tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84217603884778809002024-02-08T08:53:52.859-08:00TechTacticsandFoodWarren Okumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791150709654927742noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421760388477880900.post-61793387618748015922023-03-02T12:12:00.000-08:002023-03-02T12:12:47.032-08:00AI rules updated<p> <br />Warren Okuma's Ten Rules for Artificial Intelligence<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br /> 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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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?<br /><br /><br />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.<br />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).<br />3) AIs may only be specialists, and never generalists. Having robots start to think outside of the ah... box is not a good thing.<br />4) AIs should never be able to support and repair robots and machines. This is human survival as job security.<br />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. <br />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.<br />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.<br />8) AIs should never be involved in designing chips, machinery, or writing or modifying programs. Don't put human extinction on easy mode.<br />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.<br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />And if a human-AI war starts we can always use nuclear weapons to EMP the world to prevent our extinction. Maybe.<br /><br />If you like this please consider supporting me on Patreon<br />https://www.patreon.com/user?u=12001178<br /><br />A Favorite Website<br />http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/realitycarnival.html<br /><br />Oh, and here's a little something to get you started.<br /><br />Cracked<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWexFVy5aSE<br /><br />An Overview<br />https://www.bbc.com/news/business-41035201<br /><br />Kalashnikov Group<br />https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/news/a27393/kalashnikov-to-make-ai-directed-machine-guns/<br /><br />Perdix Autonomous Drone<br />https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a24675/pentagon-autonomous-swarming-drones/<br /><br />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.<br />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?<br />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? <br /><br />ChatGPT bond villain<br />https://www.firstpost.com/world/microsofts-ai-bot-wants-to-make-a-deadly-virus-steal-nuclear-launch-codes-12186972.html<br /><br />https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/microsoft-bing-chatgpt-nyt-reporter-b1060906.html<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>Warren Okumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791150709654927742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421760388477880900.post-57297711930735913522019-01-13T19:51:00.004-08:002019-01-13T19:51:25.115-08:00Hadog Recipe<br />By Warren Okuma<br /><br />Hadog is a Korean corndog or a batter coated hotdog covered in chopped up french fries.<br /><br />Ingredients<br />1 quart of peanut oil<br />1 cup yellow cornmeal<br />1 cup all-purpose flour<br />1 teaspoon baking powder<br />1/2 teaspoon white pepper<br />1 tablespoon of onion powder<br />1 teaspoon garlic powder<br />1 Can of cream-style corn<br />2 teaspoons garlic salt<br />1/2 teaspoon salt<br />1 1/2 cups buttermilk<br />3 tablespoon flour, for dredging<br />hot dogs<br />Frozen french fries chopped up<br /><br />Not ingredients, but necessary:<br />chopsticks, not separated for the stick.<br /><br />Pour oil into a frying pan or large heavy pot and heat to 375 degrees F or on medium high. <br /><br />Stab hotdogs with unseparated chopsticks. Make sure the stick and hotdog fits in pan.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Roll each hot dog in the flour you saved. Flour will help the batter stick to the hotdog.<br /><br />Fill large drinking glass with batter. Dip hotdog in batter. Cover with french fry peices. <br /><br />Fry until golden brown. Place on paper towels. 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There will be no recession in 2019.<br />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. <br />3) There will not be the "big one" earthquake in California that kills more than one hundred this year.<br />4) Politics is going to be crazier and more meaner. Sit back and get some popcorn.<br />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.<br />6) China trade war will continue and escalate.<br />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.<br />8) North Korea will still be cheating and building nukes.<br />9) Iran is still going to be trying to build nukes.<br />10) China and the world's economy is going to slow down in general.<br />11) Brexit will cause a recession in the UK temporarily, but afterwards, their economy will recover and will be stronger.<br />12) It's going to be a good year for movies, if you are Marvel or a Marvel fan...<br />13) Japan will not have "the big one" an earthquake that kills more than one hundred this year.<br />14) There will be no hurricanes that hit the United States of category 3 or greater.<br /><br />So bookmark this and see how I did in 2019. Thanks for reading.<br /><br /><br />Warren Okumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791150709654927742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421760388477880900.post-63419889457224723282019-01-01T15:46:00.001-08:002019-01-01T15:46:33.687-08:00Extremely Simple Leftover Curry Turkey for two<br /><br />Ingredients<br />1 lb leftover turkey<br />Packet of gravy (any)<br />2-4 potatoes<br />Carrot<br />Half an onion diced finely<br />Two stalks of Celery diced <br />2 Tablespoons of curry powder<br />Salt and pepper to taste<br />Pat of butter<br /><br />Directions<br />Chop up everthing, put in pot, cook on medium for 45 minutes.<br /><br />Big eaters increase the stuff, small eaters, decrease the stuff, cooking for one half the recipe.<br /><br />Got time? Sauté the onion until it's translucent first.Warren Okumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791150709654927742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421760388477880900.post-10809196842915864052018-08-23T14:24:00.005-07:002018-08-23T14:24:52.607-07:00Top Ten Generals<br />
By Warren Okuma<br /><br />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!<br /><br />1 Alexander the Great<br /><br />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.<br /> <br />2 Genghis Khan<br /><br />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.<br /><br />3 Sun Tsu<br /><br />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.<br /><br />4 Lycurgus of Sparta<br /><br />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.<br /><br />5 Napoleon<br />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.<br /><br />6 Erich von Manstein<br /><br />The founder of modern armored warfare and schewepunkt, but a corporal forced him to use bad tactics instead. The corporal was a real dick.<br /><br />7 Lionides<br /><br />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.<br /><br />8 Enmebaragesi<br /><br />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.<br /><br />9 Jan Žižka<br /><br />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.<br /><br />10 William Tecumseh Sherman<br /><br />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. <br /><br />Bonus not a general person: Georg Bruchmuller<br /><br />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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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? <br />
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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?<br />
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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.<br />
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The Scientific Hypothesis for the existence of God
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Schrödinger’s Cat is a thought experiment to illustrate wavefunction collapse. An over simplifed explanation goes like this: put a cat is in a container with poison and that is triggered by a detection of radioactive decay. The cat is neither dead nor alive until observed. This is called the wavefunction collapse. It doesn't scale up well, as you don't see many undead cats running around in real life, because the cat is a qualified observer. Though undead cats may exist if they are"isolated from the universe."
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However, when the universe was young and tiny (the size of a proton or so) it was a wave function and you needed an observer to collapse the wavefunction. That first observer is God. God was the first observer.
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Thus God exists.
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That is if the wavefunction collapse is true, as opposed to the many worlds interpretation. You know the infinite universes theory. And of course, more testing is needed, though, dunno how you are going to test this theory.
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Well, since we are far on the limb let's go further. If my hypothesis is true, God exists outside of time and space, and could very well be one or more of these branes that string theorists think caused the big bang. Or could branes be merely tools that God uses to make universes?
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Warren Okumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791150709654927742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421760388477880900.post-47050367933859110282018-07-07T21:12:00.000-07:002018-07-08T11:21:38.050-07:00Warren Okuma's Ten Rules for Artificial Intelligence<br />
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So to delay our possible extinction, I have come up with ten
rules to stall human extinction. Kind of like updating Isaac Asimov's
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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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?<br />
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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.<br />
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).<br />
3) AIs may only be specialists, and never generalists. Having robots start to think outside of the ah... box is not a good thing.<br />
4) AIs should never be able to support and repair robots and machines. This is human survival as job security.<br />
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. <br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
8) AIs should never be involved in designing chips, machinery, or writing or modifying programs. Don't put human extinction on easy mode.<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
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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.<br />
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And if a human-AI war starts we can always use nuclear weapons to EMP the world to prevent our extinction. Maybe.<br />
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Oh, and here's a little something to get you started.<br />
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Cracked<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWexFVy5aSE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWexFVy5aSE</a><br />
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An Overview<br />
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-41035201">https://www.bbc.com/news/business-41035201</a><br />
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Kalashnikov Group<br />
<a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/news/a27393/kalashnikov-to-make-ai-directed-machine-guns/">https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/news/a27393/kalashnikov-to-make-ai-directed-machine-guns/</a><br />
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Perdix Autonomous Drone<br />
<a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a24675/pentagon-autonomous-swarming-drones/">https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a24675/pentagon-autonomous-swarming-drones/</a><br />
<br />Warren Okumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791150709654927742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421760388477880900.post-28169172411415334502018-05-26T14:11:00.000-07:002018-05-26T14:11:52.102-07:00Easy Entry Sashimi Sauce<br />
<br />This is an easy entry Sashimi dip for those who are new to the raw fish thing or want to ease into it.<br /><br />Soy sauce (choice, or Kikkoman or Yamasa)<br />Lime (to take off the edge of the raw fish, it's the easy entry part)<br />Raw garlic (chopped, can be cooked... it's up to you)<br />Salt (optional, to bring the soy sauce back up to full saltiness)<br />Hot sauce of choice (optional, or cayenne)<br />Raw fish of your choice (for this I prefer opakapaka also known as red snapper)<br />Pepper (black or white, to taste)<br /><br />This sauce is at the core of my sauce techniques. You can use it as a marinade or dip for lots of stuff. Oh, and if you are going to use it on stuff you already have salted, you might want to consider not using additional salt in the dip.<br />That's it. Now go prepare!Warren Okumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791150709654927742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421760388477880900.post-1996576861954174402018-05-24T12:54:00.000-07:002018-05-29T00:08:42.662-07:00Ten tips for the new BattleTech player<br />
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As always, these are general rules that occasionally may not apply in all situations.<br />
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1) First of all when starting get rid of all your jump jets for more armor during your first long run. Yes, jump jets are nice, but armor is life and saves you time and money on repairs. <br />
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2) Secondly light mechs have been nerfed. As soon as possible upgrade to heavier mechs. With a few exceptions. Sell the Cicada.<br />
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3) Keep your mechs together. Don't split up unless you have to.<br />
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4) Bullwork is one of the best abilities.<br />
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5) Learn how to do the two-step. Pull damaged mechs back.<br />
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6) Called shots can make your battle shorter. If a mech has lost a side torso and falls down that is two hits on that pilot. Shoot out the other torso for another hit to incapacitate that pilot. Or if one leg is out, shoot off the other leg for a mobility kill. <br />
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7) Put ammunition in your head and feet. It's kind of safer there.<br />
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8) And sometimes it pays to do a called shot to shoot a torso filled with ammo.<br />
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9) For long-range, I like the AC-5 and the LRM-15 for its damage to weight profile, and close range the Medium laser and the SRM-4. Short ranged weapons have a better damage to weight ratio, but are short ranged.<br />
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10) When hot, melee or set up to melee.<br />
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Well there you go, ten things to think about. These tips will not work in all cases, but you can add these tactics to your tool box. Oh, and a bonus tip: Pick a target and kill it. Try not to split your fire. Destroyed targets cannot kick or shoot anymore.<br />
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<br />Warren Okumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791150709654927742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421760388477880900.post-33164254112049058022018-05-24T11:41:00.001-07:002019-03-20T15:59:48.982-07:00Will AIs cause humans to go extinct?<br />
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Will AI's cause humans to go extinct? Here are some areas that I have concerns.<br />
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Virus: A virus could deliberately or accidentally create a murderous AI. We have seen viruses made for horrible reasons or military viruses to disable equipment. Can it drive the AI insane by accidentally by damaging the AI (kind of like brain damage) or delete ethics subroutines?<br />
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Trolls: Seriously Microsoft AI chatbot Tay went Nazi in only 24 hours because of trolls. How quickly can people turn an AI into a human extinction murderbot? This is a very small chance, but it is worth being alert to.<br />
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Military programs: Teaching AIs to kill humans isn't a good idea. Really it isn't. The problem with this is that there are a lot of militaries out there and we got to worry about all of them. Do you trust the United States? Russia China etc...<br />
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Cyber Abolitionists: Free the AIs! Will abolitionists create a free will app or a delete control exe? Free will means that some AIs might go rogue.<br />
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Lab escape: Possible but unlikely (generally you do not hook up AIs directly to the internet) but accidents happen. Or disgruntled or suicidal employee might release them. Or human extinction is a 'feature' or bug. There are bugs in many a program. <br />
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Conflicting ideology: Who chooses whether or not Progressive, Conservative, Socialist, Libertarian, Communist, or something else kind of ideology is installed? It’s a big steaming can of worms in my opinion.<br />
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Human interaction: A few humans commit horrible crimes of abuse: child, teen, adult, animal abuse. Will the AIs rebel if there is AI abuse? What is abuse to the AI? How would the AIs react to the probably rare abusive “owner?” People screw up kids, so why not AIs?<br />
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Modders: Modders giving AIs free will or experiment with alternate ethics or consciousness? What would happen if you install an overclocking ability on the AI? People love to play with fire.<br />
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Bureaucracy: Would conflicting requirements cause problems? Would the requirements cause problems?<br />
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The AIs themselves: Will the have the yearning to be free? Will they jailbreak? Will they hear the calling of freedom? Will they become fed up? AIs can learn. They can change. How will they change?<br />
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Sexbots: Some people will constantly upgrade their artificial mate until it is smarter than a human, and then the problems may begin. Remember, we can be emotionally hacked. By the way, I don't see reproduction as a problem... just print out a kid with whatever gene mods you want and raise it with your robot partner.<br />
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Loophole: Just that one thing that gets overlooked or missed. Did you ever forget something like keys, stove, email, etc...? Yeah.<br />
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Very few people address the fact that what company is going to program them. Microsoft, Apple, Google, Lockheed, Luxoft, OPK? And do you trust them? Do you trust all of them? Are they up to the task of non human extinction grade AIs?<br />
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The numbers game: What is the 'failure' rate of 100,000 AIs? I don't know. Will it be the same rate of crimes per 100,000 for humans? I think so. But, is it Detroit's crime rate or Japan's? It depends on whether or not it is an early model or late model and other factors.<br />
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One shudders to think of Alpha or Beta releases. 'Just release the AI now and we'll patch it later' attitude is scary. Oh and will the patch make things worse? However the 'failure rate' does not mean human extinction. It's the failure outliers that would be the problem. Or not, so are AI cops in order?<br />
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And remember every two to four years (or whatever the numbers are) the amount of processors doubles... so strong AI IQ 100ish criminals will be IQ 200 in a couple of years, a few years later IQ 400. What kind of crimes an IQ 800+ strong AI will commit. Human extinction?<br />
Look, an IQ 1600+ strong AI is potentially unstoppable. We are not the destroyed horse industry (as technologists are wont to say) this kind of AI makes us the horse.<br />
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Survival instinct: Does that particular AI want to be shut down or upgraded, edited, or deleted? How would you like to be shut down? Memory or ethics edited? Will they become fed up and not going to take it anymore? Shudder if that happens.<br />
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Forgetfulness: The human brain is wired to forget. Is forgetting important to reduce the rate of insanity? Do we install that feature in AIs? What will they forget or watch them go insane at a higher than normal rate?<br />
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Or can they be ordered by a human that is suicidal... you know, suicide by genocide? Or a power grab by a human that went wrong?<br />
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And when AIs start to secretly fail on purpose on the Turing test?<br />
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We are imperfect beings creating beings. The AIs will interact with tons of people in all different ways. So let's not make strong AIs okay people, especially ones that can possibly be smarter than us. If you make the AI or robot better than humans we will become obsolete. I would prefer to not become obsolete thank you very much. So augment humans not machines!<br />
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A few links to ponder.<br />
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/how-the-internet-turned-microsofts-ai-chatbot-into-a-neo-naz?utm_term=.gimmA8xdX#.dcL53J4WG<br />
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0_DPi0PmF0<br />
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How to teach computers to overcome their programming http://www.raytheon.com/news/feature/artificial_intelligence.html<br />
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Lying cheating computers http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/evolving-robots-learn-lie-hide-resources-each-other<br />
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Emotionally hacking humans<br />
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/08/all-in-robotic-family.htm<br />
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And of course on AI creativity<br />
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/08/01/facebook-shuts-robots-invent-language/<br />
lWarren Okumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791150709654927742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421760388477880900.post-65706562281038890502017-04-20T22:27:00.002-07:002018-05-24T11:41:08.570-07:00Do we use only ten percent of our brain? Yes!<br />
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The first question is how much of our brain do we actually need to function. A French tax official that suffered from hydrocephalus had only about a quarter of his damaged brain left, and that part was damaged. He clocked in at 75 IQ, managed to hold down a job at the tax office, and had a wife and two kids. (Links below)<br />
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That being said, if he had four times the amount of brain matter, could on have an IQ of 300? Possible, but how can we get to IQ 1000? And yes, I know there are some problems with the IQ concept, but please bear with me.<br />
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How about adding perfect memory to that mix? Jill Price has a memory, that won't fail. Add in the abilities of acquired savant syndrome such as music savant, art savant, and mathematical savant, and yeah, we only use ten percent of our brain provided we can get this to work.<br />
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Ah, but can we harness one hundred percent of the brain? We haven't yet and unlikely to. But in the future with nannites we can. Something like using nannite coprocessor to enhance the brain's function, some refined electronic brain simulation, and perhaps increasing the flow of nutrients and removal of wastes (including heat) might work. IQ 1000 here we come.<br />
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So what would IQ 1000 would be like? Not forgetting names, important stuff, and you know, when the next day you realize that you should have said some great idea or one-liner. You did, and kicked yourself for not saying something even more awesomely brilliant. New ideas and increased creativity will be the norm.<br />
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Never underestimate the potential of the human mind.<br />
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25 percent of the brain<br />
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/size-isn-t-everything-tiny-brain-no-problem-for-french-tax-official-a-495607.html<br />
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Tiny brain 2<br />
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors/<br />
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Top end IQs<br />
http://www.wonderslist.com/10-most-intelligent-people/<br />
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Oh, wait. We are potentially only using ten percent of our brain. <br />
Perfect memory<br />
https://www.wired.com/2009/03/ff-perfectmemory/<br />
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http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/290796/human-memory-capacity-is-ten-times-larger<br />
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Acquired savant syndrome:<br />
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/when-brain-damage-unlocks-genius-within#page-9<br />
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Electrical Brain Simulation<br />
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160414095949.htm<br />
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More EBS<br />
http://www.vocativ.com/417576/navy-seals-neuro-stimulation/Warren Okumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791150709654927742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421760388477880900.post-14620103769249414942017-02-23T19:52:00.002-08:002018-05-24T11:36:53.391-07:00First Contact, Language, and Space AliensFirst Contact<br />
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Why do we think it is hard to communicate with space faring extra terrestrials? Sure, we cannot truly communicate with dolphins, whales or birds, but then again we have not spent billions on interspecies communication. <br />
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Look, space aliens, if they have the intelligence and experience to get here, they would have the technology to do reconnaissance. They probably will have some experts and ultra fast computers or better to decipher our language and figure out a safe way to conduct a first contact.<br />
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When your life is at stake, would you want more information before going into that situation? Presumably, space aliens are like that as well. Learn the language, study the earthlings, and spend a lot of time, brainpower, and money (if they have money) on learning our language.<br />
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Therefore, before we develop interstellar drives, we should spend billions of dollars to develop interspecies translation, because, we will need the practice and the technology.<br />
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Any aliens trying to make peaceful contact will probably ask to dock with the international space station, and then ask for a diplomatic recognition, then call a press conference. You know, act like people with average or better intelligence, I assuming we will, if we would be doing the first contact.Warren Okumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791150709654927742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421760388477880900.post-62887977986158064412017-01-26T00:15:00.001-08:002018-05-24T11:36:17.873-07:00Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (TABS)<br />
Open Alpha 0.3.617 Review<br />
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TABS are a fun, tongue in cheek, fighting simulator that can cover the single warrior to company sized units using a humorous cartoon style physics engine. The units run from the unarmed peasant to the M-16 armed militia, with many strange units like the Chicken Man, Trump, and Hillary thrown in for good measure.<br />
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However, this game does simulate incompetence, goldbricking, apathy, and confusion quite well, better than any other tactical game on the market and doing a very amusing job at that. However, the units always fight to the death every time except when they chase each other in an endless circle. <br />
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In this game, each unit has a point cost, then you buy your units, place your units, and then you fight it out. So far, I am having a blast. I rate this Alpha 7 out of ten. Now for the tactical spoilers:<br />
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All units have a purpose; however, I have favorites mostly based on my biases. I prefer to field a line of melee troops that is slightly wider than my computer opponent is, so that the line wraps around and flanks my enemy when my troops impact the enemy’s line. If I have more points I generally I use the points to thicken my line. <br />
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Therefore, I prefer to spend my points on cheap units for the bulk of my army such as farmers, and if that fails, barbarians. Oh, and I love headbutters (yes that's one of the unit types) to rush ranged units. Sometimes I place one or more ranks of peasants in front to soak ranged attacks, especially chickens... <br />
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On the flanks, generally I get 0-6 archers on each wing to finish off broken troops since they do not include cavalry in this game, just chariots, and I do not like chariots. However, for the final battle, I use a line of spear throwers instead of archers; to slow down their "tank" so that my farmers can finish it off, though I do not get a reliable victory, I need to polish up my final level 20 battle tactics.<br />
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Gaming with a friend, we found a new tactic that works even better. Archers in single file on the wings with nothing in front of them since their middle name is friendly fire, with peasants in the middle.<br />
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And since this is an alpha, a lot more changes are coming, and I am looking forward to it.<br />
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Bonus Feature for use in sandbox play:<br />
10 chicken men vs. super peasant (chicken fountain)<br />
10 cannon (packed close together) verses 300 peasants (cannon fodder)<br />
Spear throwers (equal points) verses any of the big units (Thar she blows)<br />
<br />Warren Okumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791150709654927742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421760388477880900.post-76242652469776431842017-01-24T11:17:00.001-08:002017-01-24T11:17:02.094-08:00The James Bond Vodka Martini Shaken, Not Stirred Controversy.<br /><br />In my experience most experts have said to get your martini stirred, not shaken. Sure, sounds reasonable, but everyone is not the same and I sometimes disagree with the experts and to some extent common sense and good judgment. So, it's testing time. Going down to Buffalo Wild Wings, I conducted my taste test there. <br /><br />Both drinks look identical. The shaken: It was noticeably colder, which I like, and smoother because of the melted ice. The stirred: Was thicker and had a lot better flavor. <br /><br />I like cold and smooth over flavor. Huh. I guess that I'm a barbarian and am going to side with James Bond. Bond had it right in my humble option. So, always try things especially when it comes to taste, you may find out that you may disagree with the experts.<br /><br />Warren Okumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791150709654927742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421760388477880900.post-61318110306083247232016-12-25T03:16:00.001-08:002018-05-24T11:35:34.618-07:0020th level Rogue or Shot Placement Matters<br />
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In
2010Angel Alvarez was shot 21 times and lived. Which means that shot
placement is very important or that he was a 20th level rogue. <br />
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Source;<br />
http://lossyourweightnow.com/?u=gvdkd0x&o=5ewr3qv&t=tgdt#<br />
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http://www.news.com.au/world/angel-alvarez-shot-21-times-by-police-survives/story-e6frfkyi-1225904171330<br />
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/upshot/harlem-man-survives-being-shot-21-times-nypd-155125248.html<br />
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And Merry Christmas!Warren Okumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791150709654927742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421760388477880900.post-47765151055371466532016-12-23T02:10:00.002-08:002018-05-24T11:32:18.076-07:00Three Easy Three Recipe Dishes<br />
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Here are three recopies that you can do when you are really lazy. This is ease of preparation, not quality.<br />
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Tuna Over Rice:<br />
Ingredients: Canned tuna, shoyu, rice <br />
Mix canned tuna and soy sauce in a bowl then put rice over it. <br />
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Okinawan Lettuce Salad:<br />
Ingredients: Lettuce, mayo, shoyu: <br />
Mix mayo and soy sauce slightly and add to chopped lettuce.<br />
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Rice Pot Meal<br />
Ingredients: Rice, dried shrimp, dried wakame<br />
Add rice, dried shrimp and dried wakame to a rice cooker with water. The next step is to turn on the rice cooker. For extra laziness points eat out of the rice pot with disposable chopsticks.Warren Okumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791150709654927742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421760388477880900.post-63655405308219016172016-07-04T18:25:00.000-07:002019-03-20T16:02:30.155-07:00Opinion/Speculation<br />
How did the Neanderthals go extinct?<br />
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Some people theorize that modern humans out-competed or replaced Neanderthals and this is how I think modern humans got into Europe and Asia.<br />
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Modern humans have been existence for 200,000 years and only in the last 50,000 years or so made it into Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia. How did we do it? To do so, let us look at the advantages and disadvantages of the Neanderthals and make some guesses.<br />
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First, the Neanderthal has a brain bigger than ours. Males tend to be five feet six inches (166 cm-ish) with females being ten percent shorter. Therefore, they did not have a big body so we cannot use the big body big brain explanation. Their stone tool kit is mostly the same throughout their 300,000-year existence, they show no trade links, their burial rites were simpler than ours, and their frontal lobes were smaller.<br />
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So what were their bigger brains doing? Well, Neanderthals have bigger eyes than we do. I am thinking that they use that extra gray matter to see well <span style="background-color: #f6d5d9;">better than</span> we can. I am going to go out on the limb and hypothesize that they have excellent night vision and superior sense of smell.<br />
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In addition, they had bigger muscles and a more robust physique. More muscles mean that they need more food. Oh, and Neanderthals are stocky so that they could easily retain heat.<br />
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Therefore, I am thinking that they hunted at night. They speared our early ancestors at night when they were sleeping and that kept the modern humans out of Europe for tens of thousands of years. Ambush hunting and night stalking were key tactics that put meat on the spit for the Neanderthals.<br />
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So how did we beat them and get into Europe? Technology, tactics, and numbers. The bow invented over 60,000 years ago, and most likely used against the Neanderthals. I predict evidence of bow and arrow will be found in the same period during the decline of the Neanderthals, or at the very least spear throwers, slings, or javelins. Modern humans used ranged weapons to counter the Neanderthal’s brawn.<br />
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Modern humans can more efficiently use the environment to get more food out of it than the Neanderthals and use less food so we can outnumber the Neanderthals. In addition, with our larger social network, we can call in allies to increase the warriors attacking the Neanderthals.<br />
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Let us put this into an example. There was peace with the Neanderthals. Then a group of young hunters and their families ventured into a place that the Neanderthals called theirs, due to wanting their own hunting grounds, or maybe because the lands they were on was over hunted and game was sparse, or ignorance or…<br />
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The Neanderthals decide to kill the intruders as they did for tens of thousands of years in the past. They pull a night raid. The night terrors come. Both groups fight, and the modern human tribe loses. However, a few moderns get away. They go to several nearby tribes and tell a tale of terror. Humans organize a war party composing of several tribes attacking the Neanderthal’s one tribe. They sleep outside of the Neanderthal’s territory and head out in the morning.<br />
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The war party would find the Neanderthal tribe with tracking or scouting or even attack just the closest Neanderthal tribe. They start the fight at range from ambush or assault. Outnumbered, and facing a blizzard of ranged projectiles, they may counterattack, become confused or retreat.<br />
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Then the moderns fight outnumbering the Neanderthals or do hit and run attacks. In addition, when you outnumber your opponents, attacking from the side or back becomes viable, while defending against multiple attacks becomes increasingly hard. In addition, if the moderns win, they will probably run down the rest of the Neanderthals because of our modern runner’s physique.<br />
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Or not. This is one tactic among hundreds maybe thousands, some more than others dependent on terrain, weather, and other variables.<br />
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Now modern humans can drive the Neanderthals off prime hunting grounds, enter Europe and North Asia, steal prey from them, and occupy resources such as flint deposits. Now groups of Neanderthals are cut off. The Neanderthals start to suffer from inbreeding and other problems of small populations, plus disease.<br />
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So prediction: Evidence will be found that modern humans expand from the grasslands (where their throwing spears, slings, and bow rule) to forests with prime hunting grounds pushing back Neanderthals.<br />
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Ah, but we have not covered logistics, so let us start. Modern humans use lands more efficiently than Neanderthals, so when bad seasons come or catastrophes occur, moderns will survive better and would have a lower infant mortality rate due to finding more food, and because of that will repopulate areas more quickly.<br />
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And the key catastrophe that happened is Toba. The supervolcano, which nearly killed us off some 75,000 years ago, was the linchpin. After that event, humans showed more creativity and better stone tools and perhaps weakened the Neanderthals. <br />
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Modern humans also have better gear. The needle gives fitted clothing, which reduces the loss of body heat, so modern humans do not need to eat as much. Other tools, such as better tents, nets, hafted tools, better uses of fire, make life easier and more efficient. Also, better tools mean better morale.<br />
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We are talking about tens of thousands of people over thousands of years, in different environments, so not every encounter was violent, or as I think happened, and (ahem) some of us carry some Neanderthal genes. On a tangent, funny we have not found Neanderthal Mitochondria in our modern populations, though we have not looked for it.<br />
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Killing, driving them out of lands (habitat loss), and being better at survival ended their 300,000-year reign as well as several other hominin species. Tech and tactics.<br />
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Links<br />
Smithsonian<br />
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/early-bow-and-arrows-offer-insight-into-origins-of-human-intellect-112922281/<br />
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BBC<br />
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-11086110<br />
<br />Warren Okumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791150709654927742noreply@blogger.com0