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Re: Trump will NEVER turn America into a White nation!
by juan 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 18:16:11 -0500 John Newman <jnn(a)synfin.org> wrote: > I found the following gem on his blog, at which point I stopped > reading, having reached my revulsion limit: I find it somewhat entertaining in a sick kind of way. Here's another nugget "If we actually had anarcho capitalism, we would not have borders, but we would not have welfare either, and likely we would have the death penalty for most crimes typical of the underclass, and serfdom or slavery for vagrants and sturdy beggars. Let us introduce the death penalty for everything, abolish voting, at least for the poor and the stupid, and reintroduce serfdom or some similar way of getting people disinclined to work out of circulation, and then we can open the borders." > https://blog.jim.com/politics/open-letter-to-scott-aaronson/ > > <snip intro>

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Trump's "Holocaust" Rememberance Day? Sign Executive Order to ban refugees :)
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Well, as sad as the plight of many (genuine) refugees really is, Trump certainly seems to have a wicked sense of humour, or a really humorously bad sense of timing. And the Liberal Leftys are going nuts (see image for example). Fun times :D Jews and their holohoax eh ... what a world. Zenaan PS: For those who missed the memo on the fake chimney built outside Auschwitz after the war for the photo ops, the "gas ovens" with unsealed rickety wooden doors, and "oh me oh my, muh 6 gazillion Jews", here's the memo, from BEFORE World War 2, courtesy the New York Times even: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dda-0Q_XUhk PPS: It's now ok to forward this around since the $2 billion per year "Jewish holohoax" reparations from Germany, ended (finally) last year. So those who profited from this particular fake news deception have fully finished their profiting. PPPS: Since all the profiteering of "mamma Germany" has now ended, it might be a good idea to stop putting folks in jail for "denying the holocaust" too - 14 countries still do so to this day... including Germany of course.

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[MSM] [WAR] - Trump escalates war against CNN
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

This is fun :) Trump Administration freezes out CNN from interviews and staff appearances 'The White House has refused to send its surrogates onto CNN shows, effectively icing out CNN from Trump administration press coverage.' http://theduran.com/trump-administration-freezes-out-cnn-from-interviews-an… " Politico is reporting that the Trump White House will not allow its staff and surrogates to appear on CNN, and will instead go to “places where we think it makes sense to promote our agenda. "

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[WAR] There is a special place in hell for Madeline Albright
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Madeline Albright tells MSNBC that foreign policy is all about giving an “egg mess to the President” http://theduran.com/madeline-albright-tells-msnbc-that-foreign-policy-is-al…

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Re: Trump will NEVER turn America into a White nation!
by juan 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 08:11:02 -0500 John Newman <jnn(a)synfin.org> wrote: > https://blog.jim.com/ > > much more reflective of the garbage he's posted here. > Oh, I see. Thanks. So he's a full time conservative troll posing as 'libertarian'. > -- > John >

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[AI] [researches] Asilomar AI Principles
by Cecilia Tanaka 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Hi, dear all! :D Already signed it yesterday, and I'm inviting you to read and consider signing the Asilomar AI Principles. https://futureoflife.org/ai-principles/ Take care! <3 Ceci ========== ASILOMAR AI PRINCIPLES Artificial intelligence has already provided beneficial tools that are used every day by people around the world. Its continued development, guided by the following principles, will offer amazing opportunities to help and empower people in the decades and centuries ahead. Research Issues 1) *Research Goal:* The goal of AI research should be to create not undirected intelligence, but beneficial intelligence. 2) *Research Funding:* Investments in AI should be accompanied by funding for research on ensuring its beneficial use, including thorny questions in computer science, economics, law, ethics, and social studies, such as: - How can we make future AI systems highly robust, so that they do what we want without malfunctioning or getting hacked? - How can we grow our prosperity through automation while maintaining people’s resources and purpose? - How can we update our legal systems to be more fair and efficient, to keep pace with AI, and to manage the risks associated with AI? - What set of values should AI be aligned with, and what legal and ethical status should it have? 3) *Science-Policy Link:* There should be constructive and healthy exchange between AI researchers and policy-makers. 4) *Research Culture:* A culture of cooperation, trust, and transparency should be fostered among researchers and developers of AI. 5) *Race Avoidance:* Teams developing AI systems should actively cooperate to avoid corner-cutting on safety standards. Ethics and Values 6) *Safety:* AI systems should be safe and secure throughout their operational lifetime, and verifiably so where applicable and feasible. 7) *Failure Transparency:* If an AI system causes harm, it should be possible to ascertain why. 8) *Judicial Transparency:* Any involvement by an autonomous system in judicial decision-making should provide a satisfactory explanation auditable by a competent human authority. 9) *Responsibility:* Designers and builders of advanced AI systems are stakeholders in the moral implications of their use, misuse, and actions, with a responsibility and opportunity to shape those implications. 10) *Value Alignment:* Highly autonomous AI systems should be designed so that their goals and behaviors can be assured to align with human values throughout their operation. 11) *Human Values:* AI systems should be designed and operated so as to be compatible with ideals of human dignity, rights, freedoms, and cultural diversity. 12) *Personal Privacy:* People should have the right to access, manage and control the data they generate, given AI systems’ power to analyze and utilize that data. 13) *Liberty and Privacy:* The application of AI to personal data must not unreasonably curtail people’s real or perceived liberty. 14) *Shared Benefit:* AI technologies should benefit and empower as many people as possible. 15) *Shared Prosperity:* The economic prosperity created by AI should be shared broadly, to benefit all of humanity. 16) *Human Control:* Humans should choose how and whether to delegate decisions to AI systems, to accomplish human-chosen objectives. 17) *Non-subversion:* The power conferred by control of highly advanced AI systems should respect and improve, rather than subvert, the social and civic processes on which the health of society depends. 18) *AI Arms Race:* An arms race in lethal autonomous weapons should be avoided. Longer-term Issues 19) *Capability Caution:* There being no consensus, we should avoid strong assumptions regarding upper limits on future AI capabilities. 20) *Importance:* Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources. 21) *Risks:* Risks posed by AI systems, especially catastrophic or existential risks, must be subject to planning and mitigation efforts commensurate with their expected impact. 22) *Recursive Self-Improvement:* AI systems designed to recursively self-improve or self-replicate in a manner that could lead to rapidly increasing quality or quantity must be subject to strict safety and control measures. 23) *Common Good:* Superintelligence should only be developed in the service of widely shared ethical ideals, and for the benefit of all humanity rather than one state or organization. ------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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How to act in self defense - concealed carry saves the day
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Pure propaganda of course, and a true story to boot - doesn't get much better than this :) http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/29/armed-citizen-dropped-wa…

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The love that dare not speak its name...
by Cecilia Tanaka 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

They deserve *public apologies*, not "pardon", because they were *not* wrong, they never were guilty of any real crime. They loved and had their lives destroyed for following their hearts. Religion was always a disastrous counselor to all the laws in the whole world. Always judging and condemning, giving cruel labels and empowering hypocrite dictators and governors, who mention God, Prophets, the Bible or other Holy Books in their speeches to justify cruelty and prejudices against women, LGBT, animals, etc, and many, many unjustified deaths... # http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/31/turings-law-thousands-convicted-… # http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37711518 # http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/31/europe/britain-gay-pardon-turing-law/ ------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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Global warming/climate change
by YoungerDryas 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

> Zenaan Harkness: > I see no one disputing climate change. Here is some clarification. Joe Rogan Experience #725 - Graham Hancock & Randall Carlson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDejwCGdUV8 Watch/listen to the whole thing but the first 15min should be enough context to drive further interest. A snip from Randall Carlson: "We're not really seeing the genesis of civilization, we're seeing the rebooting of civilization, in the aftermath of these [global warming and cooling] events." Joe Rogan Experience #606 - Randall Carlson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Cp7DrvNLQ This one goes in depth more on climate and adjacent science. Jumping to 18 or 19 minutes should be enough context to drive further interest. Snips: "We're in the infancy of understanding the climate of this planet." "My concern is that we're going to get so focused on carbon change that we're not looking at any of these other factors." Joe Rogan Experience #501 - Randall Carlson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R31SXuFeX0A For those who want to start at the beginning. Skip to 6min to avoid radio ads. All the Graham Hancock ones are wonderful as well, if anyone wants to dig in deepah. These guys are cpunks. #For those who avoid video: http://youtube-dl.org/ #Please God, water my plants with your teardrops.

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The Emperor's new conspiracy network graph
by Steve Kinney 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is a bare bones factual analysis of the structural changes in Federal power /already/ made by the Trump Administration. Now I can cross collecting the same information off my own to-do list: https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e024990891d5# .psd34omyf =or= https://tinyurl.com/h783kez Calling this a "coup" may seem unwarranted, but in the context of creating then occupying a power vacuum, the analogy does make some sense. I was always annoyed that Assange did not "finish" his iconic little essay on State And Terrorist Conspiracies: https://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYkK79AAoJEECU6c5XzmuqwZMIAKRcq0H2UNEsCKFo7jMit5c2 EGEx9gOaGuwntKqWL/bmRSOecyX+Hz57kdSXzIiuVp/0YZRNWrowgoq8Kabu7LxH HMd8cSa9EqnA7MwLR4bSo+5JebBzkYbksViX1NlNLnAn+/J3I504PwG9uh331vQ7 UcMJQ+/+m/75j4ww2QUXNEPdzeKERZMdxAfsaD3xAtVJRnSWmua5NeNNK32WMkDq sNYonaOpcHXMVb6V+mxDASnU7g0G7HYxFws6xIraGApQNRNhSelUIKlt11Twpxhg DUPA6SprWtRtSQfC3VaIh5yfj22Bl2UeZQ5ATObtuV75tVv4n3/Rm70p8W+ZMw8= =lYwm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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