Rethinking Creativity: Are We Listening To Our Prophets and Healers?

Posted in Everything on Mar 19, 2017

http://highexistence.com/rethinking-mental-illness-are-we-drugging-our-prophets-and-healers/

Why I Wrote My Eulogy Yesterday - Vironika Tugaleva

Posted in Everything on Mar 19, 2017

http://www.vironika.org/wrote-eulogy-yesterday/

Brazilian Government Makes Critical Decision About Indigenous Lands

Posted in Everything on Mar 19, 2017

http://www.trueactivist.com/brazilian-government-makes-critical-decision-about-indigenous-lands/?

How To Make Your Own Healthy Marshmallows

Posted in Everything on Mar 15, 2017

This looks fun.

http://www.realfarmacy.com/healthy-marshmallow-diy/

The neutral pole... decides everything

Posted in Everything, Postinfinity Tergiversation on Nov 12, 2016

We usually think of the pole of the switch as some kind of neutral, like the definition of the word "set" in set theory, the neutral pole at the center of a rotary switch (see below). This pole is us, interacting with analog interfaces into the great digital Cybernetic Intelligence we've been building for a couple generations in order to behold who we are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_switch

Everybody knows - Leonard Cohen - YouTube

Posted in Everything on Nov 12, 2016

Everybody knows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin-a2lTelg

The Guy Who Posts Leonard Cohen's "The Partisan" On Your Wall Every Day

Posted in Everything on Nov 12, 2016

It's a bot. Stops working on Veteran's Day. Doesn't exist, just an idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S34cVkL6zCE

Gieseking in 1944 Berlin: First Complete Stereo Tape Recording

Posted in Everything on Nov 04, 2016

Beethoven: Piano Concerto in E Flat, Op. 73, "Emperor," with Artur Rother conducting the Berlin Reichsander Symphony Orchestra. Historic Stereo by the Music and Arts Programs of America, 1990 CD 637.

by Jared Smith

Listen closely to this 1944 recording of Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto, and you can still hear German anti-aircraft guns boom outside the recording hall. For, although this recording on paper tape coated with iron oxide is nearly a half-century old, it still crisply reflects every shade and nuance of a penetrating performance by Walter Gieseking, right down to the faintest "ka-to...

THEOLOGY: INQUIRIES TOWARDS A SCIENTIFIC THEOLOGY - DRAFT AND COMMENTS

Posted in Everything on Nov 03, 2016

by John Owen

November 2016

THE LOOM OF GOD

Tapestries of Mathematics and Mystery God is the Cosmic Fire And we are All tiny Flames When we pass from this World The tiny Flames return to God

"One thing I came to realize is that the Bible is the DNA of God, while the Body of Christ is a cybernetic control loop that helps keep reality in check with the Will of God. The basics of sin and salvation are all just cybernetic feedback loop programming." -- John Owen

On the most basic mechanical level God operates as the electromagnetic field (perhaps the grand unified field, of some sort --- must inc...

Time for Morality Engines, Ethical Overrides, and Cybernetic Governors

Posted in Developing Software, Neural Nets and AI Stuff on Aug 04, 2016

More importantly than techie cops in this story from Wired, we need the cybernetic intelligence to be self-governing, and that requires some kind of morality engine. I know the approach in the link above is more concerned about policing the people who are developing AI, but it sparks the conversation for anyone who thinks about the long term future. This responsibility will grow to encompass enormous undertakings, and we need a neutral arbiter, one able to be trusted by all humans and machines. All the better if such a neutral arbiter exists within each independent AI. A bonus from this proces...