The Baboon Room

“Predicting the future is stupid, preparing for alternative futures is better, creating your best future is best”

– Socrates (aka Nikola Danaylov)

Make sure to subscribe to his podcast Singularity.FM

First Interview with an International Best Seller!!

About the book:  “For generations, humanity stared at the vastness of the oceans and wondered, “What if?” Today, having explored the curves of the Earth, we now stare at endless stars and wonder, “What if?” Our technology has brought us to the make-or-break moment in human history. We can either grow complacent, and go extinct like the dinosaurs, or spread throughout the cosmos, as Carl Sagan dreamed of.

What if your toothbrush becomes smarter than you? What happens to your business, your country, your planet and yourself? What if your car doesn’t need a driver anymore? What if we don’t need to age and die? What if machines are smarter than us? What if, instead of fear of the future – you see opportunity, instead of an end – you see a beginning, instead of loss – you see profit, and instead of death – you see life? What if you and your organization get future-primed?

For many years Nikola Danaylov has been interviewing the future and motivating people all over the world to embrace rather than fear it. “Conversations with the Future” was born from those interviews and Nik’s unceasing need to explore “What If” with some of the most forward thinking visionaries in the world today.”

Pick his book up on Amazon HERE

Things Discussed

“Go Slow To Go Fast”

Open A.I.

Asilomar Accords

Life Extension, Aubrey Degrey Ted Talk for synopsis 

Universal Basic Income – Follow Scott Santens on twitter

Ray Kuzweil – Project Michelangelo??

Deep Mind – Alpha Go Ahead Of Schedule

David Ferruci – Wason Developer, now working for Wallstreet

A.I. Black Box Problem – We don’t even know HOW the bigger data set AIs are doing what they are doing.

My theory about leaving breadcrumbs from the end of the movie HER.

 

 

 

 

 

A.  if yer here WATCH the interview it was incredibly fun and i learned alot

B. SUBSCRIBE TO HER YOUTUBE!!! doitnowditnowdoitnow

Hi, this is Greg from So Local Pasco.

I step in and write words when Corey is too busy being an awesome super music ninja podcaster charity Jedi. He is doing all that, today. Literally from sunrise, to late tonight, he will be talking and laughing, and strumming and looping through our community. He’s kind of catalytic.

He tried hard to teach me some lessons, today. I just want you all to understand, I am working hard to be fair, and friendly, and kind. I know I don’t always meet that standard. I want us to be okay, all of us.

Anyway, listen to us hash out the terms for honest dealing with friends and others. The terms seem to be, we have to be honest, but we don’t have to be jerks about it.

 

@robotoverlordz on twitter

Mike n matt joined me for a wide ranging introduction chat.   We nerded out HOURD. 

Make sure to check out the #CoffeeOnTheDock where i read about Mike’s take on Media Bias.   Or just read his article HERE.

– Overlordz Origin Story

– TedX Naperville.  WAYNESWORLDS neighboor.

– Ted Talk Swimming w Sharks

– Heather? KATE?

– Sally Hubbard, women killing it.  hg

– Nikola Danaylov  ai ethics

– Mike1: big data amazon recommendations fail

– fb contagion experiment

– movie ‘pig’

– movie ‘her’

– movie A.I.  ‘machine’

– terminator – ai not smart

– eye contact w oculus rift porn ‘slight creepy’ but ‘more intense’

– book – Richard Macmanus ‘Presence’

–  control scheme for VR lacking

– youtube:  old people look at VR porn.  

– youtube grannies try pot

– Kevin kelley, book, The Inevitable overlordz episode

–  mostly about ‘ownership’

– tracking’ trend

– post capitalism wont happen until the AI takes over

– creative commons, fair use

– twitter is a firehose, symbol of the abundance mindset

– the demise of Google Reader (I loved that too!)

– trekonomics book, Manuu Saadia on twitter

– twitter no0b discussion

– share music and good content instead of corporate garbage

– mellenials requiring validation

– married people don’t know how to effin get back to people!!

– Being intentional with ones time.

– #BaboonRoomChallenge

– Try Something New For 30 Days (ted talk)

– Helicotpter parenting vs free range parenthing,

– Corey wants to bug out on a sailboat.

– Stranger Things

This is what CNN‘s Brooke Baldwin wanted to know: “Why are you and your team there in #Fallujah, risking your lives?”

The answer is simple: “Because we go to the hard places, the places no one else will go, to love the ones that no one else will love. These 86,000 men, women, and children who are starving in the desert—we’re out there, trying to get them the food, water, and shelter that they desperately need. They’re the same kinds of things that you and I would want if we’d been driven from our homes and forced to live in these nightmarish situations.”  – From Preemptive Love’s FB page

This episode of the Baboon Room made me cry.   Twice.    Not with sadness, though a lot of suffering is discussed, but from a new, higher sense of hope.   A hope that we just might see then end of senseless bloodshed, and even if we don’t, that there are warriors of a different kind surrounding the battlefields, warriors of love, and forgiveness, those who see the fury and the hate and the violence and run towards it to feed the innocents and the enemy alike.  Those who @LoveAnyway.

Talking to Ash Gallagher, @beatnikjouno and Preemptive Love Coalition’s co-founder Jeremy Court, @Jcourt was perhaps one of the greatest privileges of my life.    It is an absolute honor to be able to help them share their message.   They are in different places IN IRAQ! Instead of lengthy show notes, I beg you to go listen.  To ponder Carefully.  Then to Take Action.  The mission Jeremy leaves us with is simple, beautiful, and absolutely anyone can get it done THIS WEEK.

Learn more about the The SisterHood Of Soap.

DONATE to Preemptive Love – The money goes to feeding the starving, heart surgeries (etc) for kids, and helping people displaced by war create sustainable economic futures.

“But you’ve never stopped because something is hard. That’s when you lean in. That’s when you love more.

Syria is hard… but you go to the hard places. You’re the first to show up and the last to leave. Let’s show the people of Syria they are not forgotten or alone”

 

Notes:   New spots today from podcast friends, Old Still Radio Show and Thinking Outside the LongBox! They’re fun.

* I’m a #TwitterNoob

* We visited the Trulieve Medical Canabis Dispensary with a gaggle of Pasco County admin types and County Commissioner Mike Wells.  It was kindof a big deal.   Pasco is wondering whether it should lift a moratorium on even looking at what kind of Regs they’d want for dispensaries in the county, in our view shooting themselves in the economic dev. foot every second they dither.   They were dithering.   Now some of them are actively seeking accurate information.   Which is RAD.

*  We rediscover the word .  You’re welcome.

* The VA is changing their rules so doctors can recommend Cannabis in states where its legal!!

* 90 Day Rule – Med Pot is going to pass in Fl for a slightly larger set of conditions.   If you see an accredited doctor you WILL NOT have access to fill orders at dispensaries for 90 days.  Disney dont want no Pot Tourism.   Because their dumb as rocks.  Imagine the food sales??  sheesh.

* NOT covered by your insurance.

* Good news! You can get pot legally in FL right now?  But only if you’re terminal.  Bad News, Yer Gonna Die!  ahem.  sorry.  this was funnier in the show.

* For a list of accredited doctors hit the Office of Compassionate Care, Fl

* Is it true if you use med pot you cant buy a gun?  for real?

* There are ALOT fo other great links on Solocal Pasco’s Episode Page

* Heh, did you hear?  Global Warming is almost exactly correlated with the DECREASE in pirates.    WE NEED MORE PIRATES!!

* Number of deaths by Cannabis Overdose in the history of the world. ZERO.

* …

* SERIOUSLY.

* Zero.

* The County Commissioners really are trying.  They just have alot to learn.  The ones choosing to actually learn it are RAD.   And thank you to them.

* Partly they are scared that Pasco was the epicenter of the Oxy Pill Mill plague.   Oops.

* Sasquatch.   SWEET BABY JESUS I SHOULD BE ARRESTED.   I cant help myself.   i brought it up.  Just to rile up the Voice Of God.

* It worked.

 

 

 

People

Mike Johnston –    One of the OverLordz of the Robots.  All around nice guy and genius.  Writer of awesome pieces like the one we read on Watch @ #CoffeeOnTheDock, Media Bias. Read It!

Mike Wells Junior – Pasco County Commissioner

Greg Smithwick   –    The Voice of God, and in this instance, the Mover of Destiny!!  Also Pasco County’s Willie Nelson.  (incidently he came out as a Med Cannibis user on his podcast  the next morning… so… also… Dignified, Courageous Badass.

Nikola Danaylov   –   International Singularity Podcast King  –          Here’s

Denise Houston   – Fiesty Grandma and Medical Cannabis Advocate

Jack Mariano –  He’s the guy who works for the County Sheriff right?  Jk.  He Doesnt.  We’re almost certain thats just rumor.

Right from the jump we are treated to a story of how Nikola Danaylov, aka Socrates, ripped the co-founder of Skype a new one because they forgot the RECORD button, and Yann was like… i gots 100 millions dollars, not my chair, not my problem.   

We have some nerd listeners, cough, hi mom, cough cough, so we spent some time covering terms.   ANI, AGI, ASI, Technological Singularity,  Fermi paradox,  y’know… the usual

Ai Ethics.   When should your locked up, sandboxed Oracle AI get rights as a sentient being?  Spoiler: we dont know.  

Oh… Nikola Danaylov looks and sounds like a bond villain.   For realz.   Super nice guy!!   Looks and sounds like a bond villain.  

We go deep on AI, because obviously

Also talked podcast tips, since we’re still pretty much No0bs.  Podcasting/Blogging tips from Socrates

Nikola Danaylov is OBSESSED with Green Octopi, thinks the Beatles – Yellow Submarine might be to blame.

Briefly discussed the EM-Drive, because i am an expert.

I am not an expert.   

But you can find all reasonable links HERE, its my way-too-long blog post about all things EM-Drive that basically no one but God (ahem voiced by Greg Smithwick) cares about.  Don’t click on this, it’ll just encourage me to obsess over topics and write more.

 

Quotes

“Idiocy and Brilliance are roomates” – Danaylov

“Maybe Moores Law should be more about price/performance than the number of transistors you can fit on the head of a pin?” – Corey… im so witty… oh so witty… ahem.  What?

“I am really worried about a world where 90% of all nuclear weapons are in the hands of Putin and Trump” – Danaylov

“Its all fun and games until you divide Poland down the middle”  – Corey

People    (most of these are linked to Singularity 1 on 1interviews!!

Jann Tallinn – No longer his Skype Chair, not his problem.   

Roman Yampolskiy – AI systems engineer, focusing on what the actual fuck we should do, we are FAN

Ray Kurzweil – Father of the Technological Singularity Theory?

Peter Diamandis – Singularity University, X-prize, other stuff

Kevin Kelley  – Inspirational thinker and writer, intentional user of tools

David Brin – Killer Sci-Fi writer,  Uplift series is TIGHT

Calum Chase – Great AI writer, also now my buddy on Twitter… that a thing right?

Greg Bear  – Sci-Fi writer dude

Noam Chomsky – Intellectual Rabble Rouser and PooPoo-er on my optimism

Aubrey De Grey – Cross between Rasputin and Jesus that might kill death.

Update 1: Link to the German teams results that found that it worked per Shawyers estimates in 2015

UPDATE 2:   I found a guy who figured out just how fast we might go if we could achieve constant 1g (1 earth gravity) acceleration!  And Holy Shit!!

w a constant 1g acceleration (and flipping and burning to de-accelerate it would take just 2 freaking days to get to mars at its closest. 2 days????

The Moon / Luna: Closest to Earth (Supermoon): Travel time  3h 20m 24s

Mars: Closest to Earth: 65 million km Travel time :  1d 21h 13m 1s

Jupiter: Closest to Earth: 588 million km Travel time : 5d 16h 2m 2s

Its also estimated we could get up to .5 C (thats half lightspeed) in about a year.   Tougher to go faster because mass starts increasing exponentially.  But still.   Interstellar travel in dozens of years instead of hundreds or tens of thousands.

So this is a first.  Following in the footsteps of the man i’m about to thank in the most epic way possible, i’m going to start writing blog posts to go along w the podcast.  This is a tad intimidating since the BaboonRoom usually lasts at least an hour, but so what???  This blog post is a long re-cap of the FB video cast that can be found above. Or HERE.  Having no real clue how to begin, lets just… y’know…. Begin.

 

Today’s guest is Greg Smithwick from the increasingly popular Solocal Pasco Podcast.  We discussed briefly that though his numbers fluctuate daily, month over month things are getting real serious in the best possible way!!!   I wanted to thank him for taking the Baboon Room under his wing and helping me get my shiz together!   The best way i could think of to do that was to read him a slightly edited version of this:

I highly recommend finding someone you really like and reading this to them out loud

Corey and Greg talk about #baboonroomchallenge, new show ideas, National Anthem protests, and more.

Oh, also: Corey becomes Greg’s first ‘Interesting Story’ subject!

The second of seven parts of Corey and Fin’s EPIC AI discussion.

Headed to AGI,

Artificial GENERAL Intelligence.

What follows is more a companion piece to the audio podcast than an actual blog post.  Best served in combination.  From the intro, FOR SURE go subscribe to the Singularity 1 on 1 podcast and blog.   Socrates has interviewed basically EVERYONE in the Artificial & Singularity space, not least of which Ray Kurzweil himself! Being able to pick his brain next week is an absolute gift!  Here’s a taste:

Stay Tuned!

Searching for Bobby Fisher Reference re talking about Intuition being CHUNKING in the brain. In the book The Art of Learning.

ASI – Artificial Super Intelligence