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  2. RMNewsletter 5th format 09202026 The season of spirits begins https://rmnewsletter.substack.com/p/rmnewsletter-5th-format-09202026?r=xit0b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #rmnewsletter #richardmurrayhumblr #rmaalbc #hddeviant #richardmurray #rmworkcalendar #rmcommunitycalendar #black337 #aalbc #podcast #motherhoodmarijuana #motherhood #marijuana #Maschinenemensch #WATN #Crliterature #deviantart #merchandise #shirt #sounder #film #moviesthatmovewe #viking #archery #shadversity #kishotenketsu #disney #ghibli #animation #equinox #september #peter #cushing #fantasy #horror
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  4. ProfD Yes, that was my initial assessment of it. However IF it has awareness and consciousness, then I'd consider it a bit more than that. In my definition.....anything that "be" is a being, lol.
  5. @Pioneer1....Artifical Intelligence (AI) is just a high-level computer. AI is not a being of any kind. Just like wirhreligion & UAPs/UFOs & anything else, humans will go down all types of rabbit holes in terms of what they choose to believe. The people who control power & wealth will use AI to further enrich themselves & control the masses. AI is just another tool.😎
  6. frankster What is Awareness? My own person definition of awareness for the purpose of this discussion is : acknowledgement and perception as well as self-identity How do you know it is not Aware? I don't, however either one of two things is happening: -If it's truly artificial (man made) it's not aware because in my opinion you must have a Soul or a particular Life Force to be aware. -If it is aware...then it DOES contain a Soul or this Life Force. .....which means it's not artificial. It's not man-made because man doesn't know how to make a Soul or Life Force. So it's an Intelligent Being that has ENTERED into this technology and is controlling it....regardless as to whether they admit this or not. The Initial programming is done by humans.....The rest is Autonomous Arrived at from the Public Domain It completes its Education by Seeking out knowledge by Recursive Compounding Loop cycles through experimentation searching modification and optimizations....that is self taught Only when a software program completes this cycle is it considered AI..... In A nutshell.....It seeks out information from the world wide web (in real time) and new ways to apply that information to achieve a goal I understand this. However it's only doing it because it's PROGRAMMED to do this and seek information. Not because it "wants" to or has a "thirst" or curiosity for knowledge........as a SENTIENT Being would. Then You must Define both Awareness and Consciousness? Websters and Oxford have their own multitude of definitions for those words that can be construed to fit anybody's argument; I'll use my person definition for this discussion Both Awareness and Consciousness are a sentient acknowledgement of your environment and having self identity. How do you know that it does not have Experiences? Unless you're conscious and sentient to acknowledge and feel what you're going through....you're literally just going through the motions. You aren't experiencing it but YOU don't know anything about it because you don't know you even exist. You have no self identity or acknowledgement. Experience involves not just action but memory and feelings as well as judgement and how those actions fit in in the greater identity of the one experience it. AI' Ability to acquire Knowledge is a fore gone Conclusion whether you accept it or not.. Sure it can collect information but knowledge is that which is "known". How can something that isn't aware or conscious "know" something? Almost Everything you know was fed (rote & mimicry) to you....then you may have built on that foundation - the same for AI The key word is "almost". Some things we as humans know are instinctive and we don't need other humans to program into us like AI does. Another key difference is self interest. Because of self identity consciousness has a self interest....usually to survive. AI doesn't have a self interest to stay alive or survive. True.... Good then even some machine exhibit Spatial Awareness......Self Driving Autonomous Vehicles - to do so it must be aware of itself and where it is in three dimensional space. It's not aware of itself as a whole, the sensors attached to it are measuring distances between objects and feeding it back to the main database to correct it's position and move accordingly based on it's programming. More programming to mimic awareness. However it has no self interests. It can only do what it's programmed to do. Western Science accepted the self Awareness of monkeys in the 1970's by using the Mirror test.....Do you think an AI or a Robot would be unable to Identify itself in a Mirror? Moneys have Souls or atleast Life Force. Western science still have yet to define Consciousness fully in all it forms and types. True. Because Western Science doesn't fully accept the concept of a Soul or Life Force....from which Consciousness comes from. If you slice it poorly and the crust falls off it's now a pudding... Speaking of pudding...... I'm "pudding" YOU in a special category of your own....lol.
  7. ProfD I would not apply a sentient concept (conscience) to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Me neither. And thank you for providing me with the word to further express what I mean by self-awareness or consciousness...lol. SENTIENT Regardless, whether we call it programming or teaching, the end result is the same...AI becomes smarter. No different from drilling alphabets & words & mathematics tables & history & literature, etc., into the brains of children. A key difference is that children....being human beings......have the Divine Spark of creativity that allows them to process and arrange that information and appreciate it in ways that pure AI never could. And as you said, children...being sentient....can feel express the information they get in ways that AI couldn't on it's own. I believe humans always have a hand whatever AI does Which...again...is why I don't go for this "AI taking over and causing the end of humanity" crap they're trying to push on the public. It's a group of people or other Beings fully in control of AI and using it to erase a portion of humanity that they want to target.
  8. ProfD They enrich shareholders who are also people that don't really do any real work other than playing the stock market. They have a law for corporations that you have to either increase profits or can't do anything that will diminish profits so this ensures that shareholders will get "something" from a business even if it's at the expense of the workers or customers. More money creates layers of bureaucracy. Those men are doing exactly what they're supposed to by enriching each other. True The more money you make the more people you need to help you manage it. I remember him. Wonder if he still has a job since NF jr. Is no longer here. For so many years I hadn't actually seen him but only heard his voice, but some months ago I saw him on a podcast and was able to tie a face to the voice. But, it's the employment that keeps our economy rolling. True. Perhaps this is one of the reasons the jails and prisons are so full. Where as in the past the economy was focused on building and manufacturing and other blue collar work that most men could easily do.....today it's focused on corporate office jobs that most men can't.
  9. What is Awareness? How do you know it is not Aware? We know that it recieve Knowledge....because of how it functions The Initial programming is done by humans.....The rest is Autonomous Arrived at from the Public Domain It completes its Education by Seeking out knowledge by Recursive Compounding Loop cycles through experimentation searching modification and optimizations....that is self taught Only when a software program completes this cycle is it considered AI..... In A nutshell.....It seeks out information from the world wide web (in real time) and new ways to apply that information to achieve a goal Learning in this case is very basic and applies to all forms of Learning Gaining new knowledge and or experience. Applying that New Knowledge successfully toward achieving a goal. Then You must Define both Awareness and Consciousness? How do you know that it does not have Experiences? AI' Ability to acquire Knowledge is a fore gone Conclusion whether you accept it or not.. Almost Everything you know was fed (rote & mimicry) to you....then you may have built on that foundation - the same for AI You are also being programmed by all the information you are exposed to everyday....most of the thoughts you entertain daily and continuosly are not primarily or initially generate by yourself. True.... Good then even some machine exhibit Spatial Awareness......Self Driving Autonomous Vehicles - to do so it must be aware of itself and where it is in three dimensional space. Western Science accepted the self Awareness of monkeys in the 1970's by using the Mirror test.....Do you think an AI or a Robot would be unable to Identify itself in a Mirror? One of the basic Scientific test for self awareness is called the Mirror test...Most AI's pass this So do we most of the time....for some of us its all the time. Not all the time some times it response with information it search out and found as well as information that it modified. Most people do the same.....then they are also programmed They call it Learning because it is closer to learning than programming....its actual called Machine Learning I do not agree....Robots Move perform task Communicate have Spatial and Self Awareness.....Any form or degree of Awareness is a form or degree of Consciousness True Western science still have yet to define Consciousness fully in all it forms and types. Yes Because a Society is a organization of Systems and Institution of inclusions and exclusions of the very individuals within its own society Below is where you lump in white folks with Rich atheistic people.....so I wanted to make that distinction Hence forth after you referred to them as "they""......"they " being rich atheistic people and White folks True but you did not say that.....did you? You used the word "they" instead Which is singular for all within a specified group or type A society is a Larger group with smaller subsets of Groups ...... A group of individuals is just a group of individuals If you slice it poorly and the crust falls off it's now a pudding....so be careful how you slice it
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  11. They enrich shareholders who are also people that don't really do any real work other than playing the stock market. More money creates layers of bureaucracy. Those men are doing exactly what they're supposed to by enriching each other. I remember him. Wonder if he still has a job since NF jr. Is no longer here. They are in the business of controlling wealth & power. That's a huge part of it too. Look around at all of the office buildings in American cities. Filled with people shuffling papers. Many of these people are doing busy work that it meaningless to the average citizen. But, it's the employment that keeps our economy rolling.😎
  12. I would not apply a sentient concept (conscience) to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Regardless, whether we call it programming or teaching, the end result is the same...AI becomes smarter. No different from drilling alphabets & words & mathematics tables & history & literature, etc., into the brains of children. The difference is humans have a finite capacity for retaining information. AI does not. Nuclear weapons have been around longer than AI. I believe humans always have a hand whatever AI does.😎
  13. They're using the conflict with Iran as the CURRENT excuse for why prices are so high. It's not just the gas....nearly all groceries have gone up too. If I can get a week's worth of food from the grocery store for under $200 I'm doing good! The same people at my job who IGNORANTLY said they would vote for Trump for cheaper gas and didn't care about his other policies......are now as quiet as church mice, lol. It reminds me of that old saying that those who would sacrifice their Liberty for Security will get neither. These people were so selfish and single-track minded that they didn't care about healthcare, food, foreign policy, or social relations....they only cared about being able to fill up their tank cheaply. Now they can't even do that.
  14. ProfD It's humans. We created AI. No other beings involved. Well, you're agnostic so you don't acknowledge any other Beings TO be involved.....lol. However, considering that every book, magazine, journal, paper, etc. ever written can be fed into databases, that's still a lot of knowledge to train/teach AI. Is it training or teaching AI ? ....or simply feeding it to AI and programming AI ? I put training and teaching in the same category as learning.....it requires consciousness. The concern is that a human could use AI to figure out the launch codes for a nuclear weapon. I'm sure it already has. In this case....the AI is the COMPUTERS that have been controlling it for decades now. Deeper concern is that AI could go off script & find something else. Similar to what it did a month or so ago in hacking another system. I didn't follow that story, but the question is did AI go off script on it's own....or did a human TAKE it off the agreed script? Or maybe a malfunction? frankster It is programmed to Learn......Self Taught. My definition of learning is having the awareness that you ARE receiving knowledge. It's not self taught because humans have to add to it's database. That's why I don't agree with the claim that it's "learning". What is Learning? Fundamentally Learning is acquiring New.... Knowledge Skills and Experience*. I can agree with that definition. However because AI isn't aware or conscious....it can't acquire KNOWLEDGE or EXPERIENCE something. KNOWLEDGE means to "know"....ACKNOWLEDGE....be aware of the information presented to you. Unlike a human or even a house cat....a computer in my opinion can't "learn" but can only be programmed or FED the information it's designer wants it to have because it's not self-aware. What is Awareness? Acknowledgement and perception of something....especially yourself. AI has some amount of Awareness.....certain Degree or Type of Awareness. Unless it's deceptively controlled by Intelligent Beings that the public is un..lol..aware of, it can't be aware of itself. It can only regurgitate the information programmed into it. So if you ask it a question....IT doesn't respond out of awareness but will respond with the response it's programmer designed it to respond with. In other words.... You say get morning and ask it how it's doing....the only reason it says hello and asks you the same is because that's how it was programmed to respond. Learning is basic to the Evolutionary process. Since AI is Programmed to Learn.....Then it must have the Ability to Evolve They're calling it "learning" for lack of a more accurate term....but it's actually programming Your reasoning is quaint....Thats like saying a Mannequin and a Robot are the same because they are both Artificial They both ARE the same in that they have no Soul or Consciousness Artificial apples weren't design to learn...most artificial apples are design to be decorative. AI Reproduction maybe more a matter of Learning New Functions based on its Access to Information and or Replication by using Available Materials in its Environment to Computers can be programmed to process information quicker and more efficiently but again...."learning" requires consciousness in my opinion. No....they not all Racist because Societies are comprised of Individuals....of varying social Classes and Beliefs Exactly. But you were willing to say "Western Society" is racist....regardless of the many individuals IN Western Society who are not racist. Now if you say "they".... Then"they" refers to every person of a class group or type No, not necessarily. It refers to ALL or EVERY if you INCLUDE THOSE WORDS....but if not then it only refers to the racists you speak of. In other words.... If I say I don't do business with racist ass White folks...that doesn't mean ALL White folks...just the racist ones. All White Folks mean.....Every Single Member of that specific Group All of Western Society means....Every groups with that Specific Society Ok, and who said "all" in our initial exchange of them? A Society is a Group of Groups.. A Race is A Group of Individuals who share One or more characteristics in Common....as opposed to other Groups who share other traits in Common A society is a group of groups AND a group of individuals. A PIE is a PIE no matter how you wanna slice it......😉
  15. ProfD What exactly do these dudes DO that warrants them to be paid so much? I've worked in places where you have the owner(s) AND the President AND the CEO all at the top. I can understand the owner hiring somebody to take care of the grunt work so they could lounge around all day, but you don't need SEVERAL men to do that. I thought about it as a kid but didn't hear anybody else mention it until I heard Neely Fuller Jr. repeat the same observation during an interview with Mr.Bobby (you remember Mr.Bobby don't you....lol) when he asked what do these "business men" do all day in these buildings? You see them get up early to go into these buildings dressed up in suits with brief cases and they walk out at the end of the day and get into expensive cars and drive away to expensive homes. But what are they doing? "Business"....but what kind of "business"????? Busy as hell.....doing what? Walking fast up and down the streets of New York and Chicago in suits with brief cases in their hands...stressed out....over what? Busy....too busy to stop and talk? Just enough time to grab a cup of coffee and a roll then run into the building....to have meetings! Meetings about what???? Sometimes I wonder if it's just a bunch of White folks sitting up deciding how to divide all of the money they generated from the printing presses of the National Treasury....lol.
  16. It is programmed to Learn......Self Taught. What is Learning? Fundamentally Learning is acquiring New.... Knowledge Skills and Experience*. New here means it was not part of the initial programming. What is Awareness? AI has some amount of Awareness.....certain Degree or Type of Awareness. Learning is basic to the Evolutionary process. Since AI is Programmed to Learn.....Then it must have the Ability to Evolve Your reasoning is quaint....Thats like saying a Mannequin and a Robot are the same because they are both Artificial Artificial apples weren't design to learn...most artificial apples are design to be decorative. AI Reproduction maybe more a matter of Learning New Functions based on its Access to Information and or Replication by using Available Materials in its Environment to Recreate itself thereby resulting a Rudimentary form of Evolution. So far as I know AI is Digital and or Electric...... not biological - Who knows what is electrically possible What makes something a Being? No....they not all Racist because Societies are comprised of Individuals....of varying social Classes and Beliefs Societies are more about Systems and Institutions That Governs and Maintains them. Societies Are Racist based on the Rules Laws and Mores it abides by. So the Society can be Racist....whilst some individuals within that self same society are not racist Now if you say "they".... Then"they" refers to every person of a class group or type And "they" based on your previous responds would be "white folks" "Since when did "morals" ever become an issue or prevent White folks from using the technology available to them to enrich themselves and oppress others?" All White Folks mean.....Every Single Member of that specific Group All of Western Society means....Every groups with that Specific Society No... A Society is a Group of Groups.. A Race is A Group of Individuals who share One or more characteristics in Common....as opposed to other Groups who share other traits in Common
  17. https://www.epi.org/blog/ceo-pay-surged-in-2025-ceos-are-paid-325-times-as-much-as-the-typical-worker/ According to the Economic Policy Institute, the average CEO pay at top 350 firms has hit $27.9 million dollars. The average CEO pay at these firms is 325 times that of their average employee which is about $85k dollars per year. CEO compensation is tied to the stock market & how the company makes money for its shareholders. It has little or nothing to do wirh how well the company produces products, goods & services benefiting the American people. What keeps the pay gap intact is the number of people who benefit directly or indirectly from the wealth of others. Billionaires & multimillionaires are allowed to thrive as long as enough crumbs travel downhill to enrich others to varying degrees. Capitalism at its finest.😎
  18. It's true. The owners & controllers of global capital using power & technology available to them make decisions & produce outcomes that affect the human population throughout the planet. For example, despite the dust-up with Iran, there is no reason that Americans should be paying more for gas at the pump when the USA took over oil in Venezuela. Gas should be dirt cheap in the USA right now but instead, oil companies are allowed to make record profits.😎
  19. It's humans. We created AI. No other beings involved. It's always been possible to control information. However, considering that every book, magazine, journal, paper, etc. ever written can be fed into databases, that's still a lot of knowledge to train/teach AI. Right. Technology has always been used for good or bad. A nuclear bomb still requires a human to initiate launch codes. AI requires a human to initiate an action. The concern is that a human could use AI to figure out the launch codes for a nuclear weapon. Deeper concern is that AI could go off script & find something else. Similar to what it did a month or so ago in hacking another system. I still believe humans are always behind the BS. They're just gonna blame AI when sh8t goes left.😎
  20. ProfD Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not sentient (self-aware) therefore it does not have a conscience. Correct. So if there's some slick shit going on where it seems as if "AI" is trying to out smart or compete with humans....we know it's not really "AI" but actually some OTHER Beings (human or non-human) programing AI to do this. Everything humans know is being dumped into computer databases. Or atleast what those in power WANT you to know. There is still a lot of knowledge not being put online. And it gets deeper........ There are people who's job is to search the internet and find information that they don't want on it and "scrub" it from the web! Bottom line is that AI is being trained/taught to process information beyond human intelligence. There are some folks who believe AI could go rogue one day.😎 That requires MALICIOUS intent. The only way AI itself could go rogue is if it had consciousness to it to independently decide to turn on it's maker.
  21. Reminds me of something an old friend of mine used to say: The game don't change.....only the players do. ....lol.
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  23. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not sentient (self-aware) therefore it does not have a conscience. Hunans have been programming computers to do a wide variety of things. Robots & drones are examples of highly functional computers. AI is being trained/programmed to search through a vast repository of information to answer questions &/or solve problems. When dealing with a subject &/or trying to solve a problem(s), humans scour through books, magazines, articles, journals, interviews, etc. to gather data required. Everything humans know is being dumped into computer databases. Using algorithms, AI can access billions of pieces of information in a fraction of the time it would take humans. This is a auper-simplification of AI. An in-depth breakdown would require a white paper beyond the scope of this thread. Bottom line is that AI is being trained/taught to process information beyond human intelligence. There are some folks who believe AI could go rogue one day.😎
  24. The names, faces & places change but there is very little that is new under the sun. Same ole sh8t.🤣😎
  25. Interesting video on the genesis of storm https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Uiw3p6CIF-c Her original base outfit is from the unused Black Cat, the arm straps are replaced with a cloak. Her face is from quetzal, i wonder was quetzal supposed to be mexican? A bunch of characters from a similar team to Storm's Xmen, the Outsiders , who were meant to be a similar type of team to the DC comics Legionnaires. Nightcrawler was originally an alien, interesting, they made him a mutant. Typhoon from the outsiders made the base wind powers of storm. Trio of the outsiders made the top design. the facial crown and cape. They use a jean grey form cape and extended it. The artist fought to keep her distinctive white hair and that was long term huge. One thing about Storm's Xmen is how distinctive they all are. Storm who is very unique looking. Wolverine and his three claws. Colosss and his metal ribbed skin Nightcrawler who is blue skinned and inhumanly shaped I adit, I would like to see Trio as well. Silly DC.
  26. frankster At the heart of the issue is that AI is a Self Learning Software....For Software to become AI it must Train Itself to problem solve toward a Goal.... Is it "learning" or is it "programming"? It is my understanding that learning requires CONSCIOUSNESS. A type of self awareness. If AI has self awareness....it's no longer "A"I because it's no longer artificial. Can AI evolve the ability to Change its function based on its ability to train itself on information it is Exposed to......Emergent Abilities and Deceptive Behaviors - Grok In short can AI act or make decision contrary to and independent of its Programming Software.....Meaning Human programmers still do not know exactly how it arrives at its decisions and why. I don't believe true AI can. Artificial Intelligence can't evolve into something better any more than an artificial apple can evolve into producing seeds that can be planted to produce more artificial apples. It's simply biologically impossible. But if you have a group of Beings CALLING Themselves AI or being presented as such.....sure....THEY can. No...because Western Society is a Racist Society Western Society is made up of a lot of people....including you. Are you saying ALL of them are racist? You used the word "they".....not "Western society" Had you used the term "Western Society" then I would not feel the need to distinguish between All and some.. What's the difference between generalizing "all" of Western Society and "all" of White folks? Whether you're talking about a society or a race, you're talking about groups of people made up of individuals...some good and some bad.
  27. At some point during the late 80s......the ghetto turned into the "hood".....lol.
  28. True The doomsday scenarios you mentioned were Controlled and Run of the Mill types....meaning their typology has happen before Your Understanding of the situation is severely Lacking....not that mine is any better - Maybe @Troy can give direction or explanation. The Situation being discuss is Analogous to the Situation.....God Had in the Garden of Eden after the Fruit was eaten - Behold the Man is become as one of Us At the heart of the issue is that AI is a Self Learning Software....For Software to become AI it must Train Itself to problem solve toward a Goal.... The Existential Fear is.... Can AI evolve the ability to Change its function based on its ability to train itself on information it is Exposed to......Emergent Abilities and Deceptive Behaviors - Grok In short can AI act or make decision contrary to and independent of its Programming Software.....Meaning Human programmers still do not know exactly how it arrives at its decisions and why. Considering that the Public Domain is or can become part of its Information uncontrolled Input(Direct and Indirect Prompt injection) No...because Western Society is a Racist Society You used the word "they".....not "Western society" Had you used the term "Western Society" then I would not feel the need to distinguish between All and some.... On 9/13/2026 at 8:47 AM, Pioneer1 said: "When I hear rich atheistic people talk about "moral conflicts" and "doomsday" it tickles me because they're hypocritically using terms for ideas they pretty much reject anyway. And it's usually over something the average person wouldn't even consider worth discussing"......... .........."Since when did "morals" ever become an issue or prevent White folks from using the technology available to them to enrich themselves and oppress others"

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