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>Its input is a constraint on the system, is it not? \

The input is the space being explored. For example if you wanted to generate a Linear Congruential Number Generator which has some optimal set of properties then the inputs are simply:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator

a, c and m. So the job of the algorithm, for example, is to determine the values of a, c and m that give numbers that meet a certain criteria of "random" (does each number occur with the same frequency, is the probability of an input of, say, 3 giving a 7 as output the same as it giving a 1,2,3,4,5,6,8 or 9 (i.e. equal probability), and so on). But "a" "c" and "m" are all integers with no upper bounds and thus the search space is essentially infinity cubed.

>If it looks about right then why bother looking at the source code that is probably correct.

Well in the case of RANDU some human did eventually spot it. But then again, they only had three numbers to deal with. Imagine instead the set of all compilable codes that can be generated from random permutations on, say, all possible opcodes. I mean that would be the dumbest algorithm ever, but you get the idea. Each element (possible opcode) has a large number of options and the length of the program is effectively unbounded. If/when you get something that works well, to then go in an find WHY and HOW from tracing the random iteration and permutation is in general not possible.

>Ultimately though you make good enough points that I will be unable to rebutt until I've read more books and built more things. Perhaps you are correct that I have strong opinions about systems I don't know enough about.

This isn't a strong recommendation, but I actually got an Audible.com subscription a while ago and I noticed there was this book available:

https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Press-Essential-Knowledge/dp/B01M1I55GE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492023735&sr=8-1&keywords=machine+learning+audiobook

so I listened to it before bed. It's breezy, and covers a lot of the basic concepts. I'd give it a soft recommendation if you like audiobooks. You're not going to come away from it being able to write an algorithm but still, it's solid.

Not exactly in line with the above piece, but definitely related to the same issue, there's a really good (short and highly readable but "deep/profound") book entitled "The Careless Society: Community And Its Counterfeits" that diggs into and provides a perspective/theory of how communities have been colonized in a very detrimental fashion by the fact that many community/friend functions have been traded in for services have become "commodities" provided by licensed professionals as well as major corporations (everything from insurance companies to

> this is a conspiracy for the government to gain access to the legislative right to censor the internet?

yes.

> Show me any example where that was ever in question that it was argued that the US government simply lacked the legislative jurisdiction to do so.

You are asking me to prove the various reasons for inaction. That isn't how evidence works. Fuck off.

> There have been questions of first and fourth amendment overreach, sure ... but show me a case where, had the internet been a title 2, it would have made any difference.

I already have. Closed platforms like TV and broadcast are commandeered and applied with bright line rules and regulations. You really don't get it. It's not like people now are actively getting on TV and radio and breaking the rules that the FCC have put in place. It is the very fact that those rules exist before someone breaks them. It is the difference between offense and defense. Between overt violence and structural violence. Between Realpolitik and Noopolitik. It isn't about playing cat and mouse like they have been doing. It is about subverting the freedom online by co-opting the platform and making it their turf that they control. If you create the maze you can lead people wherever you want. Perhaps you should do more reading on the history of opened and closed platforms

The transhumans will raise humans to claim their organs and dispose them when there is no need for it.

Likely path for humans kept alive for organ harvesting.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FCK2TW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

(although he lived in England for almost all of his life, Kazuo Ishiguro started his career by writing two little-known books set in Japan, showing he is still firmly grounded with the Japanese culture - which was explained also in the main text of my original post)

Sure!

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New Alcatraz Trilogy

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Drought, dust storms, and crop diseases? Pretty much expected even under mild climate change scenarios. Last time the continental U.S. experienced a long-term one-degree warming, it got conditions worse than the Dust Bowl that lasted for 500 years. source

Technocracy is here. Check out Technocracy Rising by Patrick Wood.


In the heat of the Great Depression during the 1930s, prominent scientists and engineers proposed a utopian energy-based economic system called Technocracy that would be run by those same scientists and engineers instead of elected politicians. Although this radical movement lost momentum by 1940, it regained status when it was conceptually adopted by the elitist Trilateral Commission (co-founded by Zbigniew Brzezinski and David Rockefeller) in 1973 to be become its so-called “New International Economic Order.”


Five Reasons Why You Should Read Technocracy Rising

Not all article's are the same. The author, Tom Lewis, clearly states that he is writing an opinion piece and that exact dates for predictions are dangerous, but trends are obvious. I thought that he made that part crystal clear. The blog is based on his well researched book about our dire situation, "Brace for Impact: Surviving the Crash of the Industrial Age". There are a ton of other posts on his blog with many links. In addition he has been a reporter for many years. I would assume his main source on the rotting infrastructure claim comes from, The American Society of Civil Engineers report which someone well researched on collapse should know along with the food situation. You may very well be capable, but you do not appear to be to willing to do the work and yes you should be scared. Sorry I took so long, to respond, I had an emergency. ----------------------------------------http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/---------------------------------------------------------http://www.dailyimpact.net/category/agriculture/--------------------------------------------------------------http://www.amazon.com/Brace-Impact-Surviving-Crash-Industrial/dp/0615751679

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> irrational beliefs

On the contrary

Spoiler alert. I'll just leave this terrifying book here.