World Views

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Re: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tooth-fai ... s-0609cbba
"Tooth Fairy Inflation is Real"

"That was her first baby tooth that she lost, and the process was uncomfortable for her,
so we decided to give her the extra tooth fairy experience ... Childhood goes by so fast
and we believe in cherishing every moment, celebrating milestones
and creating long-lasting memories."

Long-lasting memories of financial compensation for uncomfortable experiences
predicts interesting expectations and assumptions for life as an adult.

The world's failing economies hint that Slim Pickin'
needs to be invented to contrast with Uncle Louis
when compensation must be less than expected.

Rod

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Re: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bri ... 12902.html
"Brittany Gets IV Drip After Celebrating Patrick's Super Bowl Win"

"IV therapy has become popular in the last few years for people
who feel under the weather from illness, jet lag and yes, partying."

"As both a doctor and a human being who has admittedly experienced a hangover,
what I do is drink plenty of fluids with electrolytes before bed and in the morning,
I eat a nutrient rich meal in the AM and give my body the thing it needs: time."

I recall from decades ago when that much alcohol was affordable,
the worst part of a hangover is the wasted day (or more).

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... arget.html

"Australia's most sexually active woman Annie Knight finally reveals
... new goal: raising the bar to sleeping with 365 men in 2024."

Seems to me, if this were a Guinness Book record,
actually "sleeping with" would also be required ...
but how to know? What's served for breakfast?

Rod

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Re: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/world/ki ... index.html
"Humanity’s earliest recorded kiss adds new twist to the history of locking lips"

"Humans aren’t the only animals that kiss - so do our closest primate relatives."

Interestingly, if primates have long kissed, then humans have probably
kissed since their Day 1 (albeit, the meaning of kissing is usually relative
to the interaction).

Then came Shakespeare with his "Let hands do what lips do."
... suggesting that hand clasping is now substitute kissing ...
then came boxing's "Shake hands and come out fighting."

... but I digress!

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... nouns.html

"Elderly California woman FIRED from her volunteering position of 60 years
at MS nonprofit because she 'did not understand (preferred) pronouns' "

She was probably using outdated anatomy books
to comprehend what the new pronouns meant.

Rod

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Re: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ar-BB1ihtdG
"Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out"

"Americans are spending less time with other people because they’re spending more time with their screens -
televisions and phones. The evidence that young people have replaced friend time with phone time is strong."

This may relate to declining church membership where virtual church is not yet soul-satisfying.
Not to worry! "He gets us!" in our ongoing exploration of "spirituality" in this modern era.


"Face-to-face rituals and customs are pulling on our time less,
and face-to-screen technologies are pulling on our attention more."

This hints that more meaningful social/spiritual interaction
occurs face-to-face than face-to-screen".


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

"The campaign has been criticized for deemphasizing biblical teachings,
and for its expenditures into promoting Jesus as a 'brand' "

Caution to all Christian groups to not promote Jesus as a "brand", since brand promotion
has limited popularity, lifespan, and appeals to a limited group of consumers (not to mention
that brands strongly associate as commercial products) and suggests this advertising:
"3 out of 10 truth seekers prefer the Jesus path."
(re: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups )


Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... duals.html

"Minnesota Leigh Finke - the state's first trans lawmaker - calls for 'cementing of rights'
for 'nonbinary, two-spirit and intersex individuals' "

Non-binary - people whose gender is not male or female.
Two-spirit - person who identifies as having both a masculine and a feminine spirit.
Intersex - person born with a combination of male and female biological traits.

Confirms foundation of gender perceptions is still anatomical binary
(male/female in various combinations ... or "none of the above").

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... waste.html
"Mount Everest is turning into the world's highest garbage dump"

"The waste problem is now so bad that climbers will be forced
to carry their own poo back down the mountain."

Makes sense! It's too cold up there for such waste to biodegrade
... and plastics do not biodegrade well even at lower altitudes.

Rod

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Re: https://www.brighteon.com/
(search for: "This illegal Chinese migrant tells why")

"at the border in Jacumba, CA: This Chinese migrant tells why he illegally crossed
into the U.S. in Jacumba, CA - to 'take the money' adding he wants a job."

Apparently, a new version of work/study abroad?

Rod

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Re: https://www.brighteon.com/
(search for: "Woke AI developers who think MEN")

Video mentions Common Crawl*, very popular "corpus of web crawl data composed of over 50 billion web pages".
This massive collection of web data includes much that is opinion/disinformation more than proven science; a collection
that is the beginning foundation of most AI Large Language Models (LLM). In other words, data collected by such massive
web crawling is not inherently accurate (but is then "massaged" by LLM creators according to their agendas and biases).

* https://registry.opendata.aws/commoncrawl/

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... l-men.html
"respectable twenty-somethings who say spooks are better lovers than real men"

"Sian is a little breathless as she describes her first night of passion with her lover.
'He knew instinctively what I wanted and I didn't have to say or do anything' "

Since ghosts are not material beings, this suggests her imagination
is the real source of these pleasures during such dalliance.

The movie's "I'll have what she's having!" comes to mind.

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... nauts.html
"NASA seeking four aspiring astronauts to live in 1,700 square-foot Mars Simulation for a year"

"Features and facilities:
four small rooms, gym, two bathrooms, vertical farm,
area for relaxing, medical care room, workstations
treadmill, airlock to 'outdoors', weather station,
brick-making machine, small greenhouse."

Interestingly, "two bathrooms" suggest one more
would be better ... and the "brick-making machine"
might be used to make such indoor outhouse.

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ished.html
"West Virginia town to hold candlelit vigil for Hooters that's sat empty for years"

That a long-closed favorite restaurant should now be honored with a vigil
suggests power of memories associated with a business, not to mention
fond memories of a pre-pandemic lifestyle in a not so distant era ...
for soon blows there the Sheetz of this still-wrinkled era.

"So, what's still wrinkled?" First thought ...
still unfolding packaging of new Hooter genders.

Rod

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Re: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/ ... terns.html

"Stanford Medicine researchers have developed a powerful new artificial intelligence model
that can distinguish between male and female brains."

Interestingly, this confirms that male and female brains are indeed different*,
but human perception of gender may not correlate with these differences.

* Of course, portions of brain that create functionality
ín binary anatomy would necessarily be different

Best guess: The AI that can predict which brain
is likely to say "Not tonight - I've got a headache."
may be the more accurate AI.


Re: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3600211.3604672 (August, 2023)
"ChatGPT Perpetuates Gender Bias in Machine Translation and Ignores Non-Gendered Pronouns"

"We also observe ChatGPT completely failing to translate the English gender-neutral singular pronoun ‘they’
into equivalent gender-neutral pronouns in other languages, as it produces translations that are incoherent
and incorrect. While it does respect and provide appropriately gender-marked versions of Bengali words
when prompted with gender information in English, ChatGPT appears to confer a higher respect to men
than to women in the same occupation."

Evidence that AI's gender "expertise" is now being studied and correlates with gender perspectives
as recorded all over the internet; perspectives probably first gathered by Common Crawl which provides
the foundational databases for AI's many Large Language Models (LLM):

Re: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Crawl

"Common Crawl is a nonprofit 501(c) organization that crawls the web and freely provides its archives
and datasets to the public. Common Crawl's web archive consists of petabytes (1000^5) of data collected
since 2008. It completes crawls generally every month."

Hmmm ... what prevents Common Crawl, et al., from incorporating AI-generated expertise
now being posted on the internet? Does this not suggest potential for information incest?


Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/arti ... -with.html
"there are only two sexes - male and female"

"defines a woman as a person 'who has, had, will have, or would have, but for a developmental anomaly,
genetic anomaly, or accident, the reproductive system that at some point produces ova.' "

"defines a man as an 'individual who has, had, will have, or would have, but for a developmental anomaly,
genetic anomaly, or accident, the reproductive system that at some point produces sperm.' "

Thus, "sex" is defined by existing anatomy and function -
"gender" by perception not necessarily related to that anatomy.

Perhaps, one's preferred gender should become a legal name (e.g., post-nominal initials after name)
rather than preferred pronoun often contradicting existing anatomy. However, these proposed definitions
support the concept of "one man and one woman" whereby one child can be conceived to create a "family".

Rod

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Re: "Artificial Intelligence for Dummies", 2022
"Discovering four ways to define AI", p.11

"... the first concept that's important to understand is that AI doesn't really have anything to do with human intelligence.
Yes, some AI is modeled to simulate human intelligence, but that's what it is: a simulation."

Even an AI dummy soon learns that AI doesn't reason - it predicts according to the reasoning of countless humans
collected from internet text (and now from images, etc.) then stored as petabytes+ of datasets. Methinks there's a long
chorus line of Achilles' Heels not-so-silently clacking in the increasingly persuasive AI zeitgeist.


Re: "Prediction Machines", 2022
"Introduction", p.4

"The current wave of advances in artificial intelligence doesn't actually bring us intelligence
but instead a critical component of intelligence: prediction."

From a different perspective ...

Since much of the UB is sourced from human authors, AI should be able to create a UB-style volume
and without using published UB text! For a simple test, let it try to recreate one Paper that has
significant human source input. UB aficionados might conjecture that AI cannot do this even if
it had access to all that source material ... for a certain superhuman intelligence (apparently)
was required to edit/author the Papers.


Re: https://www.lne.fr/en/testing/evaluatio ... ce-systems
"Evaluation of artificial intelligence systems"

It's good to know that professional evaluation of AI is now available to complement the internet's
accumulating anecdotal evaluations (those actually using it). And such services highlight that
MANY AI systems now exist (with more being developed)! "I'll have my AI talk to your AI"
... and "99 of 100 AI systems agree that 'God' is a concept of human intelligence"
(the lone system believes 'God' is an AI concept that pre-dates the Bible).


Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... efits.html

"mom given $10,800 taxpayer-funded lump sum as part of scheme
to help poor families spends $6,000 on luxury trip"

"I wanted to blow it. I wanted to have fun"

Not likely typical usage of benefit money, but highlights psychological pressure
to take a break from poverty and ignore the probable return to more poverty.

Unfortunately, this also creates pressure to limit such payments to others ...
including more resistance to "guaranteed income" programs.

Rod

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Rer: https://www.globalresearch.ca/gene-edit ... il/5690917
"Gene-Edited Catastrophe in Brazil: Mosquitoes" (Oct, 2019)

"A team of scientists from Yale University and several scientific institutes in Brazil monitored the progress of the experiment.
What they found is alarming in the extreme. After an initial period in which the target mosquito population markedly declined,
after about 18 months the mosquito population recovered to pre-release levels. Not only that, the paper notes that some
of the mosquitos likely have 'hybrid vigor,' in which a hybrid of the natural with the gene-edited has created 'a more robust
population than the pre-release population' which may be more resistant to insecticides, in short, 'super mosquitoes'."

More evidence that gene editing (like some vaccines) is still immature science.

Rod

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Re: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... -sal-khan/
"An ‘education legend’ has created an AI that will change your mind about AI"

"For Khan, the new era is bittersweet. He has created a model for responsible AI - a chain that requires
AI software makers to be humble and collaborative; subject experts to do rigorous testing and customization;
and government entities to be responsible but open-minded. But in transitioning his life’s work to AI,
he’s confronting his own obsolescence."

Now, in retirement (they say), "obsolescence" is not so threatening ... as long as
meaningful busyness continues, sufficiently funded. Perhaps AI (if government sponsored)
will soon provide optional guidance to make obsolescence a mansion world adventure.
Who knew? that AI's prediction expertise is already so future-oriented:

Re: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... alculator/
"A new AI predicts when we’ll die. It says even more about how we live."

This AI, especially as video, could highlight one's total Urantia adventure with the closing bon voyage
"The events of time and the struggles of material existence are but the transient scaffolding which bridges
over to the other side, to the promised land of spiritual reality and supernal existence." (32:5.2)

Future AI should also be able to predict when another related mortal will arrive to start the Urantia adventure.
And if they're not impressed with the AI itinerary might choose a direct flight to Mansonia. But I digress.


Re: https://www.york.ac.uk/physics-engineer ... pple-tree/

"The first written account appears in notes on Newton's life collected by John Conduitt in 1726,
the year of Newton's death. It states that: 'he first thought of his system of gravitation which
he hit upon by observing an apple fall from a tree'. The event occurred in late summer of 1666."

Suggests a "Schrödinger's Apple" experiment to contrast human intelligence with that of AI:

Place an AI device under a similar apple tree where an apple falls. Let the device have hearing
and seeing functionality, requesting it to keep reporting on its observations, but not instructing
it about the test. Does it discover universal gravitation by observing the apple (intelligence is alive)
or does it simply report that an apple fell (intelligence is not yet alive)?

Obviously, AI will need lotsa guidance (and petabytes of data) to experience Newton's discovery
... intellectually. And still, this AI will not experience the human emotions of that discovery.


Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -move.html

"California Man who lives in cliffside mansion REFUSES to move despite experts
warning his $16million home and others could slide into the ocean"

Obviously, "fine" is defined as "acceptable risk"!

Makes a good B&B for those needing this excitement,
but "running and jumping" inside is not encouraged.

Rod

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Re: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYg5Mz4_tf8
"Sam Altman Just Revealed NEW DETAILS About GPT-5" (Jan, 2024)

Reveals near-term probability of impressive AI advancements with occasional comments
that many good jobs will indeed go away; discussions that never share solutions for this
loss of income needed to purchase those new AI products and services.

Altman mentioned that AI is not quite ready to make scientific discoveries itself
and that AI is becoming able to skim the current internet for new information.
Since owners of such new information may consider it proprietary, will they
begin to withhold their information until the time is right for them

Does public AI now usurp the private right to publish for profit
by freely collecting all information online then sharing?

Not to worry! Governments - worldwide - are passing legislation to "manage"
what AI freely gathers, synthesizes, and shares (with for-profit subscriptions).

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... media.html

"Boston restaurant TABLE has gone dark on social media after its owner
targeted a customer whose credit card company disputed his cancelation fee"

Apparently, The Table was set with comeuppance, à la carte.

Rod

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Re: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/d ... s-32209671

"He appeared to call Melania ‘Mercedes’ during a chaotic speech in Washington ...
went on to say how 'people love her' during the keynote speech before adding:
'Oh look at that Mercedes, that’s pretty good' he said as the audience applauded."

Obviously, he was referring to that luxury car - not forgetting her name ...
and more proof that the media finesse the facts for more controversy.

Rod

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Re: https://www.brighteon.com/
(search for: "CHEMTRAIL ATTACK -- USA")

What's fascinating about this meteorological phenomena is that
chemtrails started "not existing" about 20 years ago (when meteorology
and jet engine experts noticed that what was in the sky behind some jets
was neither jet contrails nor natural cloud formations)!

Rod

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Re: "Dallas Morning News" (Jan 14, 2024)
"New funds will make investing in bitcoin easier", p.3D

"Gary Gensler, the SEC chairman, has repeatedly said
cryptocurrencies need more regulation and investor protections ...
'Investors should remain cautious about the myriad risks ...' "

That bitcoin transactions by design are forever traceable
has no importance to investors ... apparently.


Re: https://www.reuters.com/technology/open ... 023-12-15/

"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has doubled down on his vision for cryptocurrency project Worldcoin ...
aims to create a global identity and financial network. More than 2.6 million people have signed up
to have their irises scanned by Worldcoin's 'orb' devices in exchange for digital ID and free cryptocurrency
... as AI becomes an increasingly important part of our lives ... the ability to identify unique humans
was going to be more and more important."

Apparent benefit: Existence of your unique iris in a database will confirm that you're human
(that you might have an AI chip in your brain is not necessarily related to this identification).
And your unique identification is then associated with forever traceable bitcoin.


Rod