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IS CIVILIZATION ABOUT TO COLLAPSE?

Venezuelan Democracy Advocate Maria Corina Machado today received the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize .  Machado is a 58-year old industrial engineer known as Venezuela's Iron Lady, who has led the opposition to authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro, whose last two elections were obviously fixed, and therefore not recognized by many countries, including the USA. The Nobel Committee awarded this prize for  her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy . If Trump wants to be the victor for this medal next year, he should understand that the Nobel Peace Laureate fights dictatorships, not reach out to become one.   Reaction from  Time  magazine?   TRUMP LOSES NOBEL PEACE PRIZE HE SHAMELESSLY CAMPAIGNED FOR . Donald Trump was no doubt disappointed, but shouldn't have been because the winner is decided most on what that person accomplished i...

WHAT IS AI'S VIEW OF GOD AND THE AFTERLIFE?

GPT-3 was asked, does God exist?   You can click on that to get the answer.  Very closely reflects my views.  GPT-3 is the third generation Generative Pre-trained Transformer developed by OpenAI. Okay, but before I delve further into this subject, what do some human thinkers think about the existence of God and an afterlife? Here is  Michio Kaku 14 years ago on God .  Close to my thoughts. Today, he says he believes in the  God of Einstein . So what is the  God of Einstein ? Einstein was an agnostic, but not an atheist. He also did not believe in an afterlife. But he believed in Spinoza's God. So what is  Spinoza's God ?  Good luck attempting to comprehend this form of metaphysics. What about the richest person in world, Elon Musk?   We have similar conceptualizations. What about  ChatGPT , which is a chatbot developed by OpenAI ( Sam Altman's company ) and has over 100 million users.  Here is where it gets somewhat abstruse: C...

QUANTUM COMPUTERS ARE HERE

The quantum computer is here.   Transition : The earliest intelligent life might have used fingers to compute. The Lebombo bone, dating back 35,000 BC, had 29 distinct notches. The Sumerian abacus appeared around 2500 BC.  China only used this device around the year zero. Several analog computers go back to around 150 BC in Greece with the astrolabe. In 1206 came the first programmable computer, a clock. Soon thereafter, the  equatorium .  Here is one by Johannes Schoner in the 16th century. The slide rule was invented around 1620 in England. Germany designed the first calculating machine in 1623. In 1645 Blaise Pascal invented a mechanical calculator. Gottfried von Leibniz dabbled with a binary numeral system around 1675, the means by which all modern computers now work. In 1822 Charles Babbage's machines used the decimal system, and so did ENIAC in 1945. When I taught computer programming half a century ago, I used punched cards, something invented in 1804 by ...