I fully support open source VR, has been one of my biggest problems with what happened here at MTBS3D and promised open source projects years ago, yet the trickster in me ALWAYS plays devils advocate, even against myself. the recursive loops start going too deep, and my memory buffers hit limits. Now you think about people like marilu henner,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilu_Henner Only about 30 people on planet earth have been identified with this "superhuman" power,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia Although hyperthymestics are not necessarily autistic, and likewise savants do not necessarily memorise autobiographical information, there are certain similarities between the two conditions. Like autistic savants, some individuals with hyperthymesia may also have an unusual and obsessive interest in dates. Russian psychologist Aleksandr Luria documented the famous case of mnemonist Solomon Shereshevskii,[5] who was quite different from the first documented hyperthymestic known as AJ in that he could memorise virtually unlimited amounts of information deliberately, while AJ could not – she could only remember autobiographical information (and events she had personally seen on the news or read about). In fact, she was not very good at memorising anything at all, according to the study published in Neurocase.[1] Hyperthymestic individuals appear to have poorer than average memory for arbitrary information. Another striking parallel drawn between the two cases was that Shereshevskii exemplified an interesting case of synesthesia[6]
and it has been suggested that superior autobiographical memory is intimately tied to time-space synaesthesia.[7]
she can remember everyday of her life, her recursion can go far deeper than mine, so when she finally hits her ultimate answer at the end of the loop, it may return a different result than all my "thinking" so we get various humans with various beliefs about what is REAL, and what is false,
http://caseelse.net/wp-content/uploads/ ... nagain.jpg LOL! My mind did not work lie this as much until I became a programmer, but now it is even deeper into these loops than 5 years ago, some call that mental illness, maybe. It has proven effective for letting me see things that others maybe miss. I have psyches talking about putting thier work with me in DSM V (head shrinker book over here in the statess) So we all have these various "truths" and "realities" we believe, some companies are designing algorithms to EXPLOIT our minds, for profit, some are not. wether its for profit or free though, if it changes humanity, should we not debate it? Socrates said the FIRST vr was the allegory of the cave,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVDaSgyi3xE So - crates (bill and ted - LOL) told his students that the written word was DANGEROUS, to not have external memory buffers for our mind, that books, and writing allowed, that we should use our internal memory to pass knowledge in oral histories, that we would become TOO DEPENDENT on books and external knowledge, and it would weaken mankind collectively so much that if the books were ever taken away, or some TYRANT could control access to the books, we would be slaves or perish if we did not submit! The hive mind of the internet is even a greater extension of socrates memes, I have become so addicted to it and dependent upon it, take it away, and I have lost half my brain and memory links easily, facebook got me good! losing access to the forums here was like half my brain got chopped off. People wrote books in socrates days not meaning to do harm, but from socrates perspective, harm was being done, mankind was becoming depending on things outside his mind in some ways, that weakend mankind.
Facebook has great plans for VR, to make us addicted (they may not even see what they are doing is bad, like authors writing books in socrates day, there was no mal intent, but looking at it from the macro scale socrates could see changes that may have been dangerous), just like palmer said on stage, these links elaborate, they are REPROGRAMMING humans worldwide to be addicted to thier business model, hopefully we can offer a seperate solution that is not so much about control, but real freedom, I dont like that people smarter than me are writing algorithms to addict me to things so they can make profit, doesn't that violate all kinds of ethical boundaries? We can do good VR and not have to be drug dealers eyes?
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Rickards said rense was one to listen to, often connecting dots in some ways (I think some of renses stuff is pure insanity, but I think he nails this facebook connection) hillary clinton is on record saying rense is one of the greatest if not the greatest anti-state propogandists ever. Still others claim he posts some truth, but distorts other truth because he is just another plant by cia types, gets confusing for us all to find our unique truths to believe. However, Palmer clearly talks about using our own narcissim against us, the way facebook links talks about I posted at mtbs3d and this video specifically mentions, they are writing algorithms to specifically target these reward centers in our minds to exploit us, a dangerous feedback system between mankind, and machine, that ultimately will enrich them with great power and money.
Jeff Rense & Neil Sanders - Facebook Mind Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gdouS8e8yU
When prompted "Tell me about FaceBook and VR.", Palmer replied "... People are narcissists, and they like to share the best parts of their lives with other people, and they like other people to see the incredible lives that they want other people to think they live. ..."
Direct link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtHtcBjkRIw#t=1200
Nice way to think about the common man, eh? But really, he may not be all that far from the truth, from certain predatory points of view.
(thanks to all who keep me informed like journalism heroes pamer (he studied that in college) and niel - you guys and your freedom of the press journalism roots make me proud)
In all your RAH RAH for VR, have you ever decided dilip to take the other view, what are the DANGERS of vr if gone wrong? Can you give me some of your ideas?
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article ... ny_aliens/
Lets take socrates viewpoint, what if an asteroid wipes out most of us, what if an EMP pulse wipes out our great tech society? A CME from the sun? What if we do it to ourselves in war, neutron bombs, etc. All humanity alive today can be traced back to 7 mothers, I think 150K years or so ago. So maybe socrates was making a point, that to be ROBUST, for the human network to SURVIVE an attack, internal memory was the best long term solution, where if we are sunk down to 7 humans again from a planet destroying event, thier minds will retain enough knowledge to surive and rebuild again, however I would say most hipsters I meet today, if thrown in that scenario, might perish fairly quickly. This is why Dr. Kaku says we need to get OFF PLANET fast, become a type 1 civilization, because dark forces at any moment can kill us all, and the species dies. (sorry must stop here - buffers overloading again)
The universe is a big place, we have pretty good equipment looking up into space, for dysan sphere, ringworlds, type 1,2,3 civilizations, how come we cant SEE any? Some make the claim even infrared energy would be trapped by the civilizations, they would be that efficient, but it seems to me this fermi paradox is a real issue. So what do you think are bad ways that tech and VR could go wrong? Have you paused to think about it? Some don't think it is worth the time but I do. While I fully support open source vr and am happy as a clam oculus got REAL peeps punching thier guts now, I also always try to look at larger macro issues, why not?