Now, I'm just having fun - I disagree with the premise of this article if it states the universe is young or some bs like that, that said I am leaning more to the universe being a created thing than I'm not, like I'm 90% sure this was made - 10% with serious doubts.
I have conducted my share of comparative theology - I've read everything that's come out of the ground but that isn't where I arrived at this conclusion. Science keeps presenting me with proof of the universes construction.
Most recently I encountered this patent form the 1990s - since has been vastly expanded upon but this actual patent is fairly damning to any "random universal generation" concepts bc what it utilizes kinda can't exist and yet it does.
How can a species evolve so that it's behavior can be exactly controlled and dicted by a noise at a frequency it cannot hear and is undetectable outside it's effects?
That is that patent - we are that species, a noise I cannot hear or detect in any way can me have to shit. Or fight. Or fuck.
I love that you just dismissed Isaac Newton's greatest curiosity as "an addictive hobby" - that may in fact be the best understatement of the quest for the "philosopher's stone" that I have yet encountered.
Perhaps there is a reason some of the smartest of us, for millenia, have fallen into this particular rabbit hole.
I also want to establish that Isaac Newton's quest was not inherently a religous one - the was very opposed to alchemists.
Do you really believe it was spirituality that motivated Isaac Newton? He already believed in God - the subject of his final research was something more tangible, which makes sense considering he was a scientist ;)
Sure graphic designers and artists will do the main stuff but about all the background stuff or user interface stuff?
Why would a major studio have an entire team for something an AI can do very well?
What about the tens and tens of thousands of lines of code that exist only to make other code work correctly, securely, redundantly, efficiently, etc.
What abouta chatGPT powered NPC system?
The "AI Armageddon" is almost more significant to an actual studio than a freelance or small time designer. EA can adopt all the cool stuff Microsoft throws at them from OpenAI - they can afford it.
I think AI will do best with already established content - Star Wars for example. An AI can make endless expansions to a Star Wars game, if the game was made so that it could do so.
That's more the future than an AI being made/licensed by EA that creates Madden 2030 from nothing. Changing Madden 2029 into 2030 and updating the jnterface/visuals and making it faster/more streamlined and identifying places to add further content, creating that content, managing that content - all of that an AI system can do.
Yeah, lots of generic copy mobile type games are coming but this is absolutely going to be more than that.
I can't speak to the actual research but after reading various declassified documents from the Soviet Union and Maoist China, I can say truthfully that they did not believe the world would end with a nuclear exchange. Both countries had 1st strike scenarios - both believed some aspect of their government and country would survive.
Mao was particularly disconcerting, to paraphrase, "Nuclear war doesn't scare me, we've got more than enough people and cities, we can rebuild"
Upon further looking into it, I fear MAD may have been at the time an overexaggeration to prevent what would be the most devastating war. Could be true now tho - things have leveled up
This is purpose of NATO - to prevent the lines on the map from changing. Ukraine may not be a member of NATO officially but it doesn't need to be - the Soviet era reason for Ukraine is the same as the NATO, a buffer state.
Russian aggression reinforced the need for a buffer state - before it wasn't obvious, now it is. NATO is intending to force Russia to leave Ukraine and they are willing to play a very long game bc it's a buffer state in play, not a NATO state.
The end result of this strategy is either Russia breaks or the war escalates.
Pfft, death isn't necessary to evolution in the sense your implying.
Transmission of ideas and wealth - even societal restructuring doesn't require all the old people to first die.
Adapt or die. We cease to adapt and so we die. We're we as a species to overcome death individually, we would still collectively be bound by the same mantra.
Not that our evolution would stop - rather I think the opposite.
Assuming cellular commission is similar to a 30 year old and as healthy/mentally capable as a 30 something; so truly overcoming those obstacles - a 300 year old version of me would be better than the me now.
Taxi drivers brain composition changed by driving around London - I'll bet an extra 200 years will do something.
As long as our populace remain "Mentally Liquid" we will be fine - something 300 years of seeing and living constant changes should all but guarantee. Can't be yelling at the kids on the lawn for 200 years right?
I think elongation human life will be necessary in the not so distant future and I expect it to happen.
I approach it with words using the idea that everyone has the foreknowledge of the Merriam Webster dictionary definition of the words they choose to say in conversation... and something often taken for granted when it shouldn't be.
I know what I mean when I'm explaining things - the definition of the word in context, with some Grammer etc.
What is being interpreted tho? What thoughts come to your mind when I type "Planet Earth" and you read it? Whenever I see the words Planet Earth I recall a memory of an HD DVD BBC Documentary titled "Planet Earth" sitting on the lowest shelf on the endcap display at my local Best Buy - I noticed that many years ago and I've told a few people that, so now it's likely my forever. Lowkey nostalgic almost.
Say I'm having a conversation with a friend that shows a headline about "Planet Earth Be Doomed" how could they ever anticipate my nostalgic correlation with that headline? Am I actually listening if I finish an entire conversation while reliving a childhood trip to best buy?
This only seems like a tangent - knowledge and truth are exactly the same.
I know what I know. I know what I expect you to know. I know what I'm trying to convey and so I use words I know the definition of and feel appropriate in the moment, sometimes I even try my best.
I never know how someone will react/respond/understand.
I have conducted my share of comparative theology - I've read everything that's come out of the ground but that isn't where I arrived at this conclusion. Science keeps presenting me with proof of the universes construction.
Most recently I encountered this patent form the 1990s - since has been vastly expanded upon but this actual patent is fairly damning to any "random universal generation" concepts bc what it utilizes kinda can't exist and yet it does.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6017302A/en
How can a species evolve so that it's behavior can be exactly controlled and dicted by a noise at a frequency it cannot hear and is undetectable outside it's effects?
That is that patent - we are that species, a noise I cannot hear or detect in any way can me have to shit. Or fight. Or fuck.
How did I evolve that capacity? How did you?