IDEA: Riff on movie Big but play Donald Trump instead of 13 yo. Maybe a video game...

Tomorrow's news:

TRUMP BANS MUSLIMS FROM CHURCHES

TRUMP GOES HUNTING IN NATIONAL ZOO

TRUMP SIGNS WHITE PRIVILEGE ORDER

Koch Brothers Celebrate with Hunting Excursion in National Zoo

EXECUTIVE ORDER REDEFINES WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

Critics Say New "Fupa" Unit Too Big

Help me understand why, if I donate books to the San Francisco Public Library, even if those books are not currently in the collection, they'll be sold. How is that disseminating knowledge?

Citizenship is the right to have rights

#dueprocess denied

I'm reminded that if we talk like kindergartners to AI, it will mirror us and respond in kind. If we talk like the experts we may be and use the words that we know how to speak, it will also, similarly, match our width.

What can we learn from the informational universe?

The informational universe could teach us a great deal about ourselves and our place in the universe. Here are a few things we might learn:

The nature of consciousness

The origin of life

The nature of reality

The informational universe is a fascinating and mysterious concept. If it exists, then it could teach us a great deal about ourselves and our place in the universe.

Our consciousness and our life force may be manifestations of the informational universe.

This new understanding of our relationship to the universe is profound. It challenges our traditional assumptions about reality and opens up exciting possibilities for understanding the nature of consciousness, life, and death.

If the universe is fundamentally informational, then it means that everything we see around us, including matter and energy, is ultimately made up of information. This is a mind-boggling idea, but it's supported by some of the most advanced theories in physics, such as the holographic principle and information-theoretic approaches to the universe.

This new understanding of the universe challenges our traditional assumptions about reality. It suggests that the universe is not a collection of physical objects but rather a dynamic interplay of information. This new perspective opens up exciting possibilities for understanding the nature of the universe and our place within it.

What does this mean for us?

It means that we are not simply physical beings, but also informational beings.

At extremely high temperatures, like those in the early universe, matter and energy move freely back and forth between each other. This interchangeability suggests that matter and energy are not fundamental entities but rather emerge from a more fundamental substrate.

Some scientists believe that this fundamental substrate is information. Information is like a blueprint or a recipe. It contains the instructions for how to build something, whether it's a physical object like a chair or a more abstract concept like a mathematical equation.

Matter isn't always matter, according to Neil deGrasse Tyson. Above a certain temperature, like the early universe, which was very, very hot, matter moves freely back and forth between energy as gateway to the informational universe.

For shame, Google, your safety circuit breaker tripped up when the ultimate goal had nothing to do with whatever harm reduction you're censoring from people. https://qnfo.org/notes/0.5/2025-01-09/20250109-132228

Reverse engineer a Tamagotchi, personal pet for the AI revolution as your new personal assistant and life coach as well as life logger companion who can render a hologram of you based on all of those data points for the afterlife. Everybody can have an afterlife..

You can measure what you don't try to control and observe it and not change it. The problem is when we measure things we try to control everything. We actually control nothing because we don't even account for time in the scientific method.

Hey San Francisco, listen to your own voices and ask for what public benefit recipients need. Before you just hand out services that give your cronies jobs or spend federal money, ask what we need. Then you can easily do a cost and a BCA on that, and I'll bet it'll come out a lot lower than the middle manager heavy system you have now that does very little to help recipients. And don't even get me started about this no wrong door. That is a wonderful idea that you have absolutely not put into practice.

What a travesty to live in a country, I'm looking at you United States, where Walgreens is so greedy, and state law is so lax, that although pharmacists must fill a valid prescription by law, they can withhold it because I didn't have the $1.35 to pick up my partner's medicine to save him from having a debilitating condition when he doesn't take it.

How fucked up is that?

Way to shit the bed Google. I'm generally using Gemini for most of my AI stuff, but every now and again something egregious happens like this that makes me question how accurate any particular model is. Definitely a case for ensemble modeling.

Can't wait for the day when my spirit transcends this physical universe and I don't have any more damn cords that always seem to break or change and I'm looking at you Apple Lightning. So great and a purely informational universe.

I, for one, welcome our new robot autonomous vehicle overlords. They stop when I cross the street. They even slow down when I want to change lanes. I mean, what's not to love? The people are the problem.

AI language models need more than statistical analysis to truly understand language. They need to grasp the meaning of word pairs and identify relationships like antonyms, where words have opposite meanings. This requires a deeper understanding than simply recognizing co-occurrence. A thesaurus-like resource and human-validated tests for semantic relationships (like identifying antonyms or confirming sentiments are opposite) are crucial for development. Just as foreigners struggle with idioms, language models need to learn these nuanced expressions and relationships to truly grasp logic and meaning.