Frank's Blog

A lot of talk on AI and the future... take time to listen to the outlook from  Google CEO on AI .   With notions of metrics of "smartness".  Ie.  Singularity - AI can regenerate itself passing knowledge to the next generation thereby surpasses human intelligence, leading to rapid and uncontrollable technological advancements. General Intelligence - when machines are as smart as the smartest human in any field. Super Intelligence - AI doesn't need to listen to humans and because it surpasses the sum of all human intelligence. The forecast is that we can not comprehend nor describe the future world made up of super intelligence power with our human language today.  One is tempted to look at humanity relative to "recent times" using today's metrics as the chart below illustrates in the " Human history " and the impact of the Industrial Revolution. We can make any interpretation we wish from such historical insight.  What strikes me is how seeing such ...

I just saw a CNN clip on " manosphere " - the groups of young man fighting against feminism viewpoints.  The more moderate of these manosphere voices come from a more conservative Catholic reference - ie. claiming their interpretation of what the Bible says.   While the more extremist manophere are strongly anti women but not biblically based (ie. its ok to sleep with many women, domination, control, etc.).  The moderate manosphere points out this is just "feminism for men" - ie. just wrong on the Bible and too extremist.    So I'll ignore the extremist voices and hold this space for considering the more *normalized*  traditionalist view of man-women relationships.  While the traditionalist stand on the words Paul - that speak to the sub-role of women to men.  Further, the clip links this manosphere to the wider religious struggles within Catholics (as well as all Christian religions) - the conservative/traditional values versus the more prog...