Sanity Check

People love to say the only static constant in the universe is change. And so why bother defining anything as a hard this or that. In one era it may be one thing, and in another era, something completely different. In one era castles were impregnable fortresses. In another era, cannons came along and made castles obsolete.

It strengthens when exercised. Just like muscles do.

If the brain is a muscle. It only needs to be exercised.

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They should make chess pieces out of crackers wrapped in plastic. At the end of the match, he literally eats his opponents king. Much more impressive.

I respect that. I also respect the lineages which accept open challenges from anyone. But why fight at all. If anyone wants to prove they're tougher or better than me. I could invite them to work harder than I'm working and produce more than I'm producing. That seems like a good win/win format to settle disputes.

I said the same thing, more gymnastics than martial arts. But still a high level of accomplishment. Maybe you can appreciate this one a little more

I always thought oil was plant matter of some type for xyz random reason. A chemist would be expected to have a better explanation for the origins of oil than I. Dinosaur bones could be high percentage carbon, which might account for the C in hydroCarbon based fossil fuels. Considering there are microbes which are known to devour oil. It is possible in past eras there were microbes which devoured organic feedstocks to produce oil as a byproduct. There were energy start ups like syntroleum that produced fossil fuels by using organic waste products as feedstock. Similar to how biodiesel used to be produced from waste french fry grease collected from mcdonalds. I don't know. Whatever is whatever. Nature is an underrated and freaky thing which sometimes has ways of exceeding its own limitations.

Good motivation for me to work harder.

The way unity is defined here is the same as good and evil defined as different sides of the same coin. Science says a single sperm cell mates with a single egg cell. Eventually resulting in an adult human composed of 40 trillion cells. When I think on this, it sounds like a miracle to me. What could it be compared to? Its like taking 1 dollar bill, mating it with another dollar bill. Then at some point down the line, you end up with 40 trillion dollars. I don't think I'm doing this topic justice. In some ways our most fundamental beliefs about nature and how the world works might be called a religion. If we think about it, a good percentage of it, sounds crazy.

Unity with "source of all" is a religion. If that is an accurate observation than every civilized world would acknowledge it.

If the evolution of man follows a path where we increasingly become less like apes and more like God. Then yeah we might expect to develop powers similar to God along the way to compliment our growing science capabilities. There may already be indications of it happening. Although it might take centuries or millennia to fully manifest.

Those were the only AI edits on my timeline. That weren't political.

Google Veo 3 (AI video creation software) has been out around a week. Parodies, deep fakes and photoshop edits will eventually be hitting the internet hard. Making this thread to share those grand future expectations.

https://x.com/TheGriftReport/status/1974845310250910036 Someone did the Stephen Hawking pro wheelchair meme.

This Invasive Vampire Fish Is Helping Researchers Understand the Human Nervous System in Jaw-Dropping Ways The sea lamprey looks like it’s from another planet, but this ancient creature has a surprising amount in common with humans https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-invasive-vampire-fish-is-helping-researchers-understand-the-human-nervous-system-in-jaw-dropping-ways-180987356/

Some parts of the bible say if the end times come. Christians are not to be aggressive and are to engage in holding action only. "Turn the other cheek." People have to care if they're doing anything to further their own self interests. Which is not easy to achieve in an atmosphere of apathy and indifference.

Reminds me of: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2024/10/29/why-we-created-an-ai-code-of-ethics-and-why-you-should-consider-one-for-your-company/ "AI code of ethics." Anyways AFAIK man's development goes something like this. At some point our ancestors began cooking meat. This made it easier to digest and extract energy from food. Higher available energy led to increased brain development. Sometime later, our ancestors began consuming fruit containing natural sugars. The high energy density of natural sugars gave us more available energy to fuel development. Sometime later, our ancestors became aware of germs. They took more baths and made a larger effort to keep eating utensils and food items clean. This led to less energy being necessary to fight off germs, illness and disease. This may have freed up more energy to fuel evolution and development. Some say "higher frequencies". Perhaps higher frequencies require more energy to attain. In which case, some things might become obvious.

That's true. Everything you said there is what I've been thinking for awhile now. Rome reached a point where romans couldn't be bothered to recognize the fall of their own empire meant they would fall with it. Like a passenger on the Titanic who is apathetic and indifferent to it sinking. "This sinking ship does not affect me at all." This isn't far from where most were @ in that era of peace and prosperity from 1950s to 2000s. (with exception of 1970s) I thought people had given up on themselves. Then a strange thing happened. People began to take the deficit and similar topics seriously. I started to notice shifts in behavior and opinion that were surprising. In past ages it took the public 10 years to accept citrus fruits being a legit treatment for scurvy. Now it seems public opinion adjusts and adapts much faster. People are... getting smarter? Within the span of only a few years public opinion is shifting wildly on topics like COVID. Considerably faster than it used to happen. Another good example could be galileo and heliocentrism versus geocentrism. It took centuries for people to accept the idea of the universe orbiting the earth being inaccurate. People of the past may have been more stubborn and less prone to change than those of today. Early to mid points of evolution are defined by small changes over millions of years of history. In more recent times, evolution is accelerating. People are changing at an accelerating rate. What does it mean? IDK. But there are interesting emerging trends that can be observed just by looking out a window. It looks to me as if people are becoming smarter.

Many view clashes between good and evil the way they would an action sequence from a John Wick movie. They believe christians should pursue militant action to defeat evil. In the way kings of israel smote the philistines and laid waste to the lands of their enemies. They believe religions like christianity would best be perpetuated through ages old might makes right. Yet in reading the bible, there are occasions where it might be said God Himself waged wars of genocide against the evil and wicked. Noah and his family were selected to survive the Great Flood which drowned the evil and corrupt. The city of Sodom and Gamorrah was smitten by fire as there could not be found 10 moral citizens who lived within the city. In the aftermath of these events, there was no reduction of evil & corruption in the world. And it seems that God relented from pursuing further genocide against evil. This indicates that evil and corruption cannot directly be fought with a sword or gun. Evil is circumstantial to some degree. Even if it were possible to push a button that would end the lives of the most evil people on earth. The circumstances which partly contributed to those people becoming evil would remain. These circumstances would drive others to eventually replace them. Nothing would change. Eliminating the most evil could also carry severe negative effects in terms of the general public becoming more complacent and entitled. In the way that prey animals regress their survival instincts in the absence of predators. Prospects of evil being circumstantial in nature are illustrated by King David in the bible. As a shepherd David might never have dreamed of doing what he did to Uriah the Hittite. As a king with power and authority however, it has been said that money and power change people. Money and power are a slippery slope which have lead to even the best of us unwittingly committing horrific acts of evil. At some point in time we might acknowledge swords and guns are not best methods to address this. Those methods are only temporary at best. What we are searching for is a permanent and lasting method of addressing evil. The bible gives us many insights and ideas about how evil might be addressed. It might even be said that the bible gives us all of the answers.

Good point. But the best examples are cases which occurred recently. From: https://talkorigins.org/faqs/speciation.html