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Friday, November 28, 2025
Something U Don't See Everyday: The Sultans Elephant
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The Sultans Elephant Video
The Sultan's Elephant, "a show created by the Royal de Luxe theatre company" France in 2004-2005.
It had, "hundreds of moving parts and scores of pumping pistons
(22 in the trunk alone)"
"The elephant no longer exists: Helen Marriage of Artichoke, the company that produced the London performance, said "Royal de Luxe were so fed up with being invited all over the world to perform The Sultan's Elephant, they just destroyed it."
'The Sultan's Elephant'... Based on a tale by Jules Verne.
The gist of the story is that there once lived a Sultan who was tormented in his dreams by visions of a girl who he believed was traveling through time.
He couldn't sleep so he built a time-traveling elephant and set off in search of the girl, who, in the course of his nightmares, had been transformed into a marionette 5 meters high.
The gist of the story is that there once lived a Sultan who was tormented in his dreams by visions of a girl who he believed was traveling through time.
He couldn't sleep so he built a time-traveling elephant and set off in search of the girl, who, in the course of his nightmares, had been transformed into a marionette 5 meters high.
The Sultans Elephant Video
The Sultan's Elephant, "a show created by the Royal de Luxe theatre company" France in 2004-2005.
It had, "hundreds of moving parts and scores of pumping pistons
(22 in the trunk alone)"
"The elephant no longer exists: Helen Marriage of Artichoke, the company that produced the London performance, said "Royal de Luxe were so fed up with being invited all over the world to perform The Sultan's Elephant, they just destroyed it."
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
No Such Thing As Artificial Intelligence
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The full 28 minute segment can be found HERE Which brings me to defining intelligence itself. I am of the belief intelligence exists as a law of nature unto itself. Whether or not it comes into some form of expression doesn't negate it's existence. It will occupy any container it can whether it be plants in some limited way or more in some complex way via biological units such we or the lesser capable animals. It's very egotistical to think we humans somehow created it's existence out of nothing. It was always there. Based on these assumptions we hold no exclusivity over it.
If all this be true one has to reflect we humans may being playing a part in intelligence's next evolution beyond flesh. Face it we have a few things not going for us. We have limited life spans. Limited environments in which we can exist, speed, strength, nourishment and are subject to painful injury. We only have one brain, these machines by linking many of their intelligence units together simultaneously are far more capable of reasoning. As stated in the program IBM's 'Watson' is reading and digesting 8,000 medical studies a day and going on the internet seeking even more then the millions it already has with no loss of memory. It then compiles and evaluates them all for creditability before recommending a course of treatment. It was also pointed out dozens of the finest minds in the world sitting in a conference room weren't capable of such achievement.
I know none of us would be willing to step aside fighting this all the way. The great challenge is to prevent this from happening by limiting these machines. But just what if we may not have a choice? I hope they'll treat us more kindly then we have the other species we consider beneath us.
Many of us like to think in terms of man being God's (intelligence's) greatest creation. Maybe... just maybe he's not done yet. Perhaps it already began on distant planets. We may not be so special after all.
Meet IBM's WATSON
The full 28 minute segment can be found HERE
If all this be true one has to reflect we humans may being playing a part in intelligence's next evolution beyond flesh. Face it we have a few things not going for us. We have limited life spans. Limited environments in which we can exist, speed, strength, nourishment and are subject to painful injury. We only have one brain, these machines by linking many of their intelligence units together simultaneously are far more capable of reasoning. As stated in the program IBM's 'Watson' is reading and digesting 8,000 medical studies a day and going on the internet seeking even more then the millions it already has with no loss of memory. It then compiles and evaluates them all for creditability before recommending a course of treatment. It was also pointed out dozens of the finest minds in the world sitting in a conference room weren't capable of such achievement.
I know none of us would be willing to step aside fighting this all the way. The great challenge is to prevent this from happening by limiting these machines. But just what if we may not have a choice? I hope they'll treat us more kindly then we have the other species we consider beneath us.
Many of us like to think in terms of man being God's (intelligence's) greatest creation. Maybe... just maybe he's not done yet. Perhaps it already began on distant planets. We may not be so special after all.
You know what they say. Anyone can be replaced at their job from Presidents to workers. So it just may be with humans taking the backseat as never ending intelligence evolves.
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Garrett Graff - Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself
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March 14, 2018
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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