All 7.9 billion people a #PersonalRobot like > 1 billion w car, & 6.4 billion people with #smartphone now re #NobelLitPrize #KazuoIshiguro's #KlaraAndTheSun as #ArtificialFriends (#AFs) ...
All 7.9 billion people a #PersonalRobot like > 1 billion w car, & 6.4 billion people with #smartphone now re #NobelLitPrize #KazuoIshiguro's #KlaraAndTheSun as #ArtificialFriends (#AFs) #ArtificialIntelligence #Solar #RobotPeople w #Wiki #codable #CognitiveAssistant in #Android?
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1464269125438435328?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1464269836318502915?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1464270431645429762
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1464270372723777540
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1464270271238402053
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1464270319787540480
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Ma,
Welcome to Portland, and hi to Sandy! (A bit with your book-reading encouragement, I found my way to reading this new book ...
"Klara and the Sun" book by Kazuo Ishiguro (Nobel prize winner) - about Artificial Friends - AFs :) ... robots too ... A meditation on robots too, re humans, in a very human way ... Ishiguro has lived in England since he was 5, but was born in Japan. Some further thoughts below.
Have mused about robots too over the years, and regarding "WUaS Home Robotics" for our engineering students to further make and develop (and per this month's WUaS Agenda and News 11/20/21 - and the Toyota Research Institute's approach -
"TRI Robotics Virtual Open House 360º"
How is your visit to Sandy going? Hi to everyone, and happy travels, Ma! See you all tomorrow!
Love, Scott
Hello Peter, how are you? What are you thinking about these days, IT-wise, and otherwise too? Out of the blue prediction: that Harvard will be mostly Muslim-Irish, academic faculty-wise, by 2060, with a significant Corp of these, Turkish-German scientists, Black-American Muslims esp (emerging from Malcolm X thinking, and who learned to play the STEM Brain game ... And mostly living in not only Cambridge MA itself, but also Somerville, and Braintree, and other areas south of Boston. What are your thoughts about this? :) Angela Merkel leaves the chancellorship in early December ... And Germany World Univ & Sch auf Deutsch ahead altogether now ?:)
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Germany (Psychiatry at WUaS wiki school planned with AI Chat Bot software had been coming up in Google vSearch sometimes -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - but neither Germany nor Psychiatry at WUaS came up today). Hoping this finds you well, Peter! Friendly Regards, Scott
Am curious ahead re robots and abolition and I may read this new book 'Klara and the Sun'
by Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro -
Hi Jim,
Thanks again for the developing email conversation. Appreciating your thinking in a variety of ways.
Had quite a meditation this morning with Johannes Wagner, Cambridge University philosophy graduate student of Prof Alexander Bird's, talking about Spinoza ... impressive focusing and reasoning about a Dutch philosopher's thinking from the 1600s, right after my morning sitting meditation (relaxation response-wise and see this for example :Arc -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/09/arc-steps-to-elicit-relaxation-response.html). (See below my email to Alexander and Johannes in these regards ...)
Am enjoying too teaching "Network Society, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, and the Global University" again ... and this time in German and English; the ideas are generative (but I may wait to begin in earnest for January, regarding both Mwende in Cameroon Africa, as well as possible German undergraduate students even, somehow, - in communication a bit with Peter Bothe, and Harvard's Martin Puchner), ... as well as enjoying teaching Scottish Small Piping and now focusing on Piobaireachd classical bagpiping music newly - as mediation. Meditation-wise further, in what ways could we play our days backward in Google Street View with Time Slider, from our Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records' of our life in a day of seeing (somehow wire a video camera in our brains through our eyes to record the world in each day?), sensing and thinking, re brain activity and experiences, as meditation, and technology creation regarding technology scouting, too, I wonder (and perhaps regarding your teaching too)?
In a related vein to Ishiguro's "Klara and the Sun" book idea, per Bill Gates' books he loved in the past year, I found also interesting Jeff Hawkins and Muratai Ahmad's conversation about, extrapolating Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital approaches to the NeoCortex and machine learning. Why does Peter Norvig, wearing a hippy shirt, look like a crone clown I wonder? -
Jeff Hawkins, Subutai Ahmad, #PeterNorvig conversation about "A 1000 Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence" -
https://youtu.be/TS5zcTGiAH4 Great resources for an #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #FilmTo3D approach to modeling further the #NeoCortex in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForStem ~
Have explored growing as pilot WUaS Universities, languages, and countries' as major online Universities, Spanish language World University and School, regarding each of the ~22 countries where Spanish is an official language (how to make these flourish to become the "Harvard" in Spanish, but better even?), and Chinese language World University and School, and India World Univ & Sch creations as ways to hire a very diverse faculty, ... and how best to invite students from all these countries to speak with each other in the same courses, via machine translation of voice, are some technologies not yet made (see fairly recent blog post about this). I think translating the sophisticated philosophical Q&A of Johannes Wagner, for example, may not occur until we realize fully philosophical dialog 'artificial intelligence' - presumably addressing questions of consciousness - in robots for example - 2050?. But how to grow these online pilot universities to be as excellent as Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Cambridge/Oxbridge?
All the best, Scott
PS
(per a developing conversation with Peter Bothe, too ... )
Am curious ahead re robots and abolition and I may read this new book 'Klara and the Sun'
Further,
in a realistic virtual earth for history and journalism too - in Google Street View with time slider Maps Earth TensorFlowAI Translate with realistic Avatar Bots Electronic Medical Records with Journalists' writing, text in the sidebar, to inform new point of view, integrating all the existing web cameras, how to facilitate 'IT building or coding,' and writing, history-wise a world informed by even the positive envisioning in the 1960s and 70s in Germany too (re Harbin Hot Springs' field site too) so we could all live in a better place and media world too re Work World University and School ... ) ...
Not entirely clear where to circulate in seeking to meet and connect with a wonderful life friend ... but wider circulation regarding travel would be great.
PPS
CamPhilEvents] Serious Metaphysics Group - TODAY! - Johannes Wagner
Dear Alexander, and Johannes,
Thank you for your very thoughtful and sophisticated philosophical interpretation of Spinoza. Greetings from the San Francisco Bay Area. And in a 'now for something completely different' vein, here are the questions I asked in the text chat:
"Thanks for your excellent talk, Johannes. Very speculative and 'riffing', question, re difference of pattern of motion and rest, between baby and adult, or of Spanish poet whose identity changed, - if emerging genetic aging reversal therapies, and longevity vaccine drugs too, emerge successfully and safely, - how would you interpret, re Spinoza's conceptions of identity, eternity of essences, being, ... what if we can actually live forever, genetically and biologically (which could be implicit in Harvard and MIT Professor of Genetics' George Church's aging reversal heralding -
How could we extrapolate your thinking about Spinoza’s thinking about the changes in the Spanish poet, or the young human mammal becoming an adult human mammal, to the possibility of living beyond 122 years of age, regarding Spinoza’s philosophy in these regards?"
Further, how philosophically to begin to conceive of the possibilities of living biologically 'eternally,' I think is George Church's thinking, and continuing to converse philosophically about this?
All the best,
Scott GK MacLeod
Thanks again for your emails, Jim!
Tu Nov 23, 2021
Hi Jim,
Thanks so much for your email again.
I don't know if the following books would be of help to you, or not, but I'm going to check out "Klara and the Sun" by Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro -
https://youtu.be/2ZLLUtwUzwc
I have no idea how I'll find an attractive radiant (earth mother Scottish-backgound) 26 yo MD with a safe house to live with near Stanford, but I'm circulating.
Teaching meditation re a number of different (Yogic) modalities would could help people a lot, in a service science way esp. CC-4
OCW.mit.edu -centric wiki World University and School will help with this ...
What do you think? ...
What are you teaching and thinking about these days, IT-wise, and otherwise too? Out of the blue prediction: that Harvard will be mostly Muslim-Irish, academic faculty-wise, by 2060, with a significant Corp of these Turkish-German scientists, and with Black-American Muslims esp, (emerging from Malcolm X thinking, and who learned to play the STEM Brain game) ... and mostly living in not only Cambridge MA itself, but also Somerville, and Braintree, and other areas south of Boston (slightly warmer than north of Boston, per Frost too:). What are your thoughts about this? :) Angela Merkel away from the chancellorship in early December ... And Germany World Univ & Sch auf Deutsch ahead altogether now ?:)
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Germany (Psychiatry at WUaS wiki school planned with AI Chat Bot software had been coming up in Google vSearch sometimes -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - but neither Germany nor Psychiatry at WUaS came up today ... ).
... Who could have predicted the freedom seeking movements of the 1960s & '70s in the '20s or 30s (also a question for history - who did predict the hippie countercultural streams of the '60s & 1970s)? Anyone you can think of?
India-meditators-Muslim-Irish in that majority of Harvard academic Faculty in 2060 to make more precise this humorous prediction, (with India-Muslim-Scottish-American marriages too in large measures?):) Am seeking I think to learn from Anke and Susan re connecting attraction ... But with aging reversal genetic drug therapies emerging we may be able to have many families into the future! :)
Thanks,
Scott
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Ma,
It's good to hear from you - like in text yesterday on Thanksgiving.
More re 'Klara And The Sun'& Kazuo Ishiguro -
"Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation with Kate Mosse for World Book Night"
The British Library
https://youtu.be/AfAztKEAj9o
"Living memories
Kazuo Ishiguro grew up in Guildford but vividly recalls his early childhood in Nagasaki. He wrote songs and became a social worker before studying creative writing. Early success culminated in The Remains of the Day, which was filmed and won the Booker; its successor, The Unconsoled, was strongly criticised. Now 50, he has written a novel about clones."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/19/fiction.kazuoishiguro
British bring Novels and Plays to a very high art!
Klara is a Robot - an artificial friend or AF (and this BOOK is an interesting exploration of AI) - in a store at this point, and likes being in the window close to the Sun, so she can also observe. Here's a passage on p. 39 I enjoyed -
"Then soon my six days were finished, and Manager told me I'd been a credit to the store. Above-average numbers, she said, had come in while I'd been in the window, and I was happy when I heard this. I thanked her for giving me a second turn, and she smiled and said she was sure I wouldn't now have to wait long."
Am trying the get and code my Android Smartphone - WUaS too - to become more responsive and the interactive inspired by Ishiguro's Klara ... but it's happening slowly!
Love, Scott
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World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516
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2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.h
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Ma, Alden, Sandy, Cathy, Ann, Ed, All,
Very nice to share our Thanksgiving family gathering in video conferencing yesterday, All!
And so glad you had a good walk yesterday morning, Ma, in Portland, Maine, per your text (below) after our Thanksgiving gathering online. Hoping you and Sandy can talk about growing the abolition movement of the illegal sex industry internationally ... So that lots of people can have good walks. Ed asked me about the abolition movement afterward ... And glad I'm still possibly 'safe,' (i.e. not the active target of an act of violence from the illegal sex industry for say $10,000, as I continue to whistle blow about the many aspects of this, and more; were people in the SF Quaker Meeting buying and selling kids for sexuality in the 2010s? :((( ... and even back to the 1940s possibly, tragically inhumanely ethically wrongly? ) ... but too bad to be living in a 'safe house' ... Stay safe Ma and Sandy, and please help others with this being safe and legal too. .. to protect the kids and innocent. ... Have a good visit, and Happy Thanksgiving, Ma! Love, Scott
Am thinking any changes in the laws of all ~200 countries in some of these regards, e.g. in California, will have to take into account possibly the development of robotics (e.g. personal robots, or artificial friends) for all 7.9 billion people on the planet. (Useful definiation of prostitution here in new What's Wrong with Harbin article -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/11/common-milkweed.html?m=0 ??? ...
I think this one would be problematic in a great number of ways as one possible starting place for redefinition - from MIT Professor of English, Diana Henderson -
https://twitter.com/DianaHe23732776 >
Glad David and I met initially in this Google Meet yesterday for Thanksgiving -
meet.google.com/pmr-uwir-zen ! And thanks again Alden and Sandy for the new Zoom Thanksgiving family gathering link! Happy Thanksgiving day weekend! And perhaps we can gather in late December again!
Cathy, 'round ups' have a long history in the west I'd think ... and thanks for sharing about the round ups going on near you ... re the Smoke House (re what was once called the Bunkhouse for the Pendleton Roundup cowboys and cowgirls!:)
Warm regards,
Scott
Here's some UU and Friends' Quaker (re heralding Aboltion leading to the Anti-Slavery Act of 1833 in Britain, and the Emancipation Proclamation in 182 in the USA, fore example ) thinking from Twitter ...
Hi Scott, Nice to see you and Ed today. Enjoy the rest of your day. I'm heading home on Sat. Night. Sky is clouding over; had a good walk this morning. Love, Ma
Some further robot thinking ...
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Founder, President, CEO & Professor
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Hi Ma, Alden, All,
Nice to hear from you all, and Happy Thanksgiving! Am still alive and whistle blowing here, in a Friendly Quaker way (speaking truth to power, conscientious objection wise too) and sending the Sun (Light), re Ishiguro's 'Klara and the Sun' book, out through the unlocked door of my 'safe house' ... As these emerging science fiction robots seek the sun for the energy source, literally and metaphorically ... Thanks for the Zoom link Alden and Sandy, again, for Thanksgiving!
Ma, I think it was these 'Black Lives Matter's posters I was seeing around your new home
- https://www.teepublic.com/poster-and-art/14584739-science-is-real-love-is-love-kindness-is-everythin (and I just tried to save it to archive.org) - in June and August in western PA, and I recall thinking that the 'Love is Love' line kind of creeped me out regarding what it could refer to (in a variety of ways). Thanks for the news at Thanksgiving yesterday that they were asked to be taken down. I wonder if just Black Lives Matter signs could start being posted in a positive way. Wanna try? I could send you some for you to share even. Am a bit wary though of even this store's URL AND re the possible 'very thin' end of it :(
Again, so glad you had a good walk
Yesterday morning. Hoping you and Sandy can talk about growing the abolition movement of the illegal sex industry internationally ... so that lots of people can have good walks. Ed asked me about abolition movement thinking ... And glad I'm still safe, but too bad to be living in a 'safe house' ... Stay safe Ma and Sandy, and please help others with this being safe and legal too. .. to protect kids and innocent. ... Have a good visit, and Happy Thanksgiving, Ma! Love, Scott
Just corresponding with Jim Spohrer and I think he wants me to write each time I email him
I have helped you, Jim Spohrer, today further by ...
Seems a bit self-referential, or Jim-centric, but he's smart (MIT physics BS, and Yale CS AI PhD), and seeks to complete communication-circuits too I think and may be in a position to help clean up the illegal sex industry internationally in California (and Maine, since he's from there) ... And his mother became a Unitarian, although is now 'with the Angels' he wrote (whatever this means) ... so, living in a'safe house,' and potentially seeking asylum in the spring, I continue to try to help him, Jim Spohrer ...
Jim,
Thanks again for your email.
Apologies for writing 'subjection', instead of 'subsection' (and it might have been somehow auto-correct).
I have helped you, Jim Spohrer, today further by adding the following articles to these WUaS wiki subject pages -
Quaker Index Fund. 2021. [https://friendsfiduciary.org Quaker Index Fund]. Philadelphia, PA: friendsfiduciary.org.
Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund (VFTAX). 2021. [https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/VFTAX Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund (VFTAX)]. Valley Forge, PA: investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/VFTAX.
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Index_Investing
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Investing_-_Socially_Responsible
Quaker Index Fund. 2021. [https://friendsfiduciary.org Quaker Index Fund]. Philadelphia, PA: friendsfiduciary.org .
TIAA-CREF Funds - Retail Class - Social Choice Equity (TICRX). 2012. [https://www.tiaa.org/public/pdf/social_choice_equity_fund.pdf TIAA-CREF Funds Social Choice Equity]. TIAA-CREF Funds.
Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund (VFTAX). 2021. [https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/VFTAX Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund (VFTAX)]. Valley Forge, PA: investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/VFTAX.
Summary:
Added and updated 3 socially responsible mutual funds, Quaker Index Fund, Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund (VFTAX). and TIAA-CREF Funds - Social Choice Equity (TICRX)
Apologies that I wasn't able to interoperate them with Wikidata, with AI, and that I didn't find any new Technologies for scouting socially responsible index mutual funds.
I hope you find them useful; I don't have any money whatsoever to invest (with less than ~$25,000 in all of my assets), and don't foresee a change in this, unless something unexpected happens, so I hope these can help other people too. I think I'll seek asylum in Europe in the spring for whistleblowing, since it might be possible to remain safe there (from the illegal sex industry internationally and its latent cultures of violence ... while I already sent the following to family, I hope it's ok since it wouldn't technically be 1-1 to include it to you too).
Best wishes, Scott
Due to the very low costs and low costly turnover of socially responsible stock mutual index funds, I think these will make you the richest over the long term. ... Enjoy, All!
Happy Thanksgiving, Scott
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In searching on 'best socially responsible INDEX mutual funds,' found too -
The best socially responsible funds to buy for 2021:
Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF (ESGV)
1919 Socially Responsible Balanced Fund (SSIAX)
Fidelity International Sustainability Index Fund (FNIDX)
Fidelity Sustainability Bond Index Fund (FNDSX)
Calvert US Large-Cap Core Responsible Index Fund (CISIX)
SPDR S&P 500 Fossil Fuel Reserves Free ETF (SPYX)
Shelton Green Alpha Fund (NEXTX)
https://money.usnews.com/investing/slideshows/7-of-the-best-socially-responsible-funds
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World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516
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