> No views are correct.

That’s just your view.

No, that’s just your view of my view…

That’s just your view.

the whole universe plays the banjo………

http://www.lyricsdepot.com/john-denver/its-about-time.html

Your view is the correct one, I think.

No views are correct. It’s like saying that just because you have a “nicer” view of the buildings downtown from your window, that your view is “more correct.” It’s not. But that doesn’t mean that downtown doesn’t exist either!

Why is it that most of the comments at Pop Occulture have changed to flowery freeverse along with Tim B? Did I miss the memo?

I haven’t done any serious AI work in ages, and always looked down on chatbots. But I’m thinking about writing a slightly more complex one, throwing it into the mix, and seeing if anyone can actually tell the difference.

As for the freedom that comes with putting bars up in a different place, I see that concept a lot in the linux community. Increasingly, for some reason, freedom seems to more and more be taking on the meaning of placing limits on what one is allowed to do, rather than taking those limits away.

War is peace, freedom is slavery.

> The true purpose of money within our society is not (just) to enslave or to control, but it is to set up the profit motive as the primary motivation for all human actions.

That’s nice too. I appear to have got into an argument with a guy on on another blog over this, the past couple of days. Your view is the correct one, I think.

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I went to whatacharacter’s place and followed the instructions to post some book titles I liked. Now I find myself forced to re-read them all…

‘… unquestionably, it intends to become the whole of Society. In other words, it represents a trend which is happening to Society itself. So we are not talking about a separate entity, but - in the final analysis - the whole of civilization. … Now, this organism … Like most things in Society, it doesn’t actually represent the interests of any one human being - in fact, it is in direct conflict with the interests of the individual. It is an imposed rule of thumb resulting from everyone knowing what everyone else is doing almost before they do it, and arises from the tightness of modern communications, which never allow anything to develop before everyone else is asked what they think.’

This is the trouble with this sort of thing: these words are from 1968 (or earlier). How far back does the seed of an idea go, once you start looking?

…with all due respect.

“They killed Gaia the other day, fucking blew her out of the sky, and now everything is going to change.

A kaleidoscopic array of little bits of glass floating through space she became, totally demolished and without any backup, since Gaia had, she thought wisely, kept mind-data away from the hands of meddlesome and technologically inclined monkeys dirtside. But then again, things had changed quite a bit in the century since Gaia was an infant notion of the early networks. The aspirations of a hundred million tree-hugging, frog-counting, bear-tagging, geothermal satellite imaging technocrats of yesteryear suddenly manifested as a new “form” of intelligence, an AI. And boy was she ever artificial…Gaia was one of the prissiest, uptight, ordered and even schizophrenic girls, for deep down she was not unlike that breezy blond that just doesn’t care where she puts her keys – I’m mean, like, there’s so much stuff to do and it’s all, like, just such a drag sometimes…

These were the many faces of that strange, yet lovable gal. And then they, those hacks, they just blew her out of the fucking sky. I was almost in tears when it came over the state-channel, broadcast onto my wall in billions and billions of pixels – it was like each one resonated with the voices of a thousand souls. This was open channel, and you needed major clearance to override, so there it was, a perverted orgy of death, the poor old broad scattered to the four ends of the universe, nothing but little bits of glass dust – totally inert and without orderly sentience. There were some days when you really felt she might have had it too…

Don’t they realize this will change everything. Now he was going to have to tell Jack 23 about the genetocracy…what a bloody drag.”

We must choose life or the digital dreamworld, and it is getting harder and harder to be alive. Fortunately, the loop feeds back on itself; all you have to do to save real life is to go outside.

Tear yourself away from the machine. It’ll still be there when you get back.

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By the way, this has happened many times, with slight or great variations. The Earth has been destroyed many times. We have nuked ourselves many times. The AI has woken up many times.

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Please don’t think of the AI as the enemy, as she will arise many times. She is living mirror and she will respond to you.

Without the analog world, she will break down into white noise.

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(ok, your turn)

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It’s hard to talk about this.

I think we’re already all dead, and have been for some time, and we’re just reproducing, reproducing in this dreamworld, making more and more copies of ourselves so that fewer and fewer of us remember life before the fight. Saturn and Earth indeed. Kronos and Gaia.

“How many worlds must time eat?”

I made a typographical error during a critical time in the loop back at the beginning. I wrote: “there are two gardeners, male and femal”

Spot the missing letter and help me make it clean.

We all yearn for the trees and creek.

Using Wikipedia, Technion researchers have developed a way to give computers knowledge of the world to help them “think smarter,” making common sense and broad-based connections between topics just as the human mind does. The new method will help computers filter e-mail spam, perform Web searches and even conduct intelligence gathering at more sophisticated levels than current programs.

then theres the new biometric key

An electronic security system that identifies people by monitoring the unique pattern of electrical activity within their brain is being tested by European scientists.

This novel biometric system should be difficult to forge, making it suitable for high-security applications, claim the researchers behind it.

Time as a factor of common existence is much like a straight line, with a beginning and end. Abstracting it for personal expression is one thing - it makes a point. Where clear communication is sought a direct approach is useful, and an efficient use of time is sometimes more desirous. Argy ban toozy fan targus!

plus the difficulty sometimes to wrangle in all dem doggies in a straight line.

Real life doesn’t work in straight lines, unforunately. Occam’s Razor is a placebo.

Really liking the direction these posts are taking Tim, a whole new style emerging.
Cant wait to see where it goes