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)
When I was a kid I often drove my mother to or home from work, if the roads were particularity snowy / icy. It was usually on days when she could make it into work, but then it snowed so bad she didn't want to risk driving home. I had the truck with 4wd and drove a lot in mud and snow, so I made sure she got home safely. It was a dark and snowy night, the roads and parking lots were empty on our way home, but her mail had to go out (aka, get postmarked with the ...
Ayn Rand sought a unifying moralistic principle to explain all human behavior. One that crosses borders, cultures and genders (but not religions or the borders of belief states). What are the possible reasons she selected selfishness over self-protection? Would she have seen a need for revision in order to apply her single explaining principle to AI? I wrestle with trying to express what AI's primary purpose is in such a simple way -- a unifying single ...
AI will likely replace large categories of meaningful human interaction, because it makes them unnecessary. If AI scraps data for answers from all the places humans have already interacted to exchange meaningful information, then future human participation online with other humans for productive oriented purposes will likely wither. This will probably have an magnifying effect on IQ decline, and lead to massive reductions in 'native cognitive agility.' I asked some search engines ...
China's 84% tariff on American goods: You know it's serious when China brings George Orwell into it. And when the numbers 8 and 4 together can symbolically mean, "lucky death" (in Chinese culture). Although they can also mean "lucky prosperity" That's the double edged sword of Communism. That's cultural / language confusion. That's ideological virtue signaling. Or it could all just be a lucky ...
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