Thursday, February 28, 2019
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Comment on robotics in starpawn0's reddit
I think robotics is good, but true ai once here may allow us to attain negligible senescence and regeneration in artificial biological bodies, leapfrogging more classical future robotics(would be ridiculous if we move in a few decades from our present robotics to bladerunner like replicant esque tech, but that's the kind of advance true ai may bring). This would result in biodroids that need no repair or maintenance, and can function indefinitely.
Accelerating synthetic biology from unicellular to multicellular. It may also be the case that novel unevolvable muscles and structural components(perhaps carbon nanostructured) with far superior properties may be developed, providing greater strength speed and precision.
Like the movie surrogates the computer could either remotely control the biodroids or alternatively it could download itself or leave in subprograms handling most tasks.
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Comment on AI and consciousness in reply to starspawn0
. I agree that the phenomenology of the brain probably can't be accurately captured by a digital computer; but I think the information processing part can be adequately mimicked. The machine may not "feel" the meaning of the things it reads and writes in the same way as a human; but it will be competent -- and so I would say that it understands language. -starspawn0
I think the problem people have is that computation can be boiled down even to simple repeated addition with conditional branching(and some say even with unconditional branching).
This is the main result of this paper. Therefore any computable function can be computed using only the instructions LOAD, STORE, INC and GOTO (unconditional branching). https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8bc7/d9ba040a3626462f3bc91e17f1e8794b9b79.pdf
Just adding and moving from one location to another.
Of course that will have trouble generating consciousness. The key insight, unless I'm misguided, I would say is that consciousness does not reside in the procedure, any procedure, but in the digital patterns created. Those created by the brain and those created by computers. It is intrinsic information within certain set of patterns, perhaps within all patterns. The type of pattern describes the type of conscious sensation and its complexity.
Note that for example in vision, there are multiple segments of the visual field, but they exist and are felt simultaneously. Same happens with audio, it is processed at a different rate, yet felt simultaneous with vision. As with touch, touch your feet or someone touches your feet, the touch sensation travels slower, iirc, yet it is felt simultaneous. The brain appears to packet information into conscious moments, or presents, simultaneity, the transition probably handled by neurons whose activity corresponds to a sensation of detected movement or change, detectors of change(which might explain why some individuals with some types of brain damage experience sight as a series or sequence of static photos.).
While it is controversial the views of digital physics hold the universe itself is digital in nature, a series of digital patterns may be all that exist, and if they can be shown to generate consciousness, they can most certainly generate the universe itself which is less wondrous than consciousness itself.
Note that if we think about advanced brain computer interface, it is likely they can finely record brain activity in a digital medium, and the replaying of those digital memories into the brain will result in conscious sensation. If properly translated they will also transmit conscious sensation from brain to brain. Is what is stored lacking the essence of consciousness? Is what is transmitted lacking it? Is the brain carrying some form of information transmutation into qualia? Or is the information contained within the patterns so stored and transmitted?
Brains of smarter people have bigger and faster neurons
Brains of smarter people have bigger and faster neurons
Scientists working within the Human Brain Project have for the first time uncovered a direct relation between brain cell size and IQ level. As they describe in the journal eLife, larger neurons in the so-called temporal lobe of the brain that generate electrical signals with higher speed are related to faster processing rates and intelligence level as assessed in standard IQ testing.https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/follow-hbp/news/brains-of-smarter-people-have-bigger-and-faster-neurons/Wednesday, February 13, 2019
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comment on intellectual property
Ideas are never going to truly be other people's property. Just like people are never going to truly be other people's property. You can say what you will and force through an unjust government whatever nonsense laws you want, but innate rights do not cease to be just because you abuse or deny them.
X-Man Nate Grey vs Legion! (Uncanny X-Men: X-Men Disassembled Part 2)
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A video from youtuber Comics explained continuing his previous one xmen disassembled, return of the mutant god, if I'm not mistaken.
Neuroscientists found way to image brain 1000 times faster
-Case in point? Last week, 18 institutions teamed up and devised a method to image entire brains 1,000 times faster than anything before. Dubbed by the team as an “Avengers, unite!” moment, they combined strengths to physically blow up brain tissue to over 20 times its usual size, and scanned their inner circuits and molecular constituents—down to the nano-scale level—using a new type of blazingly fast microscopy.-https://singularityhub.com/2019/02/04/neuroscientists-just-found-a-way-to-image-the-brain-1000-times-faster-than-ever-before/
-Case in point? Last week, 18 institutions teamed up and devised a method to image entire brains 1,000 times faster than anything before. Dubbed by the team as an “Avengers, unite!” moment, they combined strengths to physically blow up brain tissue to over 20 times its usual size, and scanned their inner circuits and molecular constituents—down to the nano-scale level—using a new type of blazingly fast microscopy.-https://singularityhub.com/2019/02/04/neuroscientists-just-found-a-way-to-image-the-brain-1000-times-faster-than-ever-before/
Monday, February 4, 2019
Why copyright makes no sense | The case against intellectual property
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Copyright is a form of violation of human rights. It is the threat of penalty financial or even kidnapping by the state and denial of physical freedom, simply by virtue of sharing or using of one's own physical property in the privacy of one's home.
It requires invasion of privacy to police, and it requires abuses of others to enforce. It is the monopoly of ideas for the enrichment of the few, to take things from the public domain and grant exclusive access, privileged access, to a few. Such that the few enrich at the cost of the many.
Even the U.S. doctrine of fair use is missing from many other countries, yet many online creators have used others contents through fair use, and gotten decent living whilst often offering their work for free, and it additionally being reused by others.
The archaic and barbaric notion of copyright, is like the legalization slavery, an inhumane set of laws that will one day hopefully go away.
Sunday, February 3, 2019
Comment on Deepfake tech, and deepfake ransomware article
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While not ransomware, per se, it reminds me one day video and voice will be fake-able with deepfake like tech. Someone goes missing, say a wealthy person or family member(s), some could generate fake videos of a kidnapping and ask for ransom from the rest of the family.
More troubling is if more advanced techniques may be one day not only fool humans at first sight, but might reach a point where all statistical analysis cannot tell them apart from real images. Where even advanced careful analysis may be fooled too.
As for troubling fake video, we have to understand koomey law, and the fact that in essence we're still in a sense able to do many doublings of available computation in an everyday computer. What takes days today, will take minutes one day. Both algorithmic advancements as well as increasing computation available will make it so.
A few decades from now, taking someone and generating a realistic video of them doing just about anything, might be as easy and with as little time consumption as generating a gif meme is nowadays.
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Friday, February 1, 2019
SerialBrain2: The reason Trump tweeted ‘Hamberders’
Video dealing with the idea that tweet mistakes have very complex hidden meanings...
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