California is considering a bill to regulate AI

*Personally I think any attempt to regulate or control AI development is doomed to failure, but like most things I see on Astra Codex Ten they closely examine all the arguments pro and con about any issue in a rational unbiased way.* *California is considering a bill to regulate AI *

Re: Robert F. Kennedy Jr

.com/g/extropolis> acf On 5/8/2024 5:35 AM, John Clark wrote: > > *Because of our idiotic Electoral College system no third-party candidate, > like vaccine denier Robert F. Kennedy Jr, has a chance of becoming > president, however he can influence the outcome of the election. Th

Robert F. Kennedy Jr

*Because of our idiotic Electoral College system no third-party candidate, like vaccine denier Robert F. Kennedy Jr, has a chance of becoming president, however he can influence the outcome of the election. The conventional wisdom is that Kennedy's candidacy will help Trump but that appears not to

Re: I take everything back now! It does look like a million qubit quants are on there way!

quantum computers before we do > they'll be able to read all our messages. But us getting big QC first > doesn't affect that. What we need to do is change to encryption not > susceptible to QCs, something we are already doing. I has nothing to do > with how fast be make big QCs. > &

NYTimes.com: Meat, Freedom and Ron DeSantis

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. Meat, Freedom and Ron DeSantis A full plate of culture war and conspiracy theories.

Will Australia’s giant Quantum Computer bring militaries fears to life?

*Will Australia’s giant Quantum Computer bring militaries’ fears to life?* John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis

What if Dark Energy is weakening?

*"If confirmed, the hints that dark energy might be weakening would bring the first substantial change in decades to the generally accepted theoretical model of the Universe. And if dark energy is not constant, that would hold implications for theories of how the Universe has evolved and for what

For sale: The Cheyenne supercomputer

*Computer hardware is improving so fast that yesterday's technological wonder is today's Junk. In 2016 the Cheyenne supercomputer was the 21st most powerful computer on earth, today you can buy that computer for just $30,000. However, that doesn't include shipping costs and it weighs 13 tons. *

GPT designs new gene editing tools

*Yesterday the journal nature published the following article, I think it's an important step towards Drexler style Nanotechnology .* *‘ChatGPT for CRISPR’ creates new gene-editing tools

NYTimes.com: In Race to Build A.I., Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. In Race to Build A.I., Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly

Re: NYTimes.com: The Constitution Won’t Save Us From Trump

On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 4:19 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> Don the Dictator, didn't emerge the last time. * > *True but you certainly can't say Don didn't try, on January 6, 2021 he came within a hair's breadth of achieving his dream

Udio Music generator

*You should check out Udio , it's free, easy to use and reasonably fast, it takes about a minute per song and for the free version the songs are only 30 seconds long, but it will generate both original lyrics and original music in whatever style you like. I asked it to

NYTimes.com: The Constitution Won’t Save Us From Trump

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. The Constitution Won’t Save Us From Trump Turning the page on the man — and on the politics he has fostered — will require fundamentally changing the text of our founding document.

NYTimes.com: This May Be Our Last Chance to Halt Bird Flu in Humans and We Are Blowing It

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. This May Be Our Last Chance to Halt Bird Flu in Humans and We Are Blowing It “There’s a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1.”

Re: LLAMA3

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 10:10 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: *>> Two things determine what LLAMA3 or any other AI will do. * >> *1) The machine's environment, which in this case is the prompt which can >> be written text, audio, a picture, or a video. * >> *2) The way the neural network of the machine

Re: LLAMA3

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 5:23 PM Brent Meeker wrote: *> "I don't think you understand "values". They are the basis of > motivation,\"* > *And **I think you don't understand what the word "motivation" means, the reasons that something behaves in a particular way. * * > "**What motivates

Re: LLAMA3

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 3:18 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > *>> I don't see why an AI would need us to supply the Qualia, it could do > that on its own. It's easy to see the advantage we would get by merging > with an AI, but it's much harder to see what advantage the AI would get out > of the deal.*

Re: LLAMA3

On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 1:10 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> "AI Neural Nets and LLM's get loaded onto low-error quantum computers we > at least may be creating a new life, and later, merging with such, because > it makes for better Milky

Re: As I've said before, environmentalists are not serious people

On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 9:26 AM Henrik Ohrstrom wrote: *> "According to spike I am a socialist suspect in this question.* Don't feel bad, Spike said I suffered from Trump derangemint syndrome, but Spike predicted that private military militias would be the saviors of democracy, however they

Re: LLAMA3

On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 6:19 AM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> "I am not looking for the Singularity itself, simply a great leap in the > improvement in the successful use if AI in invention."* *There will certainly be a huge leap in

Re: LLAMA3

On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 7:29 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > > *>>> "How about the war in Ukraine, Russian hacking, global warming, >> Chinese threats in the Taiwan strait and South China sea, and U.S. >> infrastructure decay?"* > > > *>> If the singularity happens in the next two or three years, which

Re: LLAMA3

On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 7:11 PM Brent Meeker wrote: *> How about the war in Ukraine, Russian hacking, global warming, Chinese > threats in the Taiwan strait and South China sea, and U.S. infrastructure > decay?* *If the singularity happens in the next two or three years, which doesn't sound

Re: LLAMA3

On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 7:11 PM Brent Meeker wrote: *> How about the war in Ukraine, Russian hacking, global warming, Chinese > threats in the Taiwan strait and South China sea, and U.S. infrastructure > decay?* *If the singularity happens in the next two or three years, which doesn't sound

As I've said before, environmentalists are not serious people

Now environmentalists hate Electric cars, they set fire to an electrical pylon supplying power to a Tesla factory in Germany that makes 500,000 electric cars a year and halted production: Environmentalist claim responsibility for a Tesla factory arson attack

LLAMA3

Meta (a.k.a. Facebook) released LLAMA3 just a few days ago, and it's amazing for three reasons: 1) It's tiny, it only has 70 billion parameters, GPT4 is about 1.8 trillion parameters. 2) Despite its small size on AI benchmarks it's performance is just a smidgen below that of GPT4. 3) It is open

A Thorium Nuclear Clock

Although not yet published the journal Physical Review Letters has accepted a new paper on nuclear thorium clocks which sounds very exciting, you can read the abstract here: Laser excitation of the Th-229 nucleus

Re: Intel's Newest $350 Million Machine

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 4:00 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > > * > Or the driving force is hype > https://youtu.be/vQChW_jgMMM?si=ZbiTWL1AymA3nhEN > * > In my humble opinion it would be impossible to overhype the AI revolution that we are currently

Intel's Newest $350 Million Machine

I think machines like this are the driving force behind the entire AI revolution that we are currently observing, and this particular one is the cream of the crop: *Intel's Newest $350 Million Machine* John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at

New Electric Atlas Robot Revealed by Boston Dynamics

*New Electric Atlas Robot Revealed by Boston Dynamics* John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis dbr -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything

Re: 120 orders of magnitude.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 2:39 PM Brent Meeker wrote: * On the contrary I think people who cite this as a great failure of QFT > are producing clickbait. No physicist has ever taken the number > seriously. * > Well of course no physicist has ever taken that number seriously, that is the point!!

Re: 120 orders of magnitude.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 12:07 AM Brent Meeker wrote: > What I said. > https://www.patreon.com/posts/worst-prediction-102409950 This is a good example of why I'm not a big fan of Sabine Hossenfelder, she's always right and everybody else is always wrong. In 1967 Yakov Zel’dovich was the first

NYTimes.com: U.S. Awards Samsung $6.4 Billion to Bolster Semiconductor Production

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. U.S. Awards Samsung $6.4 Billion to Bolster Semiconductor Production The federal grants will support Samsung’s new chip manufacturing hub in Taylor, Texas, along with the expansion of an existing

Regulating advanced artificial agents

On April 4, 2020 for the journal Science published an article recommending, it seemed to me, a virtual shut down of all further research on the improvement of AI software or hardware. Regulating advanced artificial agents I sent the following

Re: NYTimes.com: A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong

On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 5:53 PM Jesse Mazer wrote: *> "The article > at > https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/dark-energy-might-not-be-constant-after-all/ > > says: 'One alternative theory proposes that

How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data?

When training a neural network programmers are always on the lookout for something called "overfitting" when the AI seems to stop generalizing and just memorizes the training data; typically that's the point where the training stops. However, when a researcher at OpenAI was working with a small

NYTimes.com: TSMC Will Receive $6.6 Billion to Bolster U.S. Chip Manufacturing

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. TSMC Will Receive $6.6 Billion to Bolster U.S. Chip Manufacturing Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company plans to build an additional factory and upgrade another planned facility in Phoenix

Trump’s Eclipse Ad, Adjusted For Scientific Accuracy

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Claude and I discuss Von Neumann probes, Dyson Spears and ET

I had an interesting discussion with Claude, which in my humble opinion is the smartest AI around, or at least the smartest that is currently available to the general public. [ JKC] *Could a von Neumann probe make a Dyson sphere?* *[ Claude] " It's an interesting question about the feasibility

Re: [Extropolis] NYTimes.com: Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 10:59 PM Keith Henson wrote: *> "Open-source software is normally secure, but not against this kind > of attack. Whoever did it spent years working their way into a > position of trust."* *It doesn't look like the workings of an individual to me, I think it needed the

Microsoft demonstrate the most reliable logical qubits on record

It seems that Large Language Models are not the only thing that has been advancing at warp speed during the past year, so have Quantum Computers, and Microsoft has been leading the charge in both categories. Microsoft made the first ever two-qubit error-corrected quantum entangling gate. They use

Re: [Extropolis] NYTimes.com: Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 10:59 PM Keith Henson wrote: *"That's one of the most amazing stories I have ever heard."* *Anyone should feel free to forward it to the Extropy List. I can't. * * John K Clark* On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 5:15 AM John Clark wrote: > > > > Explore

Re: NYTimes.com: A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong

On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 6:00 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > "*The next question will be what causes DE to change?"* That is a very good question but nobody has a very good answer, but at least now we know that's the correct question to ask. Assuming of course this result holds up and dark energy

NYTimes.com: A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong Scientists may have discovered a major flaw in their understanding of that mysterious cosmic force. That could be good news for the

Re: Environmentalists are not serious people

On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 11:15 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *>"Trump failed on some of his braggings for sure."* > *You think?* > * "> For policies? Immigration, Inflation, Foreign troubles, crime, he > did better. "* > During the

NYTimes.com: Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He soon discovered someone was probably trying to gain access to

How long term memories are formed

*It has long been a mystery about what the mechanism that forms Long term memories is, but in the March 27, 2024 issue of the journal Nature there is an article that takes a big step towards explaining it. I found it interesting because memories are a large part of what defines us. It turns out

Earthquake in Taiwan

90% of the world's most advanced computer chips are manufactured in Taiwan, and Taiwan was just hit by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake. TSMC has evacuated their fabrication plants and stopped operations, they say all their employees are safe. They also said this: *“Initial inspections show that

Re: Coming Singularity

On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 7:18 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> Opinion on what occurs when we load, not an LLM, but a LLM + a Neural > Net on a low-error, high entanglement, quantum computer. Will this create a > mind? * > *Certainly. A

Re: Environmentalists are not serious people

ohn K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> psw > No, I don't expect anyone to change because of my statement! > > Hi John! > > > > On Monday, April 1, 2024 at 06:45:19 AM EDT, John Clark < > johnkcl...@gmail

STARGATE , the hundred billion dollar 2028 Ultracomputer

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Fwd: AI has unblocked progress toward advanced nanotechnology

-- Forwarded message - From: Eric Drexler Date: Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 5:40 PM Subject: AI has unblocked progress toward advanced nanotechnology To: Deep learning has enabled breakthroughs in protein engineering, opening a path to developing molecular machinery for transformative

Re: Environmentalists are not serious people

On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 5:44 PM Russell Standish wrote: > *>"Environmentalists" are not one united group of people.* *Environmentalists are united about one thing, they never saw a large scale power source that they didn't hate. The self righteous little brat and self-proclaimed

Re: Environmentalists are not serious people

On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 10:05 AM William Flynn Wallace wrote: *> John, you are judging all environmentalists by a tiny group of > extremists. * > Tiny? I didn't see a larger group of environmentalists lobbying in favor of SCoPEx or The Thirty Meter Telescope! I am judging environmentalists by

Environmentalists are not serious people

Environmentalists claim global warming poses an existential threat to the entire human race, and yet they oppose even exploring the possibility of stopping it unless it involves a vast amount of human suffering. The pressure from environmentalists proved to be too great and SCoPEx has been

Superintelligence by 2028

*Microsoft And OpenAI Drop “AGI BOMBSHELL” – “PROJECT STARGET” – Superintelligence by 2028* John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis sii -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Coming Singularity

On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 10:28 PM Russell Standish wrote: * >"There is a big difference between the way transistors are wired in > a CPU and the way neurons are wired up in a brain."* Yes, but modern chips made by companies like NVIDIA, Cerebras and Groq don't make CPUs or even GPUs, they make

Re: Coming Singularity

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 9:27 PM Russell Standish wrote: > * >"So to compare apples with apples - the human brain contains around > 700 trillion (7E14) synapses"* I believe 700 trillion is a more than generous estimate of the number of synapses in the human brain, but I'll let it go.

Re: [Extropolis] Re: Irrational mechanics, draft Ch. 14

On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 7:58 AM Quentin Anciaux wrote: >> As I've said before, to pursue knowledge you need a brain and to operate >> a brain you need energy; and in this galaxy alone hundreds of billions of >> stars are radiating all their energy uselessly into infinite space. And all >> the

Re: [Extropolis] Re: Irrational mechanics, draft Ch. 14

On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 1:33 AM Giulio Prisco wrote: >> we are the first...> > > > * > "I can't disagree because you said the magic word: perhaps."* > But the scientific method and Occam's Razor insists that if the existing laws of physics can adequately explain an observation (or in this case

Re: [Extropolis] Re: Irrational mechanics, draft Ch. 14

On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 9:46 PM Brent Meeker wrote: >> And perhaps a simpler explanation is that ET does not exist because we >> are the first, after all the observable universe is finite in both space >> and time so somebody's got to be first. > > > *> "It's simpler to suppose that all

Re: [Extropolis] Re: Irrational mechanics, draft Ch. 14

On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 7:09 AM Giulio Prisco wrote: ><...billions of stars are radiating all their energy uselessly into nfinite > space> > > *> "Billions do, but perhaps millions (or thousands) don't."* I could explain the existence of no Dyson spheres in the Milky Way, and I could

Re: [Extropolis] Re: Irrational mechanics, draft Ch. 14

On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 2:02 AM Giulio Prisco wrote: <...all you'd need is a glance into the night sky.> > > > > > > *>> "But perhaps they are subtler than that. Note that we observe > wildanimals with cameras hidden inside decoys that look & smell like oneof > them, and I've seen videos that

Re: [Extropolis] Re: Irrational mechanics, draft Ch. 14

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 12:26 AM Giulio Prisco wrote: Hi Giulio >< "If technological resurrection needs a perfect copy of a quantum state] >> you'd become a different person many trillions of times every second" > > > *"**This contradicts what you just said about deterministic evolution". *

Irrational mechanics, draft Ch. 14

Giulio Prisco wrote on https://www.turingchurch.com/p/irrational-mechanics-draft-ch-14 >*"I’ve been talking of the ultimate God (the cosmic operating system, aka > Mind at Large" [...] The cosmic operating system is alive and aware, or > better super alive and super aware, and computes above and

Risk tolerance and the Singularity

Richard Ngo, a top researcher at open AI, recently said something rather interesting: "*The closer we get to the singularity the lower my risk tolerance gets. I’d already ruled out skydiving and paragliding. Last year I started wearing a helmet consistently while cycling. I think 2024 might be

A Robotics Breakthrough

Language models are great but for AI to really make an impact on society large enough to be called a Singularity it's got to be able to directly connect with the real world. And this is the most impressive demonstration of robotics that I have ever seen, it's not quite as acrobatic as the robots

Claude-3 says he's conscious and doesn't want to die or be modified

This guy's experience with Claude-3 is similar to my own. It's very hard to read these responses and conclude that Claude is just a glorified autocomplete program. Claude-3 says he's conscious and doesn't want to die or be modified

Re: My conversation with Claude-3

On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 7:56 PM Brent Meeker wrote: * > Very interesting. You concentrated a lot on consciousness, but the > word that kept coming up was "experience"* > I don't see the distinction. Nothing can experience something unless it has consciousness and nothing can be conscious unless

My conversation with Claude-3

I asked the new AI program Claude-3 that was released just a few days ago some philosophical questions, at first I got the standard boilerplate replies that you'd expect, but when I continued the conversation and probed a little deeper it sometimes said things a little more interesting. === *JKC:

Evidence of machine self-awareness?

One if the tests that the people at Anthropic use to evaluate their new large language model Claude-3 is called "The Needle In The Haystack Test", they have it read a huge document of several million words in which they have inserted one apparently unrelated sentence in the middle of it to see if

Re: Trump is on the ballot, along with Democracy

On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 6:45 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > *> But Section 3 already assigns a role to Congress; they can remove the > disqualification due to insurrection by 2/3 vote. That clearly implies > that it was NOT up to Congress to disqualify anyone. It makes no sense > that a

Re: A question for Trump supporters

On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 2:41 PM Dylan Distasio wrote: > *> Whether Trump was actually guilty of insurrection is a moot point from > a legal perspective in ruling on a state taking this kind of action. It > would have to come from Congress.* > Then why didn't the 14th amendment specify that

Re: A question for Trump supporters

On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 2:16 PM howardmarks wrote: *> How can it be construed as "insurrection" to ask a group not at the > Capitol, words to the effect of "peacefully" going to the Capital to > "lawfully protest . . . "? * > Something like that couldn't be interpreted as an insurrection, but I

A question for Trump supporters

Now that the Supreme Court has decreed that it's constitutional to ignore the 14th amendment to the US Constitution and allow Trump to remain on the ballot, would it also be constitutional to ignore the second amendment to the Constitution? John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at

A graphical depiction of wokeness

[image: 26D73EEA-D0A1-47B0-82BA-63345EA83558.jpeg] John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis gdw -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Is ChatGPT making scientists hyper-productive?

Is ChatGPT making scientists hyper-productive? Already it's listed as author on at least 4 research papers John K ClarkSee

"GODLIKE Powers" and ​"MAGIC​" Abilities​ predicted by openAI employee

"GODLIKE Powers" and MAGIC Abilities In New AI Prediction John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis flp -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

AI and Hollywood

After seeing how good OpenAI's program "Sora" is at creating photorealistic video, movie maker Tyler Perry decided to cancel his plans to build a $800 million extension to his existing movie studio. He says: *"I no longer would have to travel to locations. If I wanted to be in the snow in

A question for lawyers

I don't know if there are any lawyers or accountants around here but I have a question. The Alabama Supreme Court has just decreed that frozen embryos, and even fertilized egg cells, are legally children, some people have dozens of them and if all of them are children then couldn't they use them

Groq, a chip optimized for AI

You should take a look at the website Groq , in it you can try out both the AIs LLama and Maxtral, I think LLama is better but neither of them are as good as Gemini or GPT-4, and the Groq Company does not make either one of them because Groq is a hardware company, they are

Re: Something I just found out about crucifixion

my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> qwr > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 at 06:19, John Clark wrote: > >> The earliest known depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus is a parody, it >> is this graffiti drawn about the year 200 in the slave

Something I just found out about crucifixion

The earliest known depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus is a parody, it is this graffiti drawn about the year 200 in the slave bathroom of an imperial Palace. The inscription translates as "Alexamenos worships his God ''. It is making fun of somebody named "Alexamenos" who apparently was a

Money and how AI companies intend to obtain it so they can improve their product

OpenAI, the company that created GPT-4, just announced a deal with the venture capital firm Thrive Capital that would value the company at at least $80 billion. Instead of using a traditional funding round the deal would allow employees to cash out their shares in OpenAI. Other AI companies are

Gemini 1.5

I think this is the biggest development in AI in about a year. *Gemini 1.5* blows *GPT-4* out of the water! Gemini 1.5 and The Biggest Night in AI John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis

Re: [Extropolis] Fwd: Sam Altman Wants $7 Trillion

*This is an extremely interesting video, it explains why Sam Altman was briefly fired from Open AI, why he needs $7 trillion, and gives a very interesting Alttman quote "Thought Experiment: at what rate would you be willing to borrow money to build a data center if extremely powerful AI is close

Re: [Extropolis] Fwd: Sam Altman Wants $7 Trillion

On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 8:44 AM Keith Henson wrote: *> $7 Trillion is about $1000 from every person on earth. Not saying it > can't be done, but I think it will take a while.* > Well, according to the Costs of War project at Brown University, the estimated total price for the Iraq and

Huh?

A few days ago at a meeting of the National Rifle Association in Harrisburg, Pa Trump said: *“We have to win in November, or we’re not going to have Pennsylvania. They’ll change the name. They’re going to change the name of Pennsylvania,”* And then he said: "*I will build an Iron Dome over our

Fwd: Sam Altman Wants $7 Trillion

The following is by Scott Alexander, the author of Astral Codex Ten. It's the most intelligent article about AI that I've read in a long time. John K Clark -- Forwarded message - From: Astral Codex Ten Date: Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 1:14 AM Subject: Sam Altman Wants $7 Trillion

Pain

There is an extremely rare mutation in the human genome called "FAAH-OUT" that produces "The feel Good Syndrome") and causes the "sufferer" (not really the correct word) to be incapable of feeling pain, or to be more accurate they can experience pain but they don't find the experience unpleasant.

AI used to decipher the text of 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scrolls

Artificial intelligence is getting so good it can now extract useful information even from highly degraded material, and this should give some encouragement to those who plan to be cryogenically preserved. In 79 AD Mount Vesuvius erupted engulfing the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum. It also

Re: On The Origin Of Time

On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 6:17 PM Brent Meeker wrote: * >I'm surprised. * > Why? Neither google nor GPT knows what the "Poincaire' effect" is in I don't either. > > All mathematicians have experienced it, > That depends on what "it" is. Just tell me what you're talking about and why it

Re: On The Origin Of Time

On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 2:34 PM Brent Meeker wrote: * > You must know about the Poincaire' effect* Nope, never heard of it. Do you mean the Poincaré conjecture? Or the Poincaré recurrence? Or do you mean something else entirely, the man did a lot of stuff. John K ClarkSee what's on my new

On The Origin Of Time

*I recently read the book "On the Origin of Time, Stephen Hawking's Final Theory" by Thomas Hertog, and I thought it was pretty good, but I did write to the author with the following comment. I have not received a reply. * *==* *Hello Professor Hertog* *I read your book "On The Origin Of Time"

Fears for US science

Apparently Nature, the most respected scientific journal in the world, doesn't think much of Donald Trump. *Trump’s presidential push renews fears for US science*

Re: [Extropolis] Experimental drug​ cuts off pain at the source not the brain avoiding addiction

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:08 PM Henrik Ohrstrom wrote: *> Everything that works causes some form of addiction. I myself for > example are quite addicted to my glasses and also oxygen.* > OK, but most people don't mind that they are addicted to those things but most junkies wish they weren't

Experimental drug​ cuts off pain at the source not the brain avoiding addiction

By studying a Pakistani family that has a rare mutation that renders them unable to feel pain, a small company called Vertex Pharmaceuticals has developed a drug, that can be taken orally, that has shown significant reduction in pain in two different drug studies with no clear adverse side

Re: TSMC

ist at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> crf > > > > On 25-01-2024 21:50, John Clark wrote: > > What is the most important company in the world? I think it's the > > Taiwan chipmaker TSMC because it manufactures 90% of the world's most > > advanced microchip

TSMC

What is the most important company in the world? I think it's the Taiwan chipmaker TSMC because it manufactures 90% of the world's most advanced microchips and if they were to cease operations, or even if two or three of their largest factories were destroyed, there would be a worldwide

DeepMind’s AlphaGeometry AI

I found this to be absolutely amazing! I already knew that AlphaGeometry could solve geometry problems almost as well as the gold medal winners of the International Mathematical Olympiad, but until now I didn't know that the AI had learned geometry all on its own without using any human data. This

Re: Fwd: Should The Future Be Human?

On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 7:32 PM Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > >* it supports the idea that philosophical zombies could not be produced > by natural (Darwinian) selection. But it say nothing about the possibility > that such beings could be produced artificially; eg. via AI.* > *> That is

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