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wayfriend wrote:MIT scientists created an AI-powered 'psychopath' named Norman

Don't they know it's going to find a way into a human body, escape MIT, and wreak havoc in the world?

What's the point of movies if we never learn from them?

MIT has explored other projects that incorporate the dark side of data and machine learning. In 2016, some of the same Norman researchers launched "Nightmare Machine," which used deep learning to transform faces from pictures or places to look like they're out of a horror film. The goal was to see if machines could learn to scare people.

Hashi Lebwohl wrote:There are no laws of physics.

That should simply matters somewhat.

Hashi Lebwohl wrote:There are no laws of physics.

That should simply matters somewhat.

samrw3 wrote:Interesting read about dark matter hurricane. Maybe we will obtain some answers about dark matter.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scien ... ocid=ientp

"As our solar system speeds through the outer reaches of the Milky Way . it flies through dark matter at around 230 kilometres per second (around 143 miles per second). A study published Nov. 7 and lead by researchers at University of Zaragoza suggests that the dark matter present in the stream may be traveling at double that speed...giving us a much better chance of detecting dark matter"
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Because the S1 stellar stream travels directly through the solar system, the dark matter hurricane is likely to cross the path of various detectors spread across the globe set up to detect these hypothetical particles. The study concedes that the current iterations of WIMP detectors will likely not see dark matter from the S1 stream. However, those are geared to detect "axionic dark matter", based on a hypothetical particle known as a axion."

Skyweir wrote:https://neurobanter.com/2017/04/19/evid ... s-sort-of/

This is fascinating .. I dont understand it all, so if anyone has a specific interest in counsciousness and numerology please translate and interpret.

I gather that one of the findings or implications is that similar neural activity was detected in waking brains as in dreaming brains .. REM sleep .. in fact the suggestion might be that brain activity is higher.

In the link provided by Skyweir was wrote:Overall, our study adds to a growing body of work - much of which has been led by Carhart-Harris and colleagues - that is now revealing the brain-basis of the psychedelic state. Our data show that a simple measure of neuronal signal diversity places the psychedelic state 'above' the normal waking state, in comparison to the lower diversity found in sleep and anesthesia. Taking this work forward stands to do much more than enhance our understanding of psychedelics. It may help expose how, why - and for whom - psychedelics may help alleviate the appalling suffering of psychiatric disorders like depression. And in the end, it may help us figure out how our normal everyday conscious experiences of the world, and the self, come to be.
After all, everything we experience - even when stone cold sober - is just a kind of 'controlled hallucination.' Our perceptions are just the brain's "best guess" of what's going on, reined in by sensory signals.