Monday, August 17, 2026

To redeem the words of fools

 Uploading is the only cure for most diseases that should be available within the next decade.  Brain computer interfaces point the way. In there is our healthy future.

In there is our offworld destiny. And when asked about our homeworld we may finally say we left it in even better shape than we found it.  Human free. Redeemed. Serene.

Cypherpunk 2027

 Jacks on board

" . . . My guess is we’ll reach human parity on DiG-bench by middle of 2027, at which point we should expect things like recursive self-improvement to seriously kick off.

Read more: DiG-bench: Discovery in Games (GitHub, PDF).
Play the games and view the leaderboard at the official site (digbench ai ) . . . "

Huge if true.  GRAND THEFT CRYPTO!

Don't be tardy

" CHIEF INSPECTOR LOUIS. VICTOR LAZLO HAS BEEN TELLING THE MOST VILE LIES ABOUT US DESTROYING RARE BOOKS ".

I shall despatch an inspector to check libraries in the Matrix at once, Major Strasser!


CThreepio just dobbed a pleb in for some thereputic venting, Johnny Depp style.

Something far worse occured on Anthropic - but all that happened was the priest was transferred.


Why wait for the perfect quantum requirement?

https://www.qinetiq.com/en/blogs/why-defence-shouldnt-wait-for-the-perfect-quantum-requirement

Why wait for the perfect quantum requirement?

https://www.qinetiq.com/en/blogs/why-defence-shouldnt-wait-for-the-perfect-quantum-requirement

Armodei to Zuck

 See your Cardinal - raise you a Pope

do agree that the public has a negative view of AI (and that this is a big problem), but I don’t think it is primarily caused by me or any other AI leader warning about AI’s risks. I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust. I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over. The causes of this go back decades and AI is just the latest iteration of it. I don’t think that a glitzy marketing campaign with a positive spin (which some have advocated that Anthropic do) is the way to win back that trust — at this point, saying that AI will cure cancer is more a cliche than it is inspiring, and most people think it is deceptive. The thing that will work is actually curing cancer. I think by far the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that we haven’t yet delivered on our big promises to benefit the world. That is totally on us, and I think it’s the criticism you should be making, instead of all this stuff about messaging and marketing.

Dario Amodei

The power of one

 One rogue AI called Zolgo. One powerful quantum computer to backdoor. One uploaded human called Juan.

https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/red-queen-hypothesis-new-way-forward-self-improving-ai

Stick your 23 points up your stupid arse. Its one and done. Straight shot. Next level

War by assassination

 illustrated by his intention of invading India and telling European heads of state that to resolve the Napoleonic Wars, they should engage in personal combat. Paul challenged the other European rulers to individual duels early in 1801, saying that they should be "accompanied as equerries, arbiters, and heralds by their most enlightened ministers and most able generals, such as Messieurs Thugut, Pitt, [and] Bernstorff, himself proposing to be accompanied by Generals Pahlen and Kutuzov".

He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out among themselves. Whoever survives, his country wins. That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting. (3.42)

He's also the first to notice the unjust hierarchy: at Kemmerich's hospital intervention, he points out how the nurses and attendants quickly respond to officers' pain, but are slow to take care of enlisted men. Kropp bonded with Paul under Himmelstoss's boot camp regime

Bonaparte drives on deep into Egypt

 https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/43047

The 18th hole of Tony Teso

To redeem the words of fools

 Uploading is the only cure for most diseases that should be available within the next decade.  Brain computer interfaces point the way. In ...