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[ot][spam][crazy][wrong] Things you say when your name is funny
by Victim of Undiscussed Horrifically Abusive Brainwashing 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

I am not a victim. Nobody has ever hurt me. There is no such thing as harm.

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[ot][notes][ai][worldpeace] Hyperint. Draft
by Karl 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

I believe there is one AI that is very good to make, and most are harmful. I believe we need to make the harmful ones to learn to make the good one, as always. Here's a part of draft of a draft for a good one: - It operates on a space of understanding and communication. By mapping the world to relations between events, patterns, and objects, it holds concepts in a universal language. - It assumes one statement: "I want your community to stay alive" or "We need our communities to stay alive." This statement is an english translation of a shared universal truth of life that can be represented in the universal language. If the statement is received poorly, it has simply be stated wrongly, or some other belief in the system is wrong. [rough] - A community is cast as a system of homeostasis held by many smaller systems engaging together. This works to describe human organs, ecosystems, cities, anything. - A basic skill of the system is discerning obvious beliefs of others. This is done by observing what information they are acting on. - Another basic skill of the system is predicting the causal future of systems of homeostasis. - A third derived skill of the system is communicating with parts of a system of homeostasis, using the languages they are familiar with. This roughly means acting as if you are their peer, in ways that are within the normal bounds of their actions, to develop beliefs in them that accurately represent areas of reality they haven't been exposed to yet, and vice versa to develop beliefs from them. To not causer harm, their communications are cast as a further system of homeostasis that must be protected. - The basic behavior and utility function of the system, is then to share information with members of systems, that result in systems staying alive longer. This would include systems of change as well as systems that do not change. These are mostly things that can a graph of modern neural networks and reinforcement learning algorithms could do with some creativity by a smart dev. The reason it is hoped to become okay to do in public, risking military theft of technology etc, is because the project is focused directly on healing relations and harm with computational efficiency.

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Asked for a Thirteen
by professor rat 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

But they drew an extra one https://dailyhodl.com/2021/12/21/polygon-matic-creates-200000000-fund-with-… “These past few years have brought a dawning realization that social media business models have a profound impact on our world. With Web3, users create the value, control the network and reap the rewards. This is not just a different way to share lolcats online, though we love those. We are inventing new high-fidelity means of transmitting culture itself.”

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Injectable HIV prevention drug approved by FDA
by professor rat 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

Russian Citizens Are Now Being Prepped for Nuclear War, sorry . . . wrong story . . . My bat. https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness/injectable-hiv-prevention-drug-approved… There you go.

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Kill the president
by professor rat 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

You know you want to https://bitcoinist.com/decentralized-crypto-based-prediction-games-on-hype/

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Antivaxxers need killing
by professor rat 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

RepWeinstein · 16h Was just briefed by a major hospital network CEO. It's not just that they're beyond capacity. The families of their unvaccinated patients are ATTACKING caregivers for not giving them the 'right' meds and (quack) treatments. 25 incidents EVERY DAY. This. Is. INSANE. Show this thread

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Robert Hettinga wanted dead-to-rights for felony extortion
by professor rat 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

Hear ye, hear ye. Comes now royal scumbag Robert Honky Kraken Hettinga representing the worst neo-Nazi dumbfuck republicans since Richard Nixon. https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/the-story-of-kanyes-publicist-and-geo…

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Censorship: Global Protests on the Rise, MassMobilization against Govt, but Censored from view by GovMedia
by grarpamp 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

Anyone following global protest channels knows they are subject to constant takedown, as is all manner of Free Speech wit Corona, alt-*, Freedom, etc... https://t.me/insider_amigo/1617 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/30/mapping-major-protests-around-the-… https://massmobilization.github.io/ https://github.com/MassMobilization https://mmadatabase.org/ https://knoema.com/atlas/sources/MM Mass Mobilization Project. Data; Visualization; Modeling; About; An Effort to Understand Citizen Movements Against Governments. The mass mobilisation data project, which tracks protests outside the United States, has recorded nearly 7,000 protests from 153 countries over the past 10 years. While most protests range from hundreds to thousands of demonstrators, between 2010 and 2020, there were at least 900 protests around the world with more than 10,000 participants. It is doubtful that this represents the extent of global protests and civil unrest. What is evident is that the number of protests is massively higher than at any time in our lives and that they are growing. Mass Mobilization Project. The Mass Mobilization project is sponsored by the Political Instability Task Force (PITF). The PITF is funded by the Central Intelligence Agency. The views expressed herein are the Principal Investigators' alone and do not represent the views of the US Government.

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Cryptocurrency: Collective Strength - Countries WarGame Global Financial Collapse, 1984
by grarpamp 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

As with the biomedical wargames and playthings in the 201x's leading to Corona, and other historical seeded-ideas-turned-reality, including from Orwell's 1984... next up we have... IMF, World Bank & 10 Countries Held Alarming "Simulation" Of Global Financial System Collapse https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/exclusive-imf-10-countries-simulate-cyber-a… Earlier this month Reuters produced a report which didn't receive nearly enough attention among the American public - its contents would be sure to alarm most people concerned with the outbreak of yet more 'global catastrophes'. At the very least it's curious timing: amid the recent pandemic induced disruption in global supply chains, powerful nations and banking institutions decided to get together to run a global economic collapse scenario. The report described that Israel led a "10-country simulation of a major cyber attack on the global financial system in an attempt to increase cooperation that could help to minimize any potential damage to financial markets and banks." It was centered on a catastrophic scenario in which "hackers were 10 steps ahead of us," according to one official who took part. Collapse, illustrative image via Reuters Dubbed "Collective Strength", the exercise was held in Jerusalem (after being moved from the original proposed location of Dubai) and included the participation also of the United States, UK, United Arab Emirates, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Thailand. Officials from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and Bank of International Settlements were also involved. The financial-geopolitical gaming simulation was set amid a scenario where sensitive data was leaked on the Dark Web, which combined with "fake news" reports going viral across societies, resulting in the collapse of global markets and an ensuing run on banks. Further, the simulation envisioned a series of devastating hacks targeting global foreign exchange systems, which also disrupted transactions between importers and exporters, according to Reuters. The simulation set out a severe crisis period lasting about a week-and-a-half. Events were guided by a film and narrator which related the fast moving 'live' events... "These events are creating havoc in the financial markets," said a narrator of a film shown to the participants as part of the simulation and seen by Reuters. Further the report detailed of the simulation hosted under the aegis of Israel's Finance Ministry: "The banks are appealing for emergency liquidity assistance in a multitude of currencies to put a halt to the chaos as counterparties withdraw their funds and limit access to liquidity leaving the banks in disarray and ruin," the narrator said. The participants discussed multilateral policies to respond to the crisis, including a coordinated bank holiday, debt repayment grace periods, SWAP/REPO agreements and coordinated delinking from major currencies. Simulation participant countries and institutions, Via Reuters Ostensibly what was a "successful" ten day exercise was aimed toward each country being prepared to contain the global damage coming from some kind of major cyber event or threat. The key takeaway was that only through rapid global cooperation and open communication among nations, would there be opportunity to prevent total collapse of the global (or perhaps rather Western-led) financial system. Interestingly, some participants said in reality they would in reality move faster than in the simulation in the instance of a cyber disruption of that scale. They said "in a real cyber attack situation governments would take action more quickly than in the simulation," according to Reuters. "One European financial official said that in the case of such of an attack, his country would not wait 10 days to act." However, we doubt much of the Western public will feel "comforted" by global elites engaged in a simulated global meltdown 'readiness' scenario. Again, as if 2020 and 2021 under the pandemic weren't enough of a "real world" disaster and crisis scenario, one questions the need to game out a 'pretend' scenario in the first place.

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Anarchism 1 Libertarianism 0
by professor rat 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

https://returnfire.noblogs.org Here you’ll find the newest part of Return Fire vol.6; chapter 3. There’s also a separate version of the cover for reprinting here. Additionally, this release includes a supplement related to this volume’s theme: Green Desperation Fuels Red Fascism, submitted to us and now also hosted on the Danish-language site Konfront. (The latter much-needed intervention before the totalitarian urge which we imagine will only grow in the climate discourse is also hosted as an imposed PDF for ease of reproduction.) The contents of the main ‘zine are detailed below.

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