The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
Our shoddy thinking about the brain has deep historical roots, but the invention of computers in the 1940s got us especially confused. For more than half a century now, psychologists, linguists, neuroscientists and other experts on human behaviour have been asserting that the human brain works like a computer.
Destabilizing Multipolar Society through Binary Decision-making
Alternatives to “2-stroke democracy” suggested by 4-sided ball games
Stepes: Human Translation at Your Fingertips
Though today’s machine translation is a convenient way to quickly get the gist of a foreign-language passage, it has its limitations; professionals still turn to human translation services when it counts. A new platform, Stepes Translate, can bridge the gap (at least until algorithms catch up). Its chat-based format makes it as convenient as machine translation, but there is an actual, multi-lingual human at the other end. BusinessWire reports, “Stepes Extends Google Translate Model to Live Human Translation.” The press release explains:
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Stepes – Human Translation at Your Fingertips”
A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world
If decentralisation is now making a comeback, it is largely because of the rise of bitcoin, a crypto-currency, and its underlying technology, the blockchain. This is a globally distributed database, which is maintained not by a single actor, such as a bank, but collaboratively by many.
EU Rejects Idea of a European Secret Service – Right Decision, Wrong Question, Missed Opportunity
Defence and Intelligence Norway, 26 June 2016
DOC (5 Pages): Steele EU Rejects Secret Agency, Wrong Question (20160612)
On 10 June 2016 the European Union (EU) Interior Ministers turned down the idea of creating a common European secret service to deal with counter-terrorism and security issues.[1] This important decision – and the considerable flaws in how the question was raised and to whom, were not well reported to European citizens by European media.
Back in 2007-2008 we did research relevant to your thinking on Applied Collective Intelligence, at the University of Oxford. We focused on “distributed problem-solving networks” that included looking at film production in a distributed fashion to include a lot of open source projects:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/
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Humans with Amplified Intelligence Could Be More Powerful Than AI
With much of our attention focused the rise of advanced artificial intelligence, few consider the potential for radically amplified human intelligence (IA). It’s an open question as to which will come first, but a technologically boosted brain could be just as powerful — and just as dangerous – as AI.
