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Artificial Intelligence: Synthetic Invasion of AI- comments by Elon in China not readily visible to us last Summer


Disgusting cover photo by WP but probably accurate. Men LOVE their machine creations. They are their baby.

Parentheses are mine-LT

Last summer, Musk described a synthetic invasion to the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China. “

The ratio of machine versus biological intelligence keeps increasing,” he said. “That means, over time, human intelligence will represent a smaller and smaller percentage of total thinking capacity on earth relative to machines.” 

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Our brains will soon be (could be) overwhelmed by the digital mind. As robotics improve, our laboring hands are to be replaced by mechanical bodies.

Speaking at the same Shanghai conference, the pioneering AI scientist Richard Sutton argued that “technologically enhanced humans, and then AIs, will be our successors.” Along with many in Silicon Valley and communist China, Sutton anticipates the rise of artificial general intelligence (AGI)—a digital mind that first equals and then rapidly exceeds our human brains.

“This is really a profound change,” Musk continued. “But the trends are, over time, that we’re headed to a world where there are more robots than humans.”

Elon Musk

This is the ultimate goal for Sutton’s former employer, Google’s DeepMind, as well as for Microsoft’s partner OpenAI and Amazon’s new partner Anthropic. AGI is also the aim of Sutton’s new employer, Keen Technologies. Naturally, the Chinese tech companies Baidu and Tencent are scrambling to catch up in the AGI race, lest Westerners create an artificial godlike intelligence first.

In time, Sutton believes it’s “inevitable” that cyborgs and AGI “will become more important… in almost all ways than ordinary humans.” “I think the reasons to fear AI are less noble,” he told his Chinese audience, going on to describe humanism as “akin to racism.” (!!!!!🫨😵‍💫😲). It’s a “systematic bias against AIs—denial of their moral worth and their first-class personhood.” (Say what crazy man?)

This bias is driven by “conservatism”: the “fear of change, timidness, [and] fear of the other tribe—where the AIs are the other tribe.”

The “noble” approach is to “bow out when we can no longer contribute.” Sutton condemns any resistance to this Greater Replacement as the height of human prejudice.

Richard Sutton

Therefore, to realize our transhuman potential, we must maximize diversity and inclusion to stave off the ultimate race war between legacy humans and the AGI Borg. A deplorable “specist” is on the wrong side of history.

Lisa’s commentary

In truth, when Musk said that human consciousness should be protected, Google founder Larry Page called it sentimental nonsense. He added that if consciousness could be replicated in a machine, it should hold equal worth. (Consciousness can’t be replicated in a machine Mr. Page.) Page also accused Musk of being a “specist,” someone favoring his own species.

Gee, how awful to care about your own species. 🙄

These A.I. prophets are insane.

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SpaceX Punched a hole in the Psi Bank


Is that like punching a hole in a wall because they’re giving you a hard time? I’m bugging him too much. 😆 lol. I’m sick of all the fake Elon unverified accounts following me. It was 10 a day, and now I directly tweeted to him, asking that everyone on there be required to be verified. I don’t have time for this. It’s very controversial but all the spam and grifters on there are wasting time and $.

SPACEX JUST PUNCHED A HOLE IN THE IONOSPHERE: On the evening of July 19th, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Sky watchers from southern California to Arizona witnessed a magnificent exhaust plume. At the San Francisco Volcanic Field north of Flagstaff, photographer Jeremy Perez saw something extra:

“After the rocket passed overhead, a red fluorescent glow expanded southward and crossed over the Milky Way,” says Perez. “It was visible for almost 20 minutes.”

The red glow is a sign that the rocket punched a hole in the ionosphere–something SpaceX and others have been doing for years. One famous example occured on August 25, 2017, when a Falcon 9 rocket carrying Taiwan’s FORMOSAT-5 satellite created a hole four times bigger than the state of California. On June 19, 2022, another Falcon 9 punched a hole over the east coast of the USA, sparking a display of red lights from New York to the Carolinas that many observers mistook for aurora borealis.

“This is a well studied phenomenon when rockets are burning their engines 200 to 300 km above Earth’s surface,” explains space physicist Jeff Baumgardner of Boston University. “The red glow appears when exhaust gasses from the rocket’s 2nd stage cause the ionosphere to recombine quickly.”

Rocket engines spray water (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2) into the ionosphere, quenching local ionization by as much as 70%. A complicated series of charge exchange reactions between oxygen ions (O+) and molecules from the rocket exhaust produce photons at a wavelength of 6300 Å–the same color as red auroras.


Above: Electron density maps show a hole in the ionosphere formed by a SpaceX rocket in 2017. [more]

“I reviewed footage from the July 19th launch,” says Baumgardner. “It shows the second stage engine burning at 286 km near the ionosphere’s F-region peak for that time of day. So, it is quite possible that an ionospheric ‘hole’ was made.”

Once rare, ionospheric “punch holes” are increasingly common with record numbers of rocket launches led by SpaceX sending Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit. Ham radio operators may notice them when shortwave signals fail to skip over the horizon, shooting through holes instead of bouncing back to Earth. Sudden GPS errors can also result from the anomalies. These effects may be troublesome, but they are shortlived; re-ionization occurs as soon as the sun comes up again.

Readers, did you see a red glow from this week’s SpaceX launch? Submit your photos here.

more images: from David Blanchard of Flagstaff, AZ (he also saw the red glow); from Dennis Mammana of Borrego Springs, California; from Andrew Corkill of Riverside, California; from Chris Cook of Laguna Beach, California; from Art Brown of San Diego, California;

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“Actually, it doesn’t take a strong solar storm to cause problems. In Feb. 2022, a minor geomagnetic storm dumped enough heat into the thermosphere that 38 newly launched Starlink satellites fell out of the sky. SpaceX has since started launching their Starlinks to higher initial altitudes to avoid the drag.
If current trends continue, the thermosphere will warm even more in 2023 and 2024. This is a matter of concern because Earth’s population of active satellites has tripled since SpaceX started launching Starlinks in 2019. The growing constellation of 4100 Starlinks now provides internet service to more than a million customers. An extreme geomagnetic storm like the Halloween Storms of 2003 could shift the positions of these satellites by many 10s of kilometers, increasing the risk of collisions and causing some of the lowest ones to de-orbit.
Stay tuned as the warming continues.”

6/3/23 Spaceweather NOAA
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Neuralink – Insider


https://www.businessinsider.com/category/neuralink

Elon has to come clean on this, OR get educated about what our brains can already do naturally. We don’t NEED an A.I. brain chip, and 99% of humans on the planet don’t want it.

If he agreed to have it outside the body, we could develop a REAL INTELLIGENCE propelled prototype that would help train humans to focus their minds for navigation of a craft or anything mechanical. It would just be a training device BECAUSE WE CAN DO IT ON OUR OWN naturally with our own minds. We just have to learn how.

He is going to have to compromise. Humans are already extraordinary, given training and a chance. We do not need FAKE.