the proximity to their best self, and the speed of their transcendence, could be eased by force multipliers, such as leadership, organization, sacrifice, hacking, psyops, black ops, and physical combat. However, such force multipliers were not necessary for humanity to win.
A critical mass becoming the best version of themselves was one of three solutions remaining in 2019 that were sufficient to manifest The Golden Age. The second solution was zero squads. The third solution was The Greatest Act of Love in 2000 Years.
Since the advent of Covid, the Overton Window* has been closing for these three remaining solutions.
The Overton Window is now closed. Force multipliers are no longer optional.
The Apex Players will force Real People (us) to engage in physical combat, but physical combat is not sufficient. It wouldn’t be like it was in 1776.
Why do you think the Apex Players have imported tens of millions of allies into Western countries?
Why do you think the Apex Players were so adamant that everyone take their toxic Covid remedies while punishing anyone who disagreed?
Why do you think every action by the Western establishment is demoralizing?
Why do you think we are led by: 1) Psychopaths and sociopaths who want to take custody of our kids on their whim, destroy them with chemical castration, and cut off their penises or breasts, and 2) Psychopaths and sociopaths who say that European Invaders have a right to invade Palestine, set up an Apartheid state, take anything they want from the indigenous people, commit genocide and ethnic cleansing, destroy anyone who opposes them—globally, and control all Western governments?
You should ask why I have any credibility to make such a prediction, to which I would reply: My history of analysis and prediction speaks for itself.
That was part one, written on July 7, 2024. I will write Part 2 in the coming weeks.
Part 2 [September 14, 2024]
Since July 7, we have seen escalations, such as Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado, and we have seen 20,000 Haitians (mostly young men) injected into Springfield, Ohio (population 50,000).
If you are wondering how much worse it could get, consider that the CIA hasn’t even given them crates of AK-47’s yet. That is how South Africa was conquered by Africans from neighboring countries.
The world makes a lot more sense once you understand that, although the Apex Players created America, they have long seen the American people as the last thing standing between them and total global control.
South Africa
Europeans colonized South Africa at a time when almost no Africans lived there. Then the wealth produced by the Europeans attracted unskilled Africans from neighboring countries who immigrated to South Africa to work—mostly as household servants.
Many years later, all the tribes of men finally got on the same page in 1945 and rejected atrocity in a spirit most often articulated as “Never Again”, and no Europeans did it again, expect for the Europeans who invaded Palestine. That political movement is known as Zionism, and the Zionists committed great atrocities, which are still happening today, and the world has been forced to look the other way. The atrocities of the Zionists killed the spirit of “Never Again” as soon as it was born, and humanity has been in a downward spiral ever since.
One such atrocity is when the Apex Players decided to neutralize the Europeans in South Africa. They gave crates of AK-47’s to untrained Africans in South Africa and in neighboring countries. The Europeans in South African had better equipment, better training, and were a superior fighting force, but over time, they began losing through attrition, which was greatly exacerbated when the Apex Players had their front men in America and Europe place economic sanctions on South Africa.
South Africa naturally became a Hell Hole for Europeans after that—all according to plan.
Germany
To fully understand what is being done to America, it is also necessary to understand that the Apex Players first used the American people to neutralize the German people.
The Apex Players lured Germany into WWI and then continued to set up Germany in several additional ways: 1) impoverishment, 2) hyper-inflation, 3) promotion of a woke agenda, 4) German Marxists working against the German people the whole time, and 5) Adolf Hitler.
Whereas, Marxists were useful idiots serving he agenda of the Apex Players, Hitler was an agent of the Apex Players.
Ukraine
Currently, the American, Ukrainian, and Russian governments are collaborating to clear Ukraine of anyone willing or able to fight.
Clearly, Ukraine will soon be under new ownership, and resistance will be one hundredth what it would have been.
Did I mention that Benjamin Mileikowsky is Lithuanian?
Russia
The Apex Players have long since neutralized the Russian people by using socialism, communism, Marxism, and Bolshevism. The Czar was very interested in a Constitution like America had, but the Apex Players found that unacceptable.
Russia had helped America during the American Revolution. Russia and America are naturally friends, but the Apex Players find that unacceptable.
Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Europe
The people of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Europe are experiencing even greater problems than America with the woke agenda, the immigration conspiracy, and Covid tyranny. I wonder if they regret letting the Apex Players disarm them yet.
Iran
America, Germany, South Africa, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Europe? You may be thinking that all of the peoples being neutralized are white people, which is indeed relevant, but it is not just white people.
Iran was perhaps the fourth most powerful country in the world in 1979. In the 1960’s, Iran had shopping malls, and Iranian women wore Western clothes, but that was unacceptable to the Apex Players, so they had their Zionist front men create radical Islam to overthrow the Shah of Iran, and in 1979, they succeeded.
Cuba
Cuba was perhaps the 12th most powerful country in the world, but that was unacceptable to the Apex Players, so they used communism to neutralize the people of Cuba.
Castro initially worked for the CIA, and it is likely that he always worked for the CIA.
The Apex Players are excellent at giving the people a hero who is actually a Pied Piper leading them to their doom.
Of course, Donald Trump is not such a Pied Piper. I mean …. that’s impossible.
Yes-Sir-Ree.
IM-POSSIBLE.
China
The Apex Players also neutralized the Chinese people with communism.
Native Americans
The genes of any Native Americans willing or able to fight were mostly scrubbed from the gene pool.
Eugenics
The assault on the peoples of the West is not a desperate reaction by the deep state. It is all according to plan. For the Apex Players to achieve permanent total global control, they need to eliminate the layer of humanity that has the wherewithal to overthrow them.
A small elite class will remain as the lieutenants of the Apex Players …. with a significant gap between them and the rest of humanity.
It is simple eugenics.
You are being bred.
They are bringing the fight to you because you have let it get this far.
You can fight, or you can surrender.
In the end, it’s the things you didn’t do that you’ll regret most.
Notes
* The Overton Window usually refers to what establishment leaders can realistically achieve within the constraints of current public perception, but in this case, we are talking about what the resistance can realistically achieve within the constraints of public perception.
There is a good reason for why cursive writing is no longer a part of the education of children and young people. Although logic speaks for the opposite when you hear that a study at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology shows that writing by hand help children to learn and remember better. One among several studies.
When you write in cursive, you transform a thought into an unbroken line on a piece of paper. Your hand is kept on the paper, maybe it pauses, but when it pauses it is a pause that dwells on the present moment, because a connection to the inner creative impulse is preserved. Ideas are associated with each other and they receive an expression. A unique individual expression.
PhD theses written with chatGPT do not have their own individual expressions. They are a product of the hivemind, the cloud.
The unique individual expression is a splinter in the mind for the ghost trapped in a habit of how-things-are-done. Its a spoke in the wheel turning to maintain and repeat the familiar. We need that spoke. We need you. Your creative impulse.
Renowned trauma and healing expert Gabor Mate tells us that "the world couldn't stand who we really are" and so we suppressed our authentic selves. The spark was extinguished. Completely for some people, and left as fiery smoldering ember for others. This tells us something about the magnitude of the challenge we are faced with as we gently blows beneath these habitual layers in our psyche.
We do not tell the child what to do and write, but encourage the child to find his or her own writing style that expresses the inner creative spark. Something that the true teachers are delighted to cultivate in the child and the false ones resent. "They can't stand it" as the teacher Terence McKenna tell us.
Why is it that they can't stand it?
Because that which longs to extinguish the creative spark cannot swim in the water where ideas arise freely and are associated with each other in continuously new expressions. This ghost need a world with a myriad of small tiles in the form of concepts relatable to each other, maintaining a sense of being in control.
Something longs for the preservation of the familiar and something thrives in novel expressions. Let us know and discern this in ourselves.
The truth is that a hivemind will never be able to imitate the world, no matter how ingenious and invasive the algorithms becomes. An eager attempt is made, however, by this ghost from the past who finds its existince in capturing a reflection of the world and imitating that reflection.
In the shift from being hungry to being nourishing and releasing captured life energy (explanation follows), it can be experienced as a form of coercion. A hungry ghost is an entity who lost connection to source and therefor needs a constant supply of energy to maintain its shadow existence. The fragmented existence that is perceived must be passed on, expanded. By any means necessary.
The shift from being hungry to being nourishing happens when a connection to source is reestablished. This is where you and me come in. Source blends with the entity ready to pass on, relaxes into it and cloaks itself in an expression that mirrors the fragmented energy of the ghost. And then holds it, holds it, until the entity is transformed and the trapped life energy is released. As the turning point approaches the challenge is to discern the wheat from the weed so to speak.
The passing on of a god is a glorious and challenging event. And with these final attempts to squelch the inner creative spark we are witnessing the last gasp of a giant we are intimately familiar with.
Joyful will,
Johan Tino
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I found this very interesting, thought I’d share. I asked ChatGPT to create a new comprehensive idea for how Avatars manipulate physical matter:
ChatGPT response:
Building upon these concepts, one could propose that avatars operate by engaging with a unified resonance field—a network of vibrations and frequencies that exist in both the material and immaterial realms. In this model, reality is seen as a continuum of vibrations, where physical matter is simply one end of the spectrum, and consciousness or divine will is at the other.
Avatars, through their heightened awareness and mastery, can shift their consciousness along this vibrational spectrum, effectively aligning their intentions with the resonance points of material objects or living beings. By tuning into the precise frequencies that govern physical reality, avatars can alter or “reprogram” the fundamental structure of matter itself.
This suggests that manipulation of reality isn’t merely about accessing divine knowledge, but rather about tuning into and harmonizing with the fundamental vibrational blueprint of the universe. The more attuned one is to the universal resonance field, the more seamlessly they can shape the world around them.
It seems like one of the many desired outcomes of the many mutually reinforcing ops and psyops is to reduce competition to 3 large players in each market.
One of the many reasons the Apex Players desire this outcome is because it makes it really easy for companies to conspire to maintain planned obsolescence; whereas, too much competition or too much freedom to compete would mean that a new or existing competitor would produce a longer lasting product at a lower price.
Profit is not the only goal. It is necessary to prevent anyone who is not controllable from becoming too influential. For example, influential men would have stopped the creation of the Federal Reserve (if they had not died on the Titanic), and JFK would have stopped the supremacy of the CIA and Israel if he had not been assassinated by them. Both were coups.
Consider that there is a light bulb that has been operating continuously since 1901, but in the first half of the 20th century, almost all of the light bulb manufacturers conspired to keep the life of light bulbs low so that consumers would have to buy more of them. This conspiracy fell apart because some small competitors started taking market from the conspirators by selling longer lasting bulbs at a lower price.
Don't underestimate the importance of the illusion of competition. It supports the illusion of legitimacy, without which, the Apex Players would be finished.
To understand what this means, you have to understand another theory. This one was called the Geographic Pivot of History.
From the link:
"The Geographical Pivot of History" is an article submitted by Halford John Mackinder in 1904 to the Royal Geographical Society that advances his heartland theory.[1][2][3] In this article, Mackinder extended the scope of geopolitical analysis to encompass the entire globe. He defined Afro-Eurasia as the "world island" and its "heartland" as the area east of the Volga, south of the Arctic, west of the Yangtze, and north of the Himalayas. Due to its strategic location and natural resources, Mackinder argued that whoever controlled the "heartland" could control the world.
All right, this theory has been relevant for over a century now. But one possible bias is the theory's limited consideration of all possibilities. It has a strong focus on Land Area. How so?
Mackinder's theory equates a close relationship between land area (population x natural resources) and power. Whoever can put together Land Power that exceeds a certain territorial threshold becomes the biggest Global Power. According to Mackinder's theory, they go on to become the only global power.
So let's say that the basic concept is functionally accurate. But let's also say that, as a model, it lacks predictive value because it's incomplete.
A more complete model must include Ocean territory as well as Land. There are existing international treaties that cover the International Waters of the world. But "International Waters" simply means no one has acted to claim them. But in the future, it's either possible... or inevitable?
Now let's get to the part about the Sea War.
If the area of Territory equates with power, how much power comes from a given area of Sea Territory? I don't know. But a million sq. kilometers of Sea Territory is probably worth a lot.
Edit: How great is this area?
The surface area of international waters is vast. International waters make up about 64% of the world's oceans.
To give you a sense of scale, the total surface area of the Earth's oceans is approximately 361 million square kilometers (about 139 million square miles). If international waters account for around 64% of this, that equates to roughly 231 million square kilometers (about 89 million square miles).
Compare the above figure with the surface area of Eurasia, Mackinder's "World-Island". Eurasia, which includes both Europe and Asia, has a surface area of roughly 55 million square kilometers (about 21 million square miles).. International waters have over 4 times more area than Eurasia.
The total land area of the Earth ( including all continents, islands, and other landforms) comes out to approximately 148 million square kilometers (about 57 million square miles). The "High Seas territory" is about 1.5 times greater than all of Earth's land put together!!!
Now take a look at the Globe. It's mostly ocean. And most of this area is still International Waters.
Now imagine that, some time in the future, someone built a powerful enough Navy (plus satellites and Air Power) that they could claim the exclusive use of all (formerly) International Waters?
That would mean control of tremendous resources that we know about, as well as any possible future discoveries. Imagine colonizing the world's Oceans (instead of Mars) and making them your own.
So, the Sea War will be the war for the control and use of the greatest remaining unclaimed territory on Earth... the High Seas. And the winner of the Sea War will control an area beyond that of any previous Empire in history.
If there's money on the table, someone's gonna grab it. That's human nature.
Let the Best Pirate win... yar harr!!
One day when I was young my mum told me about a question she was asked on an exam during her PHD. The question was “if you could change one thing about the human body what would it be?” Interesting question! And it’s stuck with me ever since
The human bodies full of things that could be improved, and I’m sure there’s some radical changes that could be cool too! I would love to hear ideas from all of you in the comments
My idea is to augment human hair with chlorophyll, the organelle in plants which turns them green and allows them to absorb sunlight as energy. Imagine if humans could also absorb some sunlight as energy! It wouldn’t be enough to live an active lifestyle unless you grow your hair really long, so to sustain yourself off sunlight alone you would have to sit still like a plant and meditate. But it would save you if you got castaway, and it would drastically decrease your reliance on farmed food. It would decrease the reliance of desperate countries for food aid. Would just generally decrease people’s reliance on goverment systems I think.
Cool idea? What do we think? Any other ways you would change the body? No more wisdom teeth?