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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 26, 2023, 4:45 pm
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See also:
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 2, 2023, 2:52 pm
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HTML https://finance.yahoo.com/news/breakthrough-quantum-computer-instantly-makes-171316796.html
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> Google has developed a quantum computer that instantly makes
calculations that would take the best existing supercomputers 47
years, in a breakthrough meant to establish beyond doubt that
the experimental machines can outperform conventional rivals.
>
> A paper from researchers at Google published online claims
that the company’s latest technology is “beyond the capabilities
of existing classical supercomputers”.
> ...
> Four years ago, Google claimed to be the first company to
achieve “quantum supremacy” – a milestone point at which quantum
computers surpass existing machines.
>
> This was challenged at the time by rivals, which argued that
Google was exaggerating the difference between its machine and
traditional supercomputers.
>
> The company’s new paper – Phase Transition in Random Circuit
Sampling – published on the open access science website ArXiv,
demonstrates a more powerful device that aims to end the debate.
>
> While the 2019 machine had 53 qubits, the building blocks of
quantum computers, the next generation device has 70.
>
> Adding more qubits improves a quantum computer’s power
exponentially, meaning the new machine is 241 million times more
powerful than the 2019 machine.
>
> The researchers said it would take Frontier, the world’s
leading supercomputer, 6.18 seconds to match a calculation from
Google’s 53-qubit computer from 2019. In comparison, it would
take 47.2 years to match its latest one.
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The Western reaction:
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> “We really must get to utility quantum computing – an era
where quantum computers with many thousand qubits actually begin
to deliver value to society in a way that classical computers
never will be able to.”
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Which civilization came up with quantum computing? Of course it
is the same one:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing#History
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> In 1980, Paul Benioff introduced the quantum Turing machine,
which uses quantum theory to describe a simplified computer.[8]
When digital computers became faster, physicists faced an
exponential increase in overhead when simulating quantum
dynamics,[9] prompting Yuri Manin and Richard Feynman to
independently suggest that hardware based on quantum phenomena
might be more efficient for computer simulation.[10][11][12]
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Benioff
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> Benioff was born on May 1, 1930, in Pasadena, California.[2]
His father, Hugo Benioff, was a professor of seismology at the
California Institute of Technology, and his mother, Alice
Pauline Silverman, received a master's degree in English from
the University of California, Berkeley.
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Benioff
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> Benioff was born in Los Angeles. His father was a Jewish
immigrant from Kiev in the Russian Empire
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Manin
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> Manin was born on 16 February 1937 in Simferopol, Crimean
ASSR, Soviet Union.[1]
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And we already covered Feynman here:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/mythical-world/turanian-sexism/msg13524/#msg13524
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> Feynman was born on May 11, 1918, in Queens, New York City,[3]
to Lucille née Phillips, a homemaker, and Melville Arthur
Feynman, a sales manager[4] originally from Minsk in Belarus[5]
(then part of the Russian Empire). His family was of Ashkenazi
Jewish origin.[3][4]
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: guest98
Date: July 12, 2023, 2:11 pm
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HTML https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-749506
An 'eternal life' pill may be closer than ever thanks to new
research
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>
> Experts estimate that the "fountain of youth" pill may be on
the horizon, thanks to a jellyfish-like marine creature called
Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus, which regenerates its entire body
from cells located in its mouth.
>
> Hydractinia are tiny tube-shaped creatures that live on the
shells of rare crustaceans. Their remarkable regenerative
abilities are expected to have implications for healthcare and
anti-aging treatments.
>
> These abilities were discovered after researchers sequenced
pieces of RNA, which are related to the biological process of
gene aging.
>
> How can a jellyfish-like marine animal lead to the development
of a "fountain of youth" pill?
>
> While humans have the ability to regenerate in certain
situations, such as healing a broken bone or regrowing a damaged
liver, other creatures like salamanders and zebrafish can
replace whole organs and regenerate a variety of tissues.
Simple-bodied species like Hydractinia often exhibit extreme
regenerative abilities.
>
> Hydractinia utilizes stem cells, which are master cells
capable of becoming any type of tissue. The research team
identified similar genes in humans. Experiments have shown that
Hydractinia removes senescent cells from its mouth, while humans
cannot eliminate senescent cells as easily. The roles of
aging-related genes in Hydractinia provide insights into how the
aging process has evolved.
>
> Baxevanis said that the process by which senescent cells
trigger regeneration and its prevalence in the animal kingdom is
still not well understood and more research is needed, but he is
optimistic about the current trajectory.
>
>
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 24, 2023, 4:38 pm
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And again, one element of Western civilization will always end
up reinforcing another element of Western civilization:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/finance/news/scientists-frighteningly-close-achieving-synthetic-134800641.html
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> Lab-grown synthetic brain cells can already learn tasks. Now,
the same team that brought us 800,000 Pong-playing brain cells
living in a dish has received $600,000 AUD from Australia’s
National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grants
Program to further push these lab-grown brain cells embedded
onto silicon chips into the world of machine learning.
> ...
> The official language from Australian government’s Office of
National Intelligence when listing the three-year research
project spells it out: “The project aims to merge the fields of
artificial intelligence and synthetic biology to create
programmable cyborg computing chips.”
>
> How’s that for a future?
>
> As part of that previous Neuron article on the Pong-playing
capabilities, the research team said that synthetic biological
intelligence “previously confined to the realm of science
fiction” is close.
> ...
> “The outcomes of such research would have significant
implications across multiple fields such as, but not limited to,
planning, robotics, advanced automation, brain-machine
interfaces, and drug discovery,” Razzi says, “giving Australia a
significant strategic advantage.”
>
> The Monash University group, led by Razzi, has partnered with
Cortical Labs of Melbourne to continue the research. Now, they
hope to grow human brain cells in a lab dish called the
DishBrain system to better understand the biological mechanisms
that underpin this continual learning ability.
>
> “We will be using this grant to develop better AI machines
that replicate the learning capacity of these biological neural
networks,” Razzi says. “This will help us scale up the hardware
and methods capacity to the point where they become a viable
replacement for in silico computing.”
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 28, 2023, 6:12 pm
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 31, 2023, 9:35 pm
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No surprises:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/asian-mit-grad-asks-ai-180424270.html
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> Asian MIT grad asks AI to make her photo more ‘professional,’
gets turned into white woman
>
>
[img]
HTML https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/fmwiI1Y63M1ZDBSUKCpItQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTIwNDg7aD0xMTUyO2NmPXdlYnA-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/nextshark_articles_509/ab953da3df6c564506e903a9dffa676c[/img]
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> A recent Asian American Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) graduate made headlines this month after sharing evidence
of racial bias in artificial intelligence (AI).
>
> What she asked for: Rona Wang, 24, has been experimenting with
AI portrait generators. In a recent attempt, she purportedly
used a program called Playground AI to turn an image of her in
an MIT sweatshirt into “a professional LinkedIn profile photo.”
>
> What she got: The program, to Wang’s surprise, returned an
image that gave her a fairer complexion, dark blonde hair and
blue eyes.
>
> “I was like, ‘Wow, does this thing think I should become white
to become more professional?’” she told Boston.com.
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Yes, that is exactly what it thinks. And this is despite "Asian"
women earning more on average than "white" women in reality (a
fact which AI should be able to find faster than I did):
HTML https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/VRLa0LDl_c34z-yWfZZv62wegKM=/0x0:385x591/1120x0/filters:focal(0x0:385x591):format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6736705/Screen%20Shot%202016-07-01%20at%201.18.34%20PM.png
So it's not even that AI is just following the relevant data
wherever it leads (or else it would have turned Wang into an
"Asian" man). AI Eurocentrism is internal to the workings of AI
itself, just as I predicted it would be.
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/face-shapes-and-preferences/msg19753/#msg19753
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/face-shapes-and-preferences/msg21008/#msg21008
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 1, 2023, 5:55 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPTnq_1hWDE
By you introducing something new to detect, deepfake can also
very soon incorporate simulating it. You are only helping
deepfake become even more realistic, while also training users
to trust AI to tell them when another AI is lying, which just
makes them even more reliant on AI. This is another example of
why problems created by Western civilization cannot be solved by
more Western civilization.
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/questions-debates/vaccination/msg10403/#msg10403
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> The real answer is that this entire problem-solving approach
will continue to be accepted in all domains so long as its
philosophical foundations are not dismantled.
>
> Immunity approach = "We will evolve to be immune to you, and
if you keep evolving in response, we will just keep evolving
faster!"
>
> Lockdown approach = "We will (by preventing transmissions)
prevent you from evolving, so that we don't need to evolve
either!"
>
> The immunity approach is, at its core, a manifestation of
progressivism (and hence equating the acquiring of more and more
immunity with strengthening). The lockdown approach is a
manifestation of regressivism (and hence equating the acquiring
of more and more immunity with adulteration).
>
> Regressivism must defeat progressivism if we are to break the
cycle.
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: SirGalahad
Date: August 1, 2023, 6:21 pm
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Like I mentioned a while back, the people involved with this
sort of AI technology, are working around the clock to produce a
world where we can never trust anything ever again. Any photo
could be fake. Any video could be fake. Any social media account
could be fake, as a means of making certain ideologies appear to
be more popular than they actually are, or for that matter, to
make our ideological side look worse than we actually are. It’s
going to be complete and total anarchy. Maybe people will start
to only trust things heard in real life through word of mouth
and avoid the internet entirely for knowledge of the real world,
but that also comes with its own host of problems. As much as
the internet has its issues, verified posts or photos or videos
online were a thousand times more reliable than in-person gossip
before the current form of AI came along. People have their
agendas, but you could at least take everything from all sides
and form a general conclusion
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 1, 2023, 7:40 pm
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"Maybe people will start to only trust things heard in real life
through word of mouth and avoid the internet entirely for
knowledge of the real world"
But how can someone who relies on word of mouth be sure that the
person telling them something in real life didn't get that piece
of information from the internet, or from someone else who got
it from the internet?
This is as flawed as thinking that having only one sexual
partner will protect you from STDs. You may have only one sexual
partner, but how many additional sexual partners does your
sexual partner have, and how many additional sexual partners do
each of those have, and so on?
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 6, 2023, 6:00 pm
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