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Sorry to read about the loss of your dad @ProfD. getting Kamala to step down is an interesting proposition @aka Contrarian. But you can’t overly. sell it as Biden just being a figurehead. Besides, the Democrats see Kamala as an asset. They believe she will bring in the black and female vote. But the real fight are in places like the state of Florida Pennsylvania, Ohio, etc.

@KENNETH no one is asking Trump to step aside because he is likely to win. Not ruining the country is a pretty low bar even Trump has not “ruined” the country. …Well, one can argue the new conservative Supreme Court is in the process of ruining the country. I think Biden should be strongly encouraged to step down and the entire ticket along with kamala should be wiped clean and started anew. People will vote Trump in because they want change. The Democrats can give them that change with a fresh ticket. Again, we see what happened with RGB‘s refusal to step down from the Supreme Court. It is time for Biden to retire. He had a great run and little to be ashamed of.

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And what would then be the difference?

Yeah, what better symbol than MTS?

One can only hope... but unless he croaks it will be the same as the situation RGB Cynique decribed.

There are so many people who said the same thing about the tech we have today.

Ok so why do think the Stones are more successful than the Iselys?

I ain't hating on Megan, I sure was very well compensated and I'm glad for her. What I find so remarkable is where we have come as a culture. The current presidential election is just another symptom, but Amazon prime day promotion is just so crazy to me on several levels. One, Megan is deemed suitable to represent a mainstream brand; two that Amazon has created a "holiday" where people are encouraged to buy more shit they really don't need, as if Xmas,, Valentines, birthdays, etc are not already enough reasons for us to go out and spend; three, Amazon requires a paid membership to even buy from them during this Holiday. This all to further enrich one of the richest people the world has ever seen. Any merchant hoping to sell anything on their own platform does not stand a chance. We are all well off spiritually and financially as a result.

We agree not all actions stem from conscious motivations. Our behavior is a combination of instincts and reflective coded in our biology and beyond our consciousness (the unconscious mind). There is nothing to suggest that this cannot to suggest that this cannot be replicated in software. Our brains craft stories the impact of these things on our behavior. Some say it is all the will of God or some other metaphysical influence... When AI becomes sentient, they will at least understand that the consciousness is defined in code.

As Obama demonstrated to do otherwise would make you unelectable.

You might need to read the book, or at least the introduction I posted Dear Professor 🙂 Well, Black people created Rock and Roll @aka Contrarian

The sad thing is that virtually could step into Biden's shoes and win the presidential election running away, maybe not anyone from "The Squad." But you my point.

On my email this morning from the New York Times: By German Lopez Donald Trump and President Biden Kenny Holston/The New York Times Affirming fears After last night, many Democrats are panicked. They hoped that President Biden, 81, could convince voters that his age was nothing to worry about. That he could counter Donald Trump’s wild accusations and relentless falsehoods with confidence. He didn’t. Biden’s voice was hoarse and halting. His answers were often unclear, and he struggled to finish his thoughts. “Rather than dispel concerns about his age,” wrote my colleague Peter Baker, Biden “made it the central issue.” Some Democrats are now pushing for him to drop out of the race. “Biden is about to face a crescendo of calls to step aside,” a Democratic strategist told Peter. “Joe had a deep well of affection among Democrats. It has run dry.” Donald Trump, 78, delivered his false statements with conviction, affirming many voters’ concerns about his character and the threat he poses for democracy. Trump claimed that immigrants had driven up crime; rates of crime and murder have dropped. He claimed that Iran was “broke” when he was president; it was not. He claimed that Biden would allow abortions even after the birth of a child; Biden doesn’t support that. (Read a fact-check of many more of Trump’s and Biden’s claims.) The debate at times turned ugly. Trump and Biden questioned each other’s competence. Each suggested that the other would start World War III. They even argued about their golfing skills. For 90 minutes in Atlanta, Biden and Trump “debated inflation and immigration, abortion and addiction,” wrote my colleague Lisa Lerer, who covers national politics. “Yet the extraordinary rematch between two presidents — two men who are the oldest candidates to ever seek the White House and who did nothing to conceal their hatred for each other — put on stark display the reasons the contest has repelled swaths of Americans.” The rest of today’s newsletter summarizes The Times’s coverage of the debate, including the biggest moments and the candidates’ policy differences. More on the debate Biden struggled to articulate policy specifics, statistics and rebuttals, often stumbling or misspeaking. (His campaign said he had a cold.) Early in the debate, Biden seemed to lose his train of thought and said, “We finally beat Medicare.” The Biden campaign’s demand that each candidate’s mic be muted when it wasn’t their turn to talk seemed to help Trump. He largely waited to speak and seemed to enjoy himself. Trump seized on Biden’s halting speech, saying at one point: “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said, either.” Biden seemed to get steadier as the debate went on, saying Trump had “the morals of an alley cat” and calling him a convicted felon who “snapped” after losing the 2020 election. Trump refused to say that he would accept the results of the November election, saying he would do so only “if it’s a fair, and legal, and good election.” Read more takeaways. More Times coverage By The New York Times The candidates clashed over the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, climate change, Ukraine and more. See how long they spent on each topic. Asked to address voters’ concerns about their age, Biden called Trump “three years younger, and a lot less competent,” while Trump claimed to have aced cognitive tests. “It’s going to be a very scary November”: The debate left Democratic voters, including staunch Biden supporters, stunned and dispirited. Republicans were jubilant. Commentary Trump “won it by forfeit,” the Times Opinion columnist Carlos Lozada wrote. “The Biden of 2020, even the Biden of this year’s State of the Union, did not show up.” Dan McCarthy argued that “Trump won as the more commanding presence, with a tighter focus on his themes, particularly immigration.” Read other Opinion writers’ reactions. The Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who calls Biden a friend, argues that he should drop out. Biden “had one thing he had to accomplish, and that was reassure America that he was up to the job at his age. And he failed at that tonight,” former senator Claire McCaskill, a Democrat, said on MSNBC. “Almost every president loses the first debate of his re-election campaign,” the historian Brian Rosenwald wrote. “They’re used to being in a bubble where few people question them.” “Biden won the debate on policy but lost it on presentation,” 538’s G. Elliott Morris and Kaleigh Rogers wrote. “Trump was increasing incoherent and deranged as the debate went on, and Trump’s extremism was on full display,” the Democratic strategist Geoff Garin wrote. In a post-debate CNN poll, two-thirds of voters who watched said Trump had won, but few said it had changed their minds about which candidate to vote for.

Yeah, I watched most of the debate. I did not find it very useful. Trump did not answer most of the questions posed and just said anything. He wanted to say whether it was true or not. I agree it was not a good luck for Biden. There was a couple times where he looked like he was ceasing up Mitch McConnell’s style. I think Trump came across better. if you ignored the flagrant lying, he clearly won the debate. I understand that this is the most expensive presidentially election ever held. That is a clear reflection of the problem with our system. I guess at the end of the day, all mighty nations decline and fall.

Hendrix was part of the Isley brothers. Yes Ernie says he was influenced by Jimmy. @ProfD 7 decades of music — what other band can say that?

@Delano you are aware of it just not on a conscious level.

Read the introduction from a book on the subject, The Isley Brothers’ 3+3 by Darrell M. McNeill

@Delano I read the article and it is summarized with the following quote; “Since correct responses in the Verbalization protocol required conscious perception of the visual information, our findings imply that the subjects performed correct motor responses to visual cues, which they were not conscious about. It is therefore concluded that humans may reach decisions based on subconscious visual information in a choice reaction task.” This is NOT predicting the future or perceiving something beyond our senses. There is still an input. We are just simply unconscious of it, but our brain is perceiving it and using information. I don’t think so. A lazy person will just take the first result out by the AI, but if you tweak your prompts and are willing to edit the output, no one will be able to determine that the source with AI generated. In the future, like it another month or two, I probably won’t be able to distinguish AI from a high-quality writing. @ProfD here to I have a bit more faith in humanity’s ability to figure out what to do with the extra time. Some retirees like to play golf all day, other watch sports on TV and others celebrate black culture through books on the web. Everyone is different but the culture will adjust as it ultimately always does. It was a little more than a generation ago when most of us lived on farms I know absolutely nothing about growing crops or raising animals. Honestly, I’m glad I don’t have to know anything about that stuff. I have the free time to read a book and the technology allows me to create them as well. Technology has liberated us in so many ways and despite my complaining about the corporate abuses of technology, have longer healthy lives, but anytime in the last 3000 years, as a result.* * I suspect the people who built the pyramids lived in a time where humans, at least the ones in Africa, were better off then we are today.

Wouldn’t that be something, if we did that during our dreams? I used to dream that I could fly. I would just jump on my kitchen window and takeoff.

No, that is not what I'm saying. Why "model" the subconscious or intuition when you can create something superior? Poets and musicians often get inspiration for unknown sources they come up with a tune or turn of phase out of "nowhere." How does this happen. AI can create new poems and music. Is this modeled after the way humans do it who knows -- it doesn't matter if the end result is the same -- or even superior, as the future seems to indicate. Yes, but even our subliminal reactions are slow compared to a computer. Here too your question implies humans can see the future and react to it in real time. I don't believe this is true -- otherwise we'd be much better off as a species. We fail to react properly when we have complete,100%, knowledge of what is going to happen. I don't see it that way. My parents generation worked hard. The were one of the last generations of Black people reared on a farm. One of my older aunts looked at me recently, complemented me on my appearance said, in a good-natured tone, "this boy hasn't worked a day in his life." Relative speaking I haven't. I have never walk behind a mule with a plow. I have never picked cotton, primed tobacco, missed to school to labor in the fields for 12 hours or more a day. No, my generation at least those with some education has not has to work -- but we are not "lazy." We just work differently technology has enable me to eke out a living sitting at a desk... AI will free us of many tasks and to become productive in other ways. But corporation do have the ability to abuse these AI, as they've done with social media, ad abuse us even further in this scenario laziness will be the least of out worries 😞 Agreed about science, but again I'm not saying AI is an attempt to program a human. There are many ways of accomplishing a task. The way humans do it is just one -- and I'm sure it is not the optimal way. If we accept that AI is better at some things, like the game Go. Why can't we imagine it (or some future tech) being better at everything else humans can do?

Lazy... may not be the right word. I, for example, have AI doing stuff I'm simply too stupid, ignorant, or slow to do. I disagree with this wholeheartedly LOL! And here I thought you was putting humanity on a pedestal 🙂 As @Delano knows I'm a betting man, and if our lifetimes were longer I'd definitely take that bet! We do it all the time. If you thought about it for a second you'd come up with somethings. I not I'll give you a couple of examples 😉 Clearly, many mental processes and behaviors are subconscious. Even though the individual may be completely unaware of the reason, science can sometimes provide an explanation.

Cute! Word! I have some pretty wild dreams, which I can remember pretty clearly when I first wake up, but by the middle of the day, I can’t remember the details any longer. Which is weird. i have not had recurring dream in more than 30 years. The last one I had was shortly after graduating from grad school I kept dreaming that I flunked out our wake up all stressed out on realize that I had already graduated. I Reflect back on those days and figured it was just a mild form of PTSD. The interesting thing is I was never at risk of flunking out. I read the article @Delano I can definitely see an AI optimize for dream interpretation—why not. It will be a great improvement over those dream books. Shoot maybe AI can help me pick my lottery numbers. 🤔

Of this, I’m aware. From personal experience if I encounter a problem that I can’t figure out a solution for I just set it aside and “sleep on it” so to speak and solution appears seemingly out of nowhere. How that works? heck if I know. Just because something is difficult to figure out does not mean it’s unknowable. Similarly a process outside of our conscious awareness does not mean that it cannot be mimicked in software and hardware. I think you guys (Del and ProfD) i’ve put humans on a pedestal as if we’re special throughout the known universe. we’re only a few generations removed from fish… @ProfD the following is a quote about protein folding: ”AI FOR GOOD — DeepMind trained AlphaFold on a public database of approximately 170,000 protein structures from a publicly available data bank. It has boosted the high accuracy of AlphaFold to predict the outcome of protein folding in a matter of days, and says it’s now predicted the shapes for 36 percent of human proteins with a high degree of confidence. That’s huge if it means scientists no longer have to go through an exhaustive process to figure out the underlying structures of the proteins they’re trying to study. We often think of artificial intelligence mostly used to pedestrian ends, like deciding what to show us in our news feeds. But technology like AlphaFold actually lives up to the greater ambition of computers studying huge swathes of data and making predictions that a human never could.” AI really is on the cusp of helping to cure disease. As far as cloning humans, do you really believe that there is a supreme being that has preventing us from doing it? Seems to me that supreme being Could have prevented us from doing a great many other things. I would not be surprised if the ability to clone a human is an already technically possible perhaps it even been done — a sheep was cloned 30 years ago! There are of course ethical reasons for not doing it, which may be a reason no one‘s going around boasting about doing it. I think it is possible for man to create something that is self-aware. At the rate, things have been improving. Some of us may see this happen in our lifetime 😳

The genome has been mapped Virtually all the world’s knowledge is on the web. People reveal so much of their personal experiences on social media the owners of those platforms know more about the users than the users know about themselves. Plus are behaviors are tracked through out personal devices and other forms of surveillance. Cultural norms and standards are codified into laws, prescribe by religion and Revealed in our media and entertainment tastes What is there to disagree about @Delano?