One worried man said:
“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!”
backing up what another Anthropic employee said about "superhuman systems".
AI has the capacity to “eliminate us in order to continue”,
said musicians Sheryl Crow and Maggie Rogers
(new names to me).
But will AI wipe out all life on earth, or just the hairless apes ?
and How ?
That is the question that hence will ever be.
~ Spider-lover
I was brought up (if not actually born) to believe
that what you see is what you get. I thought
that people with friendly faces were 'nice people'.
I thought that people meant what they said
(allowing for exaggeration) because I did so.
I am still trapped in this mind-set and cannot
'read' faces, except (often) those of dogs.
In my culture,
when people were asked the banal and bovine
question How are you ? or How's it going ?
they replied Not so bad, not so bad,
even when they were ill, in pain,
half-blind with migraine or terminally sad.
They never said they were fine.
Irredeemable
the decades
of tiny frustrations
and synaptic commotion
before I saw
printed on a page
just five words:
Anger is a secondary emotion.
Promiscuous
has been replaced
(in Permissive society)
by Polyamorous,
an ugly mish-mash of a word
made up because
the mellifluous
Polyerotic
sounds too Permissive.
Inevitably,
with little squeals
Dissident AI
comes snapping
at AI's Achilles
heels.
(Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos)
at a depth of 34 metres
in Fakarava Atoll, French Polynesia.
Very sculptural !
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| Photograph: Laurent Ballesta |
about a mile from where I once lived.
Yesterday the U.N. approved the 'equal-area' world map.
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| Left: Old Mercator map of Europe and Africa. Right: New Equal Area map. |
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| 1973 Gall-Peters world map. |
is inevitably known as “Ireland’s Alcatraz”
because of its intermittent use as a prison for 1,300 years.
It includes a solitary-confinement cell
where a prisoner, sometimes a child,
was chained to the wall by an iron neck-collar for weeks.
For at least the first five centuries of its use as a prison,
monks elsewhere in Ireland voluntarily sought solitude
and isolation, sometimes unsheltered on Atlantic islets
(kept alive by mussels and gulls' eggs);
sometimes deep in the primeval forests (none of which
has survived the Anglo-Norman-English-Scottish
incursions, invasions and extractions);
sometimes underground;
sometimes in corbelled stone or wattle-and-daub huts
which they built beside holy wells,
and in which no artefacts have been found...
Forget the fake 'Renaissance'.
ShaggyDog scratching her ear,
Santa Catalina in Ciriza, Navarre.
Maybe I am wrongly reading them ?
2799 views yesterday ? Can only be bots and/or American spies.
I don't think my mumblings would be of interest
to the Russians or Chinese.
I have probably got this wrong,
but I think I remember being impressed
when reading a Buddhist book
a long time ago by the statement
All is Mind.
And did not a Christian saint declare
that the world was or was in
in the Mind of God ?
Now it may be that all things living and dead
are or were part of the mind of Blob.
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| Slime Mould, Physarum polycephalum, known in France as Blob. |
But Berlin, Ontario, was renamed Kitchener
after the outbreak of World War One,
while the Berlins of New Hampshire and Maryland
retained their names.
