Notes on BreakPoint – by Jeff Stibel – An inspiring book appropriate to vanguard ideas on how the mind works and why the Internet is a mind in the making. Literally. Computers, at least so far, are not intelligent. The Internet because it is a network will achieve intelligence first. Here are some notes taken from the …
Continue reading “Neurons that fire together, wire together.”
Quite simply, they – the Conservative party of Canada – have NO VISION. At a time when humanity is tumbling out of control, an abyss of change ahead. At a time when reasoned, fair, trusted, strong world leadership is in critical demand the ruling government of one of the world’s most privileged Countries is obsessed with crime, terrorism, …
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This time its our privacy that’s being handed over to the corps and spooks. Like much legislation these days, bill S4 is is one huge ugly center with a sugary outer coating. The ugly center – bill S-4 proposes that: “an organization may disclose personal information without the knowledge or consent of the individual… if …
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If an algorithm wrote this how would you even know? Will human language be commandeered by computers? Will computers be able to speak perfect “human” eventually making our own voices dull by comparison. Very probably yes. In fact it seems that we are almost there, computers are on the cusp of disrupting our languages. The implications to …
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Aside from millions of letters sent to the FCC defending NN and the support of google, facebook, microsoft (the progressives), there is this quirky comic rant that is said to have swayed opinion… John Oliver
Remarkable how good the models are. Watch the jetstream at the 23:15 mark in the video. Pretty much what we are seeing this year and last. While much of the continent (except west) is well below average this winter, the high arctic is well above average it appears (this was the case in 2014).
I don’t know, I’m not surprised. Meditation lets you keep your mind longer. Meditation, something along the lines of learning how to silence the internal chatter and putting the mind into an aloof state of wizened self wonder. And the lesson would be ———> excessive noise is as bad for the mind as it is for …
You would think that “conservatives” would be the first to defend the natural order. To conserve and not squander our greatest source of wealth, nature. But in Canada, as in the US, the “right” is angry with science – especially environmental science. Want proof? From a 2013 Pew Research pole in the US: percentage who felt that …
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The NSA center in Utah has a utility bill of approximately $3.3 million a month – transforming coal into computronium for enough laser driven zeros and ones to fry those fuckers in North Korea eh? At present, about 2% of all global energy consumed is going into the web and computing – and that number is moving upwards quickly …
Smart site.. LessWrong
