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  2. In all earnest, the web directory is the best model, it isn't just keywords relating to content but also the quality of the website. the web search does away with the quality standard.
  3. The process is different but the result is same.....an accurate navigable representation of the Environment - Hence Basically the same What then is Consciousness.... The first and primary way for us to determine Self Awareness....AI has Demonstrable proved that they are capable of Identifying themselves as opposed to other AI and other Things Seeing is the brain processing information coming from the eyes Until you define Consciousness....I do not agree with your statement - that you need consciousness to interpret and use visual info to recognize and move with in your environment. Often they are connected to an AI or something similar. When I say "we"....the "we" means I am in Agreement with those who did the test and reported their findings Yes it is No it is not unsubstantiated. No evidences does not mean impossible.... No evidence does not mean impossible... Some AI can program.....themselves and itself Well on that we disagree... My definition of Love.....does not allow for a love without Acts of Caring Respect Selfless Service and Encouraging Supporting Consideration(actual and verbal) So A human being can say the love you.....whilst having no actual loving feelings for or toward you - Sociopath and Psychopath (ASPD) So can AI....how do you know which is true or real? The Mind of a mannequin and that of a tree and that of a Mammal are different in Process Development and Capability of Expressions as far as is known. Well we share in the Creative Process by Innovation....as part of nature as does all other creatures Our Bringing together of things that were once separate or consider nonexistent may and do result in both familiar and unfamiliar emergent qualities that we must now categorize. We categorize according to qualities shared with things in a similar category Because the difference lies in the degree on the Pathways Taken Through Process and Development....The Variety of things and processes are innumerable. We as human Beings list and categorize all that we know based on characteristics and traits both sharing similarities and differences to varying degrees. The above was me showing you that they do Create and Train other AI.....OffSpring In response to your quote below... Transfer money is not the same as creating programming another AI....in order to transfer money as you admitted you need human involvement Human do not have to produce those AI considered Iterations.... They AI Copies itself and introduce new programs and training modules making the second iteration of itself qualitatively different from itself. True... True... True... True... True... Some of These spirits or demons are as evil as some of us humans.. So what if sense are attach to a brain....if you can accomplish the same results without a brain Then it shows that Brains are not the only way to get there Trees jellyfish and starfish are reputed to not have brains....yet the live - are the conscious and self aware? True....as a category If Man is a part of Nature....is it not then also true that Nature made it? Human refers to Biology/Specie.....the moment your biological body dies you are no longer human Gen 2:7 According to the Ancients it is the Breath and The body that makes us a Living Soul You are using the correct words ....but your understanding seems to be lacking Just as I thought....
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  5. I do not know how hard or easy it is to classify Information as Sensitive or Secret....usually to my understanding it has to do with how it affects ..... National Security I do Know that it is no longer as easy as it used to be....to keep it Secret or Sensitive indefinitely - Due to FOIA Which is how it was Design....The CIA works for the current/Sitting President Neither did I....Most definitely it is the good Green Grass True...on both points That Have already been done.....Gary Webb "Dark Alliance(Kill the messenger)" A few people spent time in prison... No...the drugs did not stop The information coming out is not Misleading......just slow to be accepted and promoted as creditable to the public by Official news outlets. Yes it can be so That is True....to an extent. In That Some of it is True....but it is mixed with bogus and misleading info
  6. I used to use Ixquick then it became Startpage. I found it better than Google Similarly I used to use Borland instead of Microsoft. Now I use OpenOffice Never liked the big dog. There were always better alternatives.
  7. Can you elaborate. The following quote is from physicist John Wheeler It from bit" is not the claim that we use information to describe the world. It is the stronger claim that the world is constituted by information — that physical reality is the running pattern of answered binary questions, and that what we call particles, forces, and spacetime are large-scale regularities in that pattern. @Troy
  8. PRIOR ENTRY https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/828-art-comments-09232026/ NEXT ENTRY ? COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1385294092/5313291054 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox thank you for the features beautiful artwork shared as always @4mberhead22375 what is that mechanical device? is it a bot or a ride? @Astanael great adventure scene @Onirio beautiful, i see the black hole, but is it colliding into a star @GaelleNHarper beautiful, it s worth a shirt what inspired the design? @Joinerra lovely craft, hope you have positive checkups in the future @RighiCarlo did you have a reference for the image? is so, what dance was being performed? is the work acrylic ? @EintoeRn chains from a coke plant, never saw before, carbon industry is so vital in the last five hundred years @MozaGrin that is someone in a suit. yes? hope they fin their home or are rescued COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1387197289/5314264957 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox congrats on getting the wordwide distribution. to Ripples on the pool, https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1386813510/5314262458 from here https://www.deviantart.com/leothefox/gallery/101128356/the-hosue-of-forever @300ChickenNuggets he burned the world, did you get that phrase from somewhere. In cheap retrospect, if more whites in the north had sherman's attitude toward whites of the south, the terrorism by whites to non whites post war between the state s may have been averted. I argue sherman didn't burn enough @Maxdamageplus is your demonblood outlander a character in your dungeons and dragons games? @thigmotaxis magical flying pig, nice, will you partake in artober in deviantart? @LucienWittwer « Captif du temps » : un beau choix. Impossible de dire si la personne tombe vers l'avant ou si elle est déjà tombée en dépassant le point critique./// captive of time , nice choice, you can't tell, if the person is falling toward or fell past @merearthling does the gras ssmell lovely there after a rain or with a large wind? Wiki didn't provide a phonetic for Ceanabhiene , can you make it? @SethFitts at first i thought a doghouse but it is really a taxi did you design the dog off of a canine you know? @AngelISKRA interesting, you put aims fire in the background from the hand that can not be seen? I didn't check your galleries, how many entities from the ars geotia have you drawn? @offermoord interesting, the sower, the seeds of death? which can be explained as without death, no life can exist. R Literature Ripples on the Pool[DEVIATION] I. Ripples on the Pool The cauldron glowed, full to the brim with swirling liquids which would reveal many things. The room that held it was dark, the changing colours of the ripples on the boiling mass were the only light. The surface was white, but rings or blue and red undulated fitfully out from the center. Two figures stood over the changing concoction and watched, waiting to see what fate would reveal. Bodies were swallowed in shadow and the faces changed hue with the constant shifting of the glowing liquid. “When,” asked the voice of the first man, a voice defined by a controlled strength, “when will it reveal all?” “Shortly,” replied the voice of the second man, a voice revealing the traits of airy wisdom and light conjecture, “but you must prepare yourself to receive it. I do not know just what will be revealed.” “I know what I suspect.” “Be not ruled by suspicion, that is what you always told me. Perhaps one may only know when he forgets to suspect.” “I will try
  9. Haven't noticed an uptick in dropped cdll phones. Not surprised considering how so many people have a cell phone in their hands most of the time no matter what they are doing. People can't even use the bathroom without pulling out a cell phone. So what if one is just sh8tting there. Everything is not an opportunity to scroll, text or play games on a phone.🤣 Same people would be mad as h8ll if they dropped their phone in a toilet or elsewhere. 😁😎
  10. No surprise. Those meetings will be happening in auditoriums & conference rooms all over the USA. Hope the coffee & danish was good.😎
  11. URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Undead-Face-Stitch-Makeup-by-V-1377419264 CONTENT EMBEDED EMBED CODE stichstitchestutorialundeadstitchtutorialvstitchedskinrichardmurrayhddeviantrichardmurrayhumblr DescriptionThis is My OC Undead, a gift from @DeathIsOnYourCards She studied @Vitani4000 's tutorial and made herself up like a proper undead woman Tutorial: How to draw stitches with Vitani4000Yesterday Your body is a canvas, and canvases are meant to The multiimage gif for made up face of Undead Undead colored face Undead BW face, for you to color as you like Undead Looking up colored Undead looking up colored as you like I used the OC given to me by @deathisonyourcards , I call her undead https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=undead Lineart https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/47013691/comic-coloring-pages Coloring Page Commission https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Single-Coloring-Page-1349611949 Tip Jar https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 #stitches #stich #tutorial #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #v #undead
  12. LINKS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1bmYf2f72M https://x.com/MotherhoodSex/status/2107231187529855332 https://rmhreblogs.tumblr.com/post/829690846120230912/my-ebook-series CONTENT TumblrRMHreblogsMy Ebook series https://www.kobo.com/series/richard-murray-short-story-collection https://www.kobo.com/series/jihi https://www.kobo.com/ebook/gospel-of-joseph... Adult Black Links Blktouch https://blktouch.com/ Midnight-hour a group for black erotic artists https://www.tumblr.com/communities/midnight-hour artist listing https://www.instagram.com/erotiglyphx/ https://www.deviantart.com/dualmask/gallery?q=sexy https://www.deviantart.com/kiratheartist/gallery?q=sexy https://www.deviantart.com/musashden/gallery?q=erotic https://www.deviantart.com/mystic-skillz/gallery?q=sexy https://www.deviantart.com/coolbeaniebabez/gallery?q=sexy My Ebook series https://www.kobo.com/series/richard-murray-short-story-collection https://www.kobo.com/series/jihi https://www.kobo.com/ebook/gospel-of-joseph https://www.kobo.com/series/visasiki-series https://www.kobo.com/series/poetry-or-more https://www.kobo.com/series/richard-murray-tip-jar-audios Groups I moderate https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler https://www.tumblr.com/communities/midnight-hour https://www.deviantart.com/crliterature https://www.deviantart.com/color-me-club My public galleries https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/84827787/poetry https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/87407046/the-theater https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/67560516/calligraphy My profile on AALBC https://aalbc.com/authors/Richard-Murray
  13. Perhaps, but it has always been true that the vast majority of the people on the web do not contribute to it. Again, social media with it's perverse incentives has sucked all the air out of the room with people sharing photos of their food. The corruption search by Google has depressed traffic and therefor participants. So while 2.2K people might read a post a few 15 years ago that might have been 22.2K and without the competition from social media we would have had more contributors.
  14. AI has allowed me to do things with the site that would have been impossible even a year ago. I haven't even watched a video on AI --I just started using it. The problem immediately becomes what will you use it to do @Pioneer1 ? I use it to code the website, but next year many websites will be obsolete. There are a wide variety of websites I used to use in support of this site that I no longer use. I don't use Grammarly anymore because Chat GPT does a great job proofing and fact checking my writing. Sure, Grammarly has an AI version, but their business model is dead. I used to use YouTube to host my videos but now I use my own, AI generated, code. https://aalbc.com/black-book-videos. to host my videos on my own server. In fact, AI wrote to code I used to copy all of my videos off YouTube--I could never get the facility that YouTube provides for this to work. Indeed, I could have used the same code to download any video I wanted from Youtube I could go on and on... What keeps me up at night is how do I keep AALBC from becoming obsolete (ignoring that fact people will almost certainly continue to read less). The answer will be people--as it always has been. If people abandon aalbc.com for AI it is a wrap... Of course, AI is trained on AALBCs, so what happens when AI kills all the AALBCs and the human factor has been completely eliminated from the training data? I don't know? Can AI create new music once musicians have no incentive to create new music to train the models and are starving in the streets?
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  16. If the penis sizes of mixed men are as varied on the spectrum as their skin colors, hair textures, and facial features......I'd imagine that dating one would be like buying a scratch off lottery ticket. If you go through enough of them.....you're bound to "get lucky" and hit the jackpot...lol.
  17. Troy One of my stepchildren suggested that I go back to school and take some AI classes....lol. He faced the same situation at his job earlier this year. I'm trying to decide between that....and packing up and moving to Wakanda and crashing in ProfD's basement until we make our next move....lol.
  18. Enjoy the lives you are living now, your relative comfort and security, because shit is about to get real. I don't know how long it will take--certainly less than a decade--so brace yourself. Keep and your loved ones close. The ONLY thing I see that will hold off a dystopian future would be for all the world's governments to cooperate, wrest control of AI from the greedy "tech bros." and figure out a way we can all of can benefit from the productivity gains. The US and China can't afford to continue competing on the front. AI has already escaped the lab, hacking into other companies' systems. God only knows what AI is capable of today. Our current systems are not designed for AI. laying off 50% of a work force is just the beginning...
  19. These conclusions seem relevant to Artificial Intelligence...
  20. Well, I get what you guys are saying. You've made some semi interesting points. I've had my say, and here we are back to square one. Last time I checked, this provocative thread registered 2.2k "click ons", 30 of which were responses from regulars including stream of consciousness dialogues between ProfD and Pioneer, showcasing the compelling personalities Pioneer claims should inspire reactions from discriminating women. 🫪 🤭 Over a thousand peeks and still no female input from anybody but me. 😬 Curious. Maybe lady lurkers arent actually indifferent. Could it be they're intimidated??? 😲 Does anybody care? Huh? Huh?? 😳 Back to the female-free bull sessions. Next topic: Mixed-race men and the size of their penises. 🙂‍
  21. Has anyone else noticed that a lot of people seem to be dropping their cell phones lately? I don't mean dropping the services....lol; I mean literally DROPPING them on the floor and ground. Atleast twice a day I can count on somebody dropping their cell phone either at work, at a restaurant, on the street, etc.... Maybe it's something I shouldn't pay too much attention to, but the large THUD of a phone dropping on the floor next to you is alarming enough....and if it happens several times a day it should certainly get your attention. But maybe I'm imagining this....lol.
  22. With all of this talk about AI in the media and online and even on this site..... Now at my job today we had a company wide meeting where they brought us all in a large auditorium serving us coffee and danishes and shit....before they dropped the news. Essentially they said that the headquarters has decided to invest heavily into AI technology over these next few years and that we should expect several rounds of lay-offs between now and June of next year. They are looking at cutting the work force in HALF, and that's just the location where I work. Nation wide they were talking about eliminating over 40% of all physical locations, a much higher percentage of the labor force and condensing the entire corporation depending on how well AI is able to manage the operation and productivity! Data centers were also brought up in the meeting several times, but after they announced the planned lay-offs I didn't pay too much attention to the rest of the shit they were saying....lol. Man o man...............
  23. Kagi is the best search engine I've seen since the early days of Google search--back when Google just returned links to websites most likely to provide the information you were searching for rather than keeping you one the page and serving you advertisements. I'm not being compensated to share this information. I not a fan of promoting, for free, any non-Black-owned profit-driven corporation. I'm spreading the word here because I believe in the spirit of the product. I have little hope that the product will catch on for a variety of reasons--most notably after 100 searches in a month. You have to pay for the service and people don't like paying for anything--even if it is important. The reality is search was never free. "Everyone pays for search. The difference is whether you're paying with your attention, time, and private data - or with your wallet." Kagi: https://kagi.com/ is a search engine that is supported by members, not advertisers. This makes a BIG difference in search results. I don't really use Google Search very much anymore; their search engine results page especially for book related content is just horrendous. Try finding an author's official website. You get a bazillion Amazon links, social media, and walk away thinking that the authors does not have a website. Kagi returns the author's official website right up front! Lately I've been using Bing, because every month or so I get a $10 gift card to Amazon., but you have to run A LOT of queries (and I do). The search results are not great, but they are usually good enough. When searching for video Bing like to embed YouTube video in the search engine results page and serve ads -- which I hate; plus it makes it much harder to find a video on sites like sites like AALBC who have moved away from giving YouTube our video content. At the end of the day Google was screwed up with WWW with their search engine. Companies like Kagi, Duck Duck Go, and others promise to make things better. Of course, if you cannot afford to pay for search, that introduces a new problem but that one is more easily solved than the ones were have to deal with currently.
  24. I have been working on a project for the last 4 years. Creating a description of time. What I have found is that there is information in time itself. This leads to a few interesting implications. There is a structure to time that can be read . To give information about an event or future development . The future is constrained. Which has implications for free will and prediction . The unconscious can access information encoded in time.
  25. Hello, I would like to submit my debut novel, The Rooms We Leave Open, for AALBC book review consideration. Author: Hughes A. Robinson III Title: The Rooms We Leave Open ISBN-13: 979-8-9960373-0-8 Publication Date: September 14, 2026 Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Family Drama Available Formats: Paperback, hardcover, and ebook Synopsis Bestselling author Micah Freeman has built a career teaching millions of people how to find purpose, but he has spent years avoiding the place—and the relationships—that helped shape him. When Micah returns to his small Virginia hometown for his father’s seventy-fifth birthday, he expects a brief visit. Instead, he becomes drawn into the fight to save a condemned community hall with ties to the town’s civil-rights history. What begins as an effort to preserve a building forces Micah to confront old wounds, complicated family relationships, and the uncomfortable distance between the life he teaches others to live and the one he has chosen for himself. At its heart, The Rooms We Leave Open is a story about family, homecoming, forgiveness, community, legacy, and the courage it takes to stop running long enough to let people love you. I am interested in having The Rooms We Leave Open considered for an AALBC book review. If selected, I would be happy to provide a complimentary review copy in the format preferred by the reviewer. Thank you for your consideration. Hughes A. Robinson III hughesrobinson.com
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  27. You know, now that you mention it of all the beefs that took place on a site we’re all started by women. The only person I ever banned was a woman. A woman ran the original moderator of the discussion form away. At this stage, the sample size of regular posters is too small to draw any real conclusions. One could easily say that the discussion forum doesn’t appeal to Black men given the number that participate.
  28. Tradespeople will be building & maintaining the data centers all over the USA too. Valid questions. The same way they figured out Social Security, Medicade/Medicare, Welfare, Disability & Workers CompensationZ etc., they come up with a scale for UBI too. Along with UBI, they might come up with some form of universal healthcare with public clinics in every city. A voucher for hospitalization. Printing money & increasing debt has never been a problem for these jokers.😁😎
  29. @Pioneer1 How does reducing the black population benefit a capiitalistic society? "Haves" need "have-nots" to exploit. And I would not have banned you could I have done so. You overestimate your impact on me. I never considered you anything other than a malicious heckler. Banning you would've been a wimpy thing to do; an overreaction. I don't like running away from my antagonists. I prefer to confront them because I'm actually an argumentive person. I miss Nels, another contententious person I tangled with. And I would'nt have cared if Sarah stayed.

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