UPDATE: I try to watch whatever I post before posting it but in the case of this video, I did not have time. The subject is important and generally Man in America is a good channel, so I put it up. A good friend sent me the following comment on this video:
Something is striking me as really off with this video. There is some other game being played.
Now in this video – the attorney just drop using militias under Trump to take back the gov. And demon Aliens being behind it all. It seems to be walking people into greater violence. That seems a bad bad idea. I am not sure what game is afoot – but a game nonetheless. Craziness.
Surely the Maui fires had some bad actor shit going on – but the conclusions are not necessarily the better way. It isn’t how to fight this – Gandhi, MLK and other already showed the way.
There is a book “American Gods” where different groups are convinced to fight and it all ends up as a blood offering to Odin – no matter who wins – Odin gets the blood he wants. Seems the game is of this sort. Mass chaos, death, confusion. Americans fighting Americans. The depop and a chance to take everything for the people with the biggest weapons.
I may have something to say after watching the video myself, but probably not. ABN
Meta wants to open-source a GPT-5-level model and seems dead-set on open-sourcing right up until AGI. I want to be clear about what this means:
There is no kill-switch. If something goes wrong–an agent gets out of control or a bad actor weaponizes it–there’s no easy way to turn it off. It could be running on any small cluster. There will be no security.
Safety research becomes meaningless. All the work people have done into making AI systems honest, aligned, ethical, etc becomes (mostly) moot. The population of AI’s out in the world will evolve towards whichever systems produce the most economic output, irrespective of what values or motives they have. There will be no guardrails. Anyone can change their AI’s values or capabilities as they want, for good or bad.
If Meta continues to open-source as we get much smarter AI, it’s pretty clear to me that things will become a shitshow. The arrival of these alien intelligences in the world is already going to be chaotic, but much much moreso if we just fling off what little levers of human control we have.
As far as I can tell, Meta’s wish to open-source stems mostly from some software industry dogma that “open-source good”.
Story at a Glance: •Organ transplant recipients often experience inexplicable personality changes and memories that appear to come from donor of the organ.
•In many of those cases, it appears that emotions which were trapped in the donor (e.g., because of the donor’s sudden traumatic death) transfer into the recipient.
•This transference provides critical insights into both the nature of consciousness and ways to mitigate many of the struggles transplant recipients face.
This house was the only one standing among the destruction in Maui. The owner claims it’s because her grandfather built it out of concrete. Considering what we know now, it seems (as usual) there is more to the story.
The woman in the article is below. She works as a Strategic Campaign Director for SEIU in California…
Looking at this organization, as “humanitarian” as they may seem to the untrained eye, they are a highly left leaning political organization with immense lobbying power.
“The government of Hawaii states goal for rebuild is to make the entire island of Maui the first Smart ISLAND. They want the entire island governed by AI as outlined in the Hawaii Digitial government summit of 2023 that they have planned to host next month Monday, September 25, 2023 on Maui.
Plans to implement a Digital AI government in Hawaii
Last January of 2023 there was a Smart City Conference in Maui to turn Maui in an entire smart city ISLAND. Pushing everything electric and making 15 minute smart cities.
Lastly there was a contract last year that was signed to build high rise condos and businesses in Lahaina.. which was a historical town that couldn’t have any new development done to it.. but now? It can.
This does look like it was caused by Directed Energy Weapons, not natural fire. Most everything at this point is speculative, so best to keep an open mind while also fully expecting MainStream Mind-Control Complex (MSMCC) to demand acceptance of whatever they decide to tell us. ABN
He asks the right questions but in cases like this why default to the tone that conspiracy theories are weird? Why do we even refer to this mind-control reference point which has held sway since JFK’s assassination? I did it myself just below. Conspiracy theories are just other possible explanations than those imposed by the MainStream Mind-Control Complex (MSMCC). And since JFK, they have often proved to be right, including many of the JFK ones. ABN
There are credible explanations for the buildings to burn to the ground while the trees are still standing—cheap construction and watery trees and it has happened elsewhere. The boats in the water could be burning due to sparks carried from the fires on land, but how to explain the circle around Lahaina and the intensity of the fires? I most definitely am a conspiracy theorist and this makes me wonder. It’s not proved that DEW weapons or some other kind of arson is the deep cause, but this does need to be explained. Not explained away, like covid anti-science, but truthfully and openly explained. ABN
The above statements allude to an early form of Omicron present in China possibly as early as 2017. A major speculative implication is that China was using that variant to inoculate its population against a planned release of the Wuhan variant, which they knew to be a bioweapon. It is also possible the early variant was released accidentally. Hence the question—What did China know (or do) and when did they know (or do) it? Somewhere inside this mystery also lies the enigma of to what degree, if any, did actors outside of China and probably in USA conspire with China to release the Wuhan variant in 2019? ABN
Every day you hear at least some utterances you’ve never heard before. That you can understand them is partly due to the fact that they are structured according to grammatical rules. Scientists have found that the human brain may use the relative timing of brainwaves to encode and decode the structures in a sentence.
Grammar is a way of structuring information that makes language an efficient way to communicate. Knowing the grammatical rules of our language allows us to say pretty much anything we want, including things we have never heard before by combining words to (new) sentences. Being able to learn and use grammar is unique to humans. But it also creates a challenge for the science of how the brain processes human language—how do our brains, essentially a bunch of cells in a network, represent something as abstract as grammatical rules?
Scientists at the University of Edinburgh and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics study this question with the help of computer-based models. They constructed an artificial neural network that simulates key features of the brain, such as densely connected populations of neurons that show neural oscillations. Neural oscillations are wave-like patterns of activity that happen at different frequencies, some very fast and some slow. The relative timing of these neural oscillations can help the brain encode grammatical relationships between words in a sentence, as Andrea Martin and Leonidas Doumas report in a paper in PLOS Biology.
By encoding words in one oscillation, and phrases in another, the brain can keep track of words and phrases at the same time. This demonstrates how something as complex as a sentence can be encoded in the neural currency of oscillations. A key finding of the new study is that these artificial neural networks, when fed example sentences, give off patterns of energy that mimic what the brain does when it processes a sentence. Martin, lead author of the study, says: “This work helps us understand how the brain solves a complex puzzle and why it gives off the activity patterns that it does when processing language.”
In this exciting age of the brain, where we know more about our brains than ever before, being able to link basic experiences like speaking and understanding language directly to brain function is especially important. Linking our brains to our behaviors holds the key to understanding not only what it means to be human, but also to understanding how the (arguably) most complex computing device in the universe, the human brain, gives rise to our daily experiences. Such knowledge may also lead to biologically inspired advances in human-like artificial intelligence and computation.
This article was originally published by Max Planck Neuroscience on March 6, 2017. The relevant study can be retrieved here.
I am posting the entire article because it’s a good summary and I do not want it to be lost. It has been taken down from Max Planck Neuroscience. The study: A mechanism for the cortical computation of hierarchical linguistic structure. This makes good sense and seems to describe something that is really happening in the brain. Being in the zone while performing complex tasks in sports or other endeavors also seems to entail brainwave patterns like these. ABN
The details of the destruction of the underground bunker of Kirill Budanov, the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence Services (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense
of Ukraine, have become known. A video of a Russian rocket falling into the water next to the GUR building on Fisherman’s Island in Kyiv was followed by sour comments on Ukrainian social networks – allegedly, the Russians missed.
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