Human is the awkward liminal phase between animal and machine

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Sound: Linea Aspera - LP II: Entanglement

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Frāze “tikai sci-fi salasījušos stulbeņus piš kaut kāds kosmoss” ir diezgan iespaidīga jau pati par sevi, bet brīdī, kad tā tiek producēta tekstā, kas sastāv no Muldašova līmeņa fi-bez-sci fantāzijām par izbijušo civilizāciju it kā augsto godību, kā atbilde uz jautājumu par šīs godības novērojamas evidences acīmredzamo iztrūkumu, tā pārvar ironijas gaismas ātrumu un kļūst par kaut ko transcendentālu, episku un pārlaicīgu.

Aplausi auditorijā pāraug vētrainās ovācijās, astronomi un astronauti notrauš pa skopai asarai un izlavās pa pakaļdurvīm laukā kautrīgi uzsmēķēt.


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Sound: Alphaxone - Edge Of Solitude: Overland

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Uztveramvielas kombo: Mecingera “Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity”, Vatsa “Blindsight” un “True Detective”.

... tālāk ... )

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Sound: Alphaxone & protoU - Stardust: Consumed

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A reflection of our ultimate understanding of a complex system is our ability to control its behavior.

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Sound: Kammarheit - The Starwheel: Klockstapeln

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Kā brāļi zem taisnleņķa un cirkuļa, mēs šādi balsojam: dzēst no mūsu rita itin visas atsauces uz T. G. A. O. T. U.1, atcelt frāzi “[Mūsu] principi ir Dieva esamība, dvēseles nemirstība un cilvēku solidaritāte” un pārcelt to kā “[Mūsu] principi ir domas brīvība un cilvēku solidaritāte.” Kā arī mēs atsakāmies no doktrīnas un dogmas mūsu principu afirmācijā un nolemjam šādi: tā, kā mūsu Institūcija ir tās pamatos filantropiska, filosofiska un progresīva, tad mūsu darba mērķis lai ir un paliek patiesības meklējumi, universālas morāles studijas, kā arī zinātņu un mākslu labvēlīga prakse. Mēs galīgi nolemjam neatstāt aiz durvīm nevienu viņa uzskatu labad, bet gan vest viņu pie brīvības, vienlīdzības un brālības trim dižajām gaismām.

/No Francijas Lielā orienta nolikuma “Concernant les trois grandes lumières”, 1877.g./

Franču žīdmasoņi ir sakarīgi.

 


1 The Grand Architect of the Universe


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Sound: Avaritia - Pulse: To Preserve And Never To Forget

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I’m getting very nice epileptogenic behaviour out of the last few experiments. ‪#‎ShitNeuroscientistsSay‬

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Sound: Grendel - Timewave Zero: Wheels In Motion

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For some people eating is a terminal value, and for the rest of us there’s Soylent. /K. Sotala/

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Sound: Android Lust - Devour, Rise, And Take Flight: Memory Game

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Finis fundationis nostræ est cognitio causarum et motuum ac virtutem interiorum in natura, atque terminorum imperii humani prolatio ad omne possibile.

The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and the secret motion of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human domain, to the effecting of all things possible.

Mūsu dibinājuma galamērķis ir zināšanas par lietu cēloņiem un to apslēpto kustību, un cilvēka valdījumu robežu paplašināšana līdz visam, kas vien ir iespējams.

/F. Bēkons, “Nova Atlantis”, 1627/


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Sound: Lustmord - Zoetrope: Amalgamated Man

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Образование — это как эрекция, если оно есть, то его видно (h/t [info]ctulhu).

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Sound: Autumn - Summer's End: Gallery Of Reality

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Synthetic biology has the potential to make organisms more resistant to radiation or temperature extremes. You can mix and match genes and do all sorts of things that if you were breeding [organisms] would take forever. Say we find a planet, and it has a certain pH, temperature, and radiation regime. That’s where we take up the challenge and go into the lab. We’ll say, “All right, let’s start with this one that can live at low pH and high temperature. Can we add the radiation resistance?” Then, we can go back to the astronomers and say that [habitability] is not impossible, because we just made something in the lab like that last week.

/We Might Create Alien Life in a Lab Before We Find It in Space/


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Sound: Ego Likeness - The Order Of The Reptile: Severine

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Disclaimer: Follows a core dump of semi-formulated semi-beliefs, decidedly not intended to be taken as suggestions or advice. Caveat lector.

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Sound: Android Lust - The Dividing: Burn

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Considered under the most general point of view, the essential object of the machine being to calculate, according to the laws dictated to it, the values of numerical coefficients which it is then to distribute appropriately on the columns which represent the variables, it follows that the interpretation of formulae and of results is beyond its province, unless indeed this very interpretation be itself susceptible of expression by means of the symbols which the machine employs. Thus, although it is not itself the being that reflects, it may yet be considered as the being which executes the conceptions of intelligence.
/L. F. Menabrea & A. Augusta, Countess of Lovelace, Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage, Esq., 1842/

Gadsimtu pirms Tjūringa, izcēlums mans.


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Sound: Hungry Lucy - Pulse Of The Earth: Balloon Girl

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Rīt — darba intervija, rīt, parīt un, iespējams, aizparīt — papīra rakstīšana, kaut kur turpat tumsā rēgojas sarunas ar murgukaula vāciešiem. Cik labi, ka man nav dvēseles. Būtu dvēsele — darāmās lietas krātos uz dvēseles. Tagad tās krājas uz galda1 (h/t [info]ctulhu).

 


1 Un HDD.


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Sound: Rome - Masse Mensch Material: Nachtklang

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In the future, every decision that mankind makes is going to be informed by a cognitive system like Watson, and our lives will be better for it.

/V. Rometi, IBM priekšsēdētāja un ģenerāldirektore, par esošo un topošo/


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Sound: Android Lust - The Dividing: Fall To Fragments

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D. Denets: Thank goodness!

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Sound: Grendel - Timewave Zero: Wheels In Motion
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