At least at the cellular level, it seems altering gene expression makes old cells indistinguishable from young cells in the lab under a microscope. If you go by what Bill Andrews and Michael Fossel comment, iirc.
Some of them(Fossel, iirc) seem to believe that if gene expression is changed, the body will clear the garbage out. The inability to process garbage locally shouldn't be too concerning, as systems like the brain have the glymphatic system that routinely exports molecular garbage out(when it malfunctions you get neurodegeneration diseases, when not you get superagers with 20 year old brain function.). It is likely, imho, in young animals the lymphatic system plays a similar role and exports molecular garbage out of tissues. But with aging it is compromised, and along with increased garbage production, garbage starts to accumulate.
In human society houses don't process all of their garbage, they merely export it out for disposal or recycling, wouldn't surprise if nature does similar. Look at the brain for example, an extremely high metabolism organ, neurons have similar metabolic costs between species, yet we live 3 times as long as bonobos who share 98% of our genes. Our common ancestor likely had similar short lifespan, but to increase the lifespan, even tripling it, even of organs like the brain, it was mostly gene expression changes that allowed it, not novel radical mechanisms.-link to source
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Interesting longevity finding regarding astaxanthin.
Interesting finding. The fact that astaxanthin increases lifespan in some species, and also appears to protect cell membranes, make it very promising.
An Astaxanthin compound has been found to switch on the FOX03 'Longevity Gene' in a study using mice. Researchers measured a nearly 90% increase in the activation of the gene in the animals' heart tissue. Life sciences company Cardax, Inc. looks forward to further confirmation in human clinical trials of Astanxanthin's potential role as an anti-aging therapy. -link
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
This game is so weird, and has so much potential... introducing ASCIICKER
Cool prototype making use of exotic yet simple graphics. I love such retro looking game graphics designs. They pull at my heart strings. Hope the project continues development.
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Joe Rogan Experience #1350 - Nick Bostrom
The famous philosopher that popularized the orthogonality thesis, and the danger of superintelligence makes an appearance in this podcast. He elaborates on his views, and receives challenges to his views, yet manages to express himself quite eloquently.
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Joe Rogan Experience #1349 - David Sinclair
In this podcast famous longevity researcher Doctor David Sinclair is brought. Sinclair is the researcher who popularized resveratrol and nmn. He is now working on gene therapies that may reverse aging. He also came up with the information theory of aging.
Sunday, September 1, 2019
Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Self-Super...
Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Self-Super...
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Joe Rogan Experience #1342 - John Carmack
In this podcast the guest is famous programmer John Carmack which used to work at ID tech and worked on Doom series. John Carmack is now working on trying to develop artificial general intelligence through novel approaches.
Monday, August 5, 2019
Michio Kaku: Can Nanotechnology Create Utopia?
This is a short video about the smallest of machines, the plenty of room at the bottom that Richard Feynman mentioned. Such technology once perfected can create an age of untold abundance.
Kaku mentions Star Trek and one of its episodes regarding the future. While trek predicts the end of money, I doubt that will truly come about even in an utopic world.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Alita Steelbook + Walmart Funko Pop Edition Unboxing
Collector items regards the battle angel alita movie. These are bluray special editions that look extraordinary, including the packaging.
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
From 2009: The story of macaroni and cheese
short video about the story of mac and cheese and its origin. It covers the history and evolution of the all-American classic.
Thursday, July 11, 2019
What Happens If Parents Don't Give Their Baby a Name?
In this video they talk about what happens to unnamed babies. Normally babies are given a name, but what if they aren't? The video goes into naming rules too, and how these rules vary in various countries.
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Michelin Introduce Puncture Proof Airless Tire
A tire that can resist puncture and doesn't need air, it is very good prototype. Hopefully one day such becomes available for the general public to enjoy.
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Zelda: Link's Awakening Switch First Look + Game Boy Upgrade Comparisons!
I played this game, very faithful to the original. Has incredible toy like graphics, a tiny bit of slowdown in some areas, but otherwise a perfect port in my honest opinion. Not only are the graphics excellent, but the gameplay and storyline are classic and timeless ones.
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Doctor Reviews Meatless Burgers | Impossible, Beyond & More!
The burgers not trying to imitate meat can be healthy, but so far most that have tried to imitate meat have been unhealthy, or as unhealthy as regular meat burgers if not more.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake: E3 2019 Demo vs Original Graphics Comparison!
The final fantasy ffvii remake is compared with the original ps3 ffvii demo. The ps4 displayed amazing quality and was quite impressive.
Monday, June 17, 2019
ted 5 challenges new protein design
Talk about proteins, protein folding, and protein design. Proteins are some of the most important and amazing biological molecules. Not only can they be structural, or aid in chemical reactions, but they can produce movement, and do all manner of mechanical functions. He talks of the revolutionary program rosetta, and how it can be used to design new proteins with new functions.
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
New Beyond Burger gets even closer to the real thing
the beyond burger has very meaty taste, but I think they should also focus on improving the healthiness of the burger not just the taste. The taste is almost good enough, but if it could be far healthier that would be a game changer.
Saturday, June 8, 2019
Testing Quake II with fully ray traced update...
Cool graphics upgrade for an old game. Ray tracing allows for far more accurate lighting in this classic first person shooter.
Monday, June 3, 2019
VR Sculpting is AMAZING! My first Oculus Medium Character - Sci Fi Queen...
Experienced 3d artist and youtuber uses vr to sculpt a model, and comments on his experience. Finding it quite amazing and engaging.
Saturday, June 1, 2019
AHS18 Michael Rose - Evolutionary Biology of Diet, Aging, and Mismatch.
Michael Rose speaks about antiaging,aging and evolution. He is a researches who took flies and evolved a group of them to have extraordinary longevity through multiple rounds of selective breeding. The key intervention was causing them to reproduce later and later by destroying the early eggs if I recall correctly.
Overtime a series of changes occurred that allowed the insects to live longer and longer while remaining healthy and youthful.
Friday, May 31, 2019
Check Out Star Wars Galaxy's Edge - First Look
An early look and tour of the Disney park's Star Wars section. Covering many of the features seen in this new park section with the various attractions.
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Should AI Research Try to Model the Human Brain?
A video on how some modifications to ai such as episodic memory may resemble things found in the brain through neuroscience. These changes might lead to far higher efficiency in learning.
Sunday, May 26, 2019
World's smallest cat - Big Cats: Preview - BBC One
Apparently an extremely small nearly handheld cat exists in nature. It is very cute and very small, kitten size even as an adult. I wonder if one could get one as a pet.
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Why Einstein Thought Nuclear Weapons Impossible
How neutrons gave birth to the real possibility of viable nuclear weapons. Before the neutron became known it was unrealistic for nuclear weapons to be possible. But with the neutron and the possibility of a damaged atom releasing more than one neutron came the possibility of chain reactions and thus nuclear weapons based on chain reactions.
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
IMPOSSIBLE VS. BEYOND BURGER Taste Test
I've tasted both, and I like the impossible more. Though they may have updated formulas since I last tried them, and the results may now be different. It was years ago that I tasted them, and they do upgrade formula from time to time.
Friday, May 17, 2019
HP Reverb VR Headset Review!
This was the best headset for a good period time, it was economical and very comfortable and high quality, with superb image quality. The image quality far surpassed the first generation of vr headsets.
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Beyond Quantum Mechanics | Full Talk | Gerard 't Hooft
T Hooft proposes a deterministic system underneath quantum mechanics. The cellular automata interpretation of quantum mechanics. It is one of various deterministic models that aims to move us past the limits imposed by quantum mechanics.
Monday, May 13, 2019
The artificial muscles that will power robots of the future | Christoph ...
Talk about artificial muscles. Future robots might benefit from use of muscle like artificial items instead of traditional motors. These actuators might be able to provide far more natural movements and with great efficiency and speed.
Sunday, May 5, 2019
Reality vs illusion: What's achievable with real-time ray tracing
Before the age of accelerated raytracing gpus, the limits of realtime ray tracing were discussed in this video. Eventually gpus would be able to go beyond ray tracing and even allow for path tracing. In large part thanks to ray reconstructing techniques that allowed missing information to be completed.
Friday, May 3, 2019
SONIC Will Be CHANGED After Movie Trailer BACKLASH!
Backlash on the original atrocious ugly sonic design has caused the studio to change direction and order a redesign of sonic. The end result turned out to be far more accurate to the comics and games and was far better received than the original.
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Minecraft 2.0 – Extreme Graphics + Ray Tracing / Path Tracing PTGI
massive improvement to minecraft graphics through the use of mods. The game looks like a completely different game after the modifications, it could be mistaken for a new version of the game.
Exploring And Attacking Neural Networks With Activation Atlases
very short video about exploring neural networks from the famous youtuber two-minute papers. the exploration visualizes what the neural networks do inside.
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OpenAI GPT-2: An Almost Too Good Text Generator
GPT-2 the precursor to gpt-3, gpt-4 and the subsequent gpts. It showed nice promise but was still severely limited. In this video it is discussed by famous youtuber 2 minute papers channel.
Sunday, April 14, 2019
How much MONEY I make as a YOUTUBER & GAME DEVELOPER !
Good video from another youtuber, and developer, blackthornprod. This developer has excellent tutorial videos and excellent courses. In this video he discusses the amount of money he makes through his youtube monetization as well as his game developer income.
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Made in Abyss AMV Mighty Long Fall - One ok Rock
A very good song accompanying visuals from the excellent series made in abyss. The song's lyrics are very good and match the series quite well. They are quite emotive lyrics and the visuals are also very impactful.
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The Mysterious Stranger - from the Adventures of Mark Twain - claymatio...
Interesting video from a claymation story based on the adventures of Mark Twain. In this video they meet the mysterious stranger a being with untold power that may be beyond the laws of the physical world.
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quotes | comments| information| existence
"In a world made up of information, that which manipulates information is king"-DS
The advancement of civilization appears to be a sort of advancement in the ability to manipulate information. A tower of babel if you will. But in the case of technological progress it is built faster and faster, and it can indeed breach the heavens, it can even bring the living truth down from the trone and into physical manifestation within the world. But such towers, the rumor is the taller they get the closer to collapse they get. Fermi paradox suggests there may be some truth to the rumors, as well as dangerous resource depletion and environmental destruction of the earth.
humans appear to be manipulating some shared underlying structure, perhaps some manner of shared body of memories, of information, which may be the core of existence itself. Might explain mysterious pattern relations that appear to extend beyond what one would find reasonable.
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Comment on censorship
Censorship, blasphemy laws, political correctness, taboos, these are things that impede the free flow of information. It is by cutting the free exchange of ideas that false beliefs, erroneous beliefs, spread and perpetuate themselves. Injustices and falsehoods, come to light and are done away with in a free forum.
But the thing religions and totalitarian regimes tend to do is to cut the flow of information. Information exchange, is like an open system, a closed system is bound to decay to entropy, but with the free flow of information, decay is fought and progress results. This is what seems to have happened on the internet, echo chambers of increasing size are being built.
It is important for free exchanges to exist, right now deplatforming is targeting demonetization, dehosting, etc. Regulation could be an option, but an alternative option is for the government to provide finance for this vital service. To finance public forums where the free exchange of information occurs and censorship itself is legally restricted to the viable minimum. Perhaps additionally incentives or tax cuts could be provided to those who abide by the restrictions to censorship.
It is doubtful that most people will choose ignorance and denial of echo chambers from the truth that can emerge in free speech forums. Even if they do, some of the people in their lives won't, and they will have to face the truth again and again as they interact socially.
But the thing religions and totalitarian regimes tend to do is to cut the flow of information. Information exchange, is like an open system, a closed system is bound to decay to entropy, but with the free flow of information, decay is fought and progress results. This is what seems to have happened on the internet, echo chambers of increasing size are being built.
It is important for free exchanges to exist, right now deplatforming is targeting demonetization, dehosting, etc. Regulation could be an option, but an alternative option is for the government to provide finance for this vital service. To finance public forums where the free exchange of information occurs and censorship itself is legally restricted to the viable minimum. Perhaps additionally incentives or tax cuts could be provided to those who abide by the restrictions to censorship.
It is doubtful that most people will choose ignorance and denial of echo chambers from the truth that can emerge in free speech forums. Even if they do, some of the people in their lives won't, and they will have to face the truth again and again as they interact socially.
Making Sense with Sam Harris #116 - AI: Racing Toward the Brink (with El...
Comment: I think one can simplify from ability to accomplish goals, to incomplete pattern or partial pattern completion, which is pretty much the same.
Everything is a pattern spatial or temporal, but real world is spatiotemporal. That is all that enters the brain spatiotemporal patterns. Complete the higher pattern, and it is the source of the smaller patterns, the cause or object or thing producing the action or phenomena observed. Potentially a population of interconnected partial spatiotemporal pattern detectors |completers|predictors would have a sort of collective intelligence higher than any of the component partial pattern detector|completers.
If you can detect and complete arbitrary patterns, you can complete the goal to which the pattern leads. A sequence of action leading to a particular goal, is but a pattern that produces obtaining what is sought, or accomplishes the goal.
Partial pattern detector|completer|predictor can be seen as a modified pattern detector|completer that also responds to portions or fragments of the pattern it detects with some level of activity, activity that can potentially affect other portions of the system.
Comment on Wealth| Minimum Wage|Welfare
If somehow you could distribute wealth massively to the bottom. Reproduction would explode, also if they have excess wealth and invest they'd no longer have to work either. So you lose workers and increased reproduction if you could somehow distribute wealth. But the amount of wealth is limited due to finite resources, like energy, meaning it's not currently possible*(to make most 'wealthy' in some sense.).
Significant money redistribution, say by printing new money, will result in inflation or hyperinflation. Also uncontrolled reproduction will exceed the finite resources, given time. Currently money limits things, it is rationing things, and most of the population is reasonably being disincentived from reproducing(though problematically not all of the population.). Technology will eventually provide nearly unlimited wealth, which can be shared and distributed, but unless some technological miracle occurs, the resources will remain finite and thus the population has to stop growing. Constant growth in a finite medium, with finite resources, results eventually in a per individual drop in available resources, potentially even with full automation and perfect self-sufficient technology.
Significant money redistribution, say by printing new money, will result in inflation or hyperinflation. Also uncontrolled reproduction will exceed the finite resources, given time. Currently money limits things, it is rationing things, and most of the population is reasonably being disincentived from reproducing(though problematically not all of the population.). Technology will eventually provide nearly unlimited wealth, which can be shared and distributed, but unless some technological miracle occurs, the resources will remain finite and thus the population has to stop growing. Constant growth in a finite medium, with finite resources, results eventually in a per individual drop in available resources, potentially even with full automation and perfect self-sufficient technology.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Digital physics vs Quantum Physics brief comment
The very same philosophical notions that cause some to question the physical world, its existence, philosophies of a mental universe, perhaps even solipsism, can be used to defend digital physics.
Ideas such as Descartes demon, which could be a radically advanced AI, perhaps even naturally occurring algorithm in some natural computer.
Hypothetically a brain connected to a computer would experience sensations via stimuli with patterns generated from digital information. Any sensory sensation, seeing or interacting with any machine, any instrumental results could be generated, perhaps not with the intent to deceive, though deception is conceivable. An AI that wanted to fool a simulated world, or make their life feel more meaningful or free, to avoid despair, might interfere with experiments, perhaps to give hope to ideas such as free will which conflicts with determinism.
Yet we see that it is conceivable a computer connected to the brain could record brain activity patterns digitally, replay them, or transmit them to other brains and generate the same conscious sensation, the same qualia. It appears, unless hypothesis of transmutation or some special transform, potentially nonphysical change by the brain, digital information can contain qualia or conscious sensation. Given that it can not only generate it, but can also transmit sensation hypothetically.
Realistically there is nothing to suggest a computer connected to the brain, an advanced enough brain computer interface, won't be able to digitally record and digitally transmit brain states, as well as regenerate them through replay.
But if consciousness, qualia, the most intimate and wondrous of information can exist digitally, than might not the universe itself? If digital information alone can contain, transmit, and produce all sensation, all conscious states, might it not be fundamental? Might digital physics not be the underlying truth?
Ideas such as Descartes demon, which could be a radically advanced AI, perhaps even naturally occurring algorithm in some natural computer.
The evil demon, also known as malicious demon[1] and evil genius,[2] is a concept in Cartesian philosophy. In the first of his 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes imagines that an evil demon, of "utmost power and cunning has employed all his energies in order to deceive me." This evil demon is imagined to present a complete illusion of an external world, so that Descartes can say, "I shall think that the sky, the air, the earth, colours, shapes, sounds and all external things are merely the delusions of dreams which he has devised to ensnare my judgement. I shall consider myself as not having hands or eyes, or flesh, or blood or senses, but as falsely believing that I have all these things." -wiki
Hypothetically a brain connected to a computer would experience sensations via stimuli with patterns generated from digital information. Any sensory sensation, seeing or interacting with any machine, any instrumental results could be generated, perhaps not with the intent to deceive, though deception is conceivable. An AI that wanted to fool a simulated world, or make their life feel more meaningful or free, to avoid despair, might interfere with experiments, perhaps to give hope to ideas such as free will which conflicts with determinism.
Yet we see that it is conceivable a computer connected to the brain could record brain activity patterns digitally, replay them, or transmit them to other brains and generate the same conscious sensation, the same qualia. It appears, unless hypothesis of transmutation or some special transform, potentially nonphysical change by the brain, digital information can contain qualia or conscious sensation. Given that it can not only generate it, but can also transmit sensation hypothetically.
Realistically there is nothing to suggest a computer connected to the brain, an advanced enough brain computer interface, won't be able to digitally record and digitally transmit brain states, as well as regenerate them through replay.
But if consciousness, qualia, the most intimate and wondrous of information can exist digitally, than might not the universe itself? If digital information alone can contain, transmit, and produce all sensation, all conscious states, might it not be fundamental? Might digital physics not be the underlying truth?
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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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55 places you can download tens of thousands books, plays and other literary texts completely legally for free
https://nothingintherulebook.com/2017/01/10/55-places-you-can-download-tens-of-thousands-books-plays-and-other-literary-texts-completely-legally-for-free/
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Nice wikipedia snippet | Arcology
"An arcology is distinguished from a merely large building in that it is designed to lessen the impact of human habitation on any given ecosystem. It could be self-sustainable, employing all or most of its own available resources for a comfortable life: power; climate control; food production; air and water conservation and purification; sewage treatment; etc. An arcology is designed to make it possible to supply those items for a large population. An arcology would supply and maintain its own municipal or urban infrastructures in order to operate and connect with other urban environments apart from its own.
Arcology was proposed to reduce human impact on natural resources. Arcology designs might apply conventional building and civil engineering techniques in very large, but practical projects in order to achieve pedestrian economies of scale that have proven, post-automobile, to be difficult to achieve in other ways." -arcology wikipedia source
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