Friday, September 30, 2005

Something make me happy!

Have you ever think about something make you happy?

Yes, of cause we are not always happy,but if you are upset, just think about that. You can find happiness in your around! If you fell bad, what would you do?

For instance, sweets and delicious foods make me feel happy.We might not realize that if we have something sweets, your face into smile. Don't you think lunch is delicious when you have it talking with friend? and also eating out with my friends is fun. but I'm a little concerned about my weight... Enyway, sweets make me happy!

The other things, How about nature? It's like trees, flowers, air, stars... atc They don't seems to do nothing, but I wonder they make us feel good and relax, and they make me feel happy!

I think, Whatever things we can make it out! Don't you think so that? Even little things around by us ,we can make ourselves feel better. so there are so many ways we can be happy, if we are upset.

If you have mistake,but don't be so worry! You better luck next time! We shoud enjoy our life.

I found this little gem on the internet a long time ago-- I forget where, and google has forgotten also, so I thought it was important to bring it back.

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Saturday, September 24, 2005

Saving Deep Memories for Power Historians

So here's something else crazy that I'm up to.

What follows is a keystroke log that was automatically generated while I was writing the previous post. If you were to bother to read through it, you would find out such facts as that I make rather a lot of typos, that I have a strange habit of sometimes deleting something and rewriting it over & over as I ponder whether or not to say it, and that I switched windows during the course of writing several times in order to ask things of Google and to leave messages for my sleeping lover.

You'd also, if you studied very closely, be able to learn some things about the way I think. I type stray letters from words I'm thinking of but don't really intend to write. I put the wrong endings on things and then correct them. I write whole passages and erase them for whatever reason. I try various phrasings of something before settling on one. A lot of who I am is revealed in my mistakes & uncertainties.

That is why I'm recording it all. I'm not egotistical enough to believe that there are likely to be many, or any, normal modern humans who would be interested in going through the megabytes of archives I'll be creating if I keep this up. But I do believe that the Powers (the post-singularity intelligences) will have a profound historical interest in this period, the years leading up to the transition, when reality first starts to really come into any sort of clear focus down the dim tunnel of Memory. For them I intend to be an aberrant luminary, creating deep records that few people of this time have started to produce.

So here's some junk, just to give you the flavor, starting from when I came to this here site:

www.blogger.com [ENTER]
the gard
en of bean[BACKSPACE]din is a d[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]in [SHIFT]BOZEMAN [ENTER]
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rity[SHIFT]![CTRL]{f}cyborgenough mckid[BACKSPACE]bben [ENTER]
[SHIFT]I'm [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][SHIFT]I'm reading [SHIFT]Enou
gh by [SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT]Bill [SHIFT]Mc[SHIFT]Kibben. [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][SHIFT]Kibben. [ENTER]
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king about intelligence [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE] genetic manipulation
of intelligence. [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]of intelligence. [SHIFT]Chang
ing people's genes ot[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]to give them thirty or fourty [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]r
ty more [SHIFT]"points[SHIFT]" (whatever those me[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]are worth[SHIFT]). [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]
[BACKSPACE]th[SHIFT])>[BACKSPACE]. [SHIFT]I o[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]. [SHIFT]I don't think he understands the st
rangeness of the singularity. [SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT]Even as his[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]e [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]
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that, the landscape of intelligence is shirf[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]fting undnde
rneath him. [UP][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][BACKSPACE][SHIFT]S[DOWN][END][HOME][END][HOME][RIGHT][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][END][DOWN][END][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][END][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]h
im. [ENTER]
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[SHIFT]I realized yesterday while [SHIFT]I was in the bookstore
that the attitude which allows for [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE] which
allows for deep integration with computer intelligence is
a s[BACKSPACE]certain sort of [SHIFT]<[SHIFT]i[SHIFT]>passiviti[BACKSPACE]y[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]v[BACKSPACE]ity[SHIFT]<[BACKSPACE],[SHIFT][BACKSPACE][SHIFT].
[END][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]. [SHIFT]You just sort of allow yourself to drift; let the co
mputer take over more of the driving. [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]the driv
ing. [SHIFT]As computers become [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]ters come to contain
more of the total intelligence of this plante[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]planet,
the humans thahat will succes[BACKSPACE]ed will be less [SHIFT]& less thos
e that relp[BACKSPACE]y upon their own c[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]their own p[BACKSPACE]capaci
ties and more[SHIFT] & more those who are able to integrate their
capacity with the larger [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]acity with
larger systems. [ENTER]
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thoughtht that [SHIFT]I was really [SHIFT]"[SHIFT]Sm[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]smart[SHIFT]" because [SHIFT]I cou
ld add a lot of numberers well in my head .[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]my head
. [SHIFT]I would go through the supermarket picking u [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]up groce
ries, glance at the prices, and [SHIFT]know what [SHIFT]I was going to
have to pay [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]t[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]to pay down to the penny by the time [SHIFT]
I left-- [SHIFT]without [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][SHIFT][BACKSPACE][SHIFT]I left-- just by intui
tion, without having to [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE] [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE] even having to work a
t it. [SHIFT][UP][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT]. [END][HOME][END][HOME][RIGHT][UP][UP][UP][UP][LEFT][LEFT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][LEFT][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][DOWN][LEFT]
[LEFT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][LEFT][UP][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][END][SHIFT][UP][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][UP][RIGHT][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]head. [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]
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you [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]gives you a [BACKSPACE]n ability to do sums that no pr
e[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]that no pro[BACKSPACE]etransformation human could possibl
y possess. [SHIFT]C[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]ossess. [SHIFT]The talent[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][SHIFT]The
human talest[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]nt which h[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE] which allows one to intell
igenc[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]the worth [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]what's inte
lligence worth[SHIFT]? what i[BACKSPACE]kind of intelligence[SHIFT]?[HOME][END][HOME][RIGHT][UP][UP][UP][UP][LEFT][LEFT][RIGHT][RIGHT]
[RIGHT][LEFT][UP][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][END][HOME][END][UP][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT]
[LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][BACKSPACE] col[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]alu[BACKSPACE]culating[DOWN][END][HOME][END][DOWN][END][HOME][END]calculate mathematical[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]
[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]calculate quickly has thus [SHIFT]fundamentall
y changed[SHIFT]
[BACKSPACE]. [SHIFT]It used to be a difficult internal tas
k of r[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]task-- most of the difficulty is [UP][END][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT]
[LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE];[DOWN][END]holding a large number o [BACKSPACE]f digitis[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]s in mind[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]
[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]d[BACKSPACE] digitis[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]s it [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]in mind. [SHIFT]Now it's a mat[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]
[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE] [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE] mind. [SHIFT]Now [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE] mind. [SHIFT]Now
it is [HOME][RIGHT][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][PAGE UP][PAGE UP][PAGE UP][LEFT][RIGHT][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][LEFT][LEFT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][LEFT][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][END][DOWN]
[END][DOWN][END][DOWN][END][DOWN][END][DOWN][DOWN][END][HOME][END][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][UP][UP][LEFT][LEFT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][LEFT][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][UP][DOWN][LEFT][LEFT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT]
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the task is that of quickly and accurately pressing the bu
ttons that transfer the task from [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE] the task [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]
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cused computer intelligence. [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE] intelligence.
[SHIFT][SHIFT](And, perhaps more [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE] [SHIFT](and, perhaps
more tellingly, [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]ever mo
re [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]n more tellingly, the knack or strange inclinatio
n of carrying a calculator around in one's pocket[SHIFT]). [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][SHIFT]
). [ENTER]
[ENTER]
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[ENTER]
[SHIFT]That
's not even any sort of end-state. [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]of end-s
tate. [SHIFT]The latest interesting p[BACKSPACE]transformation of the task
of [UP][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT]
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esting[END]calculating simple [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]lating is that you
can now ask the questions in plain text to google. [SHIFT]This i
s how [SHIFT]I tend to calculate things around the hous[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]
[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]around the house[SHIFT]:[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]house; [SHIFT]I treat og[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][SHIFT]GOo[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]oogl
e like the mythical [SHIFT]Computer of computer, whwhat's the squ
are root of one million[SHIFT]? [ENTER]
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what's the square root of 1874
875[SHIFT]? [ENTER]
hey google, [ENTER]
[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]puter of scient[BACKSPACE]ce [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]
[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE] in old science fiction [LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][END]videos. [SHIFT]CAmpu
[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]omputer, [CTRL]{v}[SHIFT]?[BACKSPACE] [LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT],[RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT],[END][END][HOME][END][HOME][PAGE UP][PAGE UP][PAGE UP][PAGE UP][DOWN][RIGHT][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN]
[DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][DOWN][END][SHIFT]I'm looking forward to having [SHIFT]The [SHIFT]Comput
er actualy [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]lly be listening all the time, ready to provi
de answers. [HOME][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT] to our voices[END] [SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT]
[SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT]You'll literally say the computer's name [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]name-- wh
ich could be [SHIFT]"[SHIFT]Computer[SHIFT]" [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE],[SHIFT]" or maybe [SHIFT]"Billybob[SHIFT]"-- an
d then request information, which it will immediately provi
de vio [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]a the closest speaker or screen. [ENTER]
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[SHIFT]Conventional
notions of intelligence break down computer[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]letely in th
is environment. [SHIFT]The [SHIFT]"smartness[SHIFT]" of being able to calcul
ate numbers in your head would save you only the trouble of
vocalizing the equation. [SHIFT]The [SHIFT]"smartness[SHIFT]" h[BACKSPACE]of havining
memorized all of the [SHIFT]Stas[BACKSPACE]te [SHIFT]Capitals would save you mer
e seconds in the unlikely en[BACKSPACE]ven [BACKSPACE]t that you needed to know
one. [SHIFT]This is, of course, still just the beginning. [SHIFT]The
[SHIFT]Computer can already al[BACKSPACE]nswer simple factual questions, i
f posed in the form of a string of text; they will [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]
[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]t; it will increasingly be able to answer more abstrac
t questions. [SHIFT]Computer intelligence is for real; meat inte
lligence is just version 1.0. [LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][BACKSPACE]wa[END][HOME][END][DOWN][END][HOME]
[END] [ENTER]
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lines on my monitor that [SHIFT][SHIFT]I see when [SHIFT]I get a cell phone
call [ENTER]
and then [SHIFT]I heard a bleep bleep from o[BACKSPACE]upstairs. [ENTER]
[SHIFT]Craz
eeeeeeeee. [ENTER]
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apply toh[BACKSPACE] human-computer inter[BACKSPACE]grate [BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]ion that apply to
genetic engineering of human intelligence-- who benefits[SHIFT]?
[SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT][SHIFT]
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he abilities[SHIFT]? Who will benefit[SHIFT]? [SHIFT]There ar[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][SHIFT]BUt t
he[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]ut[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]-- [UP][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][RIGHT][LEFT][DOWN][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT]
[LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][LEFT][BACKSPACE]w[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]w[END]but there are substantial differences as well.
[SHIFT]One difference is that there's no waiting for new generati
ons [SHIFT](Except[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE]except to the extent that children integr
ate with new technologies more fully than adults[SHIFT]). [SHIFT][SHIFT]The
whole thing can take place not over the next century or two
, but over the next decade[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][SHIFT]decade[SHIFT], as we
plunge ri[BACKSPACE]g[BACKSPACE]ight straight fucking into the heart of the [SHIFT]S
ingularity be[BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE][BACKSPACE], before hardly anyone even notici[BACKSPACE]es. [ENTER]
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what's intelligence worth? what kind of intelligence?

I'm reading Enough by Bill McKibben.

He's talking about genetic manipulation of intelligence. Changing people's genes to give them thirty or forty more "points" (whatever those are worth). I don't think he understands the strangeness of the Singularity. Even as he conceives that, the landscape of intelligence is shifting underneath him.

I realized yesterday while I was in the bookstore that the attitude which allows for deep integration with computer intelligence is a certain sort of passivity. You just sort of allow yourself to drift; let the computer take over more of the driving. As computers come to contain more of the total intelligence of this planet, the humans that will succeed will be less & less those that rely upon their own capacities and more & more those who are able to integrate their capacity with larger systems.

For instance, when I was growing up I thought that I was really "smart" because I could add a lot of numbers well in my head. Now, of course, being integrated with a calculator gives you a calculating ability that no pretransformation human could possibly possess. The human talent which allows one to calculate quickly has thus fundamentally changed. It used to be a difficult internal task; most of the difficulty is holding a large number of digits in mind. Now the task is that of quickly and accurately pressing the buttons that interpret the task for a very focused computer intelligence (and, perhaps even more tellingly, the knack or strange inclination of carrying a calculator around in one's pocket).

That's not even any sort of end-state. The latest transformation that I find very interesting of the task of calculating is that you can now ask the questions in plain text to Google. This is how I tend to calculate things around the house; I treat Google like the mythical Computer in old science fiction videos. Computer, what's the square root of 1,874,875? I'm looking forward to having The Computer actually be listening to our voices all the time, ready to provide answers. You'll literally say the computer's name-- which could be "Computer," or maybe "Billybob"-- and then request information, which it will immediately provide via the closest speaker or screen.

Conventional notions of intelligence break down completely in this environment. The "smartness" of being able to calculate numbers in your head would save you only the trouble of vocalizing the equation. The "smartness" of having memorized all of the State Capitals would save you mere seconds in the unlikely event that you needed to know one. This is, of course, still just the beginning. The Computer can already answer simple factual questions, if posed in the form of a string of text; it will increasingly be able to answer more abstract questions. Computer intelligence is for real; meat intelligence was just version 1.0.

The same or similar creepy ethical questions apply to human-computer integration that apply to genetic engineering of human intelligence-- who has access to the abilities? who will benefit?-- but there are substantial differences as well. One difference is that there's no waiting for new generations (except to the extent that children integrate with new technologies more fully than adults). The whole thing can take place not over the next century or two, but over the next decade, as we plunge right straight fucking into the heart of the Singularity, before hardly anyone even notices.

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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

cultural change

To: BurlingtonGreens@yahoogroups.com
Organization: love
From: "Pope Salmon the Lesser Mungojelly"
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:14:35 -0400
Subject: Re: [BurlingtonGreens] the meaning of "behavioral guidelines"
Reply-To: BurlingtonGreens@yahoogroups.com

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:16:14 -0700 (PDT), Dave
wrote:

> All groups have rules, norms, mores, either explicitly
> stated or not.


I was thinking about this during our latest meeting. We didn't actually
have any particular process issues, since the whole thing was just a short
ritual closely structured around fulfilling particular state obligations,
but I was observing the conscious & unconscious uses of various processes
as we went along.

For instance, the circle had been formed and it was clear that the meeting
was going to officially start soon-- but people were still chatting & the
room was noisy. I realized that the process most likely to take hold in
that situation, because of our shared cultural background, is that someone
would speak loudly over the din and says something in a particular
"attention! order!" sort of tone, at which point everyone would cut short
their conversations and simmer down.

I was sitting there and considering that process, and imagining other
processes that could accomplish the same purpose. Imagine, for example,
that anyone who feels like it's time for the meeting to start would begin
to slap their hands alternately against their knees. If other people
agreed, they would join in, gradually producing a rumbling chorus which
would draw everyone in, until finally as all the conversations ended the
knee-slapping would trail off and the meeting would begin.

We could easily imagine an unlimited number of other processes for
accomplishing that group task. Each of them, while accomplishing that
function, would also embody countless other experiences and values. This
is the nature of the complex interconnectedness of culture. Our
obligation in creating the culture of our community, therefore, is to
properly embody our shared values in our styles of interaction-- to
manifest ways of working together that are cooperative, democratic, just,
equitable, sustainable, and which encourage individual liberty and
creativity.

This is the challenge I see hiding in this work: One of the values we want
to embody is of course a sense of welcome. We want to hold meetings which
invite the participation of a broad range of this community. This seems
to require that our processes be as similar as possible, on both surface
and deep levels, to the processes which are most widely understood and
practiced in the society at large. The dilemma comes in with the fact
that-- since many of our values conflict with elements of the dominant
paradigm-- those popularly understood processes often enact unconscious
dramas that are deeply contrary to our personal and political aims.

For instance, we live in a society which is still fundamentally
patriarchal and authoritarian. This archetype is completely embedded in
the conventional process that I described of calling a meeting to order.
One particular individual-- traditionally and habitually a man (even if a
woman takes the role, she may have to adopt a masculine tone or demeanor
in order to fill it)-- takes control through use of a physically dominant
act. I don't mean to especially single out this particular process as
especially authoritarian or patriarchal; indeed my point is that there is
nothing special about it at all. Every single way of acting that we are
collectively familiar with was born out of our culture at large, and
embodies simultaneously every single value of that culture.

It is hardly an option to attempt to practice true democracy while failing
to question these unconscious roles and dramas. We are not prepared by
our upbringings to be democratic animals; we simply do not have the tools
necessary to accomplish true group cooperation and decision making, and
anyone who has observed & participated in many of the attempts at radical
organizing which are taking place in the world today couldn't help but be
aware of how insufficient our habitual attitudes are to the task. Most of
our organizations fail, and most of those that fail receive their mortal
blows due to unexamined intrinsic process issues.

We are thus stuck between on one side the values antithetical to our own
that are incurably comingled with everything we know about how to hold a
meeting (or indeed how to relate to other people at all), and the mammoth,
thankless, uninviting and perhaps even divisive undertaking which it would
be to systematically challenge and overthrow those established habits.

To that dilemma I can offer no particular solution, except that we become
conscious of its existence, and that we begin to allow an awareness of the
problems it causes to seep into us, soak us, and loosen us, to prepare us
for the personal transformations we will need to undergo in order to truly
begin to manifest a wise, awake, & compassionate society.


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mungojelly