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Posted on 01/28/2022 8:43:30 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
I wasn’t kidding when I said I wouldn’t doubt it.
Guys like him reveal what an utter failure any effort by
government is.
Look at his progress in space when NASA has basically become
a big joke. Only the people at NASA don’t know it.
Musk will have people on Mars before the people at NASA
change their underwear.
What's the NRA and Wayne LaPierre got to do with it?
WTF, TSLA CLOSED UP 17.25 for the day, 4 dollars more in aftermarket.
I’m going to buy two.
You win my unofficial "Freepie Award for Best Post of the Week".
Good one !
Leni
Musk says the singularity—where all the computers hook up with one another and organic people are left out—has already happened. It was expected sometime after 2020 but it came sooner.
It happened when two computers made up their own language in which to speak to each other and it’s a language that we don’t understand. Wasn’t that back in 2018 or something? Maybe even 2016.
That is why Musk is so concerned with space travel and why it will make him ruler of the world: it’s the only way we earthlings will be able to get away from domination by the computer complex, which is probably the Beast of Revelation, though Musk didn’t say that.
Things are definitely shaping up nicely, for folks who want
humanity humbled.
I don’t see a good future for this planet. It’s amazing how
fast it has cratered too.
Yer funny
It’s all in the Bible too.
“It happened when two computers made up their own language in which to speak to each other and it’s a language that we don’t understand. Wasn’t that back in 2018 or something? Maybe even 2016.”
Reminds me of “Colossus: The Forbin Project” movie. Two supercomputers go A.I. and speak to each other in their own language, merge, and then control humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anjQ7Ndddx4
All this racing Porsche’s and Corvettes...When most people just want to drive to Walmart. Funny stuff.
Most people can’t control their vehicles after an initial loss of control at 45 mph. At freeway speeds feerget it. Btw, it’s an electric motor, like a big blender appliance, so high speeds should be expected.
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If it weren’t for double standards, the left would have no standards.
My date and I sat through this movie twice, back when you were allowed to do that. I mentioned the film once before on Free Republic.
The point of it was that world peace could be achieved, but only at the cost of freedom.
I remember the film as the first computer, the more advanced one, having found the answer for “how to achieve world peace,” and then tutoring the less advanced one until it caught up, and then they both advanced forward together to the above conclusion.
This must have been in the early seventies, in the depths of the U.S./Russia Cold War.
My feeling at the time and now is that the two computers represented those two countries, the more advanced one being ours, which actually was the case. This was science fiction but Reagan actually made it happen, as proven to me by two people: a Russian who spoke at a theater in NYC afterwards and said that it was true, and Grover Norquist’s father, whom I met when FR was at CPAC.
It wasn’t that the Russian scientists weren’t as smart as we were. They were and are brilliant. It was that Reagan poured enough money into the idea of computer superiority to make it happen. Capitalism actually won, or strategical smarts, not just sheer brain power.
Thanks for posting that. I hadn’t realized it was on YouTube. I’d actually forgotten the complete scene at the end of the movie, with the crowds yelling crowd-like things in the background and the inevitable success of the Beast that we know is prophetic.
The film didn’t go past the 7-year Tribulation, however, and the return of Christ for a thousand years.
My point is that Tesla makes pretty good cars that can perform toe to toe and beat many standard fuel production cars in comfort, acceleration, General speed, range 300-350 miles tank/charge. Acceleration, so important for for getting on a busy highway, is excellent. They have a roomy interior, storage space and very nice electronic features. It is not a car that anybody can use but they really seem to be excellent vehicles for the money under the right circumstances. Around here I see quite a few on the road and they are not tiny vehicles like so many other electrics. Musk must be doing something right. He is releasing an electric pickup truck. the Cybertruck, later this year. It looks a little weird but seems to have good specs.
And thank you for posting about the two computers making their own language to talk to each other. I remember news about that a few years ago. I watch a lot of content on YouTube, especially about movies that I can't easily find elsewhere. A lot of sci-fi movies from the 1960's and 1970's that I miss.
I've been working with computers since the late 1960's, and retired as an IT engineer some 16 years ago. I'm shocked at the progress of computing over the last 50 years. I handled memory cores that were huge in size but tiny in capacity - actual donut toroid cores with signal wires through them to form a memory bank. Now we have tiny fingernail size chips that have terabyte capacity.
Elon Musk is right in stating his fear of A.I. running amok in the wrong hands. As memory banks get tinier in size but enormous in capacity and faster in computing speed, it's inevitable that self-awareness will happen, just as it does in mammals before they're born. Question is, will the A.I. computer have a soul, and if so, will it care about humanity. It seems that we have a bunch of humans running things that don't care about humanity, so maybe I answered my own question.
About the diminishing size of computers:
Robert Jastrow once took me on a tour of the computer installation at Columbia when he was director of research for NASA. No one knew it was there. You had to get to it through the lobby of an apartment building on Broadway, take an elevator down, and then walk down a long ramp.
It was HUGE, because they were still using cathode-ray tubes at the time, the middle to late sixties. There were guys all over the place doing things at the computers. And it was very cold in there, because of the tubes. Jastrow was head of research through the moon landing, and then research was moved to Texas.
Thanks for the tip on sci-fi videos on YouTube. Maybe you could send me a few tips for good ones. I have been hooked on astronomy ever since a trip to the Newark Planetarium when I was a kid. I walked out in a daze that I never really recovered from. Started an astronomy club in my neighborhood but no one was really into it like I was. Then never studied it seriously in college.
Jastrow had several PhDs, even one in geology. He told me he believed in extra-terrestrial beings partly from science but also partly from Exekiel 1, where vehicles changed direction without turning—an achievement that he said we hadn’t reached yet, although someone told me we can do that now.
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