- Perepiteia engine - Thane Heins
- SENS - ending aging
- Private Space Enterprise
- CR-ON and Vegan Diets
- Happy hardcore
- Vipassana meditation in the Northern Hemisphere
- Entertrainment/Edutainment
- BandhaYoga
- Clean life(no alcohol, no smoking, no sweets)
- Windfarms on tidalpower pontoons
- Full body balanced Exercises from Yoga
- Electric cars/Compressor cars (36KMPL/100MPG XPrize)
- Architecture for Humanity openarchitecturenetwork.org
- Global Ecological Revolution
- Computer Enhanced Education
- GameLayers - webbrowsing as a game
- seasteading - creating spars in oceans
- mare nostrum - project to create a space vessel to colonise stars
- artemisinin - Chinese Salad has a chemical 1200 more powerful than chemotherapy in killing cancer
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Life and its wonderful features in 2008
Two real features of actualising Singularity
I think that it is important to note that the developments in computing mainly and in their effect on society and the world and the human worldview as it expands at exponential speed bringing new qualities to exist every 3 years as it is now is likely to go through a major breakthrough as machines that intelligently develop systems are created.
I was hopeful that Japan would develop an AI with the 5th gen Computer system, but the project had collapsed into a plethora of results that did not work together - because they did not have free open source systems thinking at the time.
The common notion is that this breakthrough would create a singularity - a straight line of growth for humans to go up. However there are other curves between the asymptotic curve and the exponential - multiple exponentials, x to x-th power,x to x to x, x to x-factorial that might fit the curve of growth without ever needing or being justified to go asymptotic.
Rather than turn into an asymptotic curve from exponential it would go through transformations or leaps from one Ackerman sequence member function to the next getting ever faster but not quite asymptotic and since it will tend to a limit there will be a limit to the rate of growth.
How reasonable quantifications for that event are formed?
Scenario A
as the machine that develops itself and new technologies that it requires takes over from human inventors it will have an exponential curve of growth that is separate from human developments and steeper.
Scenario B
Machine that autodevelops it will develop in addition to human developments so that over all growth is faster provided that there is tight cross-influence, there could be phenomenal development.
Scenario C
Machine would develop itself and enhance the methods of development, growing exponentially and also producing ever more copies of these , so having another exponential. Because this would be a product of two exponentials it appears now why it gets difficult to improve on that.
Scenario D
The development increase is significant enough to create change above linear in the acceleration of increase itself along with the development of the Machine.
The mostly likely actual outcome would be that each scenario actually comes to life at some point and carries on having its own beneficiaries and cultures.
Just so you don't have to do mental detective work unnecessarily: one is the nature of singularity not appearing as an asymptote (there is just no way for that to happen), the other is the stratification of different cultures using these different tech curves. The corollary to todays results is the nature of business determined development harnessing a minimal approach to a maximum profit gain.
I was hopeful that Japan would develop an AI with the 5th gen Computer system, but the project had collapsed into a plethora of results that did not work together - because they did not have free open source systems thinking at the time.
The common notion is that this breakthrough would create a singularity - a straight line of growth for humans to go up. However there are other curves between the asymptotic curve and the exponential - multiple exponentials, x to x-th power,x to x to x, x to x-factorial that might fit the curve of growth without ever needing or being justified to go asymptotic.
Rather than turn into an asymptotic curve from exponential it would go through transformations or leaps from one Ackerman sequence member function to the next getting ever faster but not quite asymptotic and since it will tend to a limit there will be a limit to the rate of growth.
How reasonable quantifications for that event are formed?
Scenario A
as the machine that develops itself and new technologies that it requires takes over from human inventors it will have an exponential curve of growth that is separate from human developments and steeper.
Scenario B
Machine that autodevelops it will develop in addition to human developments so that over all growth is faster provided that there is tight cross-influence, there could be phenomenal development.
Scenario C
Machine would develop itself and enhance the methods of development, growing exponentially and also producing ever more copies of these , so having another exponential. Because this would be a product of two exponentials it appears now why it gets difficult to improve on that.
Scenario D
The development increase is significant enough to create change above linear in the acceleration of increase itself along with the development of the Machine.
The mostly likely actual outcome would be that each scenario actually comes to life at some point and carries on having its own beneficiaries and cultures.
Just so you don't have to do mental detective work unnecessarily: one is the nature of singularity not appearing as an asymptote (there is just no way for that to happen), the other is the stratification of different cultures using these different tech curves. The corollary to todays results is the nature of business determined development harnessing a minimal approach to a maximum profit gain.
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Me the monk
He meditates for the first time and look, already enlightenment there, now he could get rid of anger too.
There is suffering in great numbers in Birma and Tibet. Why this escalation. It is a sign of change, all slavedictatorships last for 80 years and no more.
So China is changing to real democracy in 10 years time perhaps 20 years. If people put in their effort they will leave the top down rule far behind until their hum becomes a nonsensical and irrelevant buzz from a past age just like it was in the Warsaw countries.
I have been praying for world peace and attempting all my best to imagine such a world so that my thoughts would be like a path for future reality. May everyone be blessed who follows a compassionate life without violence and who helps others who still suffer from violence.
And read some Michael Nagler.
There is suffering in great numbers in Birma and Tibet. Why this escalation. It is a sign of change, all slavedictatorships last for 80 years and no more.
So China is changing to real democracy in 10 years time perhaps 20 years. If people put in their effort they will leave the top down rule far behind until their hum becomes a nonsensical and irrelevant buzz from a past age just like it was in the Warsaw countries.
I have been praying for world peace and attempting all my best to imagine such a world so that my thoughts would be like a path for future reality. May everyone be blessed who follows a compassionate life without violence and who helps others who still suffer from violence.
And read some Michael Nagler.
Wednesday, 5 March 2008
Japanese Impressions
I feel there are many things that might be written about here.
My morning escapes to far counties from my home, when I visited the temples that I met, went to the next city once, and walked to another city once a month to meet people with similar lives to mine.
I went to a local church which turned out to be Pentecostal, I left when the pastor turned to be a smoker and made rude comments, liking me to a crow, and crow does not convey a nice image in Japan, although it is good in Estonia. I think that no once who has an addiction should be allowed to run sermons. Really any family man could and should take the position form the congregation. I also hope that they would recover soon.
I sometimes went to the sea, often alone. Once I made a cross from a piece of driftwood. I still have it.
Walking around in the local city I found a small and beautiful garden that has a museum of local artists. It was quite beuatiful.
At another time I walked around 60km I think to get to a mountain, I should check it on the net maps. That culminated in finding one of the most breathtaking walks to a mountain temple. Every hill and mountain has a temple in Japan. It was especially enchanting and the light between the trees seemed to have a very impressive angle. The sequoia seemed young, the path was formed of ancient lava that formed steps that were slightly too big for humans. When I returned I got lost when it got dark and after a walk I realised I was walking in the right direction, when I got lost again I decided to ask a delivery company office for direction and although it seemed that they did not understand me, they were eager to help me get home, I tried to speak Japanese however it was too difficult yet I got a lift home which was my luck as I
had a bit of money and he took me to the train station that was only a stop away and I could get something to eat from the train stop shop.
I never got to the mountain. the road was closed for felling old trees i did get very near though and met a family having picnic there and fishing in the mountain stream nearby. I think I recognised the head as a Diet member, he was too shy to foreigners. The daughter gave me two onigiri and a chickenwing, and I think this was the first time ever I had bbq fried potato crisps. That was great, Japanese are welcoming and very helpful to everyone really. There was a monkey sanctuary warning that they might be a bit cheeky, but they remained hidden for the winter I guess, it was still quite warm for me.
My morning escapes to far counties from my home, when I visited the temples that I met, went to the next city once, and walked to another city once a month to meet people with similar lives to mine.
I went to a local church which turned out to be Pentecostal, I left when the pastor turned to be a smoker and made rude comments, liking me to a crow, and crow does not convey a nice image in Japan, although it is good in Estonia. I think that no once who has an addiction should be allowed to run sermons. Really any family man could and should take the position form the congregation. I also hope that they would recover soon.
I sometimes went to the sea, often alone. Once I made a cross from a piece of driftwood. I still have it.
Walking around in the local city I found a small and beautiful garden that has a museum of local artists. It was quite beuatiful.
At another time I walked around 60km I think to get to a mountain, I should check it on the net maps. That culminated in finding one of the most breathtaking walks to a mountain temple. Every hill and mountain has a temple in Japan. It was especially enchanting and the light between the trees seemed to have a very impressive angle. The sequoia seemed young, the path was formed of ancient lava that formed steps that were slightly too big for humans. When I returned I got lost when it got dark and after a walk I realised I was walking in the right direction, when I got lost again I decided to ask a delivery company office for direction and although it seemed that they did not understand me, they were eager to help me get home, I tried to speak Japanese however it was too difficult yet I got a lift home which was my luck as I
had a bit of money and he took me to the train station that was only a stop away and I could get something to eat from the train stop shop.
I never got to the mountain. the road was closed for felling old trees i did get very near though and met a family having picnic there and fishing in the mountain stream nearby. I think I recognised the head as a Diet member, he was too shy to foreigners. The daughter gave me two onigiri and a chickenwing, and I think this was the first time ever I had bbq fried potato crisps. That was great, Japanese are welcoming and very helpful to everyone really. There was a monkey sanctuary warning that they might be a bit cheeky, but they remained hidden for the winter I guess, it was still quite warm for me.
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