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Oct 29, 2022

Some People Who Appear to Be in a Coma May Actually Be Conscious

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Brain scans reveal that some people who can’t speak or move are aware of the world around them.

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Oct 29, 2022

Foundations of the Metaverse: The HTML for 3D Virtual Worlds

Posted by in category: futurism

Join this session to hear from a panel of distinguished technical leaders as they talk about Universal Scene Description (USD) as a standard for the 3D evo.

Oct 29, 2022

Architect Turns 9-Acre Barren Land into Unique Bamboo Village & Eco-Tourism Hub

Posted by in category: sustainability

Watch this video to see the beauty of Bashgram, a unique bamboo village located in Tripura, that aims to promote sustainability and eco-tourism, as well as the importance of bamboo in the local culture.

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Oct 29, 2022

Creepy AI predicts face of ‘last human on Earth’ and the results are eerie

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

ARTIFICIAL intelligence has predicted what “the last human on Earth” will look like.

The U.S. Sun asked DALL·E, an artificially intelligent software, to make the prediction and it came up with some rather creepy results.

DALL·E is a machine learning model that was created by OpenAI to conjure up unusual images from keyword prompts.

Oct 29, 2022

Hawaii Officials Warn World’s Largest Active Volcano Could Erupt

Posted by in category: futurism

The volcano has been in a state of “heightened unrest” for more than a month, with the number of earthquakes rising from between 10 and 20 per day to 40 to 50 per day, likely due to an increase in magma inside the volcano, according to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

The strongest was a 5.0-magnitude earthquake that struck the Big Island two weeks ago, although local officials said it did not cause major damage or injuries.

Oct 29, 2022

Give peace a chance in Ukraine: The chorus rises, around the world and across the spectrum

Posted by in categories: ethics, existential risks, military

The escalating crisis exposes the weakness of Biden’s position. He is gambling with hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives, over which he has no moral claim, that Ukraine will somehow be in a stronger military position after a winter of war and power outages, with hundreds of thousands more Russian troops in the areas they control. This is a bet on a much longer war, in which U.S. taxpayers will shell out for thousands of tons of weapons and many more Ukrainians will die, with no clear endgame short of nuclear war.

#StopWar #NoWar #NuclearWar #WW3


Leaders in the global South, former U.S. diplomats and Henry Kissinger (!) agree: It’s time to negotiate for real.

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Oct 29, 2022

The Day Technology Went Away

Posted by in category: futurism

An exploration of a strange phenomenon of solar flares that could reset technology and civilization to something close to the stone age overnight.

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Oct 29, 2022

Solar eclipse archives show the Earth’s changing rotation

Posted by in category: futurism

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Upcoming solar eclipse.

Oct 29, 2022

In Defence of Strong AI: Semantics from Syntax

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

Next, you seem to assume that when I catch a ball, my mind solves equations unconsciously, brining together inertia, gravity, air resistance to calculate my response. You may be right, but I don’t think most neuroscientist agree with you. That’s another computationalist prejudice. Rather than solving equations, my nervous system uses experience and extrapolation through repeated trial and improvement to hone a skill in extrapolating paths; no equations involved. As I say, I could be wrong, it’s an empirical question. But as far as I know, the balance of evidence and theory supports my interpretation.

The meaning of semantics is not just that it means something, but that it can be used to make statements about the world, beyond the formal system used to express that meaning. That, too, is definitional.

Your main argument seems like a really desperate move to sustain the computationalist faith that you assert at the beginning in the face of huge, perhaps insuperable difficulties.

Oct 29, 2022

Fish Basket — Imaginarium (Official Music Video)

Posted by in categories: entertainment, media & arts, robotics/AI

The recipe for the Imaginarium is locked behind the ancient doors. Three brave hunters are sent on a mission to get the three mysterious scrolls needed to open them… but somebody doesn’t like it at all.

Official Music Video for “Imaginarium” by Fish Basket.

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