Re: A new semiconductor that is 1 million times faster than silicon

, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > Interesting. I do think it is possible to reconfigure an atom, say a > carbon atom, so that it assumes electronic properties of almost any other > atom. We can in a sense synthesize Rhenium or any other rare element. > > LC > > On Sunday, Novemb

Re: A new semiconductor ​that is 1 million times faster than silicon​

On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 5:52 AM Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote: *> Interesting. I do think it is possible to reconfigure an atom, say a > carbon atom, so that it assumes electronic properties of almost any other > atom. We can in a sense synthesize Rhenium or any other

Re: NYTimes.com: What History Tells Us About the Feel-Bad Economy

On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 8:37 PM smitra wrote: *> I don't think the US and other major economies will escape a severe > recession next year, because the fundamental problem facing us is that > we're gong cold turkey on the zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) and > quantitative easing (QE). These

A new semiconductor ​that is 1 million times faster than silicon​

In the November 10 2023 issue of the journal Science researchers report on a new type of semiconductor that is one million times faster than any found before and does so at room temperature; it's a compound of Rhenium Chlorine and Selenium (Re6Se8Cl2), if entire chips could be made of this

NYTimes.com: What History Tells Us About the Feel-Bad Economy

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. What History Tells Us About the Feel-Bad Economy Why are voters unhappy about low unemployment and falling inflation?

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 3:12 PM Jason Resch wrote: *> GPS works entirely passively on the receiver side. There would be no > external validation of the GPS coordinates.* > I know, but I don't think it would be very difficult to add that functionality. Or you could have the cell phone providers

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 1:59 PM Jason Resch wrote: *> How does Apple (or whoever is signing the image and its metadata) know > it was taken by an iphone at a particular location?* > Regardless of how the picture was produced, the GPS timestamp created by the GPS people can verify exactly when

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 1:06 PM Jason Resch wrote: >> I don't care if Joe Blow signs it or not with his private key that's on >> his iPhone because I have no reason to trust Mr. Blow. I want the Apple >> Corporation and the people who run the GPS satellites to sign a hash >> function of the

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 11:54 AM Jason Resch wrote: >> I agree, but I think most people, myself included, would trust that the >> entire GPS satellite system is unlikely to be part of some grand conspiracy >> of deception, nor is it likely that the Apple Corporation is stupid enough >> to do so

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

ohn K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> 3ep > > Jason > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 8:14 AM John Clark wrote: > >> Now that AI art is so good it's becoming impossible to determine if a >> photograph is re

Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

Now that AI art is so good it's becoming impossible to determine if a photograph is real or fake, but a new open-source internet protocol called "C2PA" may offer a solution. If camera and smartphone makers agree to do so their products would all have a feature (which I hope you would be allowed to

The whiny billionaire

Donald Trump, the son of a billionaire, believes the world has treated him very* very* *VERY *unfairly. "This is a *very **unfair* trial. *Very, very." * "Judge Curiel is Hispanic, and because of the wall and because of everything that’s going on with Mexico…this is a judge who I believe has

Re: [Extropolis] A Dyson sphere by 2030?

On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 3:31 PM Henrik Ohrstrom wrote: *> Nanosanta or not.* > Unlike time travel or perpetual motion machines. no breakthrough in science is required for Nanosanta or Von Neumann Probes to become a reality, just improved engineering. > *> Traveltime does not go away just

A Dyson sphere by 2030?

I found this paper to be interesting: Large Language Models Understand and Can be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli I also found an interesting prediction by Paul Christiano who is a leading researcher at open AI where GPT-4 was made, on a podcast he estimated

Re: A Theory of Everyone

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 6:14 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > > *Here's the free "Mindscape" podcast* > > > https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/10/30/255-michael-muthukrishna-on-developing-a-theory-of-everyone/ That was extremely interesting, thanks a lot Brent. John K ClarkSee

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson

The new Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is a young earth creationist who believes that the universe is not 13.8 billion years old but is less than 10,000 years old. He was successful in his fight to make Kentucky taxpayers pay 18 million dollars to fund a Noah’s Ark theme park which

There has been a breakthrough in the ability to train networks to be systematic

AI ‘breakthrough’: neural net has human-like ability to generalize language John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at

The World's Smallest Particle Accelerator

In the October 18, 2023 issue of the Journal Nature scientists report they have made the world's smallest particle Accelerator: Coherent nanophotonic electron accelerator

Re: Republican states have a higher murder rate than Democratic states

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 3:48 PM Brent Meeker wrote: * > It's interesting to reflect that when I was a kid (a long time ago) > that band of states across the southeast was known as "the solid south" and > was Democratic and racist. * > That's why I was a Republican for most of my life, but then

NYTimes.com: This Is Your Brain on Crime

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. This Is Your Brain on Crime When perceptions are detached from reality.

How Squeezing Light Reduces Uncertainty in LIGO's Measurements

This new technique will allow LIGO to detect 65% more Black Hole and Neutron Star collisions: How Squeezing Light Reduces Uncertainty in LIGO's Measurements John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis

Re: NYTimes.com: An Industry Insider Drives an Open Alternative to Big Tech’s A.I.

On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 1:01 PM Brent Meeker wrote: * > I don't see how this "openess" will mean much for LLM's. Neural nets > that are trained on enormous data sets are inherently black boxes. It's > impossible to say exactly why they will produce one response and not > another. * > That's

NYTimes.com: An Industry Insider Drives an Open Alternative to Big Tech’s A.I.

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. An Industry Insider Drives an Open Alternative to Big Tech’s A.I. The nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, led by a respected computer scientist who sold his

GPT Updates

It's incredible, important improvements in AI are now regularly occurring on a weekly basis. Latest ChatGPT Update Lets You Do INSANE Things! John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis

Re: AGI by September 2024, maybe March

On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 5:46 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> John, I am discussing this with a couple of people on another board. If > we go for a 2024 AGI, what do you guess will be (high likelihood) of any > impact on us, the peasants?

AGI by September 2024, maybe March

AGI by September 2024, maybe March John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis smm -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To

The Human Brain

Yesterday the journals Science, Science Advances, and Science Translational Medicine, printed 21 articles reporting the results of a 5 year long $375 million federally funded project to map the human brain. The researchers discovered there are 3,300 different types of brain cells in the human

Chinese Quantum Computer Shatters World Record

Yet more evidence that the US policy of preventing Chinese scientists from immigrating or working in the country is not a wise one. Forget Moore's law, yesterday the Journal Physical Review Letters reported that the Chinese Quantum Computer JiuZhang-3 is 1 million times faster than the JiuZhang-1

Re: Trump quote "It’s poisoning the blood of our country"

On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 5:47 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > *> Kindly, remember, you were opposed to Pfizer producing as a Treatment > two-years back, which turned out to be a money maker* > I'm a lifelong capitalist, so from day one I've

Re: Trump quote "It’s poisoning the blood of our country"

On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 3:05 AM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > *I think its fair to say that not all immigrants are wonderful folk, * > True, but not all immigrants are secret agents of the Chinese Communist Party either, some of them are

Trump quote "It’s poisoning the blood of our country"

On September 27, 2023 Trump said this about alien immigrants: “*Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re

AI and interest rates

On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 8:59 AM smitra wrote: > >> GPT-4 was only introduced a few months ago, and right now it's as >> stupid as it's ever going to be. But it's inevitable that a machine >> that is as smart as a man is going to make a huge impact on the economy. > > > *> Yes, I agree. But I do

Exciting Updates on Mind Uploading Technology

Exciting Updates on Mind Uploading Technology John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis 35v -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List"

Re: AI and interest rates

d give us a conversation about LLM's, QC's, and the lot? For, > me, a wee peasant, this is the only way to fly! > > On Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 07:44:34 AM EDT, John Clark < > johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 6:11 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' vi

Re: NYTimes.com: China Is Suffering a Brain Drain. The U.S. Isn’t Exploiting It.

On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 5:50 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > * > most Han scientists, unlike the Wall Streeters, are loyal to their > homeland.* > I don't know how you figure that. Most scientists are apolitical, they just don't want to be

NYTimes.com: China Is Suffering a Brain Drain. The U.S. Isn’t Exploiting It.

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. China Is Suffering a Brain Drain. The U.S. Isn’t Exploiting It. China’s brightest minds, including tech professionals, are emigrating, but many are not heading

Why do MAGA politicians want to cut Ukraine off?

Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman had this to say in today's New York Times, and I think he's absolutely correct: *"Why do MAGA politicians want to cut Ukraine off? The answer is,unfortunately, obvious. Whatever Republican hard-liners may say, they want Putin to win. They view the Putin regime’s

Re: AI and interest rates

On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 6:11 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> Shouldn't simply be AI, but 3D printing and perhaps, the arrival of > Drexler's nanofabricators?* I agree, AI will accelerate everything. *> If it's just AI, it'll will be

Re: AI and interest rates

On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 9:26 AM smitra wrote: *> Productivity increase due to AI has yet to materialize. Systems > like ChatGPT are not all that useful for the economy* That's because GPT-4 was only introduced a few months ago, and right now it's as stupid as it's ever going to be. But it's

NYTimes.com: Russia May Be Planning to Test a Nuclear-Powered Missile

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AI and interest rates

Events of the last year have not turned out as economists thought they would, they thought the US was heading for a recession but that hasn't happened, and they all thought inflation would remain stubbornly high but for the last 3 months it is only been at 2.2 %, and the Federal Reserve considers

Re: NYTimes.com: The Gamble: Can Genetically Modified Mosquitoes End Disease?

On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 3:05 PM Samiya Illias wrote: *> Malaria is a disease that breeds in humans. This disease has been around > for thousands of years. Mosquitoes are only the vectors (couriers / postal > service).* > Only! Besides that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play? *> Even if the

NYTimes.com: The Gamble: Can Genetically Modified Mosquitoes End Disease?

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. The Gamble: Can Genetically Modified Mosquitoes End Disease? Working on a remote island, scientists think they can use genetic engineering to block a

Are Many Worlds & Pilot Wave THE SAME Theory?

My answer would be YES, except that Many worlds just needs Schrodinger's Equation, but Pilot Wave theory also needs a very complex guiding equation that does nothing but make the theory incompatible with special relativity. If Occam's razor alone wasn't enough to rule out Pilot Waves that should

Clocks accurate to within one second in 30 billion years

A few months ago I wrote a post about the possibility of using the element Thorium to greatly increase the accuracy of clocks. Another element, Scandium, could also be used, but to use either you'd have to know very precisely the energy a X-ray photon would need to have to excite the nucleus into

Gravity treats matter and antimatter the same way

I don't think anybody was surprised but yesterday the journal Nature reported that for the first time it has been experimentally demonstrated that antimatter particles fall down and not up just like particles made of normal matter. It took an amazing amount of skill for experimenters to do this.

China and chips and AI

Computer chips power the current AI revolution and the most modern chips have 5 nm or even 3 nm process nodes, currently the only way to produce them is by using lithography machines made by the Dutch company ASML, there is no other source. To make such chips ALML needed an Extreme Ultraviolet

Could our next president be Senile?

Senile John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis usq -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Elon Musk

After reading Walter Isaacson's book my opinion of Elon Musk is conflicted. Musk is brilliant, incredibly hard-working, not afraid to take a risk and is willing to backtrack and admit it when he's wrong. Musk is impulsive, most of his impulses turned out to be correct but not all, he says that

Re: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 3:00 PM Jason Resch wrote: > *By its own definitions IIT is not falsifiable, for it proclaims that a > computer program that gave identical behavior in all situations to another > conscious system, would not be conscious. But since it has identical > behavior there is no

Re: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:43 PM Dylan Distasio wrote: *> Having read that letter, I don't find it very becoming of the scientists > writing it who should know better. Regardless of what you think about > IIT and its merits or lack thereof, it results in some predictions that can > be tested* >

Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience" John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis

Re: Will we have a cognitively impaired president in 2025?

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 8:30 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> They're both that way in* > I don't think it's age related, some people are just inarticulate. Joe Biden has suffered from foot in mouth disease for years, he has been picking

Will we have a cognitively impaired president in 2025?

Trump Warns That ‘Cognitively Impaired’ Biden Will ‘Lead Us Into World War 2’ in Confused Speech John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis mnl --

Re: The human race almost didn't happen

On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 5:56 PM Jason Resch wrote: *> the single-cell to multi-cell gap, the rise of many species (whose chief > survival advantage is their high intelligence), seems to have been > relatively short. * > *been re We also note it occurs in many separate evolutionary lines >

The human race almost didn't happen

In the September 1 issue of the Journal science researchers report they have found, are using genetic analysis, that the ancestors of the human race, as well as those of the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, suffer through a severe population decline that started 930,000 BP (Before Present) and

NYTimes.com: The Oceans May Be Our Best Shot at Slowing Climate Catastrophe

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. The Oceans May Be Our Best Shot at Slowing Climate Catastrophe The U.S. government should find out if a natural process of adding iron-rich dust to the ocean

Countdown to the Singularity

AI scientist Alain D Thompson has started a countdown to the Singularity, he began it in August 2017 when he thought we were 20% there, it's now at 54%. At present he thinks GPT-4 only has an IQ of 152, high but still within the human level, so he thinks Superhuman intelligence won't happen until

AI and college admission tests

I was reading about how colleges are upset because they suspect potential students are using AI to help them on their admission essays, but what appalled me was that one of the essays requested by Princeton, one of the best universities in the country, was to write a short essay about *"Which song

The Singularity is near

And some think "near" means 3 years: AGI ≠ Chatbots - Autonomy, Acceleration, and Arguments Behind the Scenes John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis sin -- You received this message because

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 1:20 PM Jesse Mazer wrote: *> I tend to agree with Deutsch's intuitions on this but I think it gets > into philosophical questions like whether the pilot wave being in some > computational sense equivalent to MWI means that observers in other > branches are "real", have

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 12:38 PM Jesse Mazer wrote: *> Whether violations of Leggett-Garg inequalities rule out nonlocal > realistic theories seems to be a matter of definition, the inequality is > violated in Bohmian mechanics which is often referred to as a nonlocal > realistic theory,* >

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 7:40 AM Bruce Kellett wrote: "*Bell's inequality is established based on local realism."* >>> >>> *>>> False.* >>> >> >> >> I didn't say that, the science journal Nature said that. So now >> according to you not only is Wikipedia wrong but so is the science

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 12:38 AM Bruce Kellett wrote: The violation of Bell's Inequality proves that things are not realistic or >> not local or both, >> > > *> I have said that and you denied it.* > Show me where I denied that!! I had been saying that things are not realistic or not local or

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 10:34 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: *>>> The Bell inequality can be derived without assuming realism* >> >> >> >> Everybody is wrong from time to time, but some people just can't >> admit it. >> > > *>I am sorry that you think John Bell was wrong..* > The violation of

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 7:40 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: *> The Bell inequality can be derived without assuming realism* Everybody is wrong from time to time, but some people just can't admit it. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 7:06 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: >> Huh? How can you "*have **read quite extensively on Bell's theorem and >> locality*" and not know that Bell's theorem is a test to see if any >> theory that assumes* local realism* can account for experimental >> observations? Hell if you

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 8:14 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: > On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 12:02 AM smitra wrote: > >> Bell's theorem is about local hidden variables theories > > > > *It is difficult to know how to respond to this absurd idea. I have > read quite extensively on Bell's theorem and locality

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 7:29 AM Bruce Kellett wrote: * >>> Consider the following. shine a laser at the moon, then scan across >>> the surface of the moon. The spot of light on the moon's surface clearly >>> can move at any speed, particularly FTL. Now, if you use the laser to >>> transmit a

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 7:54 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: *> Special relativity merely forbids the transmission of anything > 'physical' faster than light (FTL). It is easily possible to transfer > information FTL.* > *BULLSHIT!* * > Consider the following. shine a laser at the moon, then scan

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 3:43 AM Bruce Kellett wrote: *> You appear to agree that Bell's theorem, given its assumptions, shows > that no local hidden variable account of these correlations is possible.* > *Of course I agree with Bell's theorem, if I disagreed I would in effect be saying that high

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

number of years. But as George Carlin reminds us, HE LOVES YOU! John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> ghe > > On Fri, Sep 1, 2023, 2:47 PM Stathis Papaioannou > wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, 2 Sep 2023

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 2:47 PM Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> No. Knowing the laws of physics is not enough, to make predictions you >> also need to know the initial conditions. Superdeterminism says more than a >> given state of the universe is the mathematical product of the previous >> state,

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 1:22 PM Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> according to superdeterminism the particular initial condition the >> universe was in 13.8 billion years ago has determined if you think >> superdeterminism is a reasonable theory or if you think it's complete >> bullshit. As for me I

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 9:54 AM Jason Resch wrote: *> But did (or could) superdeterminism choose the digits of Pi?* According to superdeterminism, yes. And according to superdeterminism the particular initial condition the universe was in 13.8 billion years ago has determined if you think

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

the idea is completely idiotic. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> ifq >>> On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 7:26 AM John Clark wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 6:29 PM Bruce Kellett >>>> wrote: >

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

e series converges to the transcendental number *π*. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> isc > On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 7:26 AM John Clark wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 6:29 PM Bruce Kellett >> wrote: >> &g

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 6:29 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: *> OK. So spell out your non-realist, but local, many worlds account of the > violations of the Bell inequalities. It seems that you want it both ways -- > Bell's theorem says that MWI must be non-local, but you claim that it is > local?

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 7:24 AM Bruce Kellett wrote: *>> Well of course it isn't! Bell's Inequality has been experimentally >> shown to be violated, so if there are hidden variables they can't be local. >> * >> > > *> But the argument was that many worlds was an entirely local theory: in > other

Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 12:09 AM Bruce Kellett wrote: *>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 12:27 PM smitra > > wrote:* > > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *There is no problem here because in practice MWI is nothing more thanthe >> usual QM formalism to compute the outcome of experiments where youthen >> assume

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 12:09 AM Bruce Kellett wrote: *>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 12:27 PM smitra > > wrote:* > > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *There is no problem here because in practice MWI is nothing more than >> the usual QM formalism to compute the outcome of experiments where you then >>

Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

The short answer is yes, Many Worlds is falsifiable. For example, right now there are experiments underway in an attempt to prove that the GRW theory of objective quantum wave collapse makes predictions that Many Worlds does not, if they are successful it will prove that Everett was dead wrong,

Re: Better quantum woo for me & your from Nature

On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 8:17 PM Brent Meeker wrote: * > These ideas of the universe as computation are OK. The equations of QM > are reversible and their realization can certainly be seen as computation. > But then it is assumed that the computation is discrete/digital, which is > not at all

Re: Chat_GPT4 scores in the 1% of a creativity score test v 24 undergraduates

On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 7:49 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > https://fortune.com/2023/08/25/a-i-creativity-test-score-humans/ > Thanks for posting this Spud. Interesting article, although I'm sure some people will claim that the Torrance

A new theory of consciousness: conditionalism

On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 1:47 PM Jason Resch wrote: *> At a high level, states of consciousness are states of knowledge,* > That is certainly true, but what about the reverse, does a high state of knowledge imply consciousness? I'll never be able to prove it but I believe it does but of course

Re: A new theory of consciousness: conditionalism

On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 1:47 PM Jason Resch wrote: *> At a high level, states of consciousness are states of knowledge,* > That is certainly true, but what about the reverse, does a high state of knowledge imply consciousness? I'll never be able to prove it but I believe it does but of course

NYTimes.com: A Stroke Stole Her Ability to Speak at 30. A.I. Is Helping to Restore It Years Later.

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AI Mind Reading Experiment

AI Mind Reading Experiment John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis drx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe

Re: Mimicking the Mind: Quantum Material Exhibits Brain-Like “Non-Local” Behavior

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 8:41 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > *> Mimicking the Mind: Quantum Material Exhibits Brain-Like “Non-Local” > Behavior (scitechdaily.com) >

The GPU Song

Nvidia’s H100 chip has become so popular due to its use in AI and the shortage of them has become so acute that "Weird Al" Yankovic has written a parody song about it : The GPU Song (GPUs Are Fire) John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at

NYTimes.com: Scientists Recreate Pink Floyd Song by Reading Brain Signals of Listeners

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Re: Kaku says fears of AI overblown; I agree

On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 9:48 PM Alan Grayson wrote: > > https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/business/ai-quantum-computer-kaku/index.html > Michio Kaku is a crank, but I can see why you like him because he is also a flying

Testing GPT-4 with Wolfram Alpha and Code Interpreter plug-ins

Ernest Davis and Scott Aaronson tested GPT-4 that had Wolfram Alpha and Code Interpreter plug-ins on a number of math and science problems. Aaronson said if it had been a human he would judge him to be an enthusiastic B student, maybe a B+. I think it's very impressive considering the fact that 10

Re: Have huge stars powered by Dark Matter been discovered?

it would be so bright it would be hard to tell the difference between it and an entire galaxy that was so distant it was almost a point source in our telescopes. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> lqn > > > >

Can AI be contained?

I think the answer is clearly *NO*. Can AI Be Contained? + New Realistic AI Avatars and AI Rights in 2 Years John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis cbc -- You received this message because

Re: Have huge stars powered by Dark Matter been discovered?

ted because the antimatter version of the negatively charged electron is the positron, and it's positively charged. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> pce > > Brent > > On 8/10/2023 12:20 PM, John Clark wrote: &g

Re: Have huge stars powered by Dark Matter been discovered?

On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 10:04 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> How, would a dark star function? If we found one, in actuality, could we > somehow construct a fusion reactor that runs on dark energy.* > Even the universe doesn't know how to

Re: Have huge stars powered by Dark Matter been discovered?

On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 7:42 PM Jesse Mazer wrote: *> Does the idea that colliders should have already found WIMPs depend on > the "naturalness" idea at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalness_(physics) > which requires > supersymmetric

NYTimes.com: Our Galaxy Is Home to Trillions of Worlds Gone Rogue

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. Our Galaxy Is Home to Trillions of Worlds Gone Rogue Astronomers have found that free-floating planets far outnumber those bound to a host star.

Re: US conducted multi-decade secret UFO program

On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 6:56 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> Being a Trumpkin myself, with a little RFK on the side,* RFK! If you put a gun to my head and I had to pick somebody even dumber than Trump it would be RFK. I mean, the COVID

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