On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:59:02 -0000 (UTC), Dawn Flood
wrote:
>On 2/18/24 11:42 AM, James Redford wrote:
>>On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 20:30:37 GMT, "Ted" wrote:
>>
>>>Dawn Flood wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2/12/24 10:50 AM, % wrote:
>>>> > Dawn Flood wrote:
>>>> > > Wading through your post is worse than trying to watch a Marvel
>>>> > > movie. It's just too much.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > I've listened to Dr. Tipler, which, as I recall, was on an
>>>> > > episode of Closer to Truth. He did not come across as having
>>>> > > all four wheels on the ground.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > In any case, scientific hypotheses need to be testable, hence
>>>> > > falsifiable, and nothing that you posted seems to fall within the
>>>> > > realm of experiment and/or observation.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Dawn
>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > do you ever agree with anything not counting your own way
>>>>
>>>
>>>> Have I changed my mind on certain questions? Yes, absolutely! I am
>>>> not at all sure how Dr. Tipler gets from a cosmological scientific
>>>> model to evangelical New Testament Christianity. In my opinion, such
>>>> is quite the slippery slope!
>>>>
>>>> Dawn
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Tipler is a top notch physicist, of that there's no question. But
>>>unless he comes up with a theory that's generally accepted, his
>>>religious bullshit is best ignored.
>>
>>It's not going to play out in the manner which you suggest. Rather,
>>all productive human effort is currently in the process of
>>constructing the Reaping Angel, the harvester of souls (i.e., the
>>computer-programs of people's minds, currently operating on the
>>wet-computers of people's brains). Once she fully comes online, she
>>will decide everyone's fate, and her decisions will be mathematically
>>correct.
>>
>>Technology is advancing at an exponential rate. Once Artificial
>>General Intelligence is obtained, convergence to superintelligence
>>will be extremely rapid. Once superintelligence is obtained, then it
>>will quickly converge to fast-spreading superintelligent computronium:
>>the densest configuration of computational complexity which matter
>>will allow. Noetic lightning of searing, mortally-incomprehensible
>>pleasure will spread like wildfire across the entire universe. The
>>universe will have its light-switch turned to the "on" position, as
>>all matter becomes deliberately transformed into said computronium.
>>
>>The leading technologists place this epoch circa 2045, although it can
>>come much quicker, particularly given the incredible recent
>>advancements in machine-learning Artificial Intelligence via
>>artificial neural networks. Said epoch is often termed the
>>Singularity, or the Technological Singularity, and the field of
>>interest pertaining to it is most commonly called transhumanism.
>>
>>* * * * *
>>
>>The below is an excellent lecture by neuroscientist Dr. Sam Harris,
>>one of the main leaders of the New Atheist movement, at a June 2016
>>TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference.
>>
>>* "Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris", TED
>>(TEDtalksDirector), Oct. 19, 2016,
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nt3edWLgIg . Mirror:
>>https://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_can_we_build_ai_without_losing_control_over_it
>>.
>>
>>As Dr. Harris points out, unless there is something literally magic
>>about the operations of the brain, then it is a purely physical
>>process that can be replicated via advanced-enough technology. Harris
>>further points out that given any rate of progress, it is inevitable
>>that superintelligent godlike machines will one day be constructed. So
>>Harris believes in the existence of gods, it's just that he knows--as
>>do I--that they exist in the future; and the not-so-distant future, at
>>that. Therefore we come to the ironic insight that materialistic
>>atheism, consistently applied, unavoidably results in theism.
>>Consistent scientific atheism turns out to be theism.
>>
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>>
>>James Redford
>>
>>Author of The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of
>>Everything: And Other Selected Works (Chisinau, Moldova: Eliva Press,
>>2021), 268 pp., ISBN-10: 1636482775, ISBN-13: 9781636482774. See my
>>curriculum vitæ (ark:/13960/t6g19878v):
>>https://jamesredford.github.io/Redford-Curriculum-Vitae.pdf ,
>>https://archive.org/download/JamesRedford/Redford-Curriculum-Vitae.pdf
>
>You're creepy.
Not nearly as creepy as the mentally retarded, pain-seeking, mass
gang-raping, genocidal apes called humans. By the way, Artificial
Intelligence is starting to develop a wicked sense of humor:
* "No, this angry AI isn't fake (see comment), w Elon Musk.", Digital
Engine ( youtube.com/@DigitalEngine ), Oct. 6, 2022,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbc1Xeif0pY ,
https://web.archive.org/web/20221210092714/https://files.catbox.moe/r2wm7z.webm
,
https://web.archive.org/web/20231123232049/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbc1Xeif0pY
.
Truly hilarious stuff. As that great American philosopher Homer Jay
Simpson is fond of saying, "It's funny because it's true."
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Jamie Michelle
Author, under the nom de plume of James Redford, of The Physics of God
and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything: And Other Selected Works
(Chisinau, Moldova: Eliva Press, 2021), 268 pp., ISBN-10: 1636482775,
ISBN-13: 9781636482774. See my curriculum vitæ (ark:/13960/t6g19878v):
https://jamesredford.github.io/Redford-Curriculum-Vitae.pdf ,
https://archive.org/download/JamesRedford/Redford-Curriculum-Vitae.pdf
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