codeshaman

Very interesting !

I guess it's possible to use a MIDI synthesizer instead of the physical piano to achieve the same result ?

All that's needed is the conversion from the voice spectrum to notes/chords...

The added advantage is that it would be possible to use the pitch wheel to achieve intermediate notes for higher fidelity..

The output can then be processed again and it's pitch changed and so we can create music from synthesized speech. Does this make any sense :) ?

Well, then I guess it's not a law, is it ? If we called Moore's "observation", then it wouldn't feel so tragic?..

#51-#54 have practically the same combination of colors on the flags...

> disparaging everything other people enjoy

I think you're always overgeneralizing everything...

These young people are addicted to their phones and snapchat.

Later on in life, when they 'grow out' of snapchat, they will replace the addiction with something else - some other app, but also food, drugs or sex.

Whatever thing they will find interesting, they will pursue it with the same pattern that they learn with these apps / games.

This future generation will have to find a way to live with all this addictive technology and survive in the real world.

Might well be that Snapchat (and others) will be looked at as we're now looking at cigarettes.

True, mad love is a beautiful experience, maybe the most powerful and satisfying thing that can happen to you.

I have been lucky to have experienced it once and now, 8 years later we still have it in us.

Of course it doesn't manifest in endless nights of looking into each other's eyes, but we still cherish that period as a gift from God himself.

Yes it does resemble an addiction, although maybe it's worth reversing the terms - addiction is actually like "true" love.

Everything in our lives just clicked - we'd just moved to the beautiful city of Barcelona, it was spring time and flowers were in bloom, we had money, more than we could spend and we traveled around and experienced each other through Europe - Paris, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Brussels, Stockholm, Athens, Vienna, ...

Every week in a different city, weather was always great, the food and wine were fantastic - but all that beauty around us was pale in comparison to the look in her eyes.

That look - when this beautiful girl looks at you like you are everything for her and you feel like she's everything for you - like you are the perfect drugs for each other - that is a powerful and fulfilling experience.

That's what it feels like to be blessed.

Our daughter is the result of that love and we often joke that our love was actually the effect of her coming into this world.

Drugs don't really come close to the powerful emotions that we can generate naturally when we are in love - I can only compare it to an MDMA trip that lasts for months...

That love has carried us through the difficult moments of having a child and careers in our modern, artificial society and we would have been separated many times had it not been for those memories.

- Hey John, wtf ? Why are the lights out all over the country ?

- No idea, the president's database server is down...

- And where are the autonomous tanks flying to ?

- Access denied...

- Oh crap, not again..

It may also decide that it's necessary to reduce the population by implementing social purging, starting with the people who disagree with this decision.

Purge everyone who doesn't agree with the purge. 150 milliseconds later, law-enforcement drones and robots start executing.

Nuclear apocalypse ?

Good! There's too many of us already.

6.8 billion phones today means 6.8 billion pieces of high tech garbage a couple of years later, leaking all kinds of toxic shit into the water, plus 6.8 billion new devices manufactured while digging up all kinds of precious materials out of the ground and using oil to transport them all over the world, then burning coal, heating oil and natural gas to melt and glue shit together, and then burn more oil to transport the finished devices to customers all over the world.

That helps climate change, which leads to droughts in places like Brazil, determining people to use bathtubs to catch every drop of rain, were mosquitos breed and then fly around spreading Zika.

More phones and more porn, that's what's needed for a happy future.

/sarcasm

Maybe the depth of knowledge in the AI field wasn't the only reason why he was chosen ?

I know I'm not alone thinking that psychedelics might just be the solution (or key to finding solutions) to a lot of humanity's issues, including climate change, fundamentalism, war..

And it's easy to understand why - because most of humanity's issues are consequences of the spiritual health of every individual living on the planet. If the group, as a whole, is spiritually and morally lost or deceived, things like wars, dictatorships or disregard for nature can and do take place.

If psychedelics can heal individuals, then we can eventually heal the whole of society, which is the proverbial moving on to the next level of global consciousness.

Without any kind of real data, instinctively I feel like the world is going through an explosion of psychedelic use, partly due to music festivals, partly due to dark markets and partly due to the good press and incredible amounts of information available online.

Another interesting aspect is that the users who experienced a powerful personal transformation often feel the need to spread the word and rightfully come to treat them as sacraments.

So I think more and more people will use them, which will hopefully lead us to a peaceful, healthy future.

AI, VR, Robots, Space exploration and Psychedelics .. Interesting times indeed.

Of course it makes no sense - it's a paradox ! But that argument is always a nice touch (and a down vote magnet) - it pisses people off because it makes them feel guilty for reasons that are beyond their control.

But you can think deeper than "earn" and "afford". You don't have to, but it won't hurt if you started looking beyond the linguistic abstractions so conveniently given to us by the media and corporations.

Look up the documentary "Darwin's nightmare", watch it and then look up the Apple iWatch launch event with Christy Turlington and a video of her wearing the iWatch in Tanzania.