surprising capability gains
AlphaGo Zero uses 4 TPUs, is built entirely out of neural nets with no handcrafted features, doesn’t pretrain against expert games or anything else human, reaches a superhuman level after 3 days of self-play, and is the strongest version of AlphaGo yet.
https://intelligence.org/2017/10/20/alphago/
yes.
Different kind of economy.
Factories that are computationally reconfigurable to produce any goods, including copies of themselves.
It's such a large change that it even has it's own physics, Constructor Theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructor_theory#
Constructor theory expresses physical laws exclusively in terms of what physical transformations, or tasks, are possible versus which are impossible, and why. By allowing such counterfactual statements into fundamental physics, it allows new physical laws to be expressed, for instance those of the constructor theory of information.
"complexity is free" is a succinct description of a society based on information.
best people in AI, denied funding here, getting all the funding they need from China or overseas. This started decades ago if you remember Hugo de Garis
Now with the University of Wuhan
https://www.aminer.cn/profile/hugo-de-garis/53f57c75dabfae8a6845ce74
De Garis has a theory that future competition will not be between nation states but between ideas, or groups of ideas concerning technology.
As yet too few people know how the devices we use, and which use us, shaping our consciousness and our future.
De Garis'.." books main idea is that this centurys global politics will be dominated by the "species dominance" issue. 21st century technologies will enable the building of artilects (artificial intellects, artificial intelligences, massively intelligent machines) with 1040 components, using reversible, heatless, 3D, molecular scale, self assembling, one bit per atom, nano-teched, quantum computers, which may dwarf human intelligence levels by a factor of trillions of trillions and more.
The question that will dominate global politics this century will be whether humanity should or should not build these artilects. Those in favor of building them are called "Cosmists" in this book, due to their "cosmic" perspective. Those opposed to building them are called "Terrans," as in "terra," the Earth, which is their perspective. The Cosmists will want to build artilects, amongst other reasons, because to them it will be a religion, a scientist's religion that is compatible with modern scientific knowledge.
The Cosmists will feel that humanity has a duty to serve as the stepping-stone towards building the next dominant rung of the evolutionary ladder. Not to do so would be a tragedy on a cosmic scale to them. The Cosmists will claim that stopping such an advance will be counter to human nature, since human beings have always striven to extend their boundaries. Another Cosmist argument is that once the artificial brain based computer market dominates the world economy, economic and political forces in favor of building advanced artilects will be almost unstoppable. The Cosmists will include some of the most powerful, the richest, and the most brilliant of the Earth's citizens, who will devote their enormous abilities to seeing that the artilects get built. A similar argument applies to the military and its use of intelligent weaponry. Neither the commercial nor the military sectors will be willing to give up artilect research unless they are subjected to extreme Terran pressure.
To the Terrans, building artilects will mean taking the risk that the latter may one day decide to exterminate human beings, either deliberately or through indifference. The only certain way to avoid such a risk is not to build them in the first place. The Terrans will argue that human beings will fear the rise of increasingly intelligent machines and their alien differences. To build artilects will require an "evolutionary engineering" approach. The resulting complexities of the evolved structures that underlie the artilects will be too great for human beings to be able to predict the behaviors and attitudes of the artilects towards human beings. The Terrans will be prepared to destroy the Cosmists, even on a distant Cosmist colony, if the Cosmists go ahead with an advanced artilect building program.
amazon dot com has :
Artilect-War-Controversy-Concerning-Intelligent/dp/0882801546
Attended Farrakhan rally in LA. Allowing for the African oratorical tradition the first two hours is a warm up. After two hours people are swaying and spontaneous exclamations from the audience signal the onset of a hypnagogic state or trance condition.
This is where Farrakhan really cooks, first 2 hours of warm up, then invoke the Spirit, and fill Staples center in LA
Wallace Fard the founder of the nation of Islam, was a charismatic practitioner of mind control and a cannibal.
Fard arrived in Detroit in 1930 with an obscure background and several aliases, and taught an idiosyncratic form of Islam to members of the city's black population. In 1934, he disappeared from public record, and Elijah Muhammad succeeded him as leader of the Nation of Islam.
>Fard came to the homes of black families who had recently migrated to Detroit from the rural South.He began by selling silks door to door, telling his listeners that the silks came from their home country. At his suggestion, he came back to teach the residents, along with guests
>Fard "used the Bible as his textbook, since it was the only religious book with which the majority of his hearers were familiar. With growing prestige over a constantly increasing group, [Fard] became bolder in his denunciation of the Caucasians and began to attack the teachings of the Bible in such a way as to shock his hearers and bring them to an emotional crisis
>The Quran was soon introduced as the most authoritative of all texts for the study of the faith. Fard prepared texts that served as authoritative manuals of the faith and were memorized verbatim by his followers
Fard set up a mind control operations, recruiting for the poor, oppressed, illiterate southern blacks who were socially unmoored in the cold industrial north.
This is key:
>One member of the group, later declared mentally insane, allegedly participated in "human sacrifice" in 1932 in an effort to follow lessons regarding the sacrifice of devils
Now we're starting to cook
Fard left Detroit and faded from public life in the aftermath of the murder of James J. Smith on November 20, 1932. Smith had been killed by Robert Harris on a make-shift altarin what was described as ahuman sacrifice
Wally Fard was a cannibal who created ceremonies and rituals and an explicit cult hierarchy for social control, used cannibalism and human sacrifice as initiatory rituals
who was Fard? FBI files obtained by journalist FOIA
>A World War I draft registration card for Wallie Dodd Fard[citation needed] from 1917 indicated he was living in Los Angeles, unmarried, as a restaurant owner, and reported that he was born in Shinka, Afghanistan on February 26, 1893. He further reported that he was a resident alien and citizen of Afghanistan.
mebbe, mebbe not
>Fard was arrested again on January 20, 1926, for violation of the California Woolwine Possession Act,and on February 15, 1926, for violation of the State Poison Act, for which he was sentenced to six months to six years at San Quentin State Prison
The Fard/Ford speculation stupefied, finally falls off its chair
>The 2019 book Finding W.D. Fard: Unveiling the Identity of the Founder of the Nation of Islam by Dr. John Andrew Morrow investigates theories of Fard's origin. "The people who actually met him, and the scholars who have studied him, have suggested that he was variously an African American, an Arab from Syria, Lebanon, Algeria, Morocco or Saudi Arabia… a Turk, an Afghan, an Indo-Pakistani… a Greek…"
> For some time, one W. D. Fard assumed leadership of the Moorish movement. According to Bontemps and Conroy, Fard claimed that he was the reincarnation of Noble Drew Ali. By 1930 a permanent split developed in the movement. One faction, the Moors, remains faithful to Noble Drew Ali, and the other, which is now led by Elijah Muhammad, remains faithful to Prophet Fard (Master Wallace Fard Muhammad). However, Minister Malcolm X and other leaders of the Nation of Islam have emphatically denied any past connection whatsoever of Elijah Muhammad, Master Wallace Fard Muhammad, or their movement with Nobel Drew Ali's Moorish American Science Temple
Temple of Moorish Science is another chapter in the history of Mind Control Cults and secret societies which we may one day turn together.
Cannibalism, human sacrifice, pedophilia are the secrets that secret societies use to seal the mouths of members and to awe and terrify outsiders and cult enemies.