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What happens when a nefarious cabal trains an AI that can command every internet connected device to "del *.*"? All our texts, photos, documents, databases, banks,..., gone, unless backed up to air-gapped data centers.

Should the quantum vacuum / zero-point field(s) be counted as well?

Graham Hancock's Mentor.

The Infinite Monkey Theory for LLMs.

There was also the opium trade.

Trump’s next book: “The Art of the Fold”.

In its governmental guise, Patrimonialism is distinguished by running the state as if it were the leader’s personal property or family business. Trump is the capo di tutti capi, the overboss of all overbosses, the Godfather. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/corruption...

LOL, this works well. I used to do exactly this manually every year to maximize free time blocks for pursuing pet projects. Bravo. Great use of GPT. Could you also add factoring in sick days per year (mon/fri)?

Some sites block the search option on the rt-clk menu when a word or phrase is selected.

Kuhn's compendium of theories is very comprehensive in many of the philosophical areas but could be more detailed in section 9.3 on Electromagnetic field theories, which is my favourite.

Another up to date compilation of 15 articles on Electromagnetic Field Theories of Consciousness: Opportunities and Obstacles is available here https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/18437/electromag...

One of the authors (Joachim Keppler) has a very interesting recent paper here https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/arti...

Aside from defining consciousness as an immaterial awareness, what exactly is the physical world composed of? The Michelson–Morley experiment proved that there is no luminiferous aether permeating the quantum vacuum. What we call physical is just fields in a vacuum; there is no substance to anything. Maybe consciousness is the vacuum and fields are its contents?

I always liked the UofT Library.

"How to deceive friends and exploit people"

OnlyOffice lacks an equivalent to MS Access or LO Base.

Manage others as you would like to be managed.

Why not limit AI training to scientific subjects and leave the arts to humans?

Self conscious star dust.

Ayn Rand Wrote a Guide for Hollywood on How to Make Pro-Capitalist Movies. https://gizmodo.com/ayn-rand-wrote-a-guide-for-hollywood-on-... Link to copy of the book. http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/screenguideamericans.pd...

Little Bobby Drop Tables > Little Bobby Prompt Injections

In defence of Scrooge - https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-defence-of-scrooge/#c...

How British Colonizers caused the Bengal Famine. The mass starvation that killed three million Indians during the closing years of the Second World War was no act of nature; it was engineered. https://newint.org/features/2021/12/07/feature-how-british-c...

Integrating information in the brain’s EM field: the cemi field theory of consciousness https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2020/1/niaa016/5909853?u... https://johnjoemcfadden.co.uk/popular-science/consciousness/