Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Saturday, September 28, 2024

Networks of connectivity are the battleground of the future.

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From Nathan Gardels, editor of Noema Magazine: " From Mass To Distributed Weapons Of Destruction " :  The recent lethal attacks at...
Sunday, September 15, 2024

A caustic review of Yuval Harari's "Nexus"

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I pass on the very cogent opinions of Dominic Green, fellow of the Royal Historical Society, that appeared in the Sept. 13 issue of the Wall...

The Fear of Diverse Intelligences Like AI

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I want to suggest that you read the article by Michael Levin in the Sept. 3 issue of Noema Magazine on how our fear of AI’s potential is em...
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Monday, July 01, 2024

There are no more human elites of any sort...

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 I want to pass on the conclusion of a great essay by Venkatesh Rao , giving the meanings of several acronyms in parentheses. You should rea...
Friday, June 28, 2024

How AI will transform the physical world.

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I pass on the text of wild-eyed speculations by futurist Ray Kurzweil recently sent to The Economist , who since 1990 has been writing on ho...
Monday, June 17, 2024

Empty innovation: What are we even doing?

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I came across an interesting commentary by "Tante" on innovation, invention, and progress (or the lack thereof) in the constant ...
Monday, April 08, 2024

New protocols for uncertain times.

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I want to point to a project launched by Venkatest Rao and others last year: “The Summer of Protocols.”  Some background for this project ca...
Friday, March 29, 2024

How communication technology has enabled the corruption of our communication and culture .

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I pass on two striking examples from today’s New York Times, with few clips of text from each: A.I.-Generated Garbage Is Polluting Our Cultu...
Friday, March 22, 2024

The magic of spurious correlations...

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 I have to pass on this link , sent to me by my techie son, Jonathan:  
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Fundamentally changing the nature of war.

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I generally try to keep a distance from 'the real world' and apocalyptic visions of what AI might do, but I decided to pass on some ...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

An inexpensive Helium Mobile 5G cellphone plan that pays you to use it?

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This is a followup to the previous post describing my setting up a G5 hotspot on Helium’s decentralized 5G infrastructure that earns MOBILE ...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

MindBlog becomes a 5G cellular hotspot in the the low-priced ‘People’s Cell Phone Network’ - Helium Mobile

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I am writing this post, as is frequently the case, for myself to be able to look up in the future, as well as for MindBlog techie readers wh...
Monday, March 11, 2024

How AI’s GPT engines work - Lanier’s forest and trees metaphor.

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Jaron Lanier does a piece in The New Yorker titled " How to Picture A.I. " (if you hit the paywall by clicking the link, try openi...
Monday, February 26, 2024

The "enjunkification" of our online lives

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I want to pass on two articles I've poured over several times, that describe the increasing "complexification" or "enjunk...
Friday, February 16, 2024

An agent-based vision for scaling modern AI - Why current efforts are misguided.

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I pass on my edited clips from Venkatesh Rao’s most recent newsletter - substantially shortening its length and inserting a few definitions...
Monday, February 05, 2024

Functional human brain tissue produced by layering different neuronal types with 3D bioprinting

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A very important advance by Su-Chun Zhang and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin that moves studies of nerve cells connecting in ...
Friday, February 02, 2024

Towards a Metaphysics of Worlds

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I have a splitting headache from having just watched a 27 minute long YouTube rapid fire lecture by Venkatesh Rao , given last November at ...
Wednesday, January 03, 2024

Why can't robots check the box that says 'I'm not a robot'?

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Wow, Google knows EVERYTHING I am doing on my computer..... 
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Origins of our current crises in the 1990s, the great malformation, and the illusion of race.

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I'm passing on three clips I found most striking from David Brooks, recent NYTimes Sydney awards column : I generally don’t agree with ...
Monday, December 25, 2023

Large Language Models are not yet providing theories of human language.

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 From Dentella et al. (open source): Significance The synthetic language generated by recent Large Language Models (LMs) strongly resemb...