Author: Richard K Collins
The Internet Foundation
Internet policies, global issues, global open lossless data, global open collaboration
The Peace Talks Were a Trap—Too Bad They Invited a Human General Sci Fi HFY Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY8wVf4D0Hg In the world today, not only does one have to manage one country, and all its parts. But, all of them, in any combinations, plus all the systems and networks and common issues. It is not hard, just
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Aliens Mocked the Human Mechanic in the Hangar — Until He Activated the Forbidden Engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b58l1Gdeqn0 When Joe Weber showed me his lab and his dynamic gravitational wave detector, I asked him what he wanted to use gravitational waves for. What was his purpose? He said, without hesitation, it was for 3D gravitational communication. Today
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The Class Was Silent Until the Human Asked, “Why Are Your Warships Missing Armor Here?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzrEyGyr1zk The same applies to manufacturing, finance, economics, marketing, politics, mathematics, technology, trade, research, or any conflict over resources or ideas or goals or ideals. When groups abandon morality or niceties, things get dirty and mean and tough. Sci-Fi Zone
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The Human Janitor Cleaned in Silence — Until the Alien King Asked Him for Advice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeLZUlu-ITo “political considerations” – “scientific research” personal choices of a few when knowledge and memories are stored only in human (organic) brains. With AIs the game changes. With universal education, the game changes. With universal communication and sharing, the game
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The Empire Banned Humans from the Battlefield—So Earth Sent One Farmer with a Shovel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNZtsUrN03Q Most every day now I see stories like this that force me to re-examine my basic assumptions of what a few ordinary humans and intelligent entities can do. I care for the 8.2 Billion humans and all related species. And,
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He Doubted Her Kill Count So She Handed Him a Thumb Drive and Said, “Start with Folder One” | HFY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhuOvFIzcmg “Every institution is just a collection of rules and procedures run by people” is true and you used that well. In the world now, nothing is too complex with human care and persistence. Using
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Well, “many people” could be 100 Million and that is small compared to 8.2 Billion humans. But I think the ones who hold that opinion are countable in a few thousand at most, maybe 100,000. But it does not matter. The human species is large enough to have completely separated “team” taking independent viewpoints to
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Simulating the Evolution of Empires – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p3tMNbFdCs It needs some statistics for many random runs. From that you can begin to make a visible model that can be calibrated to real world countries. I ran 50 year projections of all countries in the world in the 1980’s when I was at Georgetown University Center for
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I weighed an airplane… while it was flying! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnvtstq3ztI Grok convinced me that the sound pressure level that you can measure with microphones is the better way to go. It is not the same as the pressure from air molecules moving. But the two pressures can combined. If you know the model of airplane you
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Yes. So instead of a light weight “tokenization” now and very little curation and verification now the raw data, and no index of the raw data. It puts effort into finding the nouns and processes, embedded data, index it and convert to tokens. It attempts to make sure if it is talking about Moscow, Russia
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