How appropriate.

And with that, Zarathud--the large feathery pterodactyl from Alpha Centuri--was enlightened.

:-)

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(With apologies to Douglas Adams)

Perhaps then, the next approach in the quest for AI is to prioritize quality over quantity?

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Third class pterodactyl in a society already extinct

If information is being destroyed by a machine feeding on its own output, where is it going?

:-)

Ohhhh, the humans won't likely run out of data.

That's what they do.

It is interesting.

Trust us, all the way to your receptacle, er... cube, er... office.

:-)

But seriously, the concept of "bioboxen" is pretty cool and I'm happy that someone is developing it.

But I'll pass on becoming one, myself.

Not only does it have 1/6000th THE POWER REQUIREMENTS of traditional processors, it also comes in THESE FUN COLORS for the modders out there. Resistance is foolish, the future *is* wetware. You will become acclimatized to it, trust us.

- A proto-Borg marketing director, "Bio/Tel Corporation"

# My bad.
s/simpler /simple /

With ~20 billion transistors on an i9 it would be impossible for one person or even a team of people to comprehend all the logic involved and how it interacts with everything else, given that it would take a human 138 years to count to only one (1) billion. Not to mention Intel's somewhat dodgy practice (since 2013) of putting an MEI (ARC) co-processor on the die with an encrypted code base that runs and has access to the entire bus (out of band) even when the box is connected to AC but powered off. Not to mention that Intel will sue you into the stone age if one tries to replicate their instruction set (think NEC V-20 in the 80's). Not to mention that it takes roughtly 3,500 pages of pdf to describe the operation of today's chip at only the software level. Not to mention that the instruction set proper has transmogrified into a living hell of features layered upon features since the 8086.

I'm putting my money on RISC-V-64. Unencumbered IP. Simple. Well-documented. Understandable by a mere mortal guru. Implementable by anyone with a FPGA and the nerve to try. And high-performance, professionally designed RISC-V ASICs will emerge.

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Make it as simpler as possible. But not simpler. (Albert Einstein)

Good point.

The lesson is to remain vigilant when (and if) following orders.

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Pyramid scam? PYRAMID SCAM!? The whole of goddamned CIVILIZATION is a pyramid scam!!!

Only if humans (and/or AIs) make decisions that effect meat-space based on the art they read in cyberspace. See the problem?

It hasn't always been this way on the network.

Buuuut.... the same argument is used for banning and burning books, the newspeak practice of restricting the use of mere words (no more "master/slave" in source code--I guess they don't want to offend the computer that the code runs on), and the current "call me by my proper pronoun!" 'gender' nonsense. I'm gay. But I don't get offended if people don't call me "Dr. Gay-Man Mcnster". And I don't even get offended if they do. I couldn't care less what people call me.

Then I read about the military getting all excited about creating autonomous machines that kill (real) people and destroy (real) property... its exactly the same idea illustrated in my first point.

Regards (from Hell),

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>One basic notion underlying USENET is that it is cooperative.

Having been on USENET for going on ten years, I disagree with this. The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame.
(Chuq Von Rospach, chuq@Apple.COM)

"Turing. You are under arrest."

Case being busted for "conspiracy to augment an AI" (among other things) in William Gibson's visionary cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (1984)

(I believe, but not 100% sure, that Gibson also created the word cyberspace in that same book.)

Understood, and appreciated.

In the video (which appears to be a segment of a British documentary made in the 1980's?) a Chi Kung master who resides in the Philippines is filmed setting fire to a newspaper with the energy from his bare hands, giving electric shocks to members of the documentary film crew directly from his body, and illuminating LED bulbs, same, among other interesting feats. His "day job" is healing people by manipulating this energy (chi) through a combination of his touch, and with acupuncture. He also trains students in his art.

There is info on a book written about him and his life displayed at the end of the video.

[I considered NOT publishing a link to the video, because he was trained in a semi-secret sect that forbids "showing off", and as you will see in the video, he claims that his Master came to him in dream-space and severely reproached him for appearing in this film. But as an (amateur) journalist, I feel it is important to tell the story I've been told, as is.]

Regards,