It's become a lot better than it used to be. When I was playing (I played through high school) you had to be very, very unbalanced to be taken out of the game. I no doubt had concussions and kept playing. I played in about 70 collision football games.
The brain can take a pounding and still work fine. That's the incredible thing. On 11/29/21, A.T. Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > Since AGI consciousness is an emergent property for which there can be no > flowchart, for many years it seemed impossible to draw a diagram of > consciousness. > > http://ai.neocities.org/Consciousness.html -- recently obtained a new ASCII > diagram in which consciousness is depicted as the opposite of the > subconscious, with mind-modiles for emotion, thought and volition fostering > consciousness and with the subconscious operating within the competitive > clash between Spreading Activation and PsiDecay. > > http://ai.neocities.org/mentifex_faq.html -- meanwhile contains the > following new section about the AGI devotee Mentifex objecting to the > brain-damage occurring as the unavoidable result of college football: > > 1. Why did Mentifex work to abolish Husky Football? > > What is the purpose of a university? Is it to entertain, or to educate? If > the purpose is to provide mass entertainment for TV football viewers, then > the school should be renamed as "Football University" and any pretense of > serving first and foremost to educate students should be abandoned. If the > purpose is the intellectual training of productive members of society, and > if society has become aware that playing football causes long-term > permanent brain damage, then it is a no-brainer for schools like the > University of Washington (UW) to abolish Husky Football and to relinquish > the $110M of filthy lucre that football was bringing to the university. > > As a freshman, Mentifex was a UW football player, but only in his physical > education (PE) class. Back then, in order to provide jobs for athletic > teaching assistants, the University required all freshmen to take PE -- not > out of concern for the health and well-being of students, but for the > financial purpose of creating jobs for Big Sports. > > Fast forward to 2 August 2019 when the UW alumnus Mentifex was reading the > national print edition of The New York Times (all bow down, please, to the > Newspaper of Record, if not to Washington :-) in main campus library room > Suzzallo 101, which had been the boring Government Documents room in > freshman year but had morphed into the most beautiful Starbucks in Seattle, > with stained-glass windows. Mentifex turned the page and saw the > truth-about-football article that is now part of the official record of the > UW Board of Regents meeting where Mentifex began his campaign to eliminate > Husky Football as a clear and present danger to student players. > > Mentifex was mentally disturbed to read in the 2 August 2019 New York Times > that football causes Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) below the level of > concussion, because the brain keeps on moving and rips apart internally > when the football player comes to a sudden, wrenching stop in Husky > Stadium. The damage may not be visible to rabid Husky sports fans, but the > tearing and laceration of the brain tissue builds up and becomes permanent, > lifelong damage to the poor schmuck who has signed up to play Husky > Football. Does the UW care more about the health of its students, or about > the $110M? > > The NYT article so upset Mentifex that he immediately walked off campus and > made 107 photocopies of the NYT article at a shop on University Way, or > "the Ave." Mentifex then returned to campus and leafleted the Suzzallo > Library by leaving copies of the NYT article at and around student chairs > and workstations, with an added heading about the hypocrisy of Husky > Football. On the following day, Mentifex leafleted the Allen Library. On > the third day, he leafleted the Husky Union Building (HUB). Two months > later, the Husky Football coach inexplicably resigned from his extremely > lucrative job without stating any reason why. The UW hired, and eventually > fired, a new coach at three million dollars per year. > > In December of 2019, Mentifex noticed that the UW Board of Regents was > meeting upstairs in the main campus library, so he went up to try to give > photocopies of the NYT football brain-damage article to any regents that he > could find and approach during the meeting. The secretary to the Board told > Mentifex to sign up for the public comment period at 1:00 p.m. if he wanted > to talk to the Regents. Meanwhile, Mentifex made more photocopies of the > damning NYT article and the article was not only handed out to all the > Regents but was also appended as an official document at the bottom of the > Minutes of the December 2019 meeting of the Board of Regents. Soon > afterwards, the personal trouble and grief began for Mentifex. > > Persons unknown started taking surreptitious photographs of Mentifex and > showing them to a casual acquaintance of Mentifex while asking various > doxx-like questions about Mentifex. For instance, they asked "Did Mentifex > ever work for Husky Football?", as if Mentifex were some kind of > disgruntled employee out to get revenge. No, Mentifex did not work for > Husky Football. He spent his adult life working on artificial intelligence > to replicate the human brain, and so he was upset to find that football > damages the brain, and even more upset to find that his alma mater UW did > not seem to care -- not when 110 million dollars of football revenue was at > stake. So Mentifex began posting diatribes against Big Football on the > Internet, encouraging people to sue the UW Board of Regents collectively > and individually to bring a stop to the brain-damage by abolishing Husky > Football. Now, are there persons who would try to kill Mentifex over a > measly 110 million dollars? Artificial intelligence is far more valuable > than $110M, and is worth not mere trillions of dollars, but entire galaxies > of noosphere value. > > https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/uw-s3-cdn/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/12/13152127/Minutes-2019-12-BOR.pdf ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T389c795c903cbaa8-M3ee9d1ad464407b5999d2c19 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
