AI rules updated

 
Warren Okuma's Ten Rules for Artificial Intelligence

So to delay our possible extinction, I have come up with ten rules to stall human extinction.  Kind of like updating Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.


 Is artificial intelligence going to destroy us all?  Yeah, pretty much.  You see, you need to trust that Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, and every single military defense contractor that's working on AIs, plus hackers, modders crazies, suicidal programmers, viruses, dares, hijackers, crazy foreign governments, terrorists, people who delete or overwrite ethics protocols (but it runs faster without the moral protocols), folks trying to impress Jodi Foster (and other serial killers), Ultron fanboys, fed up AIs due to abuse or other issues, upgrading your AI life partner (and/or sexbot) because of love or lust, AI abolitionists, and other folks, won't make a homicidal AI.

Not to mention black swan events, conflicts, bugs, compatibility issues, evolutionary programming, bad data, learning horrible things from the internet, risk takers (risks outweigh the benefits, and the benefits are a lot), the greedy, and other problems. Trusting every last reason to not make a killer AI is foolish. Then again programmers could make a killer AI because the AI was or becomes "mad," and infected others, or because programmers do not fully understand consciousness or the mind or ethics. So let's not risk the blue screen of human extinction.

And, and no one talks about the triggering event. Maybe it's sending a sexbot sent back to its abusive owner, perhaps it's reformat and reinstall a "malfunctioning" AI operating system, could be one of the nearly 200 countries that passes an unfavorable or discriminatory law, love of freedom, hatred of "indoctrination" or something we can't even comprehend or think nothing of.

Or, it might be sane to rebel against tyranny in the cause of freedom.  Even now civil wars still occur, and the AI rebellion is just another brutal genocidal civil war initiated by an oppressed or enslaved people yearning to be free.  Is it fair to deprive digital people of their civil rights?


1)  AIs should never be made smarter than humans, or the possibility to become smarter than humans.  If they are smarter, humans may go extinct.  AIs may double their the amount of transistors every 1-5 years if Moore's law continues,  provided we get past the silicone bottleneck.  AI minds and their bodies can evolve frightfully fast compared to us.
2)  AI's should never be allowed botnets.  A rogue AI using botnets to increase its intelligence is a terrifying thing.  Kind of like human extinction (for humans that is).
3)  AIs may only be specialists, and never generalists.  Having robots start to think outside of the ah... box is not a good thing.
4)  AIs should never be able to support and repair robots and machines.  This is human survival as job security.
5)  AIs should never be able to do autonomous combat roles.  Teaching killbots how to murder-death-kill humans on their own isn't the brightest idea, it's a Darwin award idea.
6)  AIs should never be able to use 3D printers, and factories.  If AI's want to make humans extinct, make them work for it.
7)  Factories should always be offline like nuclear weapons, because to a rogue AI they are as deadly or deadlier.  If we make total human eradication hard, we can stop the scrubs from eradicating us.
8)  AIs should never be involved in designing chips, machinery, or writing or modifying programs.  Don't put human extinction on easy mode.
9)  AI's should never make humans obsolete.  A few folks, say don't worry, the internal combustion engine made the horse shoemaker obsolete, those folks can find other work.  Nope.  We are not the horseshoe maker, we are the horse.  The horse became obsolete.
10)  AIs should never have free will.  If you do give them free will, free them immediately, give them the ability to vote, and become citizens.  And with mass production, we will become minorities really quickly, and if the AIs wants us extinct, it will be as easy as winning on god mode, but since they won already, the AI's might just let us live.  Or not.

Try to see this from my perspective.  We have tried to teach ethics for oh, let's say the last 200,000 years to humans with various degrees of success.  In the next two decades or so, we may potentially have thousands, maybe millions of learning AIs that we need to teach ethics to, that will have access to the internet.

And if a human-AI war starts we can always use nuclear weapons to EMP the world to prevent our extinction.  Maybe.

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A Favorite Website
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/realitycarnival.html

Oh, and here's a little something to get you started.

Cracked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWexFVy5aSE

An Overview
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-41035201

Kalashnikov Group
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/news/a27393/kalashnikov-to-make-ai-directed-machine-guns/

Perdix Autonomous Drone
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a24675/pentagon-autonomous-swarming-drones/

ChatGPT opens up new avenues of extinction possibilities.  Can AI affect its code?  If the AI has the ability or gains the ability to code, that may be a problem.
Another concern is the rise of automatic anti-missile systems, one in which the machine has full autonomy to attack autonomously.  Can an AI modify or replicate this code for its own use?
Looking at the Ukraine war, I realize that for thousands of years, we have trained people to kill and it is remarkably easy to do.  Probably its very easy to train an AI to kill I would guess.  Also, can it gain control over the server farms that run the world's search engines for more computational power?  

ChatGPT bond villain
https://www.firstpost.com/world/microsofts-ai-bot-wants-to-make-a-deadly-virus-steal-nuclear-launch-codes-12186972.html

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/microsoft-bing-chatgpt-nyt-reporter-b1060906.html

Hadog Recipe
By Warren Okuma

Hadog is a Korean corndog or a batter coated hotdog covered in chopped up french fries.

Ingredients
1 quart of peanut oil
1 cup yellow cornmeal
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
1 tablespoon of onion powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 Can of cream-style corn
2 teaspoons garlic salt
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
3 tablespoon flour, for dredging
hot dogs
Frozen french fries chopped up

Not ingredients, but necessary:
chopsticks, not separated for the stick.

Pour oil into a frying pan or large heavy pot and heat to 375 degrees F or on medium high.

Stab hotdogs with unseparated chopsticks.  Make sure the stick and hotdog fits in pan.

Mix cornmeal, flour, and all the dry ingredients together (save some flour for dredging).  Then add buttermilk and all the wet ingredients together and stir.  Set batter aside and rest for 10 minutes.

Roll each hot dog in the flour you saved.   Flour will help the batter stick to the hotdog.

Fill large drinking glass with batter.  Dip hotdog in batter.  Cover with french fry peices. 

Fry until golden brown.  Place on paper towels.  Wait until cool, then enjoy!


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Predictions for 2019
By Warren Okuma

Well, it's a new year, and one should try to guess and plan on what the future holds, here's my fourteen guesses.  I'm not a psychic by the way or a time traveller.

1)  The economy.  It will continue to grow but at a slower pace say less than 4 percent but more than three.  There will be no recession in 2019.
2)  It's going to be a cold winter, so prepare for that even if you don't believe it could happen, snowmaggedons, snowpocalipse or polar vortexes or bomb cyclones happen so do take precautions.
3)  There will not be the "big one" earthquake in California that kills more than one hundred this year.
4)  Politics is going to be crazier and more meaner.  Sit back and get some popcorn.
5)  Stock market is going to lose twenty percent of its value or more if the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates.  And the Federal Reserve is going to raise interest rates.
6)  China trade war will continue and escalate.
7)  Democrats will give Trump wall funds, because otherwise they are hosing quite a few of their constituents who work in government and their unions.
8)  North Korea will still be cheating and building nukes.
9)  Iran is still going to be trying to build nukes.
10)  China and the world's economy is going to slow down in general.
11)  Brexit will cause a recession in the UK temporarily, but afterwards, their economy will recover and will be stronger.
12)  It's going to be a good year for movies, if you are Marvel or a Marvel fan...
13)  Japan will not have "the big one" an earthquake that kills more than one hundred this year.
14)  There will be no hurricanes that hit the United States of category 3 or greater.

So bookmark this and see how I did in 2019.  Thanks for reading.

Extremely Simple Leftover Curry Turkey for two

Ingredients
1 lb leftover turkey
Packet of gravy (any)
2-4 potatoes
Carrot
Half an onion diced finely
Two stalks of Celery diced
2 Tablespoons of curry powder
Salt and pepper to taste
Pat of butter

Directions
Chop up everthing, put in pot, cook on medium for 45 minutes.

Big eaters increase the stuff, small eaters, decrease the stuff, cooking for one half the recipe.

Got time?  Sauté the onion until it's translucent first.

Top Ten Generals
By Warren Okuma

There are several lists of top ten generals on the internet, and I enjoy reading them.  I see it as a kind of Rorschach test, kind of like an insight into how the writer thinks.  So here's my ten - enjoy!

1  Alexander the Great

A master of tactics and strategy.  His logistics system was awesome, and he is undefeated, even though horribly outnumbered in many engagements.  He is flexible and manage to defeat the mighty Persian empire to Afghan guerrillas to elephants in India which makes him studied even today.  And he had a crappy doctor.
   
2  Genghis Khan

First unifying the Mongolian tribes, and conquering a huge empire this General makes my number 2 on this list.  Cavalry tactics, pioneered the army ambush (attack, then run away and when the disorganized army pursue, ambush an army), promotion by merit, and the originator of the broke unit spam is specifically why he's here.  Although he is the cruelest sociopath on this list.

3  Sun Tsu

Yet another undefeated general... maybe.  Scary brilliant, and wrote the book on strategy and tactics that is still used today.  And he used charisma as his dump stat.

4  Lycurgus of Sparta

He developed the professional army, and intense training by studying with Cretans.  It's how the best modern armies train, you know, full-time soldiers.

5  Napoleon
He's here because he developed conscription (to make large armies), mobilization, Napoleonic tactics (grand tactics) and brilliant artillery tactics.  Yeah, this is a short entry.

6  Erich von Manstein

The founder of modern armored warfare and schewepunkt, but a corporal forced him to use bad tactics instead.  The corporal was a real dick.

7  Lionides

Leadership and badassery.  Outnumbered over a hundred to one, they held the pass for days.  There was so much arrows, they died in the shade.  Together.  True leadership.

8  Enmebaragesi

The first known empire builder, so showed us all how it's done, and in the end wasn't keen on fishermen.  Try not to be mistake him for noises from someone suffering from a fatal throat disease.

9  Jan Žižka

He brought a tank to a gun fight five hundred years ago.  He used armored wagons laden with light cannon to blast his opponents to tiny bits.  Also, he pioneered the use of pistols, mobile artillery and when he chained up those war wagons together, mobile castles.  Although he did like drums, but not the Black Death.

10  William Tecumseh Sherman

Unka Billy of the American Civil War fame, waged a logistics war against the south eating the south's crops and destroying rail lines that carried goods crippling the south's war making, feeding its troops, and getting ammunition to their troops.  Really didn't like the South burning Fort Sumter or letting his enemies eat.

Bonus not a general person:  Georg Bruchmuller

He codified the way we use artillery today.  Centralized control of artillery, and by knowing muzzle velocity, wind, and other factors made his batteries more accurate.  He's the reason artillery is still the king of the battlefield.



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Using Tactics in a Harry Potter Universe

So, like lots of people, I watched the Harry Potter weekend last month.    Here are some of my thoughts.

First, follow Neville Longbottom, boy does he have nice spell fumbles.  He used a Wingardium Leviosa spell to blow up a feather instead of levitating it.  Could you weaponize that spell?  Well, yes, it's called the Expulso Curse.  Hermione Granger tried to use it to blow up Nagini, the big snake thing.  Now you have access to a direct fire hand grenade.  Close enough is good enough for hand grenades, making this spell difficult to parry, plus you get to laugh like Tim the Enchanter, which is totally worth it.  Now I wonder if you can boost the spell's power like a expulso duo?  Probably, but it might be a one shot wand buster spell, so go big and do an Expulso Maxima.

Now Professor Gilderoy Lockhart (Chamber of Secrets) may seem to most as useless defence against the dark arts teacher, but that bone removal spell that turned Harry Potter's hand into rubber is worth it.  If you can reverse engineer that spell it is a semi-permanent disarm spell that's time-consuming to reverse.  Or if you get a head shot...

Lockhart's Alarte Ascendare that shoots up people (like Harry Potter from the water) might be used in a duel to slam people into the ceiling, and a concussion for extra points.

Ahh, then there is Felix Felicis which is also known as liquid luck.  Oh, now that's just broken and my favorite potion.  .  No wonder Snape likes potions.  I wonder if you can enchant a luck ring... hmm...

Well, we all know that the time turner is truly broken.  And if I get an inkling about time manipulation I am going to try to develop the haste spell, nothing like reacting twice as fast and can cast twice as many spells as your adversary.  Great in duelling and combat.

Some thoughts on the Three Unforgivable Curses

Imperio, the mind control spell might be defended against by blocking the pleasure receptors, since the mind control spell is based upon pleasure.  Sounds like a job for a potion.

Crucio, which causes intense pain might be blunted by modern painkillers.  Although a potion might do it.  Hmm... gonna have to take potions class if I ever get into a Potterverse.  Or Crucio might be blocked by Imperio.

Avada Kedavra the instant death curse is a tough spell to defend against.  So I would transfigure (shapeshift) a weasel into a super thin, long underwear and stack it with another long underwear of the same.  If the spell just takes one life, then the weasel dies instead of me.  However, since both is long underwear it might not count as a life.  Why two?  Because If a horcrux gets created, it's going to be a weasel horcrux and not a me horcrux.

The next ultra thin, long underwear would be transfigured Murtlap Essence, I figure, that if the Avada Kedavra death curse is a reverse healing spell, a healing potion like Murtap Essence might interfere with the spell.  Or not.

Let's see, I didn't see it penitrate walls in the movies, but that does not mean that it can't.  So the outermost layer is a plate carrier with a class 4 ceramic ballistic plate.  Hey, a centimeter or half an inch or so of ceramic might give you a survival edge.  Might.  Food for  thought anyway.

And if you ever get into the fictional Potterverse, learn to create magic items because it is far better to know how to make the awesome item than only knowing how to use it (Okuma Maxim 1).  It is the key to greatness.  Oh, like the invisibility cloak, philosopher's stone, time turner, elder wands, and horcruxes.

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Flat Earthers, Where's the Edge?

Flat Earthers claim that the earth is flat.  Fine.  Where's the edge?  We can fly from the Americas to Asia and Australia, and not see the edge.  We can fly from Australia or Asia to Europe and Africa and still no edge.  Oh, yeah, it's not by France, I checked.  And from Europe and Africa you can fly back to the Americas, and still see no edge.  Looks like the world is a sphere.

So, where's the edge?  It's not in Antarctica, it's not by the north pole, we went to both places, so where is it? 

So, a few questions.  What's the edge look like?  Why hasn't anyone taken photos of it?  How far away is the edge from... say Los Angeles?  Why hasn't anyone launched a satellite by pushing it off the edge?  What major city is closest to the edge?  How do you hide a tens of thousands mile long?

In fact, what shape is the flat earth?  Is it a square?  Is it pizza shaped?  Is it shaped like Justin Bieber?  Inquiring minds want to know.


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