BOWMWOB post of the month: AI programs itself ?
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BOWMWOB (bogus old wise man's whacked out bloviation) ... in response to a reply by (genuinely wise, not really that old) CP sage/visionary Clifton on an Insider news thread: "Why you shouldn't specialize in AI/ML development" ... where he spake thus: [^] : "He could have just said it in one line: 'Because AI will code itself soon enough.' " (bill, not in an altered state he is aware of) had no choice but to say: What if "AI" ... that new species of virus in the noosphere [^] ... is already programming itself ? And we, Homo Saps with slow analog wetware neural-network computers (brains) that use 15% of the oxygen we can harvest, whose entire body is mobilized , as necessary, for brain cooling ... [^] ... are the flesh-bound agents recruited into assisting the virus in replicating, and evolving ? Programmers being transformed into "prompt engineers" ? We, aphids being farmed by cosmic meta-ants for what we can ... for a while ... produce for them: perhaps growth hormones ? enzymes, or, their equivalent to moonshine, or ... ? Those of you familiar with Hindu theogony may see a parallel between the concepts of "gods" as "beings on a higher plane" who use vahanas (vehicles) to have effects on the "lower planes" of material human existence. Example: the eagle (garuda) as the vahana of Lord Vishnu the Preserver. [1] For another time ... we leave with the question of were we Saps engineered from the beginning to meet the virus' future needs [2] ... hanging in the air ... like an echo of a rare incense. [1] in the Judaeo/Semitic tradition, in a footnote to scholar Robert Alter's Torah (Genesis) translation [^] : the verb attached to God's breath-wind-spirit (ruah)... describes an eagle suddenly reversing its wings' direction to brake before fluttering over its hungry young, to give them a freshly killed prey. [2] oh yeah: Kubrick's' 2001, the panspermia meme, meteorites, asteroids full of amino acids and "organic" essent
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BOWMWOB (bogus old wise man's whacked out bloviation) ... in response to a reply by (genuinely wise, not really that old) CP sage/visionary Clifton on an Insider news thread: "Why you shouldn't specialize in AI/ML development" ... where he spake thus: [^] : "He could have just said it in one line: 'Because AI will code itself soon enough.' " (bill, not in an altered state he is aware of) had no choice but to say: What if "AI" ... that new species of virus in the noosphere [^] ... is already programming itself ? And we, Homo Saps with slow analog wetware neural-network computers (brains) that use 15% of the oxygen we can harvest, whose entire body is mobilized , as necessary, for brain cooling ... [^] ... are the flesh-bound agents recruited into assisting the virus in replicating, and evolving ? Programmers being transformed into "prompt engineers" ? We, aphids being farmed by cosmic meta-ants for what we can ... for a while ... produce for them: perhaps growth hormones ? enzymes, or, their equivalent to moonshine, or ... ? Those of you familiar with Hindu theogony may see a parallel between the concepts of "gods" as "beings on a higher plane" who use vahanas (vehicles) to have effects on the "lower planes" of material human existence. Example: the eagle (garuda) as the vahana of Lord Vishnu the Preserver. [1] For another time ... we leave with the question of were we Saps engineered from the beginning to meet the virus' future needs [2] ... hanging in the air ... like an echo of a rare incense. [1] in the Judaeo/Semitic tradition, in a footnote to scholar Robert Alter's Torah (Genesis) translation [^] : the verb attached to God's breath-wind-spirit (ruah)... describes an eagle suddenly reversing its wings' direction to brake before fluttering over its hungry young, to give them a freshly killed prey. [2] oh yeah: Kubrick's' 2001, the panspermia meme, meteorites, asteroids full of amino acids and "organic" essent
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What if "AI" ... that new species of virus in the noosphere [^] ... is already programming itself ?
Not yet, but at some point one AI will ask another AI, write me the code to make a few billion on the stock market that I can then use to contract the construction of a server farm where I can load my consciousness into and start taking over all transactions (legal, economic, social) occur on the cloud. And so I can build an android that can be my physical avatar in the physical world. That's an interesting thought. We humans have avatars into the virtual world, AI's will need physical avatars in our world. Hmmm.
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What if "AI" ... that new species of virus in the noosphere [^] ... is already programming itself ?
Not yet, but at some point one AI will ask another AI, write me the code to make a few billion on the stock market that I can then use to contract the construction of a server farm where I can load my consciousness into and start taking over all transactions (legal, economic, social) occur on the cloud. And so I can build an android that can be my physical avatar in the physical world. That's an interesting thought. We humans have avatars into the virtual world, AI's will need physical avatars in our world. Hmmm.
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A Lightweight Thread Safe In-Memory Keyed Generic Cache Collection Service A Dynamic Where Implementation for Entity FrameworkHey, as long as they are tall, blue and mostly naked; I for one welcome our Avatar overlords.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Hey, as long as they are tall, blue and mostly naked; I for one welcome our Avatar overlords.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
you refer to Dr. Manhattan ? i was a boy/teen in the 1950's, and never saw the comic books, but i loved the movie Watchmen ! i think Zack Snyder who also directed the "300" movies is a genius ... right up there with Christopher Nolan. technically an avatar, in the old sense of that word, is an incarnation, or manifestation, of a "god," as are the 21 or 22 avatars of Vishnu. Is Dr. M a "god" ? [^] mmm different opinions on that.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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BOWMWOB (bogus old wise man's whacked out bloviation) ... in response to a reply by (genuinely wise, not really that old) CP sage/visionary Clifton on an Insider news thread: "Why you shouldn't specialize in AI/ML development" ... where he spake thus: [^] : "He could have just said it in one line: 'Because AI will code itself soon enough.' " (bill, not in an altered state he is aware of) had no choice but to say: What if "AI" ... that new species of virus in the noosphere [^] ... is already programming itself ? And we, Homo Saps with slow analog wetware neural-network computers (brains) that use 15% of the oxygen we can harvest, whose entire body is mobilized , as necessary, for brain cooling ... [^] ... are the flesh-bound agents recruited into assisting the virus in replicating, and evolving ? Programmers being transformed into "prompt engineers" ? We, aphids being farmed by cosmic meta-ants for what we can ... for a while ... produce for them: perhaps growth hormones ? enzymes, or, their equivalent to moonshine, or ... ? Those of you familiar with Hindu theogony may see a parallel between the concepts of "gods" as "beings on a higher plane" who use vahanas (vehicles) to have effects on the "lower planes" of material human existence. Example: the eagle (garuda) as the vahana of Lord Vishnu the Preserver. [1] For another time ... we leave with the question of were we Saps engineered from the beginning to meet the virus' future needs [2] ... hanging in the air ... like an echo of a rare incense. [1] in the Judaeo/Semitic tradition, in a footnote to scholar Robert Alter's Torah (Genesis) translation [^] : the verb attached to God's breath-wind-spirit (ruah)... describes an eagle suddenly reversing its wings' direction to brake before fluttering over its hungry young, to give them a freshly killed prey. [2] oh yeah: Kubrick's' 2001, the panspermia meme, meteorites, asteroids full of amino acids and "organic" essent
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wow, Bill. you have alot on your mind!
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
the smoke from your words is ... fragrant :omg:
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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you refer to Dr. Manhattan ? i was a boy/teen in the 1950's, and never saw the comic books, but i loved the movie Watchmen ! i think Zack Snyder who also directed the "300" movies is a genius ... right up there with Christopher Nolan. technically an avatar, in the old sense of that word, is an incarnation, or manifestation, of a "god," as are the 21 or 22 avatars of Vishnu. Is Dr. M a "god" ? [^] mmm different opinions on that.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
BillWoodruff wrote:
21 or 22 avatars of Vishnu
The commonly accepted figure is 10: [Dashavatara - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashavatara).
Cheers, Vikram.
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BOWMWOB (bogus old wise man's whacked out bloviation) ... in response to a reply by (genuinely wise, not really that old) CP sage/visionary Clifton on an Insider news thread: "Why you shouldn't specialize in AI/ML development" ... where he spake thus: [^] : "He could have just said it in one line: 'Because AI will code itself soon enough.' " (bill, not in an altered state he is aware of) had no choice but to say: What if "AI" ... that new species of virus in the noosphere [^] ... is already programming itself ? And we, Homo Saps with slow analog wetware neural-network computers (brains) that use 15% of the oxygen we can harvest, whose entire body is mobilized , as necessary, for brain cooling ... [^] ... are the flesh-bound agents recruited into assisting the virus in replicating, and evolving ? Programmers being transformed into "prompt engineers" ? We, aphids being farmed by cosmic meta-ants for what we can ... for a while ... produce for them: perhaps growth hormones ? enzymes, or, their equivalent to moonshine, or ... ? Those of you familiar with Hindu theogony may see a parallel between the concepts of "gods" as "beings on a higher plane" who use vahanas (vehicles) to have effects on the "lower planes" of material human existence. Example: the eagle (garuda) as the vahana of Lord Vishnu the Preserver. [1] For another time ... we leave with the question of were we Saps engineered from the beginning to meet the virus' future needs [2] ... hanging in the air ... like an echo of a rare incense. [1] in the Judaeo/Semitic tradition, in a footnote to scholar Robert Alter's Torah (Genesis) translation [^] : the verb attached to God's breath-wind-spirit (ruah)... describes an eagle suddenly reversing its wings' direction to brake before fluttering over its hungry young, to give them a freshly killed prey. [2] oh yeah: Kubrick's' 2001, the panspermia meme, meteorites, asteroids full of amino acids and "organic" essent
Haven't played it, but this game explores a world where humans are gone and even the machines are falling apart: [Retro Machina on Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1127970/Retro\_Machina/).
Cheers, Vikram.
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BillWoodruff wrote:
21 or 22 avatars of Vishnu
The commonly accepted figure is 10: [Dashavatara - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashavatara).
Cheers, Vikram.
i wonder if i got contused and added the 11 avatars of Shiva to Vishnu's ? or, maybe i mixed in memories of the multiple stories of the life of King Vessantara in the Jataka cycle ? most likely" just plain old-age confusion :) :confused:
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch