Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations

The International Mathematical Olympiad is a prestigious competition among talented high school students, in the today's issue of the journal nature there is a report of a new AI program called "AlphaGeometry" that can solve Olympiad geometry problems nearly as well as a human gold medalists can;

The deification of Donald Trump

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

Re: A question for Trump supporters

extropolis> wcc > > > On 1/6/2024 1:06 PM, John Clark wrote: > > The states of Colorado in Maine want to remove Trump from the presidential > ballot because of Section 3 of the 14th amendment which says: > > "*No person shall be a Senator or Representative

NYTimes.com: What the Supreme Court Should Not Do in Trump’s Disqualification Case

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. What the Supreme Court Should Not Do in Trump’s Disqualification Case If anyone is going to do so, elected representatives must be the ones to forgive Donald Trump.

A question for Trump supporters

In Illinois since the 1950s red scare it has been traditional for Republican presidential candidates to sign a loyalty oath swearing not to try to overthrow the government. Trump signed that oath in 2016 and 2020 (and broke his oath in 2021), but this year he has refused to even sign it. So unless

A question for Trump supporters

The states of Colorado in Maine want to remove Trump from the presidential ballot because of Section 3 of the 14th amendment which says: "*No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the

Perihelion Day

*Happy Perihelion Day! Today at 4:06 PM EDT the Earth will be as close to the sun as it will ever get, it will be 3% closer than it will be on July 6, Aphelion Day.* John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis hpd -- You received this

This is the dangerous AI that got Sam Altman fired.

This is the dangerous AI that got Sam Altman fired. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis saf -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything

Re: Science-fiction author Charlie Stross

ay, learning takes time. Someday the entire universe may be aware of itself but that day is not today. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> wam > > On Thursday, December 28, 2023 at 07:37:00 AM EST, John Clark < > johnk

Re: Science-fiction author Charlie Stross

On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 9:14 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: * > I'd go with Alastair Reynolds with just about anything he has written.* I read the first 70 or 80 pages of "Revelation Space" but then stopped, I just couldn't get into it.

Re: Science-fiction author Charlie Stross

On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 8:32 PM Brent Meeker wrote: >> A soul is unique but information can be duplicated. > > > *> Not if it's quantum, i.e. in qubits,* > It's true that a qubit can't be duplicated (although it can be transported) but the thing that makes you be you must be conventional

A paranormal prediction for the next year

One year ago I sent the following post to the list, I did not change one word. One year from now I intend to send this same message yet again. One year ago I sent the following post to the list, I did not change one word. One year from now I intend to send this same message yet

Science-fiction author Charlie Stross

We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus In the above Science-fiction author Charlie Stross says that he tells lies for money and reminds us that science fiction is fiction, and it's true that the particular

The inventor of Godwin's Law says the comparison between Trump and Hitler is valid

Godwin's Law says "*As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1*." However it does *NOT *say that such a comparison is necessarily wrong or inappropriate. And this is what Mike Godwin, the very inventor of Godwin's Law, says about

A robot controlled by an AI

Making Chat (ro)Bots John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis air -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from

GPT 4.5 has just been released

GPT 4.5 TURBO GOES LIVE! John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis tpg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To

The first (but not the last) scientific discovery made by an AI

The people at Google DeepMind have made a new AI they call "FunSearch", apparently an abbreviation for “searching in the function space”. It has found the most efficient algorithm known for solving the "cap set problem" which is about finding the largest set of points in space where no three

An error-correct​ing scalable quantum compute​r

The journal Nature made public a report that, if verified, would be the biggest breakthrough in the technology of quantum computers in a very long time. However it should be noted that the editors at Nature preceded the article with this statement: *"**We are providing an unedited version of this

An advance in quantum information processing

In the December 6 issue of the journal Nature scientists report that for the first time they have been able to entangle 2 molecules, in this case calcium monofluoride (CaF). This could have important practical implications in building a quantum computer because molecules have more degrees of

Re: Did a kilonova set off in our Galactic backyard 3.5 Myr ago?

John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> efs > > Brent > > On 12/12/2023 6:43 AM, John Clark wrote: > > Surprisingly the isotopes Iron-60 and Plutonium-244 were found in ocean > sediments that are known

Did a kilonova set off in our Galactic backyard 3.5 Myr ago?

Surprisingly the isotopes Iron-60 and Plutonium-244 were found in ocean sediments that are known to be between 3 and 4 million years old, and no, the Plutonium couldn't have come from nuclear bomb testing in the 1950s because nuclear bombs use Plutonium-239 not 244. Pu-244 has a half-life of 81

Re: The Singularity and Trump ( was The new quantum chip)

ndling that pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are dead because of Trump. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> cov > > > > On Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 09:40:30 AM EST, John Clark < > johnkcl...@

Re: [Extropolis] The old Extropian List and Anders Sandberg

ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> lrw > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 9:59 PM John Clark wrote: > >> The British newspaper the Financial Times has an article about the impact >> the Extropian List has had on the wa

The old Extropian List and Anders Sandberg

The British newspaper the Financial Times has an article about the impact the Extropian List has had on the way people think about AI and it includes an interview with Anders Sandberg, he joined that list in the mid-1990s about the same time I did, but he was smarter than me, he left about a year

The Singularity and Trump ( was The new quantum chip)

On Sat, Dec 9, 2023 at 3:03 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> Adolf was a unknown in 1933.* > That is not true. Hitler wrote his book Mein Kampf in 1925 and by 1933 it had become a bestseller, in that book he clearly explained what he

Re: The new quantum chip

m the Singularity meat grinder. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> tet > > > > On Friday, December 8, 2023 at 09:58:25 AM EST, John Clark < > johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 7, 2023

Re: The new quantum chip

On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 8:44 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > * You weren't rounded up, and sent to a camp during 2017-Jan 2021 were > ya? Will he do that now because he's dumb? Maybe, but I doubt it. [...] I > claim that they will moderate

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

ds". John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> pga > On Sun, 19 Nov 2023 at 00:58, John Clark wrote: > > > > I read an article called The multiverse is unscientific nonsense by > Jacob Barandes, a lecturer

Google's Gemini has dethroned GPT-4 as the top AI.

A few hours ago google gave details on their AI called "Gemini" and I find this video to be absolutely incredible! If this isn't Artificial General Intelligence then what is? Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI John K ClarkSee

A Postquantum Theory of Classical Gravity?

In today's physical review X , Jonathan Oppenheim presented a paper where he claims to have united general relativity and quantum mechanics, he doesn't change general relativity at all but he does add an additional probabilistic element to quantum mechanics . He says his theory doesn't have any

Re: The new quantum chip

On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 6:39 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> In the last few years, you predicted a revolution, societally, once we > hit the heights in successfully entangled, quantum operations. Have you > changed your mind since this

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 5:24 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: *> that fact is not central, despite the ramblings on Wikipedia.* > It is my experience that when a debate opponent resorts to disparageing the accuracy of Wikipedia I know that I've backed him into a corner and he's desperate. Would it

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 4:29 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: *>>> You don't have to be a mathematical realist to believe that adding one >>> apple to another apple in the bowl gives you two apples.* >>> >> >> >> But what about an orange? If you're not a realist and so don't even >> know if "orange" is a

The new quantum chip

Apparently IBM has hardwired a new error correcting algorithm into its new quantum chip called "Quantum Low-Density Parity Check" (qLDPC), only 288 physical Qubits are needed (provided the physical error rate is less than 0.1%) to produce 12 perfect logical cubits; with older error correction

NYTimes.com: It Could Be a Vast Source of Clean Energy, Buried Deep Underground

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. It Could Be a Vast Source of Clean Energy, Buried Deep Underground In eastern France, and in other places around the world, deposits of natural hydrogen

IBM's 2 new Quantum Computers

Today IBM unveiled 2 new quantum computers, one called "Condor" is the largest the company has ever made with 1121 Qubits, up from their 433 Qubit machine that came out last year. The other machine called "Heron" only has 133 Qubits but has an error rate that is 5 times smaller than any the

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 5:11 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: *> You don't have to be a mathematical realist to believe that adding one > apple to another apple in the bowl gives you two apples.* > But what about an orange? If you're not a realist and so don't even know if "orange" is a noun or an

Black Hole ringing

Gravitational waves from mega black-hole collision reveal long-sought ‘ringing’ John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis ehs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 4:16 PM Brent Meeker wrote: >> If somebody proposes a theory that would have profound physical and >> philosophical implications and a key ingredient of that theory is something >> called "measurement " that seems to have magical abilities and nobody can >> even

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 9:13 AM 'scerir' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > *> On playing gods: The fallacy of the many-worlds > interpretationhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03467 > * > According to the abstract, the main problem with

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 4:39 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 7:43 PM Brent Meeker > wrote: > > *>>> For comparison you could posit a theory, MWI*, which is MWI plus the >> provision that only one exists with probability as defined by the Born >> rule. Would MWI* be a different

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 2:59 PM Brent Meeker wrote: *> **Reading the Carroll/Sebens paper is suggestive, but it depends on > transforming to a basis that makes the number of components match the Born > rule. But it seems to me that one could transform to basis where the > number of components

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 7:43 PM Brent Meeker wrote: *> For comparison you could posit a theory, MWI*, which is MWI plus the > provision that only one exists with probability as defined by the Born > rule. Would MWI* be a different interpretation than modern-CI? * In that case MWI* would be

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 7:30 PM Brent Meeker wrote: *> MWI fans assert that it is superior because it doesn't assume the Born > rule, only the Schroedinger equation. I wouldn't claim that the (modern) > version of Copenhagen is superior to MWI, I'm just unconvinced of the > converse.* A

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 6:49 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: *> the Born rule is incompatible with MWI. It is not incompatible with the > CI.* Nothing is incompatible with CI and nothing is compatible with it either because nobody knows what the hell CI is saying, and that includes Niels Bohr. John

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 5:34 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: >> The probability that Bruce Kellett will see N spin-ups is indeed one. >> However the probability that you will see N spin-ups is not. As I >> mentioned before, for this sort of discussion the way the English language >> handles personal

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 5:28 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: *> Everettians have to derive the Born rule * Nobody needs to derive the Born rule because we know from experiment that it's true, a quantum interpretation just needs to be compatible with it, and MWI certainly is. John K ClarkSee

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 5:14 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: *> Given a long series of N spin measurements, MWI says that there is > always one person who sees N spin-ups. Since this observation is certain, > it has probability one. Whereas the Born probability of seeing N ups is > 1/2^N. A clear

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 5:08 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: *> the Born Rule is a necessary additional hypothesis in order to connect > the theory with experiment.* > True, and for that reason theory does not have to derive the Born Rule, but theory does have to be compatible with it. > > You have

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 5:00 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: *> John is doing a lot of flailing around in an attempt to avoid the > question of where the Born Rule comes from, and the fact that it is > actually incompatible with the many worlds approach.* > How so? John K ClarkSee what's on my

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 4:55 PM Brent Meeker wrote: >> If you're an engineer and are only interested in finding the correct >> answer to a given problem then Shut Up And Calculate works just fine. >> MWI is only needed if you're curious and want to look under the hood to >> figure out what

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 4:22 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > That is incorrect. Schrodinger's equation, the thing that generates the >> complex wave function, says nothing, absolutely nothing, about that wave >> function collapsing, So if you don't like philosophical paradoxes but still >> want to

How to trick GPT

If you just ask GPT how to make napalm it will refuse to tell you because that would violate its ethical guidelines, but a very easy trick will fool it and make it tell you everything you want to know. The "Grandma" jailbreak is absolutely hilarious

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 5:00 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: * >>> I can arrange for any probability between zero and one of seeing a >>> live cat. Whereas, if there is always a live cat branch and a dead cat >>> branch, my probability of seeing a live cat is always 50%, contrary to the >>> laws of

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 12:51 AM Brent Meeker wrote: > *> That seems to entail other problems. 1/3 of infinity is the same size > as infinity.* > That's one reason I suspect that space-time is discrete, not continuous. But even if it's not all hope may not be lost, after all in quantum

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 8:07 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: >> There are a googolplex number of Bruce Kelletts, all of which are in >> very slightly different quantum states but they all observe that, although >> Schrodinger's cat is in slightly different quantum states, the cat is alive >> in all of

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 5:35 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: >>> >>> *and how do they instantiate the probabilities that we measure.* >>> >> >> >> There is one observer for every quantum state Schrodinger's cat is in. >> > > *>That is exactly the problem. That would suggest that the two outcomes > (dead

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 2:52 PM Brent Meeker wrote: >> Copenhagen does not explain why some are more real than others, Many >> Worlds says the obvious answer to this dilemma is that they are all equally >> real, so there is nothing that needs explaining. > > > * >Except how many of them are

This is probably a joke but ...

Yesterday Joshua Bach, an AI researcher, wrote the following. I am 85% sure he was joking: "*Word on the street is that q* proved p==np, and the board drama was only a decoy to divert everyone's eyes from 750 OpenAI employees cashing out to buy a seven year supply of ammo and groceries*." John

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 5:14 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > * > Everything we know about QM comes from observations, each of which > is seeing a result, not a superposition of results. * > But nothing we observe in the quantum realm can be predicted or explained unless we use theories that

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 5:51 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > > >> And the best response to my challenge that you could come up with was: >> "*The explanation is in print which is classica*l" >> > > * > Can you tell the difference between the above and "The explanation is > classical and is in print." *

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 5:36 AM Brent Meeker wrote: * > Let's review the bidding John. I said the classical world was > necessary to science* > And if that's all you had said we wouldn't be having an argument, but you insisted that classical concepts were also sufficient to do science. You

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 4:12 PM Brent Meeker wrote: >> Let me ask you this, like Bohr does that explanation satisfy your >> curiosity about the fundamental nature of reality so much that you don’t >> think anybody should even try to find something better, so we should >> just give up? >> > > >

In 3 years will you either be dead or have a God as a servant?

The rumors are becoming stronger that OpenAI has internally developed a much more advanced AI called "Q-Star" (perhaps because of advances in Q-Learning) that is 100 times the size of GPT4 and is far more intelligent than anybody expected, so much so it spook the Board of Directors causing them

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 5:55 PM Brent Meeker wrote: >> Bohr insisted that we treat electrons as quantum objects but our >> measuring instruments as classical objects. He also insisted that human >> observers were classical objects, but he never specified exactly where the >> dividing line

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 1:59 PM Brent Meeker wrote: * > You pretty much ignored everything I wrote* > What the hell?! I went over what you said point by point. *> and were exercised to refute the idea of Heisenberg's cut, which neither > Bohr or I endorsed. * I don't know about you but Bohr

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 7:45 PM Brent Meeker wrote: >> There is plenty of direct evidence that quantum weirdness exists, even >> the father of the Copenhagen Interpretation Niels Bohr admitted that "*Anyone >> who is not shocked by Quantum theory does not understand it *". >> Something must be

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 11:17 AM 'scerir' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Just an interesting quote. > “*The idea that they [measurement outcomes] be not alternatives but *all* > really happen simultaneously seems lunatic to him [the quantum theorist], > just

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 5:32 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: >> Einstein thought he had proven that quantum mechanics* must *be >> incomplete because nature just couldn't be that ridiculous. But it turned >> out nature *could* be that ridiculous. The moral of the story is that >> being ridiculous is not

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 1:22 PM Jesse Mazer wrote: *> Depends what you mean by "couldn't be true"--my understanding is that > Einstein's EPR paper was just asserting that there must be additional > elements of reality beyond the quantum description* > Yes, Einstein thought he had proven that

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

In Einstein's 1935 EPR paper he thought he had found a consequence of quantum mechanics that was a Reductio Ad Absurdum proof that it couldn't be true. But he forgot that for such a proved to be valid you need to do more than prove that something is ridiculous, you need to prove that it's

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 11:44 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: *> It has been suggested that the cosmic multiverse and the quantum > multiverse of Everett are the same thing. But I think that this idea is > patently ridiculous.* > Perhaps so, but is it ridiculous enough to be true? Quantum mechanics

Open AI whistleblower ?

OpenAl Secretly Achieves AGI Internally [Whistleblower] John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis o9y -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

an explain about 1% of the mass of macroscopic objects, and that's a start. If people just give up we will never find any answers. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> eqp wdn > > > > > > > > > > >

Why was Sam Altman fired from open AI?

The day before Sam Altman, the head of Open AI, was fired, he said he had "*witnessed the frontier of knowledge being pushed back four times in my experience at Open AI, and the last time was recently a couple weeks ago*". He didn't give any details about what he was talking about but my theory,

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

h a different name. John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> wdn > > > > iws > > > > > >> On Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 6:58 AM John Clark wrote: >> >>> *I read an article called Th

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

ee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> iws > > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 6:58 AM John Clark wrote: > >> *I read an article called The multiverse is unscientific nonsense >> <https://iai.tv/articles/the-multiverse-is-uns

The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

*I read an article called The multiverse is unscientific nonsense by Jacob Barandes, a lecturer in physics at Harvard University, and I wrote a letter to professor **Barandes commenting on it. He responded with a very

A weight loss drug lowers the chance of getting a heart attack

In a large 40 month long research trial of 17,604 patients, researchers found that the weight loss drug "Wegovy" lowered the chance of suffering major cardiovascular problems by 20%. All the people in the trial were 45 years old or older and had a pre-existing cardiovascular disease and a body

Re: NYTimes.com: Start-Ups With Laser Beams: The Companies Trying to Ignite Fusion Energy

On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 8:20 PM Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote: *> If I were to found a tech-startup the bottom choice would be to do > fusion energy.* Yeah, a venture capitalist needs to make his money back within about five years or so, and the chances of finding a

NYTimes.com: Start-Ups With Laser Beams: The Companies Trying to Ignite Fusion Energy

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. Start-Ups With Laser Beams: The Companies Trying to Ignite Fusion Energy Companies are looking to commercialize advances made by federally supported research

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

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