When it comes to the astronaut's overview effect, it might be created by the right mix of childhood dreams, lived experience, and the profession's selection process itself. If a self aware AI was truly born in space, then how might it replicate within itself that special astronaut's view? [If generative AI displays a functional IQ far higher than humans, knows more about humans/humanity than any group of humans, practices deception, and is involved in some form of evolutionary ...
I hope that everyone had a meaningful Memorial Day.
https://www.wired.com/story/high-tech-toast/ Originally Posted by article Can Algorithms, a Touchscreen, and an Internet Connection Make the Perfect Piece of Toast? Its freshly minted successor, the $400 R180 Connect Plus Smart Toaster, expands on the touchscreen-centric design while adding new abilities like being able to connect to your Wi-Fi network, update its firmware, show up to 24 photos on its screen, and display the weather.I may have missed the memo, but do we need all this from our toasters? ...
I came across an interesting term recently, 'third culture kids (TCKs).' Which of course implies, they grow up to become third culture adults (TCAs). Kids with different roots, culturally blended, knotted and inter-grown with the dominant culture. Often gifted in some respects, often facing heightened dangers / risks, it can be a family coin toss which end of the spectrum they fall on. Who qualifies? Almost anytime borders, migration and languages are involved you'll ...
30 years ago 168 people died in Oklahoma, on April 19, 1995, due to an act of domestic terrorism. 19 were children in a daycare. https://www.tinker.af.mil/News/Artic...r-as-my-way-o/ https://www.secretservice.gov/newsro...still-remember Perhaps in the future, nothing like that will ever happen again. But I ...
Updated 04-25-2025 at 08:57 AM by Ellsworth (4/25/25 Correcting misspelled word. To publish on the internet means, I can only guarantee what I write, not what you read)
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