Before man became a capitalist, his well being was almost completely dependent on kinship relationships. Men decided early on that operating in a group was more efficient than operating alone, based on the benefits of a division of labor and productivity gains through specialization. From the family standpoint, we see a synergistic unit working together for a common purpose. Grandparents advised their offspring and helped with the care of their children. Parents worked and the fruits of their labor were enjoyed by those who were too old to work. The greater family unit was augmented by other kinship relationships derived from blood relationships or marriage.
Working in a business forced people to transition away from a kinship dependency, where output is produced and consumed by the same entity. In business, the output is produced by an individual who is recognized and compensated for a specific skill that he alone possesses. The skills of his kin are irrelevant. Now the worker’s compensation leads to the purchase of goods that will be consumed by his nuclear family. This dislocation from kin has a positive effect on productivity (skills match work), but tears apart the relationship between members of the extended family unit.
"It's the coordination of potentially-independent loop-like organizations which is conscious." - Gordon Pask. You can't arbitrarily choose boundaries and ask "is the thing inside this boundary conscious" either. You have to choose LOOPS, such as a perception-action loop. It is in the way that perception-action loops coordinate through a whole organism and environment that correspond, in part, to the structure of consciousness. Consciousness is also inherently mysterious still. Consciousness may be studied via any concept that mirrors "A is conscious with B about C", such as "A coordinates with B about C", "A synchronizes with B about C", "A agrees with B about C", "A converses with B about C", and so on. A and B might be perception-action loops for instance, and C might be some kind of goal-oriented concept.
Dive into mysticism, especially Christian Mysticism for more depth on these questions. Mysticism is unique in that all Mysticisms of all faiths / religions converge on similar truths about reality. So best to combine with the other mysticisms as well: Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Shinto, Taoist, Indigenous, Sufi, Pagan / Nature-oriented, etc...
Several companies and institutions are working on bettering solid-state battery technology.
Hyundai has already announced its plans to launch a pilot production line for all-solid-state batteries. It aims to introduce EVs equipped with these advanced batteries by 2025 and begin mass production by 2030.
Besides, US-based Anthro Energy unveiled a battery with an injectable liquid to solid electrolyte. According to the company, the material can change from liquid to solid and can make powerful, longer-lasting, and safer batteries.
Meanwhile, a team of researchers recently introduced a new solid-state battery technology that helps batteries maintain over 80% of their initial capacity after 25,000 charge/discharge cycles. According to their study, the new lithium-sulfur battery uses solid electrolytes.
In the last post we discussed the first stage in the development of human society, where men distinguished themselves through physical strength or ability in war to become leaders. Heredity provided a leader’s family with some prestige security, but it was not until the elite began to accumulate wealth through ownership of land that they were able to separate themselves permanently from the lower class.
So, what remained, then, was for the non-wealthy class to differentiate itself. This process eventually produced a class of nobility and a middle class which was able to separate itself from the poor. In many societies slaves were added along the way to form a permanent underclass, sitting beneath the lowest class of freemen. In the end, a fully differentiated socio-economic model resulted, which was the parent of the human society we have today.
Lastly, we have the development of a slave class, always the lowest class in any society. Slavery can have several definitions, but we will use Aristotle’s as a typical example.
“A slave is a living possession, who is by nature not his own but another’s and yet a man”
Slavery was a bi-product of the maturing human society and did not exist before man developed agriculture. The reason is a practical one in that nomadic tribes had no way to manage slaves while they were on the move. Without close management, slaves would attempt to escape whenever the opportunity arose.
“We found that a lot of people have used the acoustic levitator to study droplets but not the bubbles it can create,” says Joe Nightingale in a university press statement.
“We’ve based our project on some of those research papers we’ve found. We’re trying to replicate some of those experiments with bubbles to see if we can get the same results or find something new.”
80-minute bubble flight
The pair reveals that they let the bubble float for over 80 minutes before finally popping it themselves, deciding it was time to “move on with their lives.”
According to them, it was their final-year project on bubble oscillation modes that sparked their goal to set a record.
“They provide a sterile environment and eliminate the risk of damaging fragile objects,” concludes Brunt.
“They also allow scientists to perform touchless chemical reactions where two different substances never come in contact with any surface except each other.”
The hour-long experiment was closely observed by a group of witnesses and carefully documented. The footage will now be submitted to Guinness World Records for official review and verification.
Intel was among the largest beneficiaries of the US push to onshore critical chip manufacturing led by the Biden administration.
The US Commerce Department said in November it was finalizing a $7.86 billion government subsidy for Intel. The company is one of a few chipmakers that design and manufacture semiconductors.
TSMC boasts a market valuation about eight times larger than that of Intel. The Taiwanese company’s customers include AI chip leader Nvidia and AMD, which is Intel’s fierce rival in PC and server markets.
The tracker bills its findings as "a wake-up call for democratic nations."
"The race to be the next most important technological powerhouse is a close one between the U.K. and India, both of which claim a place in the top five countries in 29 of the 44 technologies," according to the tracker. "South Korea and Germany follow closely behind, appearing in the top five countries in 20 and 17 technologies, respectively.
There is scaling of pre-training, post training and test time training. There is also key competition for hardware efficiency and efficiency and optimization of all aspects of the hardware and software stacks.
There will be specialized AI models and agent systems that keep only the necessary specialized knowledge needed for particular use cases.
Energy and cost efficiency will be another area of competition beyond improving the base models.
Not so, says Donald D. Hoffman(opens a new tab), a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. Hoffman has spent the past three decades studying perception, artificial intelligence, evolutionary game theory and the brain, and his conclusion is a dramatic one: The world presented to us by our perceptions is nothing like reality(opens a new tab). What’s more, he says, we have evolution itself to thank for this magnificent illusion, as it maximizes evolutionary fitness by driving truth to extinction.
Getting at questions about the nature of reality, and disentangling the observer from the observed, is an endeavor that straddles the boundaries of neuroscience and fundamental physics. On one side you’ll find researchers scratching their chins raw trying to understand how a three-pound lump of gray matter obeying nothing more than the ordinary laws of physics can give rise to first-person conscious experience. This is the aptly named “hard problem.”
So we are still left with the question of the reason for Laconian Helots. My opinion is that when Sparta conquered portions of Messenia, she decided that the land was too valuable to give up. The Messenian population was several times larger, so Sparta was forced to import a system from Crete she was familiar with. After all, the Spartans were Dorians just like the conquerors of that island culture.
There is no question that the Spartan version was more extreme, because the Spartans subordinated their entire culture for the singular purpose of holding down the Helots. It is odd though, as Aristotle points out, that the Spartan Helots revolted at every opportunity whereas the Minoan Helots never revolted. Aristotle attributed this to the isolation of Crete. The Minoans had no way to connect themselves to an ally who could help them because they were on an island. The Spartan Helots, on the other hand, had multiple ways to get help and did so every time the opportunity arose. Maybe this is why the Spartan system had to be more rigorous.
The Fed maintained its target rate at a range of 4.25% to 4.5% at its January policy meeting.
Bowman said Monday the current level is appropriate for "allowing the Committee to be patient and pay closer attention to the inflation data as it evolves."
"The current policy stance also provides the opportunity to review further indicators of economic activity and get further clarity on the administration's policies and their effects on the economy," continued Bowman.
There were, however, two major differences between the versions. While the Spartans kept no land under control of the government (it was 100% allocated), the Cretans kept some of their land for use in re-allocation. Secondly, the Spartan Homoioi were required to bring their share of food to the mess – food harvested from their private land. In Crete, the mess was paid for by the government.
It’s unclear what year or years the document is addressing.
“The party of ‘norms’ and ‘decency’ strikes again. We will never back down,” Hegseth added in his tweet.
He is not the first cabinet appointee to receive a letter from the IRS.
In 2009, it was famously revealed that President Obama’s Treasury Secretary appointee, Timothy Geithner, owed the IRS about $35,000 in unpaid Social Security and Medicaid taxes.
Aristotle, himself, was a advocate of the Cretan theory. Here’s what he had to say:
“The Cretan institutions resemble the Lacedaemonian. The Helots are the husbandmen of the one, the Perioeci of the other, and both Cretans and Lacedaemonians have common meals, which were anciently called by the Lacedaemonians not 'phiditia' but 'andria'; and the Cretans have the same word, the use of which proves that the common meals originally came from Crete. Further, the two constitutions are similar; for the office of the Ephors is the same as that of the Cretan Cosmi, the only difference being that whereas the Ephors are five, the Cosmi are ten in number. The elders, too, answer to the elders in Crete, who are termed by the Cretans the council. And the kingly office once existed in Crete, but was abolished, and the Cosmi have now the duty of leading them in war. All classes share in the ecclesia, but it can only ratify the decrees of the elders and the Cosmi.”
Devers said the conversation took place Friday with manager Alex Cora and chief baseball officer Craig Breslow.
The Red Sox have a logjam at third in the wake of signing Bregman to a three-year, $120 million deal.
Cora indicated Friday that no decisions have been made regarding the infield alignment.
“He has a lot of pride,’’ Cora said of Devers. “We know that. He feels like he’s the third baseman. He’s going to work out as the third baseman. And we’re going to make decisions accordingly. Here, it’s not about Bregman or Devers or Cora. It’s for the Boston Red Sox. Whatever decision we make is going to be for the benefit of the team.”
!summarize #amazon #kindle
Before man became a capitalist, his well being was almost completely dependent on kinship relationships. Men decided early on that operating in a group was more efficient than operating alone, based on the benefits of a division of labor and productivity gains through specialization. From the family standpoint, we see a synergistic unit working together for a common purpose. Grandparents advised their offspring and helped with the care of their children. Parents worked and the fruits of their labor were enjoyed by those who were too old to work. The greater family unit was augmented by other kinship relationships derived from blood relationships or marriage.
!summarize #panpsychism #psychics #Brain #science #universe
!summarize #davidchalmers #consciousness #fundamental #universe #reality
Working in a business forced people to transition away from a kinship dependency, where output is produced and consumed by the same entity. In business, the output is produced by an individual who is recognized and compensated for a specific skill that he alone possesses. The skills of his kin are irrelevant. Now the worker’s compensation leads to the purchase of goods that will be consumed by his nuclear family. This dislocation from kin has a positive effect on productivity (skills match work), but tears apart the relationship between members of the extended family unit.
!summarize #stuarthameroff #panpsychism #consciousness
"It's the coordination of potentially-independent loop-like organizations which is conscious." - Gordon Pask. You can't arbitrarily choose boundaries and ask "is the thing inside this boundary conscious" either. You have to choose LOOPS, such as a perception-action loop. It is in the way that perception-action loops coordinate through a whole organism and environment that correspond, in part, to the structure of consciousness. Consciousness is also inherently mysterious still. Consciousness may be studied via any concept that mirrors "A is conscious with B about C", such as "A coordinates with B about C", "A synchronizes with B about C", "A agrees with B about C", "A converses with B about C", and so on. A and B might be perception-action loops for instance, and C might be some kind of goal-oriented concept.
Dive into mysticism, especially Christian Mysticism for more depth on these questions. Mysticism is unique in that all Mysticisms of all faiths / religions converge on similar truths about reality. So best to combine with the other mysticisms as well: Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Shinto, Taoist, Indigenous, Sufi, Pagan / Nature-oriented, etc...
!summarize #relationships #mom #single #dating
!summarize #giuliotononi #physical #mind #nonphysical
!summarize #china #vehicle #automotive #sales #economy
!summarize #britain #uk #jews #antisemitism
!summarize #aviation #flight #death #accident
!summarize #suning #retail #bankruptcy #debt #economy #china #homeappliance
!summarize #ericadams #resignation #democrats #newyorkcity
!summarize #keyujin #china #collapse #myth
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!summarize #prep #basketball
Several companies and institutions are working on bettering solid-state battery technology.
Hyundai has already announced its plans to launch a pilot production line for all-solid-state batteries. It aims to introduce EVs equipped with these advanced batteries by 2025 and begin mass production by 2030.
Besides, US-based Anthro Energy unveiled a battery with an injectable liquid to solid electrolyte. According to the company, the material can change from liquid to solid and can make powerful, longer-lasting, and safer batteries.
Meanwhile, a team of researchers recently introduced a new solid-state battery technology that helps batteries maintain over 80% of their initial capacity after 25,000 charge/discharge cycles. According to their study, the new lithium-sulfur battery uses solid electrolytes.
!summarize #draymondgreene #nba #adamsilver #allstargame
In the last post we discussed the first stage in the development of human society, where men distinguished themselves through physical strength or ability in war to become leaders. Heredity provided a leader’s family with some prestige security, but it was not until the elite began to accumulate wealth through ownership of land that they were able to separate themselves permanently from the lower class.
So, what remained, then, was for the non-wealthy class to differentiate itself. This process eventually produced a class of nobility and a middle class which was able to separate itself from the poor. In many societies slaves were added along the way to form a permanent underclass, sitting beneath the lowest class of freemen. In the end, a fully differentiated socio-economic model resulted, which was the parent of the human society we have today.
!summarize #solopreneur #website #online #money
Lastly, we have the development of a slave class, always the lowest class in any society. Slavery can have several definitions, but we will use Aristotle’s as a typical example.
“A slave is a living possession, who is by nature not his own but another’s and yet a man”
Slavery was a bi-product of the maturing human society and did not exist before man developed agriculture. The reason is a practical one in that nomadic tribes had no way to manage slaves while they were on the move. Without close management, slaves would attempt to escape whenever the opportunity arose.
!summarize #software #engineer #job #career #ratrace
!summarize #davidchalmers #panpsychism #metaphysics #consciousness
“We found that a lot of people have used the acoustic levitator to study droplets but not the bubbles it can create,” says Joe Nightingale in a university press statement.
“We’ve based our project on some of those research papers we’ve found. We’re trying to replicate some of those experiments with bubbles to see if we can get the same results or find something new.”
80-minute bubble flight
The pair reveals that they let the bubble float for over 80 minutes before finally popping it themselves, deciding it was time to “move on with their lives.”
According to them, it was their final-year project on bubble oscillation modes that sparked their goal to set a record.
“They provide a sterile environment and eliminate the risk of damaging fragile objects,” concludes Brunt.
“They also allow scientists to perform touchless chemical reactions where two different substances never come in contact with any surface except each other.”
The hour-long experiment was closely observed by a group of witnesses and carefully documented. The footage will now be submitted to Guinness World Records for official review and verification.
Other Key efficiency improvements in DeepSeek’s architecture include:
Enhanced attention mechanisms with sliding window patterns, optimized key-value caching and multi-head attention.
Advanced position encoding innovations, including rotary position embeddings and dynamic calibration.
A novel routing mechanism that replaces the traditional auxiliary loss with a dynamic bias approach, improving expert utilization and stability.
These innovations have led to a 15-20% improvement in computational efficiency compared to traditional transformer implementations.
Intel was among the largest beneficiaries of the US push to onshore critical chip manufacturing led by the Biden administration.
The US Commerce Department said in November it was finalizing a $7.86 billion government subsidy for Intel. The company is one of a few chipmakers that design and manufacture semiconductors.
TSMC boasts a market valuation about eight times larger than that of Intel. The Taiwanese company’s customers include AI chip leader Nvidia and AMD, which is Intel’s fierce rival in PC and server markets.
!summarize #trump #faa #airtravel
The tracker bills its findings as "a wake-up call for democratic nations."
"The race to be the next most important technological powerhouse is a close one between the U.K. and India, both of which claim a place in the top five countries in 29 of the 44 technologies," according to the tracker. "South Korea and Germany follow closely behind, appearing in the top five countries in 20 and 17 technologies, respectively.
!summarize #kremlin #russia #unitedstates #peace #ukraine #russia #settlement #putin
There is scaling of pre-training, post training and test time training. There is also key competition for hardware efficiency and efficiency and optimization of all aspects of the hardware and software stacks.
There will be specialized AI models and agent systems that keep only the necessary specialized knowledge needed for particular use cases.
Energy and cost efficiency will be another area of competition beyond improving the base models.
!summarize #russia #economy
Not so, says Donald D. Hoffman(opens a new tab), a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. Hoffman has spent the past three decades studying perception, artificial intelligence, evolutionary game theory and the brain, and his conclusion is a dramatic one: The world presented to us by our perceptions is nothing like reality(opens a new tab). What’s more, he says, we have evolution itself to thank for this magnificent illusion, as it maximizes evolutionary fitness by driving truth to extinction.
!summarize #newyorkcity #deputymayors #ericadams #politics #democrats
Getting at questions about the nature of reality, and disentangling the observer from the observed, is an endeavor that straddles the boundaries of neuroscience and fundamental physics. On one side you’ll find researchers scratching their chins raw trying to understand how a three-pound lump of gray matter obeying nothing more than the ordinary laws of physics can give rise to first-person conscious experience. This is the aptly named “hard problem.”
So we are still left with the question of the reason for Laconian Helots. My opinion is that when Sparta conquered portions of Messenia, she decided that the land was too valuable to give up. The Messenian population was several times larger, so Sparta was forced to import a system from Crete she was familiar with. After all, the Spartans were Dorians just like the conquerors of that island culture.
There is no question that the Spartan version was more extreme, because the Spartans subordinated their entire culture for the singular purpose of holding down the Helots. It is odd though, as Aristotle points out, that the Spartan Helots revolted at every opportunity whereas the Minoan Helots never revolted. Aristotle attributed this to the isolation of Crete. The Minoans had no way to connect themselves to an ally who could help them because they were on an island. The Spartan Helots, on the other hand, had multiple ways to get help and did so every time the opportunity arose. Maybe this is why the Spartan system had to be more rigorous.
The Fed maintained its target rate at a range of 4.25% to 4.5% at its January policy meeting.
Bowman said Monday the current level is appropriate for "allowing the Committee to be patient and pay closer attention to the inflation data as it evolves."
"The current policy stance also provides the opportunity to review further indicators of economic activity and get further clarity on the administration's policies and their effects on the economy," continued Bowman.
There were, however, two major differences between the versions. While the Spartans kept no land under control of the government (it was 100% allocated), the Cretans kept some of their land for use in re-allocation. Secondly, the Spartan Homoioi were required to bring their share of food to the mess – food harvested from their private land. In Crete, the mess was paid for by the government.
It’s unclear what year or years the document is addressing.
“The party of ‘norms’ and ‘decency’ strikes again. We will never back down,” Hegseth added in his tweet.
He is not the first cabinet appointee to receive a letter from the IRS.
In 2009, it was famously revealed that President Obama’s Treasury Secretary appointee, Timothy Geithner, owed the IRS about $35,000 in unpaid Social Security and Medicaid taxes.
Aristotle, himself, was a advocate of the Cretan theory. Here’s what he had to say:
“The Cretan institutions resemble the Lacedaemonian. The Helots are the husbandmen of the one, the Perioeci of the other, and both Cretans and Lacedaemonians have common meals, which were anciently called by the Lacedaemonians not 'phiditia' but 'andria'; and the Cretans have the same word, the use of which proves that the common meals originally came from Crete. Further, the two constitutions are similar; for the office of the Ephors is the same as that of the Cretan Cosmi, the only difference being that whereas the Ephors are five, the Cosmi are ten in number. The elders, too, answer to the elders in Crete, who are termed by the Cretans the council. And the kingly office once existed in Crete, but was abolished, and the Cosmi have now the duty of leading them in war. All classes share in the ecclesia, but it can only ratify the decrees of the elders and the Cosmi.”
Devers said the conversation took place Friday with manager Alex Cora and chief baseball officer Craig Breslow.
The Red Sox have a logjam at third in the wake of signing Bregman to a three-year, $120 million deal.
Cora indicated Friday that no decisions have been made regarding the infield alignment.
“He has a lot of pride,’’ Cora said of Devers. “We know that. He feels like he’s the third baseman. He’s going to work out as the third baseman. And we’re going to make decisions accordingly. Here, it’s not about Bregman or Devers or Cora. It’s for the Boston Red Sox. Whatever decision we make is going to be for the benefit of the team.”
!summarize #jobs #mass #layoffs #buyouts #government #career
!summarize #surveillance #networks #privacy #technology