• Optimistic and pessimistic views on immortality

    Religions are most often associated with a representation of the after-life where immortality, which is clearly unattainable in the nether-world, is ultimately achieved.
    Other widely held belief systems don’t share that view, in particular Taoism, the “atheistic religion” or “philosophy” of the Chinese people over the ages. Indeed, some disparagingly called “superstitious” versions of Taoism put the stress on attaining immortality in our everyday world, recounting numerous tales of princes going to great length to secure lifesavers of various kinds. In the West, alchemy shared that same concern, being not only focused on the transmutation of antimony into gold…

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  • The safest financial world of all

    A recurrent theme in Alan Greenspan’s speeches, either when he was head of the board of governors of the Fed or now in his capacity as an invited speaker, has been that the financial world has become in recent years a much more sturdy, much more robust and let’s say it, a safer place, because risk has been redistributed and has essentially found its way to the hands of the investors optimally fit to manage it.

    There are two notions in Greenspan’s statement, neither of which in my mind is true. The first is that risk has been redistributed…

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  • Artificial reason and the heart

    So, Marvin Minsky has just published a new book called The Emotional Machine (Simon & Schuster 2007) where he states that Artificial Intelligence should rest on the observed feature that intelligence is emotional by nature. This of course rings a bell, as some twenty years ago an audacious AI engineer, traveling between Martlesham Heath (Suffolk) and Paris (France), wrote ANELLA (Associative Network with Emergent Logical and Learning Abilities), a piece of software mimicking logical reasoning on a body of knowledge it had constituted through asking questions only. I say “mimicking” as there were no rules of logic in ANELLA; whatever…

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  • “Combinatorial Magic” Logic – Proof of Concept

    Loss-less 4-scalar encoding × 175 memory reduction × 1-cycle decode

    Claim: Any simple sentence can be loss-lessly encoded into 4 scalars
    (3 UTF-8 strings ≤ 16 bytes each + 1 uint8) while preserving
    agent / patient / possessor roles and 10 categories + 4 causes.

    1. 4-D Vector Definition

    Dim Type Max len Semantics
    0 UTF-8 string 16 B Agent (initiator)
    1 UTF-8 string 16 B Predicate root (action)
    2 UTF-8 string 16 B Patient (undergoer)
    3 uint8 1 B Bitmap: possesser + 4 causes…

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