Tag: speculation
A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future Influences the Past
…What if forward causality could somehow be reversed in time, allowing actions in the future to influence outcomes in the past? This mind-bending idea, known as retrocausality, may seem like science fiction grist at first glance, but it is starting to gain real traction among physicists and philosophers, among other researchers, as a possible solution to some of the most intractable riddles underlying our reality.
Buddhist speculation: It has long seemed to me that sometimes (or maybe often, always) future life events have influenced events in the past. In Buddhist philosophy, time is cyclical. Since Buddhism is an always evolving and always deeply personal system of thought, there is no need to accept cyclical time if it does not comport well with other ideas important to you.
Time as it is generally conceived today means that the entire cosmos ‘disappears’ every moment only to ‘reappear’ in the next. In this view, time is not at all like a river since there is no river behind us and no river in front of us.
I like conceiving of the future as having a sort of ‘gravitational’ influence’ on the past, sometimes deeply particular in its details and sometimes (or always) more general. For example, are we heading toward WW3 because collectively we are the same fools we always have been or because WW3 has already happened in the future and no matter what we do it will occur?
Did what led you to Buddhist thought arise solely from past conditions or did some of it arise from what was then your future, your now current understanding of the Dharma? Maybe there is a mix of causation between past and future and something like WW3 is only probable but not definite. ABN
A world without mothers?
Guerini suggests: “The use of your own body would be considered a sign of social inferiority and poverty. A natural mother would be considered potentially irresponsible, like mothers who currently opt for home birth, refusing the hospitalisation and medicalisation of the process… Natural childbirth would first be treated as irresponsible, then criminal.
“Remember that there can be no Medically Assisted Procreation (MAP) without the selection of spermatozoa and of embryos… When technoscientists get involved in the process of procreation they want to set the characteristics of each of these elements, choose them, modify them and determine the end result.
“The laboratory environment transforms the birth process into a technical operation: the embryo becomes a product to be selected, improved, rejected or transformed”.
Guerini explains that there have long been some feminists, notably Shulasmith Firestone, who acclaim artificial reproduction as “liberating” women from “biological tyranny”.
And she predicts that artificial wombs will be demanded, like MAP, as a “right” for everyone, including “transgender” people.
These are “false rights”, says Guerini, and need to be exposed as such.
“Having a child cannot be claimed as a right, neither for a heterosexual couple nor for a homosexual couple, nor for a single woman or man. There cannot be a right to have a child. The capacity to generate life cannot be claimed as a new right by men who identify as women. Procreation can never belong to them”.
POSSIBLE CANCER CURE
[Everything below is from the article: Can 2 Cheap Meds, 1 Vitamin & Baking Soda Kill Any Cancer? Please read the whole thing to better understand this protocol. ABN]
The Proposed Protocol
Unlike most traditional cytotoxic cancer therapies that destroy both cancer cells as well as regular cells and especially the body’s immune system cells, this protocol stimulates the body’s own innate and adaptive immune system to fight off cancer.
This protocol should not be used in combination with most mainstream cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy or radiotherapy, due to their ability to impair the immune system that the protocol depends on.
It is likely to be most potent at the early stages of disease; further progress of the condition will prolong duration of treatment needed.
A healthy immune system takes time to ramp up the necessary response, so the protocol is based on the time required for each drug to take effect, safety data, bioavailability, and elimination time.
Day 1:
Ivermectin: 1 mg/kg by mouth
Fenbendazole: 1000mg by mouth
Sodium Bicarbonate: 1 tsp morning and evening dissolved in 1 quart of water
Day 2:
Ascorbic acid: 50 mg/kg by mouth, two doses, 8 hours apart or 20g IV, once
Day 3:
Repeat Day 1
Day 4:
Repeat Day 2
Days 5 to 10:
Fenbendazole, 200mg by mouth daily
Alternate sodium bicarbonate and ascorbic acid every other day beginning with sodium bicarb on day 5, then vitamin C on day 6, etc.
Day 11:
Ivermectin: 1 mg/kg by mouth
Fenbendazole: 1000 mg by mouth
Sodium Bicarbonate: 1 tsp morning and evening dissolved in 1 quart of water
Days 12 to 20:
Sodium Bicarbonate: 1 tsp morning and evening dissolved in 1 quart of water
Day 20:
Imaging: Check progress. Significant reduction or complete elimination of tumor mass should have occurred by this time, if not repeat the protocol.
At this time the US FDA has not approved this protocol for study or for use in humans.
The Next End of the World | C.I.A. Classified
Turkish soldiers will fight in Gaza — Douglas Macgregor
The fructose survival hypothesis as a mechanism for unifying the various obesity hypotheses
Abstract
The pathogenesis of obesity remains contested. Although genetics is important, the rapid rise in obesity with Western culture and diet suggests an environmental component. Today, some of the major hypotheses for obesity include the energy balance hypothesis, the carbohydrate-insulin model, the protein-leverage hypothesis, and the seed oil hypothesis. Each hypothesis has its own support, creating controversy over their respective roles in driving obesity. Here we propose that all hypotheses are largely correct and can be unified by another dietary hypothesis, the fructose survival hypothesis. Fructose is unique in resetting ATP levels to a lower level in the cell as a consequence of suppressing mitochondrial function, while blocking the replacement of ATP from fat. The low intracellular ATP levels result in carbohydrate-dependent hunger, impaired satiety (leptin resistance), and metabolic effects that result in the increased intake of energy-dense fats. This hypothesis emphasizes the unique role of carbohydrates in stimulating intake while fat provides the main source of energy. Thus, obesity is a disorder of energy metabolism, in which there is low usable energy (ATP) in the setting of elevated total energy. This leads to metabolic effects independent of excess energy while the excess energy drives weight gain.
Email exchange on war & power in today’s world
It is a strange time. Because there was some kind of takeover full domination and depopulation plan, yet it was based on also having hegemony. Hegemony is breaking down, but the domination and depopulation plan is still in motion. Maybe this is how it should go, but it doesn’t seem that way. Maybe there is a notion they can do both at once—however this seems epically stupid. Also it seems this whole plan was put into motion by people who are now geriatric hard to know because it is all secret.
I do suspect British Royal Family and other euro royals are big players. Then organizations set up by the American robber barons in the Early 1900s. That used to all be quite naked to the public but the advent of PR put it in the shadows. The UK royals are all in on the money and put their faces everywhere in Canada and Australia. Much like you see the UAE royals have shops and hotel all put up portraits of them. That is Raw power. Much like Xi making everyone study Xi thought.
The one thing that got me thinking lately is the economic cost of a wrong view. I mean each wrong view likely costs us some amount as we make poorer decisions about everything else. Think of the economic cost of someone vaccine injured. But then all the other bits of lack of information. How much time we spend on such things. And then the cost to society when people are massively misinformed.
J
I agree with what you say and also I think the possibility must be considered that the cabal in the West has a super weapon which nobody knows about but them. This weapon would be powerful enough to ensure victory against any and all opponents on Earth. I do believe this is a real possibility and cannot be dismissed.
Continue reading “Email exchange on war & power in today’s world”Steve Bannon — What happened in Israel ‘is coming to USA as sure as the turning of the earth’
There is a strong possibility that tomorrow, Friday 13th, there will be Hamas attacks in USA. The MIHOP attacks in Israel may lead to what are fundamentally MIHOP attacks in USA; MIHOP since the Biden admin allowed untold numbers of bad actors to pour across the border. A consequence of attacks in USA will be an enraged American population dying to be sucked into another world war. Just a few savage attacks will change the mood of this country overnight, especially since we have all been primed by the violent raid in Israel. Ukraine primed us as well. I am not saying it will definitely happen but the conditions to go to war with Iran and more are all in place. I see two other factors: 1) the cabal that controls the West, including Israel, is incompetent and has lost touch with reality and may bring debacle; or 2) they have a super weapon that ensures a decisive and violent win. If point two is correct, their incompetence has been a ruse to fool their enemies. ABN
Are we living in a simulation? Physicist claims he has new evidence we’re simply characters in an advanced virtual world
Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, claims we may be characters in an advanced virtual world.
He claims that the physical behaviour of information in our universe resembles the process of a computer deleting or compressing code – a clue that perhaps the machines hope we don’t notice.
Professor Vopson has already warned of an impending ‘information catastrophe’, when we run out of energy to sustain huge amounts of digital information.
‘My studies point to a bizarre and interesting possibility that we don’t live in an objective reality and that the entire universe might be just a super advanced virtual reality simulation,’ Professor Vopson said.
Last year, the academic – from Romania – established a new law of physics, called the ‘second law of information dynamics’ to explain how information behaves.
His law establishes that the ‘entropy’, or disorder, in a system of information decreases rather than increases.
This new law came as somewhat of a surprise, because it’s the opposite of the second law of thermodynamics established in the 1850s, which explains why we cannot unscramble an egg or why a glass cannot unbreak itself.
As it turns out, the second law of infodynamics explains the behaviour of information in a way that the old law cannot.
Vopson’s paper: The second law of infodynamics and its implications for the simulated universe hypothesis featured
UPDATE: Information that is information about other information appears to be what we think of as consciousness, especially if that information is dynamic or able to focus and choose. Information may also be thought of as the stuff of karma, which itself can be thought of as a form of dynamic information, a coherent procession of information over time. This may even be the definition of time.
Consciousness as we know it is almost always dramatic; it almost always knows something or wants to know something or aims toward something or retreats from it. This is clearly true with regard to other people (or sentient beings) or within ourselves as our information parts interact (sort of what psychology is, or rumination). Regardless of whether human consciousness is high or low in the scheme of things, it tends to deeply crave meaning, purpose, reason, and is often satisfied with tautology over nothing, which proves or at least demonstrates this point :-)
Meaning and purpose are directional and organizational kinds of information. Since they are very common and arguably universal in everything we see, including the ‘lives’ of inanimate matter, it does seem that the whole of everything holds together around this point. In terms of information, it does not make much sense to say life itself is meaningless because what it is is a kind of meaning, a kind of procession of information. ABN
Terror attacks in USA — Tony Seruga
I’m a 38 year intelligence analyst, my clients include the United States Government, British Government, Israeli Government, Saudi Arabia Government, NEOM, Microsoft, Dell Computers, GE, IBM, General Motors Corporation, The Scott Fetzer Corporation, Dutch East India Company, Procter & Gamble, Raytheon, Mastercard, Walmart, Northrop Grumman, Berkshire Hathaway, General Dynamics, BAE Systems, Standard Oil, Saudi Aramco, et al. Intelligence is NEVER perfect. It’s a messy, messy business. Rarely can I ‘guarantee’ the intelligence. Many times just releasing it in the wild can stop a false flag or genuine attack. But with as close to 100% confidence as possible, there WILL be terrorist attacks in the U.S. The attacks will come in waves for the next 14 months. Hundreds of thousands of CCP saboteurs and at least a million terrorist are already here from Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Qatar, Lebanon, Iran, Somalia, etc., etc., and they are very well funded but in addition, the Biden Administration with the UN has given them debit cards that are reloaded every month.
What is Artificial General Intelligence?
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a type of AI that can understand, learn, and solve tasks that require a human level of intelligence. Just like us, it can adapt to different environments and solve various complex problems.
Unlike artificial narrow intelligence (ANI), which is the type of AI that we have today, AGI is not trained for a specific task, but it’s made to observe, learn, and adapt on its own without being directly commanded by a specific code.
Nearly everything we do today is, in one way or another, linked to narrow AI. The order of content and ads that you see on the Internet is governed by a specialized AI. Your neighbor’s kid is playing a video game against an AI opponent. Perhaps the customer service assistant you just talked to was a synthesized voice of narrow artificial intelligence. These all function seamlessly, but put any one of these narrow AI to do the task of the other, and it will fail.
Artificial general intelligence could learn and perform all these tasks and more. Eventually, when we develop an AGI in earnest, it would display the capabilities of the median human, but retain the potential to become an expert in the field, something we now consider reserved for the narrow AI. It would be possible for AGI to become a scientist, an engineer, or a doctor.
“Would be”, as we have yet to reach the point of general AI. But some experts say that we’re getting there.
ETA for AGI?
The big question is: when will we create artificial general intelligence?
For proper general AI, there are three vital components of consciousness it must have:
- A model of surroundings with the body of the unit at the center
- Perception of time for projections of future outcomes
- An ability to consider and evaluate multiple actions and choose the most optimal one
In other words, it has to be able to explore, learn, interpret, and solve various problems in different environments. For example, just like a three-year-old child can.
While current AI models efficiently tackle various tasks, we have failed to develop a system that would harmonize these tasks into a single AI solution. Our AI fails to overcome problems that three-year-old children routinely solve. Forget the toddler, we still have to reach the intelligence of a parrot or a mouse.
But the necessary research is rapidly advancing, and investments are bigger than ever. John Hennessy estimates that we’re 20 to 40 years away from artificial general intelligence. John Carmack, an ex-Meta executive, gives a 95% chance of AGI being developed by 2050 and 60% chance of this happening by 2030.
In our lifetimes! Should we buckle up?
The Case for Enclave-Based Immigration Over Nationalism
Rethinking Immigration in the Context of Post-Americanism
Counting all US in-migration annually, half a million migrants are admitted via the CBP app, a new parole program will admit another half a million Venezuelans, another new program will allow 200k immigrants to fly directly to American cities to claim asylum, existing legal immigration is about 1 million, and there are about 2 million illegal border crossings. That adds up to over 4 million migrants annually, breaking all past records for border crossings and immigration. It would not be farfetched for 8 million migrants to arrive in 2024. The migrant crisis will only accelerate due to economic crisis and food shortages in the Global South, and the impacts of chain migration. Basically a trial run for open borders, considering that the numbers who want to immigrate globally are about 900 million. The date when Whites become a minority in America could easily move up from 2045 to 2035.
…What I am advocating for is basically national multiculturalism but with local homogeneity, re-establishing the “us-ness” at a local level. If multiculturalism is inevitable then trying to hold together a diverse society with a mass mono-culture and centralized institutions is insane. The current situation is the worst of both worlds, since we basically have a policy of multiculturalism for non-Whites but compulsory universalism for White Americans, who are expected to hold the empire together, rather than pursue their own interests. White Americans are in a state of limbo, where the old America is dead, yet the idea of acting as a diaspora is alien. I want to be optimistic, but a plausible scenario is where there is continued mass demographic change, a top-down centralized managerial power structure, widespread anti-White discrimination and political persecution, White economic downward mobility, scapegoating of Whites for income inequality, yet where Whites remain hyper-individualistic, being at a tremendous disadvantage and politically disenfranchised. While there is little hope in reforming the system towards radical decentralization, one White Pill is that the shock from rapid demographic change and economic collapse will force Whites to become tribal and rebuild social capital to survive. A more cutthroat society will make enclaves, tribes, and patronage networks a necessity.
This is a thoughtful essay, well-worth reading in full.
Recently, I have made comments about ‘digital babies’ ending all tribalism, ethnicity, and lineage pride due to their parents ‘soon’ being able to choose major genetic traits, including intelligence. ‘Digital babies’ will massively affect how America develops, even given uncontrollable immigration and multiculturalism.
The term digital babies is meant to be a shorthand marker for the rapidly advancing technologies of gene selection through in vitro selection processes leading eventually to selection through digital processes.
True digital gene insertion may be over one hundred years away (maybe not so long), but selection through manipulation of gametes and zygotes in a laboratory is already possible today and probably being done somewhere in the world right now. This process involves using stem cells from parents to make many gametes. Then selecting the best of those gametes and using them to make many zygotes. Then selecting the best of those zygotes and using stem cells taken from them to make more gametes. If this process is repeated scores or even hundreds of times, the resulting offspring will be extremely intelligent, healthy, and long-lived. Through other processes, they will also carry zero mutational burden. For a time, these offspring may become even more tribal but as soon as gene-insertion or even gene-creation becomes possible, parents will surely choose whatever is best for their offspring, thus completely blurring the lines between races, tribes and lineages.
As we imagine the future, we must also image the effects of digital babies and also AI, or super-AI, a field that is also moving quickly, and with massive implications for the science of digital babies and how they will evolve. ABN
‘Multi-hit’ cancer theory possible explanation for cancer rise after covid boosters
1/ 🧵💉BOOSTERS: There’s much talk about BOOSTERS containing something different compared to the previous formulations–theories that they lead to cancer/disease because of a different ingredient.
Instead, perhaps, it is what is called the “multi-hit” cancer theory.
2/ The multi-hit theory states cancer is not caused by a single genetic mutation but a series of genetic “hits” which accumulate over time. These genetic changes occur in specific genes, leading to uncontrolled cell growth and the formation of a tumor, leading to cancer.
Elite Race Denialism Continues, But New Study Shows the Walls Are Closing In
The Race Denialists are at it again. Black academic Tyler Austin Harper [Email him] (right) has attacked Richard Hanania’s new book The Origins of Woke as an “intellectual and moral failure,” in part because it has highlighted black-white differences in IQ [An Intellectual and a Moral Failure, The Atlantic, September 18, 2023]. It was the elite Leftist magazine’s second attack on Hanania: staff writer Adam Serwer (black and Jewish) targeted him three days earlier in a broadside against The Young Conservatives Trying to Make Eugenics Respectable Again. But as VDARE.com’s Steve Sailer has observed, the black-white IQ gap is probably “the best documented finding in US social science.”
Now a new study from A Genetic Hypothesis for American Race/Ethnic Differences in Mean g [Mankind Quarterly, June 2023] proves again that it really matters.
The term “g” stands for “general intelligence,” which underlies verbal, spatial and mathematical intelligence. It explains why people who score highly in one kind of intelligence test usually score highly on the others. It is strongly genetic.
The study was published in the “controversial” Mankind Quarterly—likely, in part, because the better-known journals have been hijacked by Woke activists pretending to be scholars.
Drawing upon the “Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study,” which sampled more than 10,000 Americans, the authors carefully examined the relationship between self/parental-identified race or ethnicity (called SIRE in the jargon) and key variables. These included the intelligence test administered as part of cognitive study. The authors also explored race differences in many other brain-related measures.
To say that the authors refuted the claims that “race is a social construct,” or that “race differences in IQ score are environmental” is almost too charitable. They annihilated those claims, and showed that the cognitive differences between the races are strongly genetic.
There was “measurement invariance” across the different groups in its sample of diverse European ancestries. In statistics, this means that the same trait—such as intelligence—was measured in all of the European-ancestry samples. Cultural differences could have played no role in making the test unfair to one group but not another.
The authors’ key finding: The more genetic European admixture a non-white had, the more intelligent they tended to be, and these intelligence differences were on g.
One thing about the claims made in the article is all the wrangling between races, tribes and ethnicities is going to disappear as soon as we start having large numbers of digital babies—that is, babies whose parents have selected a large proportion of their genes, a proportion large enough to guarantee high intelligence among many other desirable traits. When this tech is widely available, some parents may still opt for Darwinian chance evolution for their offspring but most will not.
Given the choice of having a genetically super fit and intelligent child for sure or a Darwinian coin-toss kid, most will want the guaranteed smart and healthy one. This constitutes beneficent and beneficial eugenics. No one will be forced to go either way, but the consequences of choosing Darwinian evolution over controlled eugenics will become obvious within a single generation.
Of course human-controlled eugenic evolution could turn out badly, as is true for all new technologies. But there is no doubt we will see enormous improvements in what humans can do in this area within the next few decades. Within 100 years and probably much less, off-body gestation of digital babies will change the entire landscape of human tribalism, pride, competition and so on. I believe there is a very good chance highly intelligent humans produced by voluntary eugenics will look back on us and our concerns today as the last gasps of their selfish, violent, and often grotesque human ancestry. ABN
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