I am probably the worst person to give you input on that, as I never learned a technique. I would probably wait for other members to give you more formal advice, as I have seen fellow members give much better advice than I can.
That is a fascinating story, Landsend. Thank you a lot for sharing it with us!
That is a fascinating story, Landsend. Thank you a lot for sharing it with us!
Indeed what a brave choice you made! And a baby with two cultures! It is going to be a very interesting adventure, Life, for him.
It reminds me of the story my parents told me about my birth. They met, and both were hit by a strong realization that they would be marrying and having children together. It was instantaneous. Somehow, my english mother always thought she would live in France. When she was a child, she sometimes had thoughts in French language, and always knew she would live there. And prior to my birth, my parents had a lot of images. They knew before doing a pregnancy test. The story for them (and me!) goes all the way to my name, which came to them a few weeks before my birth. They both saw a movie called "My uncle Benjamin" about a french doctor in rural 18th century France, who was a pure free thinker, devoted to care for the left behind. They told me they were hit, at the same time, by the same clear thought that this is the name their son wanted..and here I am named Benjamin
Hmm. Not so long ago there were programmers in a panic due to some AI having developed an exclustive language that they couldn't translate. Does make one wonder.Dear Cat1965, I want to give you my personal opinion regarding AI and the future of mankind.
I don't think you need to be so stressed out about the catastrophy you predict, simply because I don't think AI as you predict it will be sentient anytime soon. I have worked extensively with algorithms, both in Europe and China, and am now heavily involved with developing AI in the field of Healthcare. While it might sound scary, it is actually, I think, to the benefit of mankind to have this kind of development. These tools, which are human-made (I could point you out to several studies I have in my possession that Algorithms actually are heavily influenced by the gender and culture of the developers who design them), are actually being used to help us with tasks that are now testing the very limits of our intellect (such as protein-folding, which is the holy grail of many fields of science, or in my personal case, how we can improve the success rate of Immunotherapy treatments of cancer patients).
I actually think this could be a great leap forward for mankind, as I hope it will give us the opportunity to develop other aspects of our human intelligence, which is not just about intellect. While machine-learning, deep neural networks and, in a near future, self-improving algorithms are extremely good at dealing with data, there is other aspects of our human intelligence that our societies have neglected: an algorithm will never be able to deal with emotions, and I highly doubt that AI will ever get anywhere near to being sentient or self-aware. That won't happen anytime soon, and I highly doubt that any kind of technology we develop will take their own path towards being self-relient or, as many sci-fi writers put it, deciding that humankind is no longer needed. That comes from the belief that our minds are simply dealing with 0 and 1, bits of data that our brains compute, and I think that on this forum we often raise points that show that we are SO MUCH MORE than that
That being said, we will need to reinvent our societies because, as of today, we need all these jobs for people to make a living, and the easiest-to-replace jobs are now disappearing because of automation: it leaves whole groups of people out of a living. Well maybe in the future we will be able to have a system in which automated work will be taxed to provide for the people who are denied a career because of it. As a famous comedian said in France "People want jobs, but that's not true, all they are looking for in the end is money on the table"
Having written of it elsewhere on this site, I shan't repeat the details. In a nutshell, I didn't want to return again this time, I know how old I will be when I go and how I go and I shall definitely put up a 100% almighty battle to not return again after this 'life'. I'd rather simply not exist at all than return again.
Your are very right, Angie, I should have made it more clear that AI, in itself, is a very powerful tool that, used for destructive purposes, is incredibly dangerous to our future as a specy.
This will be the case with every new technology, as it has been for ages. Sadly so.
Quite. Indeed every scientific and technological advancement that could be used only for good becomes corrupted and is instead used for the utmost cruelty. Again, something that couldn't happen without banksters - "If my sons did not want wars there would be none". I don't know how the masses don't turn on and disempower them instead of attacking each other. They kept themselves under the radar of the public and when I was young we simply didn't know, but now they have achieved almost all they intend and enough people do now know yet still people march and protest at specific places in capital cities - instead of where they live. Shows just how much marches and protests are merely organised by controlled opposition for the public to let of enough steam so as to remain manageable and not explode. My late father drummed it into me to stay away from protests because there are often troublemakers and it would be too easy to be caught up in the middle of them, and that such marches actually seldom achieve anything because they take place well away from those who are in power.
What David Icke says about archons makes sense to me. I definitely feel trapped against my will. I don't know so much about shapeshifting reptiles, but archons or whatever they are called, that strikes true to me although I am sure there is more to it. If I ever think I have figured it out in this life with enough certainty so as to not mislead people then I will post it here.
Not sure why you removed your reply about "how do you explain to gut bacteria how your world works". Interesting comment. Makes some sense to me as it is clearly a very deep rabbit hole. What are your thoughts along those lines?
My apologies. I now see that for some reason my email 'view thread' took me to the wrong convesation entirely. So you didn't remove the comment after all. What you said though still makes sense if applied to this conversation as well, imo.
It was the wrong thread. I hit a reply button instead of the like button on a comment. It won't let me delete the original quoted comment I only intended to like. Maybe to do with the site clean up. Gremlins. Lol