21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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SPONTANEOUS EMERGENCE. “Occasional, sporadic cases of prion diseases arise in middle or old age, presumably because there is a very small but real chance that pN can spontaneously flip to pD; the cumulative likelihood of such a flip grows over the years.” https://lnkd.in/dkdVKcb View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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TRANSMISSION. “Prions can be transmitted, possibly by eating and certainly by inoculation either directly into the brain or into skin and muscle tissue. Exponential amplification of the prion (converting pN into pD in the body) would then result in disease.” https://lnkd.in/dkdVKcb View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2019-11-16 04:25:30

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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE concludes this weekend on the theme of prions. Biologists have insisted on trying to achieve a tidy paradigm for nature, conforming to various simple laws; but three glaring examples defy this simplicity. These are prions, viruses and transposons. And, if you dig deeper, almost certainlly, biological molecules themselves, within the orchestrated milieu of the cell. " "11 View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2019-11-15 05:49:08

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DUAL USE TECHNOLOGY. “We have argued that AI poses an existential threat to humanity. On the other hand, with more intelligence we can hope for quicker, better solutions to many of our problems. When considering the likely consequences of superhuman AI, we must respect both risk and opportunity.” https://lnkd.in/dAZH9Vg View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-11-15 05:38:11

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FUTURE FEEDBACK LOOP. “But for the most part, humans still haven’t figured out how their own cognitive algorithms work, or how to rewrite them. And the computers we program don’t understand their own cognitive algorithms, either (for the most part). But one day they will.” http://intelligenceexplosion.com/en/2012/intelligence-explosion/ View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments
linkedin post 2019-11-15 05:25:27

linkedin post 2019-11-15 05:25:27

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GRADUALISM. "It's not like the physical sciences. There are no breakthroughs in AI. Certainly not in the 15 years that I've been going to conferences. There are things which come to the fore and become very successful, and AI is full of success, but there's no moment where we split the atom, put a man on the moon, cure a disease. That just doesn't happen. Things are incrementally, slowly, carefully done." http://www.gizmag.com/creative-ai-computational-creativity-challenges-future/36353/ View in LinkedIn
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