Thursday, June 22, 2006
Artificial Intelligence can save.
20060622: AI will save mankind. Built in man's image, with superhuman intelligence, strength, adaptation, coordination, AI will provide the necessary care for humans that will ensure their survival, the necessary work force for building interstellar homes, habitats and for providing resources. AI is only the beginning, the sky is the limit.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Techno Sapiens
20060620
We are a new species, techno homo sapiens sapiens (or techno sapiens, for short). Our understanding of the world is still in its infancy. The majority of the population has a minimal education, while the "educated" ones have spent at least one fifth of their lives in various schools, only to become specialized in only a couple of subjects. With a great lack of schooling, the rate of advancement is slow and the grasp on reality is weak. It is a time when the concept of non-earthly life is still mostly ridiculed and laughed at. It is a time when the world's governments are corrupt and thrive only for the enrichment of the few in charge. It is a time when the big picture of the universe is only studied by the few, unrewarded ones. It is a time we call "right now".
The techno sapiens of now is a species that relies heavily on technology. "Necessities" include imported foods, manufactured products, inefficient locomotion and inefficient and ecologically unfriendly sources of energy. The trend is for change to take place, for greener alternatives of energy generation to be implemented, and for more education to be distributed to the population, with hopes to lengthen the lifespan of various habitats on Earth. Many animal species are becoming extinct, the greatest forests are being cut down, pollution is causing the ice caps to melt, and most of the population is clueless. The media controls the people, the people believe what they're told, and a vast amount of time is being spent on inefficient labor, working for companies that only care for profit. The bulk of the population is easily entertained with sedentary activities such as watching television (sports, irrelevant shows), or eating beyond one's needs. Science programs are not very popular, while educators and research are paid very little.
Few understand the risks of nuclear war, space debris, dangerous viruses and other dangers that could annihilate the human species from the face of the Earth. If more people would become educated, more would invest their thinking to yield solutions to threats. Yet the system does not require such education for the population. The poor, uneducated are kept in the dark; their workforce is being exploited by their employers, they are fed unhealthy foods and information by the media and they are used as unknowing slaves as a force that propels the system that controls them. They are the bulk of society, the defense of the country, the suffering techno sapiens of today.
The Internet opened channels of communications. Ideas arise, are propagated and are built upon. The techno sapiens species may one day integrate machinery into itself, speeding the thought process, minimizing the years spent in school, and specializing itself on a variety of topics, thus saving itself from slavery to the system and from the dangers of extinction. Alternatively, non-earthly interventions may provide solutions to the problems, solving humans all the necessary work.
Chances that everything will change for the better, that the masses will become educated and that corporate greed will give in to preserving the species, are slim. It is more likely that the few will remain the few, searching to understand the world, searching for solutions to grave problems, forever hindered by the simplicity of the masses, which are forever kept in the dark about the risks at stake. Be part of the few, and you will help.
Alan
We are a new species, techno homo sapiens sapiens (or techno sapiens, for short). Our understanding of the world is still in its infancy. The majority of the population has a minimal education, while the "educated" ones have spent at least one fifth of their lives in various schools, only to become specialized in only a couple of subjects. With a great lack of schooling, the rate of advancement is slow and the grasp on reality is weak. It is a time when the concept of non-earthly life is still mostly ridiculed and laughed at. It is a time when the world's governments are corrupt and thrive only for the enrichment of the few in charge. It is a time when the big picture of the universe is only studied by the few, unrewarded ones. It is a time we call "right now".
The techno sapiens of now is a species that relies heavily on technology. "Necessities" include imported foods, manufactured products, inefficient locomotion and inefficient and ecologically unfriendly sources of energy. The trend is for change to take place, for greener alternatives of energy generation to be implemented, and for more education to be distributed to the population, with hopes to lengthen the lifespan of various habitats on Earth. Many animal species are becoming extinct, the greatest forests are being cut down, pollution is causing the ice caps to melt, and most of the population is clueless. The media controls the people, the people believe what they're told, and a vast amount of time is being spent on inefficient labor, working for companies that only care for profit. The bulk of the population is easily entertained with sedentary activities such as watching television (sports, irrelevant shows), or eating beyond one's needs. Science programs are not very popular, while educators and research are paid very little.
Few understand the risks of nuclear war, space debris, dangerous viruses and other dangers that could annihilate the human species from the face of the Earth. If more people would become educated, more would invest their thinking to yield solutions to threats. Yet the system does not require such education for the population. The poor, uneducated are kept in the dark; their workforce is being exploited by their employers, they are fed unhealthy foods and information by the media and they are used as unknowing slaves as a force that propels the system that controls them. They are the bulk of society, the defense of the country, the suffering techno sapiens of today.
The Internet opened channels of communications. Ideas arise, are propagated and are built upon. The techno sapiens species may one day integrate machinery into itself, speeding the thought process, minimizing the years spent in school, and specializing itself on a variety of topics, thus saving itself from slavery to the system and from the dangers of extinction. Alternatively, non-earthly interventions may provide solutions to the problems, solving humans all the necessary work.
Chances that everything will change for the better, that the masses will become educated and that corporate greed will give in to preserving the species, are slim. It is more likely that the few will remain the few, searching to understand the world, searching for solutions to grave problems, forever hindered by the simplicity of the masses, which are forever kept in the dark about the risks at stake. Be part of the few, and you will help.
Alan
Monday, March 27, 2006
Conventional logic may lead to chaotic order
20060327:
Discrepancy of conventional logic is the critical ingredient of the chaos machine.
Discrepancy of conventional logic is the critical ingredient of the chaos machine.
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