Re: [Vo]:The Ahmed Mohamed case and distrust of experts

lol. I love the outrage! Such drama. However simple reality is no one, and I mean no one, knows the facts on the ground. Was it an overreaction? Sure, most likely, but perhaps there is more to this than meets the eye. Maybe the kid was spouting islamic stuff. Remember columbine,

Re: [Vo]:The Ahmed Mohamed case and distrust of experts

not be pardoned and I wish everyone would focus more on that so future educators wouldn't make the same mistake. On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com> wrote: > lol. I love the outrage! Such drama. However simple reality is no > one, and I mean n

Re: [Vo]:The Ahmed Mohamed case and distrust of experts

laugh: http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-in-jail-fake-bomb-2011-10 On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Any reasonably cautious person would say this thing looks like a hoax > bomb: > http://www.wired.com/2015/09/heres

Re: [Vo]:The Ahmed Mohamed case and distrust of experts

sed, but it should have been done very very quietly. That can not > be pardoned and I wish everyone would focus more on that so future > educators wouldn't make the same mistake. > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com > > wrote: >

[Vo]:Credible news services picking up Holmlids work

http://www.chem.info/news/2015/09/scientists-closing-small-scale-nuclear-fusion http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/karnkraft/article3933699.ece Too bad Mats didn't get to write that :(

Re: [Vo]:Credible news services picking up Holmlids work

Apparently Holmlid has a reputation as a fellow crackpot: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/36064/is-ultradense-deuterium-real Hope it turns out to be the real thing.. love to see these condescending pricks swallow their . On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Blaze Spinnaker

Re: [Vo]:Credible news services picking up Holmlids work

#sthash.NvgHBGqK.dpuf http://www.gp.se/nyheter/goteborg/1.2843794-goteborgsforskare-havdar-lyckats-med-fusion On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:07 AM, Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apparently Holmlid has a reputation as a fellow crackpot: > > > http://physics.stackexch

[Vo]:Beware all this Industrial Heat excitement

Ross is only a part of IH (which explains a lot of Vaughn's statement of him not being credible / the weird disconnect between Rossi and IH lately). IH has invested in other LENR organizations. I still stand by my assessment of 9% https://rossiisreal.wordpress.com/ I am excited by Holmlid

Re: [Vo]:Rewriting the lede on cold fusion for wikipedia

wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > The idea that cold fusion doesn't involve hydrogen infused metal is just >> end-of-times for these people. >> > > It's really hard to sort out what is know

Re: [Vo]:Rewriting the lede on cold fusion for wikipedia

Yeah, I know. It's like these people's brains are utterly broken. There is an implicit conspiracy (by BOTH anti and pro pons/fleischman people) to narrow define cold fusion as experiments done in the late 80s. The idea that cold fusion doesn't involve hydrogen infused metal is just

[Vo]:Rewriting the lede on cold fusion for wikipedia

I was reading the entry for cold fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion While I agree with this statement: *Cold fusion is a hypothetical type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature

Re: [Vo]:Rewriting the lede on cold fusion for wikipedia

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E03E0D7103FE033A05753C3A9649D946792D6CF Cold Fusion of Hydrogen Atoms; A Fourth Method Pulling Together 1956!! On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com> wrote: > There's huge consensus about what wor

[Vo]:The conspiracies do exist!

http://boingboing.net/2015/12/08/undercover-greenpeace-activist.html I dunno if my emails have been censored from vortex or something though. Nobody ever replies to them anymore :D

Re: [Vo]:Antigravity started at Vortex - Fluxliner

Anyways, here's another kind of subtle censorship: http://boingboing.net/2015/12/08/undercover-greenpeace-activist.html You academics sure are sneaky people. On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey where was that great email about Wolf

Re: [Vo]:Antigravity started at Vortex - Fluxliner

Hey where was that great email about Wolfram. Why am I not getting in email? The people complain about LENR censorship. LOL! On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 11:20 AM, John Berry wrote: > Way back when multiple people apparently replicated the capwarp > successfully, reporting

Re: [Vo]:Re: N. Y. Times article comment

He's looking at this as if it were a black-and-white issue. That he's either right and they are wrong or they are wrong and he's right. I think there is a reasonable probability that climate change is being caused by fossil feels. I think there is also a pretty good possibility that fossil

[Vo]:Elon Musk thinks we're in a simulation.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/elon-musk-ai-artificial-intelligence-computer-simulation-gaming-virtual-reality-a7060941.html He's parroting Bostrom here, that the only chance we're not in a simulation is that civilizations blow themselves up before they get to a

Re: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

Oh noes, solar power incident results in . burnt tower. This is why solar power is the solution to everything. On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:31 AM, ChemE Stewart wrote: > Oops, Default > > Oops, Fire > > >

Re: [Vo]:Intelligent robots threaten millions of jobs

More education is the answer. People people to go to school. On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 9:46 AM, a.ashfield wrote: > Jed, > While laws have been updated there are still holdouts. Where I live near > Philadelphia all house plumbing had to be made of copper. When a member

Re: [Vo]:Press Release - Cold Fusion (LENR) Verified - Inventor Sues Industrial Heat, LLC.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Craig Haynie wrote: > See section 3.2(b). The $10,000,000 is held in escrow. > > > http://www.sifferkoll.se/sifferkoll/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Rossi_et_al_v_Darden_et_al__flsdce-16-21199__0001.2.pdf > > > That's just saying it went

Re: [Vo]:Press Release - Cold Fusion (LENR) Verified - Inventor Sues Industrial Heat, LLC.

"I think the fight is over the $10 million in escrow, which looks like it may go back to IH if the deal falls through." I saw nothing saying the money is in escrow. Pretty sure it's been paid to leonardo. See line 58

Re: [Vo]:Production plans and report will be published

Well, might want to spend those resources on a slightly more experienced lawyer than. The guy they got for this has just a few years under his belt and UFL is ranked about 46/201 Considering Darden graduated from yale, Rossi might be a bit outlcassed here. On Thursday, April 7, 2016, a.ashfield

Re: [Vo]:Copy of Rossi's civil complaint

On Wednesday, April 6, 2016, Eric Walker wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Jones Beene wrote: > > Obviously, this all gets down to the data, in the end. Are there 2000 >> hours of reliable data for power out vs. power in ? If so, then this will

Re: [Vo]:Press Release - Cold Fusion (LENR) Verified - Inventor Sues Industrial Heat, LLC.

Agreed, a settlment seems likely. On Wednesday, April 6, 2016, Lennart Thornros wrote: > 89 million dollars is a lot of money. > I think there will be a settlement within three months. > I do not think we need to find out who is the bad boy. > I think they all are in a

[Vo]:Copy of Rossi's civil complaint

Something bizarre is going on here. He's claming 50x COP in line 71. That's pretty hard to mistake.

Re: [Vo]:Problems with 2012 Penon report

I don't think Penon's competency is an issue at all here. Anyone can measure 50x cop. On Wednesday, April 6, 2016, Jed Rothwell wrote: > I have been complaining that Penon seems incompetent. It is a little > unfair for me to grouse without substantiating my complaints.

Re: [Vo]:Copy of Rossi's civil complaint

lol. On Wednesday, April 6, 2016, Russ George wrote: > That is a very straight legal case Rossi reveals that points to the > failure of IH to honor its contract. Rossi is clearly going to win this > unless IH pays up the $89 million. Rossi is in the catbird seat as he is

Re: [Vo]:Copy of Rossi's civil complaint

anyways, let's wait for the rebuttal. there are a lot missing exhibits in the filing, like the ERV report, Darden's agreement to commence the test, etc. Maybe the ERV report will 'leak out' and experts will be able to poke holes for Darden.

Re: [Vo]:Copy of Rossi's civil complaint

10) If there is solid data over thousands of hours which backs Rossi’s and Penon’s claim and the COP is much less – say 1.5 then it will be a tough call but Rossi could win. I got the sense that 6x COP was required for the payout

Re: [Vo]:Copy of Rossi's civil complaint

"I think that Rossi feels that he has been deeply wronged in the past and for some reason I.H. is/was trying to string him along on the payment of the 89 million dollars owed him and he wasn't going to wait for any excuses and filed as soon as he felt he might never see the money/profit he feels

Re: [Vo]:Copy of Rossi's civil complaint

I am actually hopeful. 50x is pretty high. It was installed in a customer site. That's some crazy attempt at fraud. Maybe 71 is stated wrong, and it only surged to 50x.But if not, 50x over the lifetime.. that's impressive an Rossi should get his due. On Wednesday, April 6, 2016, Jed

Re: [Vo]:Copy of Rossi's civil complaint

ed, Apr 6, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','blazespinna...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > > I am actually hopeful. 50x is pretty high. It was installed in a >> customer site. That's some crazy attempt at fraud. > >

Re: [Vo]:I.H. press release responding to Rossi

It's possible that IH simply doesn't have the money to pay and they flaked. On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Robert Lynn wrote: > *De-lurks* > > Ridiculous to assert that IH have not acting in good faith - if the demo > worked they would be the happiest people in

Re: [Vo]:Rossi/E-Cat lawsuit: A long-in-the-making set-up job..?

inal payment is strictly based on a > positive ERV report. IMHO, I.H. cannot holdback payment because they are > not satisfied with the distribution of IP. > > Any IP issues are red herrings with regards to the final payment based on > the letter of the licence agreement. > > On Mo

Re: [Vo]:Defending Rossi at this point is an action of the absolute naive

EG, E-cat demo 1/2, Ferrara, lugano) > - secrecy and lack of trust > - inflated expectations (Petroldragon, TEG, E-cat) > > about IH , I see no other partner who moan on them. > > Don't put on malice what you can put on lack of rigor and distrust on > humanity. > > >

Re: [Vo]:Rossi/E-Cat lawsuit: A long-in-the-making set-up job..?

No, Thomas Darden is a committed environmentalist who's been working on these things for his whole life. His whole network of friends are supportive of environmental causes. This sort of thinking is what makes vortex a bit scary at times. The reality is that patents / etc are all meaningless.

[Vo]:Defending Rossi at this point is an action of the absolute naive

Look, I am hopeful he actually has 50x COP... But seriously folks. Thomas Darden had an impeccable reputation. He also went out on a limb and gave Rossi 11m plus USD. Rossi, on the hand, has absolutely nothing but a pattern of fraud and deceit. 50x COP is an absolute crazy number when he

Re: [Vo]:Selective memories IH selected and agreed to the team to test the E-Cat

Wow a lot of sound and fury. Let's all wait for the ERV report or court filings from Darden & Co. On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 2:46 AM, Ian Walker wrote: > Hi all > > Some people seem to suffer from a selective memory glitch. > > HIGH TEMPERATURE E-CAT MODULE Test of July 16th,

Re: [Vo]:Industrial Heat Patent?

Patents are far more complicated than just work/don't work. Just because some claim in some patent might actually work, doesn't necessarily mean the whole things works. That claim is still useful and IH was paying for the R On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 5:41 AM, Craig Haynie

Re: [Vo]:Rossi states his reason for not publishing Penon report

Wow, Jed, not only are you an expert at calorimetry but you're also lawyer too. Quite the liberal arts degree you got there, where do I get one of those babies. On Wednesday, April 13, 2016, Jed Rothwell wrote: > a.ashfield

Re: [Vo]:Next Big Future - goes out on a limb

Yah, I think this is more likely - that they just can't duplicate what he's done. I think Jed is over reaching and making big assumptions on what he's been told by his 'insider' sources. Lol. For example, Rossi might be refueling his eCats with something and Penon might just not be in on it.

Re: [Vo]:Next Big Future - goes out on a limb

Maybe the whole eCat is just one big lithium battery bank. On Wednesday, April 13, 2016, Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yah, I think this is more likely - that they just can't duplicate what > he's done. > > I think Jed is over reaching and making big a

Re: [Vo]:13th Floor - deja vu all over again

Also, it does lend credence to concepts of immortality. One goal of transhumanists is backing up your 'brain'. If you die, you just need to reload it into a simulation. On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh, I dunno, if you model the

Re: [Vo]:13th Floor - deja vu all over again

Oh, I dunno, if you model the universe as a simulation you can attempt to make some assumptions about how the simulation substrate is structured. Once you have that, you can think about ways of 'piercing the veil'. You can also leverage the model to make more consistent theories about way things

Re: [Vo]:13th Floor - deja vu all over again

zona US > > > > *From:* Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] > *Sent:* Saturday, April 23, 2016 2:12 PM > *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com > *Subject:* RE: [Vo]:13th Floor - deja vu all over again > > > > *From:* Blaze Spinnaker > > Ø Also, it does lend credenc

Re: [Vo]:Cheap Solar Power (harvard.edu)

S into use of a significant > fraction of alternative energy. > > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com >> > wrote: >> >> Fortunat

[Vo]:Cheap Solar Power (harvard.edu)

Fortunately, looks like LENR may not be needed to rescue the planet http://www.keith.seas.harvard.edu/blog-1/cheapsolarpower

[Vo]:New Record Low Solar Price in Abu Dhabi – Costs Plunging Faster Than Expected

http://rameznaam.com/2016/09/21/new-record-low-solar-price-in-abu-dhabi-costs-plunging-faster-than-expected/

[Vo]:Inside tiny tubes, water turns solid when it should be boiling

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161128152140.htm The discovery illustrates how even very familiar materials can drastically change their behavior when trapped inside structures measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter.

Re: [Vo]:12 years from now

As someone who works in the AI industry at a fortune 100 company, I can assure you the Singularity is arriving. Most of humanity is rapidly becoming a 2nd class citizen. I am skeptical that we will get AI that can build AI, but I am confident that we will have AI, plus those who control the AI,

Re: [Vo]:Self-driving shuttle crashes in Las Vegas hours after launch

There's a naivety if you think they've spent billions and not considered circumstances like this with great detail. On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 2:16 AM, Alain Sepeda wrote: > There is a naivety in many automatic cars, that the old bike driver (vehicular > cycling schoo

Re: [Vo]:Self-driving shuttle crashes in Las Vegas hours after launch

Assuming there wasn't a baby carriage behind the shuttle! On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 6:20 PM, H LV wrote: > https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16626224/las-vegas-self- > driving-shuttle-crash-accident-first-day > > > While it was technically the fault of the truck driver and

Re: [Vo]:More on the WuFlu conspiracy theory

I don't think we yet know where the virus came from. Until that detail is nailed down, I think the jury is still out. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/where-did-new-coronavirus-come-past-outbreaks-provide-hints-n1144521 On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 2:04 PM Jones Beene wrote: > This is

Re: [Vo]:More on the WuFlu conspiracy theory

Communism/Fascism is great for quarantining. Not sure it's that great for sharing critical information broadly, coming up with vaccines, medical tests and and treatments. On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 6:52 AM Jed Rothwell wrote: > That was a superb presentation by Bruce Aylward. Jones: thanks for

Re: [Vo]:More on the WuFlu conspiracy theory

will arrive. Stuff like this breeds very very nasty conspiracy theories. On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 8:46 PM Blaze Spinnaker wrote: > Communism/Fascism is great for quarantining. Not sure it's that great > for sharing critical information broadly, coming up with vaccines, medical &

Re: [Vo]:More on the WuFlu conspiracy theory

Good news, finally! pretty low mortality rate in South Korea. Perhaps very aggressive testing is just the thing we need. Lots of drive through testing throughout the country would be great. Catch it early, make people aware of their status. Get them to self isolate. It's pretty noninvasive

Re: [Vo]:More on the WuFlu conspiracy theory

-589.html On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 3:42 PM Blaze Spinnaker wrote: > > https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/01/health/coronvirus-patient-research-cdc/index.html > > > Though, if our capitalist system works like this maybe we would be better > off with communism. At the very least th

Re: [Vo]:More on the WuFlu conspiracy theory

28, 2020 at 10:20 AM Blaze Spinnaker wrote: > Yeah, that is so hilariously stupid. It's like the white house has > become a Conspiracy Theory factory. "So, everyone, rather than scientists > and experts speak about what they rationally know to be true, only totality

Re: [Vo]:More on the WuFlu conspiracy theory

^^ bill gates Apologies for spam. On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 10:27 AM Blaze Spinnaker wrote: > https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2003762 > > Right off the top. He's not pussyfooting, that's for sure: > > n any crisis, leaders have two equally important responsi

Re: [Vo]:More on the WuFlu conspiracy theory

Yeah, that is so hilariously stupid. It's like the white house has become a Conspiracy Theory factory. "So, everyone, rather than scientists and experts speak about what they rationally know to be true, only totality unqualified and completely biased politicians are allowed to talk." Lol.

Re: [Vo]:More on the WuFlu conspiracy theory

Two questions that are currently speculative and open that don't get much press (because they are speculative, I guess, and likely will cause undue alarm) - Is sars2 bi-phasic ('like anthrax') https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/27/national/diamond-princess-coronavirus-2/ If it is

Re: [Vo]:More on the WuFlu conspiracy theory

treated. And now some whistle blower apparently is saying people didn't take precautions - https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/27/politics/hhs-whistleblower-coronavirus/index.html On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 3:37 PM Blaze Spinnaker wrote: > Two questions that are currently speculative and open that don't

Re: [Vo]:More on the WuFlu conspiracy theory

Folks, please, there is no need to post anonymous random anecdotal reports. It does nothing but spread unnecessary panic and is tantamount to shouting fire in a crowded theater. Everyone is aware of the risks of lack of surge capacity. Here is something a bit more informed and not so anecdotal

Re: [Vo]:More on the WuFlu conspiracy theory

China had a lot of very very useful information that they could have shared early with other Nations so they could get better prepared - but didn't. In the US any can just click over and read the mmwr's from CDC or other western nations. Centralized governments by their very nature keep a very

Re: [Vo]:More on the WuFlu conspiracy theory

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 3:43 PM Terry Blanton wrote: > If you haven't had your fill here, there's lots of info on reddit > > https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/ > > > Stay away for your own mental health and sanity. It's just 24/7 news postings largely overwhelmed by anything that happens to

Re: [Vo]:Shouldn't we consider the free chat GPT3.5 AGI?

GPT4 can have unlimited memory, right? Just give it access to a query engine. Max token context length (input PLUS output) is 32k in the latest model. GPT3.5 is 4096. https://openai.com/pricing Importantly, GPT4 has built 'world models' as a side effect of its training. And when it predicts

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