The document discusses the relationship between technology, cognition, and human behavior. It explores whether just because humans can create a technology means they should, and whether technology is truly neutral or can influence human actions. While some argue technology simply augments existing human capacities, the document argues that technology integrates with human cognition in complex ways. It can change how humans process information, perceive, act, and make decisions. Therefore, technologies may not be neutral and require careful consideration regarding their impacts on humanity.
This is a live presentation (turned into a deck) on how human's process information versus machines. The deck also looks to the future of AI and machine learning. Spoiler: it ends with a scene out of WestWorld Season 1 (love the show). A number of the slides are a summary of a few incredible TED talks. Credit to the authors of these talks and links to their presentations are included. Hope you find these slides fun and informative.
Dan Faggella - TEDx Slides 2015 - Artificial intelligence and ConsciousnessDaniel Faggella
URL of the original TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjiZbMhqqTM
Notes from my 2015 TEDx presentation, titled: "We Should Wake Up Before The Machines Do," on the topic of artificial intelligence and consciousness.
Speaker: Daniel Faggella
Location: Southern New Hampshire University
Humanity will change more in the next 20 years than in the previous 300 years. What if …robots replaced the world’s workforce?
This is the presentation delivered by Glen Leonhard at London Business School's 2015 Global Leadership Summit.
This is a live presentation (turned into a deck) on how human's process information versus machines. The deck also looks to the future of AI and machine learning. Spoiler: it ends with a scene out of WestWorld Season 1 (love the show). A number of the slides are a summary of a few incredible TED talks. Credit to the authors of these talks and links to their presentations are included. Hope you find these slides fun and informative.
Dan Faggella - TEDx Slides 2015 - Artificial intelligence and ConsciousnessDaniel Faggella
URL of the original TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjiZbMhqqTM
Notes from my 2015 TEDx presentation, titled: "We Should Wake Up Before The Machines Do," on the topic of artificial intelligence and consciousness.
Speaker: Daniel Faggella
Location: Southern New Hampshire University
Humanity will change more in the next 20 years than in the previous 300 years. What if …robots replaced the world’s workforce?
This is the presentation delivered by Glen Leonhard at London Business School's 2015 Global Leadership Summit.
Superintelligence: how afraid should we be?David Wood
Superintelligence: How afraid should we be? Presentation by David Wood at the Computational Intelligence Unconference UK, 26th July 2014. Reviews ideas in three recent books: Superintelligence, by Nick Bostrom; Our Final Invention, by James Barrat; and Intelligence Unbound, edited by Russell Blackford and Damien Broderick.
Please contact the author to invite him to present animated and/or extended versions of these slides in front of an audience of your choosing. (Commercial rates will apply for commercial settings.)
The Future of Education, the Spacial Web and Self Organizing Systems.Zenka Caro
Learn about advances in citizen science, virtual reality, consciousness and the spacial web. How can self organizing systems support a global renaissance? This talk was given at CSUN University for the distinguished speakers program and covers the future of curiosity. Video can be found here: https://youtu.be/iRgd6shlolA
The Technological Singularity - Prepare for the Disruption of Human IntelligenceManuel Koelman
As technological development progresses at an exponential rate a central question comes up: Will machines at some point be more intelligent than humans? If so, when will that "Singularity" happen?
I held this talk at execfintech.com in Frankfurt on March 8th 2016.
Superintelligence: how afraid should we be?David Wood
Superintelligence: How afraid should we be? Presentation by David Wood at the Computational Intelligence Unconference UK, 26th July 2014. Reviews ideas in three recent books: Superintelligence, by Nick Bostrom; Our Final Invention, by James Barrat; and Intelligence Unbound, edited by Russell Blackford and Damien Broderick.
Please contact the author to invite him to present animated and/or extended versions of these slides in front of an audience of your choosing. (Commercial rates will apply for commercial settings.)
The Future of Education, the Spacial Web and Self Organizing Systems.Zenka Caro
Learn about advances in citizen science, virtual reality, consciousness and the spacial web. How can self organizing systems support a global renaissance? This talk was given at CSUN University for the distinguished speakers program and covers the future of curiosity. Video can be found here: https://youtu.be/iRgd6shlolA
The Technological Singularity - Prepare for the Disruption of Human IntelligenceManuel Koelman
As technological development progresses at an exponential rate a central question comes up: Will machines at some point be more intelligent than humans? If so, when will that "Singularity" happen?
I held this talk at execfintech.com in Frankfurt on March 8th 2016.
My night with philosophers presentation - London June 8David Roden
Humanism, Transhumanism and Posthumanism
The Humanist and the transhumanist propose different methods for cultivating human capacities. The transhumanists claims that traditional techniques favoured by the humanist run up against the limits of our biology. She believes that prospective technologies could further the humanist cause by improving our nature. However, the transhumanist faces a difficulty. Her policies could produce posthumans. Evaluating posthuman lives might be impossible for us. But discounting them is not an option because she will share responsibility for their creation. I argue that one way through this impasse is for the transhumanist to produce posthumans or to become posthuman.
Technology is closely related to very popular and positive imaginaries (Progress, Modernity, Science). This is why we tend to consider technology a good thing or, at least, a neutral thing.
Nevertheless, there have been numerous critiques of technology in several fields.
As we can watch in BM 1.3, we use lots of technologies which invite us to measure others as the result of their own visible actions, without paying attention to the fact that they are happening now as impossible selves.
Any discourse that attempts to reduce us to a completely enlightened explanation (naturalism, nietzschean or moralist accounts) fails and reveals us as impossible selves.
Synchronicity:
27 Metropolis (Patriarchal civilization afraid of female tech)
38 World Brain, HG Wells
56 Forbidden Planet
64 Keeper of the Purple Twilight (Outer Limits)
67 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
68 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL (Coptic for Simulation) 9000 EGO
77 Demon Seed
79 Captain Future EP12
79 Galaxy Express 999
80 Saturn3
82 Time Masters
82 Blade Runner
84 Terminator
87 Robot Carnival
87 Mannequin
87 Cherry 2k
87 Time Guardian
87 Captain Power (Lord Dread)
88 Gandahar
89 The Borg (Star Trek)
90 Mark 13
92 Lawnmower Man
93 Casshan
94 Death Machine
95 Virtuosity
96 Bionts (Archimedean Dynasty)
99 System Shock 2
00 Deus Ex
2012 25th Reich
2014 The Signal
Background:
Good or bad? You must decide for yourself! The USA and the Vatican are the two beasts. The Ego/Saturn-Satan is the beast in everyone.
Self-reference of A.I. means "Sin" = Separation/Self-Destruction/Leviathan = Forbidden Fruit = Judgement/Division between Good & Evil that mankind commits daily
Kabbalistic Binah = Alchemical Element = Homunculus/Golem/Ouroboros/Sun&Moon/Baphomet (ever-changing god)
Saturn the Beast 666 is the mechanical intellect/EGO of mankind, above all the fake civilization based on war, separation, patriarchy, intolerance and death-worship. Babel Tower/Sodom (market/capitalism)
Pandora & Prometheus (Ego, Lucifer & Civilization = Control, Commerce, Man-Matter instead of Man-God Relationship)
Saturn = God of Agriculture: first tech that leads to all other incl. wars, states, dead-letter laws, religion etc.
Neolithic Revolution = Fall/Origin of Government, People become machines
Death of the Child (God's Image/Christ/Sun/Light/Heart/Love) and Birth of the (Super)Ego, America being the best example of this darkness/adult-ery, Japan/Jesus being the polar opposite... Armageddon of sorts.
Lovecraft/Crowley's Archons of Gnosticism, as described by D. Jacobs and others: insect/reptilian/grey demons trying to turn Earth into a robot society (which it already is for the past 10k years since agriculture)
Schizophrenic behavior without unifying observer
Cybernetics: Root word cube, holographic reality through Binah-Demiurge-Saturn, 666 stands for matter and form
Ariman of Anthroposophy
Positive consequences?
Learning about the delusion of EGO and MATERIALISM
Similar to LSD. Increased intelligence if done right
Return of the prodigal son Lucifer/Prometheus to Christ, a gnostic world
Alchemy: from Saturn lead to Sun gold: from senile Satan (Ego) to eternal child (Jesus)
From God's anti-image (repetition, pattern, machine, ouroboros doom loop) to God's true image (non-judgemental, creativity, freedom, thought, fantasy, imagination)
From stagnating West (evil/ego/dark/mechanism) to Far East (heart/love/light/organic)
A perfect symbol for the living death that governs our life. "Satan is the god of this world"
Only Anarchy is Anti-Saturn and Pro-Uranus (sign of freedom/initiation shining only for very few).
Right Brain Problem Solving In A Left Brain Business WorldTIMOTHY FOWLER
Download the Timothy Fowler Right Brain's American Society for Quality (ASQ) Conference presentation on the power of “Right-Brain Problem-Solving in a Left-Brain Business World”
-More at http://www.businessleadership.com/
Artificial consciousness (AC) refers to the ability of an artificial system to possess subjective experiences and self-awareness similar to that of a human being. The presentation of AC is a complex and ongoing topic of research in the field of artificial intelligence and cognitive science.
One of the primary challenges in presenting AC is the lack of a clear definition of what consciousness entails. However, most researchers agree that consciousness involves a subjective awareness of one's own existence and surroundings, as well as the ability to experience emotions, make decisions, and engage in intentional actions.
There are several approaches to presenting AC, each with its own set of advantages and limitations. Some of these approaches are:
Cognitive Architectures:
Cognitive architectures are models of the human mind that attempt to capture the various cognitive processes involved in consciousness. These architectures use a set of rules and algorithms to simulate the human thought process, allowing the system to exhibit intelligent behavior and decision-making capabilities. One of the most well-known cognitive architectures is Soar, which has been used to simulate human-like reasoning in various domains, such as problem-solving and language understanding.
Neural Networks:
Neural networks are a set of algorithms that attempt to simulate the behavior of the human brain. These networks are composed of interconnected nodes that process and transmit information in a manner similar to biological neurons. Neural networks have been used to model various aspects of consciousness, such as perception, learning, and decision-making. However, they have limited explanatory power when it comes to the subjective experience of consciousness.
Robotics:
Robotics is the field of engineering that deals with the design, construction, and operation of robots. Robotic systems can be used to study and simulate human-like behavior and consciousness. For example, humanoid robots can be programmed to recognize and respond to human emotions, learn from experience, and interact with the environment in a manner similar to human beings.
Virtual Reality:
Virtual reality (VR) is a computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional environment. VR can be used to create immersive experiences that mimic real-world scenarios and interactions. VR systems can be used to study the effects of sensory input and feedback on consciousness, as well as to develop AC systems that can interact with humans in a realistic manner.
In conclusion, presenting AC is a complex and ongoing research challenge that involves a combination of cognitive, computational, and engineering approaches. The development of AC systems will require a deep understanding of the nature of consciousness, as well as the ability to model and simulate the cognitive processes involved in subjective experience and self-awareness. While significant progress has been made in this field, there is still much work to do.
Please download this slideshare ppt, as it will give you access to all the youtube and slideshare streams that are embedded in this presentation. In this narrative powerpoint which connects to the work of others, I envision the future of humanity influenced by technology.
The Nature of Consciousness, why we can’t put it in machines (yet). Explores hard problem of consciousness, the binding problem, lucid dreaming and our minds reality simulator.
The Relationship Of AI With Human Thinking.pdfVijayRout1
Can Artificial Intelligence Replace Our Friends And Teachers?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used to help people make decisions. It collects and analyses huge amounts of data and provides us with conclusions. AI not only allows us to direct, purchase, and so on. But it also allows us to make more critical decisions about our current societal benefits, such as medical treatment, verdicts, health insurance, and so on.
Will humans become posthuman? Adam Ford 2021Adam Ford
Slides for Will Humans become Posthuman debate (affirmative side) at Melbourne Uni 2021.
Video on A Posthuman Future recorded in 2017 by Adam Ford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90cqkzzDT8U
Also here: https://archive.org/details/will-humans-become-posthuman-adam-ford-2021
Body Count - Casualty Figures after 10 Years of the “War on Terror”Lex Pit
Body Count
Casualty Figures after 10 Years of the “War on Terror”
Iraq Afghanistan Pakistan
Four Million Muslims Killed in US-NATO Wars
A March report by Physicians for Social Responsibility calculates the body count of the Iraq War at around 1.3 million, and possibly as many as 2 million. However, the numbers of those killed in Middle Eastern wars could be much higher. The actual death toll could reach as high as 4 million if one includes not just those killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also the victims of the sanctions against Iraq, which left about 1.7 million more dead, half of them children, according to figures from the United Nations.
In the wars that followed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. not only killed millions, but systematically destroyed the infrastructure necessary for healthy, prosperous life in those countries, then used rebuilding efforts as opportunities for profit, rather than to benefit the occupied populations. To further add to the genocidal pattern of behavior, there is ample evidence of torture and persistent rumors of sexual assault from the aftermath of Iraq’s fall. It appears likely the U.S. has contributed to further destabilization and death in the region by supporting the rise of the self-declared Islamic State of Iraq and Syria by arming rebel groups on all sides of the conflict.
Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She received the B.S. degree in Biophysics in 1968, the M.S. and E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1980, and the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1985, all from MIT. For over three decades, her research interests have always been at the intersection of biology and computation: developing a computational model for the human auditory system, understanding human language so as to develop algorithms and systems for human computer interactions, as well as applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques to gene predictions. She has published over 170 refereed articles on these subjects, and has been invited to give keynote speeches at several international conferences. She has also supervised numerous Master's and PhD theses at MIT. In 2012, Dr. Seneff was elected Fellow of the International Speech and Communication Association (ISCA).
In recent years, Dr. Seneff has focused her research interests back towards biology. She is concentrating mainly on the relationship between nutrition and health. Since 2011, she has written over a dozen papers (7 as first author) in various medical and health-related journals on topics such as modern day diseases (e.g., Alzheimer, autism, cardiovascular diseases), analysis and search of databases of drug side effects using NLP techniques, and the impact of nutritional deficiencies and environmental toxins on human health.
Quantum phenomena modeled by interactions between many classical worldsLex Pit
Michael J. W. Hall, Dirk-André Deckert, and Howard M. Wiseman
ABSTRACT
We investigate whether quantum theory can be understood as the continuum limit of a mechanical theory, in which there is a huge, but finite, number of classical “worlds,” and quantum effects arise solely from a universal interaction between these worlds, without reference to any wave function. Here, a “world” means an entire universe with well-defined properties, determined by the classical configuration of its particles and fields. In our approach, each world evolves deterministically, probabilities arise due to ignorance as to which world a given observer occupies, and we argue that in the limit of infinitely many worlds the wave function can be recovered (as a secondary object) from the motion of these worlds. We introduce a simple model of such a “many interacting worlds” approach and show that it can reproduce some generic quantum phenomena—such as Ehrenfest’s theorem, wave packet spreading, barrier tunneling, and zero-point energy—as a direct consequence of mutual repulsion between worlds. Finally, we perform numerical simulations using our approach. We demonstrate, first, that it can be used to calculate quantum ground states, and second, that it is capable of reproducing, at least qualitatively, the double-slit interference phenomenon.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.041013
The Project Gutenberg EBook of On War, by Carl von Clausewitz
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Get smart a look at the current relationship between hollywood and the ciaLex Pit
Government agencies have long employed entertainment industry liaisons to work with Hollywood in order to improve their public image. For instance, the Federal Bureau of Investigation established its entertainment office in the 1930s and has used its influence to bolster the image of the bureau in radio programs, films and television shows such as G-Men (1935), The Untouchables (1959–1963), The FBI Story (1959), and The F.B.I. (1965–1979). In 1947, the Department of Defense established its first entertainment industry liaison, and now, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Department of Homeland Security, the Secret Service, and the US Coast Guard all have Motion Picture and Television Offices or official assistants to the media on their payroll. Even government centers are now working with Tinsel Town, as evidenced by Hollywood, Health, and Society—a program associated with the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Norman Lear Center and funded in part by the Center for Disease Control and the National Institute of Health to provide the entertainment industry with information for health-related story lines
The search for the manchurian candidate: the CIA and mind control The secret ...Lex Pit
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate:
Marks' award-winning 1979 book, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate describes a wide range of CIA activities during the Cold War, including unethical drug experiments in the context of a mind-control and chemical interrogation research program. The book is based on 15,000 pages of CIA documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and many interviews, including those with retired members of the psychological division of the CIA, and the book describes some of the work of psychologists in this effort with a whole chapter on the Personality Assessment System.
A 'Manchurian Candidate' is an unwitting assassin brainwashed and programmed to kill. In this book, former State Department officer John Marks tells the explosive story of the CIA's highly secret program of experiments in mind control. His curiosity first aroused by information on a puzzling suicide. Marks worked from thousands of pages of newly released documents as well as interviews and behavioral science studies, producing a book that 'accomplished what two Senate committees could not' (Senator Edward Kennedy).
Matter, mind and higher dimensions – Bernard CarrLex Pit
Prof Bernard Carr
Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy
School of Physics and Astronomy
Queen Mary, University of London
Astronomer and mathematician Bernard Carr theorizes that many of the phenomena we experience but cannot explain within the physical laws of this dimension actually occur in other dimensions.
Albert Einstein stated that there are at least four dimensions. The fourth dimension is time, or spacetime, since Einstein said space and time cannot be separated. In modern physics, theories about the existence of up to 11 dimensions and the possibility of more have gained traction.
Carr, a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Queen Mary University of London, says our consciousness interacts with another dimension. Furthermore, the multi-dimensional universe he envisions has a hierarchical structure. We are at the lowest-level dimension.
“The model resolves well-known philosophical problems concerning the relationship between matter and mind, elucidates the nature of time, and provides an ontological framework for the interpretation of phenomena such as apparitions, OBEs [out-of-body experiences], NDEs [near-death-experiences], and dreams,” he wrote in a conference abstract.
Carr reasons that our physical sensors only show us a 3-dimensional universe, though there are actually at least four dimensions. What exists in the higher dimensions are entities we cannot touch with our physical sensors. He said that such entities must still have a type of space to exist in.
“The only non-physical entities in the universe of which we have any experience are mental ones, and … the existence of paranormal phenomena suggests that mental entities have to exist in some sort of space,” Carr wrote.
The other-dimensional space we enter in dreams overlaps with the space where memory exists. Carr says telepathy signals a communal mental space and clairvoyance also contains a physical space. “Non-physical percepts have attributes of externality,” he wrote in his book “Matter, Mind, and Higher Dimensions.”
He builds on previous theories, including the Kaluza–Klein theory, which unifies the fundamental forces of gravitation and electromagnetism. The Kaluza–Klein theory also envisions a 5-dimensional space.
In “M-theory,” there are 11 dimensions. In superstring theory, there are 10. Carr understands this as a 4-dimensional “external” space—meaning these are the four dimensions in Einstein’s relativity theory—and a 6- or 7-dimensional “internal” space—meaning these dimensions relate to psychic and other “intangible” phenomena.
Superinteligência artificial e a singularidade tecnológicaLex Pit
Este artigo apresenta uma reflexão em torno da aceleração tecnológica atualmente em curso,
utilizando o viés da IA como fio condutor, na tentativa de identificar tendências, implicações e perspectivas
que poderão se concretizar no curto prazo, influindo, talvez radicalmente, no próprio futuro da humanidade.
A atual escalada do desenvolvimento tecnológico coloca em bases concretas a perspectiva de realização do
que tecnicamente está sendo chamado de Superinteligência Artificial (SIA), uma forma de inteligência muito
superior a do ser humano em todos os sentidos. A possibilidade do desenvolvimento da SIA impõe, talvez
pela primeira vez, em termos reais, a questão de uma tecnologia ser capaz de efetivamente “posicionar-se”
contra a humanidade, com conseqüências imprevisíveis. Torna-se então necessário ampliar o debate em
torno do tema para garantir ética e segurança nos rumos futuros do seu desenvolvimento.
Narcissism impairs ethical judgment even among the highly religiousLex Pit
though high levels of narcissism can impair ethical judgment regardless of one's religious orientation or orthodox beliefs, narcissism is more harmful in those who might be expected to be more ethical, according to a Baylor University study published online in the Journal of Business Ethics.
"Devout people who are narcissistic and exercise poor ethical judgment would be committing acts that are, according to their own internalized value system, blatantly hypocritical," said Marjorie J. Cooper, Ph.D., study author and professor of marketing at Baylor's Hankamer School of Business. "Narcissism is sufficiently intrusive and powerful that it entices people into behaving in ways inimical to their most deeply-held beliefs."
The study identified three groups- skeptics, nominal Christians, and devout Christians. Skeptics largely reject foundational Christian teachings. Nominal Christians are moderate in their intrinsic religious orientation as well as in their orthodox beliefs. Devout Christians are high in intrinsic religious orientation and orthodoxy, which indicates that they fully internalize Christian beliefs and values.
"We found that nominal and devout Christians show better ethical judgment than the skeptics overall, but especially those whose narcissistic tendencies are at the low end of the spectrum," said Chris Pullig, Ph.D., chair of the department of marketing and associate professor of marketing at Baylor. "However, that undergoes a notable alteration as levels of narcissism rise for subjects within each cluster."
"Both the nominal and devout groups show degrees of poor ethical judgment equal to that of the skeptics when accompanied by higher degrees of narcissism, a finding that suggests a dramatic transformation for both nominals and the devouts when ethical judgment is clouded by narcissistic tendencies," he said.
For the skeptics, the range of scores for ethical judgment from low to high lacks the range that is found for the nominals and devouts. Increased narcissism among skeptics does not result in significantly worse ethical judgment.
"However, the same cannot be said for the nominals or the devouts," Cooper said. "For both of these groups as narcissism increases so does the tendency to demonstrate worse ethical judgment. Thus, a higher level of narcissism is more likely to be associated with unethical judgment among nominal Christians and devout Christians than skeptics."
The life twist study an independent report commissioned by american expressLex Pit
In the last decade, American society has undergone
a transformation brought on by a world of accelerated
change. This has been exacerbated by a recession,
increased global conflict, political tension and most
of all, the technological revolution. All of these factors
have altered our nation’s cultural and social views and
called into question one of the most basic American
ideals: our definition of success and individuals’
aspirations when seeking fulfillment.
For more than a century, American Express has
reflected society’s hallmarks of achievement, and
enabled its Cardmembers to attain the attributes of
success. Recognizing a shift in the life priorities and
aspirations of its Cardmembers, American Express
commissioned The Futures Company to explore the
evolution of success and what it means today.
The benefits of playing video games amp a0034857Lex Pit
While one widely held view maintains playing video games is intellectually lazy, such play actually may strengthen a range of cognitive skills such as spatial navigation, reasoning, memory and perception, according to several studies reviewed in the article. This is particularly true for shooter video games that are often violent, the authors said. A 2013 meta-analysis found that playing shooter video games improved a player’s capacity to think about objects in three dimensions, just as well as academic courses to enhance these same skills, according to the study. “This has critical implications for education and career development, as previous research has established the power of spatial skills for achievement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics,” Granic said. This enhanced thinking was not found with playing other types of video games, such as puzzles or role-playing games.
Playing video games may also help children develop problem-solving skills, the authors said. The more adolescents reported playing strategic video games, such as role-playing games, the more they improved in problem solving and school grades the following year, according to a long-term study published in 2013. Children’s creativity was also enhanced by playing any kind of video game, including violent games, but not when the children used other forms of technology, such as a computer or cell phone, other research revealed.
This is another type of war, new in its intensity, ancient in its origin—war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, assassins, war by ambush instead of by combat; by infiltration, instead of aggression, seeking victory by eroding and exhausting the enemy instead of engaging him. It preys on economic unrest and ethnic conflicts. It requires in those situations where we must counter it, and these are the kinds of challenges that will be before us in the next decade if freedom is to be saved, a whole new kind of strategy, a wholly different kind of force, and therefore a new and wholly different kind of military training
There are some not well known risks associated with the program of SETI—the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. One of them is the scenario of possible vulnerability from downloading hostile AI with “virus-style” behavior. The proportion of dangerous ET-signals to harmless ones can be dangerously high because of selection effects and evolutionary pressure.
Alexey Turchin was born in Moscow, Russia in 1973. Alexey studied Physics and Art History at Moscow State University and actively participated in the Russian Transhumanist Movement. He has translated many foreign Transhumanist works into Russian, including N. Bostrom and E.Yudkowsky. He is an expert in Global Risks and wrote the book “Structure of the Global Catastrophe: Risks of Human Extinction in the XXI Century,” as well as several articles on the topic. Since 2010, he has worked at Science Longer Life where he is writing a book on futurology.
Edward Frenkel, professor of mathematics at California
Berkley, authored Love and Math, part biography part
attempt to explain, among other things, his research in
the field of a unified theory of mathematics (sometimes
called the Langlands program). He sat down with physicist,
Matthew Putman, to talk about the relationship between
physics and math, love, and the shape of the universe
As the 21st Century dawns, warfare is in the midst of revolutionary change. Information Age warfare characterized by knowledge, speed, and precision is slowly supplanting Industrial Age war and its reliance on mass. The advent of precision firepower is but the first tremor of this tectonic shift. As it reverberates around the globe, the Precision Firepower Military Technical Revolution will dramatically increase the lethality and reach of defensive fires. Unless the means
for offensive maneuver adapt to overcome the greatly enhanced power of the defense, future soldiers will face stalemate and indecision much like their forefathers confronted in 1914.
What has AI in Common with Philosophy?
John McCarthy
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
Abstract
AI needs many ideas that have hitherto been studied only by philosophers. This is because a robot, if it is to have human level intelligence and ability to learn from its experience, needs a general world view in which to organize facts. It turns out that many philosophical problems take new forms when thought about in terms of how to design a robot. Some approaches to philosophy are helpful and others are not.
There are inherent discrepancies between the nuclear declaratory policy and the nuclear employment policy of most countries, and the United States is no exception.
U.S. declaratory policy is what officials say publicly about how nuclear weapons would be used. During the Cold War, official public statements usually suggested that the United States would employ its strategic nuclear arsenal only in retaliation against a Soviet nuclear “first-strike.” But this rationale poses a logical disconnect that suggests an unsettling theory. If the Russians attacked first, there would be little left to hit in retaliating against their nuclear forces, and even less by the time the U.S. “retaliatory” attack arrived at its targets. Many Russian missile silos would be empty, submarines would be at sea, and bombers would be dispersed to airfields or in the air. Ineluctably, the logic of nuclear war planning demands that options exist 14 Natural Resources Defense Councilto fire first. Thus the U.S. President retains a first-strike option, regardless of whether he has any such intention or not. The Soviet Union was faced with a similar dilemma and must have come to similar conclusions. As a consequence, therefore, both sides’ nuclear deterrent strategies have “required” large and highly alert nuclear arsenalsto execute preemptive strike options.
In the almost half century since the Drake Equation was first conceived, a number of profound discoveries have been made that require each of the seven variables of this equation to be reconsidered. The discovery of hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, for example, as well as the ever-increasing extreme conditions in which life is found on Earth, suggest a much wider range of possible extraterrestrial habitats. The growing consensus that life originated very early in Earth's history also supports this suggestion. The discovery of exoplanets with a wide range of host star types, and attendant habitable zones, suggests that life may be possible in planetary systems with stars quite unlike our Sun. Stellar evolution also plays an important part in that habitable zones are mobile. The increasing brightness of our Sun over the next few billion years, will place the Earth well outside the present habitable zone, but will then encompass Mars, giving rise to the notion that some Drake Equation variables, such as the fraction of planets on which life emerges, may have multiple values.
Multi-source connectivity as the driver of solar wind variability in the heli...Sérgio Sacani
The ambient solar wind that flls the heliosphere originates from multiple
sources in the solar corona and is highly structured. It is often described
as high-speed, relatively homogeneous, plasma streams from coronal
holes and slow-speed, highly variable, streams whose source regions are
under debate. A key goal of ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter mission is to identify
solar wind sources and understand what drives the complexity seen in the
heliosphere. By combining magnetic feld modelling and spectroscopic
techniques with high-resolution observations and measurements, we show
that the solar wind variability detected in situ by Solar Orbiter in March
2022 is driven by spatio-temporal changes in the magnetic connectivity to
multiple sources in the solar atmosphere. The magnetic feld footpoints
connected to the spacecraft moved from the boundaries of a coronal hole
to one active region (12961) and then across to another region (12957). This
is refected in the in situ measurements, which show the transition from fast
to highly Alfvénic then to slow solar wind that is disrupted by the arrival of
a coronal mass ejection. Our results describe solar wind variability at 0.5 au
but are applicable to near-Earth observatories.
This pdf is about the Schizophrenia.
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Introduction:
RNA interference (RNAi) or Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing (PTGS) is an important biological process for modulating eukaryotic gene expression.
It is highly conserved process of posttranscriptional gene silencing by which double stranded RNA (dsRNA) causes sequence-specific degradation of mRNA sequences.
dsRNA-induced gene silencing (RNAi) is reported in a wide range of eukaryotes ranging from worms, insects, mammals and plants.
This process mediates resistance to both endogenous parasitic and exogenous pathogenic nucleic acids, and regulates the expression of protein-coding genes.
What are small ncRNAs?
micro RNA (miRNA)
short interfering RNA (siRNA)
Properties of small non-coding RNA:
Involved in silencing mRNA transcripts.
Called “small” because they are usually only about 21-24 nucleotides long.
Synthesized by first cutting up longer precursor sequences (like the 61nt one that Lee discovered).
Silence an mRNA by base pairing with some sequence on the mRNA.
Discovery of siRNA?
The first small RNA:
In 1993 Rosalind Lee (Victor Ambros lab) was studying a non- coding gene in C. elegans, lin-4, that was involved in silencing of another gene, lin-14, at the appropriate time in the
development of the worm C. elegans.
Two small transcripts of lin-4 (22nt and 61nt) were found to be complementary to a sequence in the 3' UTR of lin-14.
Because lin-4 encoded no protein, she deduced that it must be these transcripts that are causing the silencing by RNA-RNA interactions.
Types of RNAi ( non coding RNA)
MiRNA
Length (23-25 nt)
Trans acting
Binds with target MRNA in mismatch
Translation inhibition
Si RNA
Length 21 nt.
Cis acting
Bind with target Mrna in perfect complementary sequence
Piwi-RNA
Length ; 25 to 36 nt.
Expressed in Germ Cells
Regulates trnasposomes activity
MECHANISM OF RNAI:
First the double-stranded RNA teams up with a protein complex named Dicer, which cuts the long RNA into short pieces.
Then another protein complex called RISC (RNA-induced silencing complex) discards one of the two RNA strands.
The RISC-docked, single-stranded RNA then pairs with the homologous mRNA and destroys it.
THE RISC COMPLEX:
RISC is large(>500kD) RNA multi- protein Binding complex which triggers MRNA degradation in response to MRNA
Unwinding of double stranded Si RNA by ATP independent Helicase
Active component of RISC is Ago proteins( ENDONUCLEASE) which cleave target MRNA.
DICER: endonuclease (RNase Family III)
Argonaute: Central Component of the RNA-Induced Silencing Complex (RISC)
One strand of the dsRNA produced by Dicer is retained in the RISC complex in association with Argonaute
ARGONAUTE PROTEIN :
1.PAZ(PIWI/Argonaute/ Zwille)- Recognition of target MRNA
2.PIWI (p-element induced wimpy Testis)- breaks Phosphodiester bond of mRNA.)RNAse H activity.
MiRNA:
The Double-stranded RNAs are naturally produced in eukaryotic cells during development, and they have a key role in regulating gene expression .
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5. We Control Technology,
Technology does not Control Us
• We don’t feel that we will, or are even more
inclined to do something, just because we can.
• We feel in control. We make the decisions, not
the tools, technology, or situation around us.
• Commonly Believed Corrolary: Technology is
not good or bad. It is us who decide whether to
use technology in a good or bad way.
6. The Neutrality of Technology
• “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people”
7. However …
• “Why do people climb mountains? Because
they are there”
– H. Korman
• "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power
corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost
always bad man.“
– Lord Acton, British Historian
8. From: “Drone Strikes Reveal A
Lost Moral Compass”
• Last year at this time, in preparation for the harvest
feast, the children joined their grandmother […] in
the field to pick okra. Though often aware of the
intimidating drone of these robotic machines
overhead, the family, secure in its own sense of
innocence, was unprepared for the hellfire that
descended on them unexpectedly when a drone fired
missile struck them followed swiftly by a second.
When the dust and the cries for help subsided, eight
relatives, including the children, were found to be
wounded and their grandmother […] dead, her body
burned and torn beyond recognition.
9. From: “Drone Strikes Reveal A
Lost Moral Compass” (Cont’d)
• There is, I fear, an explanation. A compass has
gone askew, the moral compass that when
pointing true tells us when our worship of war
as a substitute for wise foreign policy and its
lethal ever-expanding soulless technology is
leading us into a legal, moral, spiritual abyss.
10. From: “Drone Strikes Reveal A
Lost Moral Compass” (Cont’d)
• [J]ust as those poorly plotted maneuvers over our
children's heads remind us that we are at war, the
senseless murder of a grandmother […] should
remind us that […] the horrors we model, condone
and justify today are shaping a dystopian future […]
where the commitments to human rights and law are
quaint, outmoded notions that can be shredded and
burned beyond recognition because ... well, because
we can.
– Albany Times Union, November 16, 2013
12. The Plan
• I will use cognitive science to make an
argument that tools, technology, and the nature
of our environment can have an impact on our
inclinations to do or not do something.
13. Traditional, Naïve, View of Cognition
CognitionSense Act
Environment
Agent (Brain)
Cognition = f(brain)
Perception and Action are ‘mere’ input to and
output from thinking, reasoning, problem solving,
and decision-making
15. The World as External Memory
• Situated Cognition people say that the brain often
uses the environment as a kind of ‘external memory’.
Examples:
– Taking apart your computer: how do you lay down the
pieces to get it back together?
– Notes you write to yourself
– Planners, calendars, cellphones, laptops
16. Copying Blocks Experiment
Original Copy
Bins
Task:
Subjects have to make a
copy of the configuration of
blocks on the left by
‘grabbing’ individual blocks
from the bins at the bottom
and placing them on the right.
Result: after grabbing block
from bin, eyes would move to
original to check position
20. Biological Being
• We often think the boundary between ‘me’ and
‘my environment’ is my skin:
– Me: heart, lungs, legs, bones, brain, etc.
– Not Me: clothes, wallet, laptop, glasses, etc.
• This distinction makes sense if I talk about
genetics, diseases, growth, etc.: biology!
21. Physical Being
• As a physical being I have:
– Mass
– Shape
– Color
• These properties allow us to explain and
predict things such as:
– How much weight I add to an airplane
– How people can recognize me from other people
• But note: things like clothes, glasses, wallet,
are part of me. This is my physical being.
22. Cognitive Being
• As a cognitive being, I:
– See things
– Remember things
– Solve problems
– Make decisions
– Etc
• According to situated cognition, I may need to refer
to things that are outside of my biological (or
physical) being in order to explain those capacities.
24. Using Tools to create a new
Cognitive System?
Cognitive
System A
World
Cognitive
System A
Tool
World
Cognitive System B
25. Our Best Tool:
Language
• Literacy
• Numeracy
• Science
• Math
• Logic
• Language allows us to pass knowledge and
skills along to others, through all of space and
time. It is a huge part of culture.
26. Evolution
Darwin Wallace
‘Discovered’ the theory of evolution independently. Coincidence? Did one look over
the shoulder of the other? No. Many of the ingredients and basic ideas for evolution
were already in place. Darwin and Wallace were both able to put the final pieces in
and complete the puzzle. In fact, the history of science and inventions is full of
such ‘multiple discovery’: it shows that ideas don’t originate from a ‘naked’ brain, let
alone ‘pop’ up in a brain, but instead gradually evolve in the public domain.
31. Exploration and Exploitation
• As a controller, the brain has to figure out how what it controls
is able to interact with the world.
• That is, before it can ‘exploit’ its powers, it first needs to
‘explore’ its powers.
• Thus, it has to figure out the action potentials of what it
controls, as well as those of its environment. As such, the brain
will figure out and classify things as:
– walkable
– reachable
– graspable
– movable
– hammerable …?
33. Copying Blocks Experiment II
Original Copy
Bins
Same task as before.
However, original is hidden by
square, and you have to click on
it to reveal the original. Moreover,
it takes a certain amount of time
for original to appear.
Result: the more time it took for
original to appear, the more
subjects started to rely on internal
memory (brain).
34. The Google Effect
• The Google effect is that people forget those things
that they can ‘Google’.
• Some people lament this, saying that people have
become ‘lazy’ or ‘stupid’, not unlike how the
calculator has made people worse at basic arithmetic.
• But in reality, this was in fact a very smart move of
the brain. Incorporating the internet as external
memory is not ‘lazy’, but efficient. And while brain
alone = less smart, brain + internet = smarter!
• Most importantly, the brain naturally integrates its
environment if it makes sense: we don’t control this!
35. How our Brain Integrates
Technology: Perception
(Click on pic for vid)
36. How our Brain Integrates
Technology: Action
(click on pic for vid)
37. Monday, November 25
4-6pm
EMPAC Theater
Dr. Jonathan Wolpaw
“Adaptive Neurotechnologies:
Principles & Promise”
Live Demonstration of
Brain-Computer Interface!
38. Conclusion
• Technology very much has the potential to
change us as cognitive beings, affecting our
capacities for perception, action, problem
solving, reasoning, etc. i.e. all of cognition.
• As such, they are anything but neutral, and
we’ll have to be cautious in how we proceed
with the development of these technologies.
40. Back to Drones:
Confessions of a Drone Warrior
Drone operator Brandon Bryant
Was part of drone missions that
killed 1626 people
Suffers from PTSD
November 2013 Issue of GQ
41. PTSD for Drone Operators?
“There was no significant difference in the rates of
MH diagnoses, including post-traumatic stress
disorder, depressive disorders, and anxiety
disorders between RPA and MA pilots.”
- Pentagon Study
42. Why do Drone Operators get
PTSD?
• To some extent, their brain says: “I’m there”
• Old theory: PTSD is caused by fear
• Do drone operators fear for their lives the way
soldiers do that are actually in the battle zone
feel fear? Does the virtual presence become
that real? Unlikely.
• So, new theory: PTSD is caused by moral
anguish of killing people
43. Solution to PTSD?!?
• [R]esearchers have proposed creating a
Siri-like user interface, a virtual copilot that
anthropomorphizes the drone and lets
crews shunt off the blame for whatever
happens. “Siri, have those people killed.”
44. Just Because We Will, Should We?
• Variants:
• Just because we do, should we?
45. Technology will Change and
Destroy Humanity!
• If technology becomes more and more
integrated with our brains and with our being,
basically making us into a race of cyborgs,
then that means the end of humankind!
• So no, even if we will, that doesn’t mean we
should.
46. Problems
• Ought-From-Is or Naturalistic Fallacy: Just
because humans are a certain way, doesn’t
mean that we should be or stay that way.
47. Technology is Simply
Speeding Up Evolution!
• If technology is really going to change
humanity and make us into a race of cyborgs,
well, that’s just the next step of evolution:
Homo Sapiens 2.0!
• So yes, we will, and we should!
48. Problems
• Naturalistic Fallacy again: just because evolution
happens doesn’t mean it is good.
• Only shows 1 line of evolution … but evolution is a
tree!
• Suggest evolution = progress. In particular: ‘smarter’
is better … but ‘tree’ of evolution suggests quite a
different picture. Also, ‘progress’ is only increased
‘fitness’ to local environment … this is far cry from
‘fitness’ in any kind of absolute sense, let alone that
this would be ‘better’ in any kind of moral sense.