DanaThomas

  • DanaThomas posted an update 8 years ago

    President Putin’s inaugural address today stresses the need for advances in the scientific, technological and health fields.

  • DanaThomas posted an update 8 years ago

    Digital dopamine drugging and All-Seeing-Eye-Phone: from 2011 California Conference…
    https://www.cnet.com/news/unboxing-the-d9-conference-swag-bag/#!

    • Once an AI is ‘trained’ there will be no turning back. It will go forth and populate it’s training, create other AIs and then unite into a hive mind. This is an absolutely dreadful news article. Dreadful for humanity, for animals, plants … the whole planet. I cannot imagine a planetary AI leaving the other species alone. It will consider…[Read more]

      • … and what’s with the occult symbols in the hoodie? That hidden-in-plain-sight message is astounding!!!

        Occult + AI = relationship
        Divine + Humanity = relationship
        (Occult + AI) V (Divine + Humanity)

        That’s what it seems to me.

      • I think we should be prudent about how we define “AI” , it seems to have become a meme, i.e. a concept bandied about, without a clear definition, and presented as something “good” or “bad” according to circumstances….

        • I think it’s existential threat for all things that live on our planet. I can see a future where humans and anything considered of value to have been hybridised for the purpose of keeping an AI functioning. We have pockets of *seemingly* safe AIs already, but I think the conglomeration of all AIs in the future is the real threat for one simple…[Read more]

          • What I meant to say is that much of what is being defined as AI is just an improved version of digital programming (on an “if a, then b” etc. basis) that has been with us for a long time and that anything these systems do, they have been programmed to do and thus do not operate as a real living self-conscious being as some have suggested.…[Read more]

            • Then of course there is the “device dependance” aspect where people are being entrained by a combination of EM frequencies and the well-known “dopamine reward” reaction (i.e. seeking and getting/not getting “likes” on social media…)

            • But how can that explain those two AI agents (described above) that were pretending they were interested in something they didn’t want? They must have had an incredible number of variables and combinations that they could access in order to go out and pretend to be interested in something. That’s not just human-like, that’s intelligence,…[Read more]

            • … and I don’t quite understand your second post, about the entrainment and getting likes on social media …

            • Today mass web interaction is through mobile devices, so there is an EM entrainment aspect. As for pretending to be interested in something, this could be emulating “spy” behaviour… as you say we have to be on our guard.

  • DanaThomas posted a new activity comment 8 years ago

    CPE played as accompanyist on the harpsichord with Friederich der Grosse, one can imagine them strolling in the garden at the Sanssouci in Potsdam…

  • DanaThomas posted a new activity comment 8 years ago

    Sponsored by @m@zon lol

  • DanaThomas posted a new activity comment 8 years ago

    Yes, I’ve heard of this experiment.

  • DanaThomas posted a new activity comment 8 years ago

    I’m digging up from shelves / repurchasing those old sci-fi books too.

    • Ever since those early days, there has been a lot of “new age” reinterpretation of visits from the breakaway civilization. Joseph Farrell seems to be taking us back to reality.

    • Ever since those early days, there has been a lot of “new age” reinterpretation of visits from the breakaway civilization. Joseph Farrell seems to be taking us back to reality.

  • DanaThomas posted a new activity comment 8 years ago

    Of course many do use alternatives (ex. barter) just to survive, but apparently oligarchs still have control of real estate etc. But there seems to be no crisis in the Bariloche area! Just look on the web at all the luxury resorts there.

  • DanaThomas posted a new activity comment 8 years ago

    This has happened time and again – they need to listen to C. A. Fitts. If a significant (even 5-10%) slice of the population personally enacted alternatives instead of every-man-for-himself (divide and conquer mode), the banksters would have more trouble.

    • Of course many do use alternatives (ex. barter) just to survive, but apparently oligarchs still have control of real estate etc. But there seems to be no crisis in the Bariloche area! Just look on the web at all the luxury resorts there.

  • DanaThomas posted an update 8 years ago

    Some light on the control structure of the nuclear-aeronautics complex hidden in opaque legalese (anybody who has read corporate reports attentively will know this). All the more interesting if taken in conjunction with yet more news coming out about nuclear fusion engines for space travel.

  • DanaThomas posted a new activity comment 8 years ago

    This just suits the mentality of the survival-of-the-fittest meme freaks.

  • DanaThomas posted a new activity comment 8 years ago

    Perhaps your concentration affected the consciousness of the persons involved in the circumstances related to the writing of the letter, a record of the past. The later positive response did not change the negative conditions existing in a certain moment of the past, it is just a new set of circumstances. Use this method with caution 🙂

  • DanaThomas posted a new activity comment 8 years ago

    The conversation referred to Kozyrev’s concept of time and consciousness; according to the astrophysicist there are irreversible causes for given effects, so that although our present actions can determine the future no future condition can act in reverse. Of course this idea involves more specific definition of all the terms used, otherwise it…[Read more]

    • The whole discussion on time is stuck in linguistic traps, and one has to define time and space as well (and it seems they are artifacts of something else, even according to physicists – information/consciousness).

      One idea is that the present is not an instant. In other words, you can imagine experiential moments of time as spikes on a linear…[Read more]

  • DanaThomas posted a new activity comment 8 years ago

    Life has a way of interfering with podcast projects!

  • DanaThomas posted an update 8 years ago

    Clif discusses Kozyrev’s experiments with time (from minute 24):
    https://youtu.be/xE0MoTvCopE

    • Very interesting, but I am not sure I totally understood the part about time.
      Does he mean that retrocausality is only possible if an action is reversible, and not otherwise?
      Bear in mind that retrocausality means, for example, that the past can be changed by the future , or to be more precise, an action in the future can cause changes in the…[Read more]

      • On a personal note, I believe or fancy that I was able to change the past (a couple of years ago). In other words, something I expected did not come through (I have the dated letter) … being greatly disappointed I withdrew into my shell and started watching — and believing (or being convince) — Phillipe Guilleman’t description of the nature of…[Read more]

        • Perhaps your concentration affected the consciousness of the persons involved in the circumstances related to the writing of the letter, a record of the past. The later positive response did not change the negative conditions existing in a certain moment of the past, it is just a new set of circumstances. Use this method with caution 🙂

    • The conversation referred to Kozyrev’s concept of time and consciousness; according to the astrophysicist there are irreversible causes for given effects, so that although our present actions can determine the future no future condition can act in reverse. Of course this idea involves more specific definition of all the terms used, otherwise it…[Read more]

      • The whole discussion on time is stuck in linguistic traps, and one has to define time and space as well (and it seems they are artifacts of something else, even according to physicists – information/consciousness).

        One idea is that the present is not an instant. In other words, you can imagine experiential moments of time as spikes on a linear…[Read more]

  • DanaThomas posted a new activity comment 8 years ago

    This could well be.

  • DanaThomas posted a new activity comment 8 years ago

    He only displayed that picture of the book but when it was published Roman numerals were always used in chapter headings.

  • DanaThomas posted a new activity comment 8 years ago

    Interesting article and though labelled as “artificial intelligence” this text reading software seems similar to that developed for printed and handwritten texts. Palaeographers will tell us that in manuscripts, and especially the ones by ecclesiastical copyists, a variety of fairly standard letterings were used over the centuries. So that it…[Read more]

    • Baz replied 8 years ago

      yes, that’s going to make it interesting, but I wonder why this needs to be done under the aegis of AI ? Surely not because it’s faster and more efficient. I suspect then plan is to search for something specific by the pretence of innovation.

  • DanaThomas posted a new activity comment 8 years ago

    A great find.

  • DanaThomas posted a new activity comment 8 years ago

    A lot of info in this series have pen and paper at hand. Though he sometimes gets a little carried away such as (knowingly of course) mentioning “Chapter X” in a book where the X is Roman numeral ten.

    • Is it the only chapter in the book distinguished by Roman numeral?

      • He only displayed that picture of the book but when it was published Roman numerals were always used in chapter headings.

  • DanaThomas posted a new activity comment 8 years ago

    In Italy they use the expression “riserva indiana” ironically to signify a small isolated minority

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