All my adult life, I have avoided applying any political litmus test when choosing candidates for office—especially for Congress or the Presidency. I held that people running in an election should be evaluated by the balance of their stands on issues, not focus in on just one small area. My stance on this has now changed. Continue reading
I’ve been saying this for years. I also wouldn’t mind the court being also proportionally enlarged. Watch old NBA stuff from the 50s and 60s and then watch a game from today…there’s now just too much beef in too small … Continue reading
The study thinks 12:29am (1:44am on weekends) is late? Amateurs. If you’re still awake after 3:30am, we’ll talk. Intelligence: The Evolution of Night Owls | Psychology Today.
Too many people don’t understand scale. This will help, I think. Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
There are plenty of signs that humans are still evolving. However, whether humans develop along the lines portrayed by hackneyed science fiction is doubtful. via The Future of Evolution: What Will We Become? | LiveScience. And a speculation from me: Mankind’s … Continue reading
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Any intelligence is effectively useless without an ability to perceive that which is external to the intelligence. The key to vision isn’t the how of image gathering, but the processing and interpretation of the images gathered. Continue reading
I was watching some children in the neighborhood playing. Some were doing something with a ball. Others (this was weird) were sitting at the curb texting. Now, while I’m happy that they are apparently at least somewhat literate, at least enough for texting, I couldn’t help but wonder if something gets lost? Continue reading
Construction of our AAI will require many elements to work together for sentience to be achieved. The glue we will use comes from chaos theory. Continue reading
Who doesn’t want to build a really smart robot? The trouble is, many people don’t think outside the box enough. Me? I don’t think it needs to be a box. I say we start designing for the possibilities soon to come instead of holding ourselves back. Continue reading
In a world where the machines are in charge, the old ways of making babies are dead. The intelligent machines will want to continue their reign. Being made out of metal and all…how are they going to do that? How could they possibly be fruitful and multiply? Continue reading
