In a dream I was a werewolf My soul was filled with crystal light
Lavender ribbons of rain sang Ridding my heart of mortal fight
Broken sundown fatherless showdown Gun hip swollen lip bottle sip
yeah I suck dick Lose grip on gravity falls sky blinding crumbling walls
River sweep away my memories of Childrens things a young mothers love Before the
yearning song of flesh on flesh Young hearts burst open wounds bleed fresh
A young brother skinny and tall my older walks Oceanward and somber
slumber sleeping Flowers in the water, But Im just his daughter
Walking down an icy grave leading to my Schizophrenic father
Weeping willow wont you wallow louder Searching for my fathers power
Ima shake you off though Get up on that horse
and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
Ima shake you off though Get up on that horse and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
Ima shake you off though, Look back with no remorse
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(in-distinctive)
And born child and he was the bastard that broke Up the marriage
evil doer doing evil from a baby carriage And he was born with the same blue eyes
Crystal ships dripping with ice, diamonds coruscate In the night fireworks electric bright
And now hes got his own two sons Tries to hide his tears in a world of fun But
loveless bedrooms filled with doom Bring silent heartache July to June
swoon over new young hot flame Mourn the memories later Laugh now alligator
Laugh now alligator
Oh in a dream My father came to me
And made me swear that Id keep Whats sacred to me
And if I get the choice To live in his name
I'll pray my way through the Rain Singing Oh happy day
I dont mean to close the door But for the record my heart is sore
You blew through me like bullet holes Left stains on my sheets and stains On my soul
You left me broke down beggin for change Had to catch a ride with a man whos deranged
He had your hands and my fathers face Another western vampire different time same place
I had dreams that brings me sadness Pain much deep that a river Sorrow flow
through me in tiny waves of shivers Corny movies make me reminisce Break me down
easy on this generic love shit First kiss frog and princess
I'm a shake you off though Get up on that horse and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
I'm a shake you off though Get up on that horse and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
I'm a shake you off though Get up on that horse and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
I'm a shake you off though Get up on that horse and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
Ima shake you off though, look back with no remorse...
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Cyborgs - Duration: 32:01.
One of the most important things to remember when considering whether or not it's ethical
for people to become cyborgs, is that that ship sailed a long time ago.
Today we are looking at cyborgs, this subject having placed first
out of a few dozen options on the most recent topic poll over at the Channel's Facebook
Group, Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur.
I, of course, am your host, the aforementioned Isaac Arthur.
Cyborgs is an interesting topic, but also tricky one for me to cover
because it falls into that range of technologies where I feel we've let popular fiction kind
of let our imaginations run wild and not in the good way.
It's a topic that gets a bit controversial when it probably shouldn't be, and we have
a hard time defining what a cyborg is, in terms of what people think a cyborg is, in
such a way that it would not already include most of us nowadays.
When we explore the more proper definition we will see that it is even harder to argue
that we aren't cyborgs right now.
So instead of starting by defining what a cyborg actually is, let's ask ourselves
what it is not.
When I think cyborg I think of someone who looks like a regular human, but has some machinery
inside them, probably mostly microscopic, that helps with some task.
What a lot of folks picture is a guy with shiny metal arms, and sadly something a bit
less than human, or sometimes just as troubling, as more than human.
For that matter folks often confuse them with androids, which are
robots that look human, and the line could get blurry between the two on some paths.
Fundamentally a lot of terms like machine or robot or cyborg or android can get quite
indistinct.
This is something I always warn people about with definitions
for hazy concepts that are still emerging, you need a definition that includes all the
examples you think should be in there without including those which should not be.
That is very hard with a cyborg because, for instance, tons of people already have machines
inside them, such as pacemakers and cochlear implants.
We wouldn't normally call Jim a cyborg because he's got a pacemaker in his chest.
Similarly one hardly needs to make a machine out of metal, a plastic or ceramic machine
would seem the same.
Many of us do have fillings in our teeth or pins or plates in our bones or skull where
we got injured, we are not cyborgs.
Many folks have piercings or tattoos, they are not cyborgs either.
We also can't exclude things which are strictly medical as opposed to elective and cosmetic.
A man does not become a cyborg because he elects to have his arm replaced with a robotic
prosthetic rather than having lost his arm to an accident.
Nor would the sophistication of the device seem a key factor in our definition.
A person with an ancient wooden peg-leg would seem an absurd example of a cyborg, but it
is hard to argue some fundamental transition has happened by using some prosthetic that
is more sophisticated.
So what is a cyborg?
Our answer is in the actual definition of cyborg and of cybernetics, and how the term
originated, because it is a bit surprising and alters the perspective on this concept.
That new perspective is one I think far more useful to this topic too.
Cyborg is simply short for Cybernetic Organism, but most folks do not know what cybernetics
is or what it originally meant.
Unsurprisingly, like a lot of science terms, it is Greek, and we see it used all the way
back to Plato, who used it in the context of governing systems.
We see the term evolve a bit as we get into 19th century, when folks like Ampere, from
who we get the unit of electrical current, the amp, use it to discuss control and communication
systems inside mechanisms.
We had begun getting machines complicated enough to need lots of valves and so forth
to help 'govern' the proper function of the device.
Jump forward to the middle of the 20th century and we get the founder of the cybernetics
discipline, mathematician Norbert Wiener, defining cybernetics as the scientific study
of control and communication in the animal and the machine.
A cyberneticist might study a human to see the various feedback and control mechanisms
our body uses to regulate itself.
They might similarly study the weather and climate to see how that feeds back and regulates
itself.
Jumping forward another decade or so to the 1960s, and we see the term cyborg coined Manfred
Clynes and Nathan Kline, no relation, and was defined as follows: "A cyborg is essentially
a man-machine system in which the control mechanisms of the human portion are modified
externally by drugs or regulatory devices so that the being can live in some environment
different than the normal one."
There's some interesting language there, 'modified externally', 'drugs or regulatory
devices', and the part about living in a different environment.
They were talking about space explorers, and a cyborg would be a man in a spacesuit, for
instance.
Note, not the man, the man plus the spacesuit.
That is the cybernetic system and it is an it.
Now there's a strong implication of something long-lasting or permanent, throwing on a winter
coat to go out in the snow doesn't make you a cyborg, that would give us too trivial
of a definition, but it is not really 'you' anyway.
The cybernetic system is getting called 'it' not to imply a lack of humanity but in the
same way we would refer to a rowboat being powered by one or more people as an it.
The traffic system of a large metropolis is a complex one, as is its sewer system, and
both might be studied by cybernetics, that the one happens to have actual people inside
it doesn't mean we stop referring to it as it.
But no dehumanization is intended.
We begin to see what we are actually talking about is not replacements, but alterations
from the natural state.
Now natural is always a bit of an iffy term, especially when we talk about complex systems.
Nature is constantly in flux and only achieves brief states of meta-stability.
Natural and artificial are both terms that highlight the issue we have with definitions
and are obviously relevant to discussing cyborgs, but our interest in the moment is how if an
ecological system is destabilized by something, it will tend to settle into a new equilibrium.
Some plant moves in and one critter eats it and grows in number while another does not
and decreases in number, and the predators alter their numbers accordingly.
Ten years later a family of beavers moves into the area because the predators that used
to reside there are no longer as big a threat as they used to be.
Beavers being beavers, they dam up a river and the whole local ecologies changes again,
and so on.
New equilibriums are reached.
Individual organisms as complex as humans have their own complex ecologies inside them
and they change too, but as a whole that variation is fairly tiny from our perspective.
I don't catch a flu and sprout a third arm or suddenly develop a dislike for coffee.
A person who suffers hearing damage, lowering the range they can hear well, might pick up
a bigger fondness for drums than higher-pitched horns.
If we fix that, the situation may change.
It doesn't matter how, surgery, medication, transplants from someone else, cloned ear
drums, mechanical ones, or whatever.
But if we increased his range to include higher frequencies, we once again alter the state
of the system.
Again the method doesn't actually matter, our person can now hear ultrasonic sounds,
under our definition they are now a cyborg.
The field of cybernetics is again focused on such complex and dynamic systems of control
and communication.
Now whether you know it or not there are ultrasonic sound going on around you quite regularly.
Indeed there are sounds going on that most of us can't hear anymore, but little children
usually can, since our hearing decays with age and most strongly in those upper ranges.
There's actually a device called the Mosquito that generates irritating sounds in those
lost ranges which some places use to deter young people from loitering.
You can use the same on many animals to keep them away from an area.
A person given ultrasonic hearing might find all sorts of environments unpleasant, and
avoid them, they might find some music the rest of us enjoyed unbearable because the
instrument emitted horrible squeaks we couldn't normally hear.
Now, that's an easy fix, whatever you did to them to let them hear that can have an
off switch included, but it is a simple example of what we mean by cyborgs and cybernetics.
Your classic scifi or comic book cyborg with the metal arm that lets him hoist up cars
with that hand is rarely shown having his arm rip of or his spine snap under the weight
and forces.
It's a bit like superman, he can lift up a plane or train but for some reason the ground
under his feet doesn't collapse.
I'd imagine at least some writer explained that but a handwave is a handwave even when
dressed up to sound logical in the fictional science of scifi and comic books.
If you want to be able to punch through a wall we need to reinforce your skin so it
isn't shredded.
We need to make sure where it connects to the body has been reinforced so it does rip
free under the forces on your arm from hitting that wall.
If you want to be able to lift up heavy weights we have to modify almost every bone to handle
the stress.
I've seen a number of cartoons where someone whirls around like a tornado, but we know
spinning around causes vertigo, and we also know doing that causes the blood to rush to
your extremities.
So if you wanted to be able to do that you'd need to also alter that person to handle both
of those issues.
Of course we also have to worry that a person who has been augmented in some fashion could
have a personality change too.
The ability to bench press a truck could alter someone's behavior and not necessarily for
the best.
Now like many technologies that we discuss here, it is often the case that the ethical
or moral issues that arise are not entirely new ones.
If being a juiced up cyborg makes some folks arrogant and act untouchable and superior,
so too do many other things.
We often encourage folks to get into good shape for their health and include the mental
side of things too, it often helps with confidence or depression, so it is change but a good
one.
Though I've known a fair few folks who got into shape and became a bit unbearable.
So too, someone who has been poor their whole life and humble in demeanor might become quite
the jerk if they suddenly got wealthy.
I've known many a person who after getting an education became a bit of jerk about that
too.
We obviously don't consider someone a cyborg for such things, but it's fundamentally
the same sort of issue.
I am not going to ban going to the gym or starting a business or going to college for
fear it might make some folks get a big head.
Such being the case, I can't see the reason or difference in banning someone getting themselves
some cybernetic augmentations to be stronger or faster or smarter.
I wouldn't be surprised if some places did ban them of course, but many places would
not.
I remember last week I joked about a nice advantage of oceanic launches of rockets is
that doing it in international waters let you get around most regulations.
Talking with a friend afterwards I joked about how you could gamble at such spaceports too,
and casinos might make a nice extra source of income for such a floating island.
I could easily see cybernetic shops setting up there too.
Now while it is amusing to imagine floating cities springing up offering all manner of
services, likely many unsavory, that are banned or restricted elsewhere, the legalities of
cyborgs don't interest us too much today.
What does interest us, now that we've gotten the concept down, what it is and is not, is
what sort of augmentations we might see.
I'm going to mostly bypass the idea of being stronger, faster, or smarter, we already talked
about faster reflexes and thinking in the Transhumanism and Superintelligence episodes.
And the image of the super-strong cyborg who can flip cars, have bullets bounce off them,
and has a laser gun in the arm is honestly kinda boring to discuss.
We already know that concept and I'd have little to add.
Flashy concept but straightforward, and not actually that handy on a day to day basis.
I've divided the various types of augmentations into some general categories and we'll discuss
the options for each.
Those are Medical Applications, Augmented Reality, Sensory Augmentation, Physical Augmentation,
and Mental Augmentation.
Now in many of these cases it isn't necessary to actually implant anything at all, and it
doesn't make much difference to us today.
Beginning with medical applications, it is worth noting that again cybernetics
is about communication and control of a system, and we see that strongly in this subject.
The first and most obvious medical application that could be viewed as augmentation is something
that let's you keep track of your health.
We already have this emerging, watches that kept track of your heart rate too have
been available for a long while, but the FitBit and its competitors are starting to get quite
common.
I wear such a device on my wrist and I'd imagine many of you do too.
What's actually handy about such things is that the data can be sent to your smartphone,
with its greater capacity for running applications, and you can look at it and see other things
like how you are sleeping.
As a diagnostic tool for doctors this is fairly handy, and as such monitors improve its medical
value will improve too.
Such monitors might come to monitor almost everything, we might figure out how
to do detailed analysis of our blood without poking a hole in ourselves to get a sample,
but implant or something you wear, it is very easy to imagine us all having monitors constantly
keeping track of everything going on inside of us and also what we put inside us.
You don't need to input manually what you ate because various detectors in or on you
run analysis on what you are eating and say that cheeseburger has this many calories.
Or perhaps you've got a little sensor in your stomach that's keeping track of nutrients
and toxins coming in.
Others are tracking your white cell count, or if you are deficient in iron or Vitamin
C, or if you are dehydrated.
Long before you get a headache or noticeable symptoms of a cold it's detecting the signs.
With that information you can take action before it gets bad and requires more effort.
With all that data available it can say take an aspirin or ibuprofen, but more over it
can say, take exactly 172 milligrams of ibuprofen or 42 micrograms of Vitamin K. And if you
have any nice implants that can precisely administer exactly the right amount at the
right times and frequencies, the results would be beneficial.
Needless to say that same information, available to your doctor, could help us diagnose severe
conditions long before they become problematic or life threatening too.
We can also imagine more sophisticated implants might be able to manufacture these things
inside of you, just alerting you if you needed to eat something that it was low on for manufacturing
the required medicine.
Even further along those lines would be nanomachines augmenting a person's immune system or repairing
damage, but we've discussed that before.
Of course if you've got little machines inside you they might need some fairly atypical
supplies, and you might have to consume something weird like Gadolinium.
There's a scifi book series called Merkiaari Wars by Mark E. Cooper that revolves around
transhuman cyborg soldiers called Vipers, and it's a pretty good read, but in it they
have to occasionally drink what they call a "Viper Smoothie" that's reported to
taste horrible and has all the necessary bits for their cybernetic components and nanomachines.
It's amusing to read about them cringing while drinking the things but realistically
you'd probably only need small amounts you could take in a gel capsule.
I could easily multivitamins for cyborgs having the recommended daily values of Tungsten or
Graphene or Silicon.
In the nearer term, an obvious application I suspect we will see become the norm soon
would be for life monitors that could call for medical assistance on its own.
We actually have this, but it's not in regular use on healthy people.
As the devices get more common and reliable, and as smart phones become more ubiquitous,
we can imagine that it will become more and more common for everyone to have a wrist monitor
that could call emergency services.
Obviously you need to take steps to avoid lots of false reports, but it is interesting
to think of the impact on society if that became reliable and normal.
Even on something like crimes, since we have a lot of accurate information to help figure
out what happened and when.
Of course we also have the ability to include in those monitors things like cameras on our
person recording events and our location.
It is a bit creepy to think of anyone being able to see what you saw and know where you
are, but with the right privacy protections you could seriously deter violent crime when
just about everything is being recorded by your victim and potentially stored off site.
Of course for all that monitored information to be useful we have to have some way of seeing
it.
This brings up the concept of Augmented Reality, which differs from Virtual Reality in the
sense that it is overlaying stuff on your normal senses of things around you, not sticking
you in a totally simulated environment.
I suspect many of you are already familiar with this concept and it is also pretty straight-forward,
so we won't spend much time on this.
Whether we are discussing a pair of glasses or contact lenses that display information
or something directly connected to your brain's visual cortex, the basic notion is simple
enough.
I'm sitting there talking to someone and information is being displayed for me.
My heart rate, an email from a friend, the person I'm talking to's name, my three
o'clock reminder to go to the store.
Now this has many potential entertainment and safety uses, but keyed back into the notion
of monitoring things, when I get to the store in a bit it would be nice to be able to look
inside my fridge or pantry at home and see what I'm low on, without having to actually
go home.
It's nice to be able to have a road map display on your vision while driving, but
it is even nicer to have an impressive sensor suite on your car that is monitoring your
surroundings with much more focus and accuracy than you can and can lay down the road boundary
lines on your vision when it's foggy or snow is covering them, or highlight oncoming
cars before you can see them, or detect cats or dogs or deer or kids near the road and
highlight them so you're noticing them sooner.
A radar in your car that fed the information to you as a visual overlay.
Or can send an alert from your health monitors letting you know you're sleepier than you
think and need to pull over for a nap and some coffee, or give you a little buzz when
it notices that after an hour of driving you are getting highway hypnosis.
Of course it is even nicer if you don't have to rely on your car's sensors because
you've got your own upgunned sensory package.
Sensory augmentation that let you see into infrared or hear ultrasonic.
That let you zoom in on things too small to see clearly or too far away.
That enhances your sense of taste or smell or touch, maybe even adding new things we
can't normally taste.
There's some debate about what we can taste, we know of five for sure, salty,
sweet, sour, bitter, and umami, the savory taste we associate to MSG.
Some other have also been suggested, and there's argument about what exactly taste is, but
with just those five we have a panoply of dishes and tastes we enjoy by mixing the intensity
and ratio of those.
As we do with color, when we essentially can only see red, green, and blue, we can still
make a huge spectrum of color hues and textures.
If we added a fourth cone, say one sensitive to infrared, could we alter the
brain to see this as a new distinct color?
Or several, as that spectrum is far bigger than the standard visual one?
Including a device that saw infrared but showed it to us as red is handy, but what new experiences
are available when it is a new color?
How much better a meal if you can taste three or four entirely new flavors?
It would be handy to hear ultrasonic or see behind you, but how much neater to be able
to hear instruments designed just for ultrasonic ranges or truly see fifty or sixty colors,
not just combinations of three?
Of course our brains would need to be physically modified for things like that,
which we will get to shortly, but it is also worth remembering that sometimes you don't
want your senses augmented, indeed you might want them attenuated.
It would be rather nice to have the ability to shut off your smell around foul scents,
or tune out loud distracting noises.
Particularly if this could be done automatically, removing glare or blinding lights, filtering
out just those sounds you don't want to hear so you can focus on what someone is saying
to you in a crowded room.
Of course an alternative to that is ears you can move around to focus on sound,
like cats can do, but that would be a physical augmentation, so let's move on to those.
As I mentioned, we see plenty of examples of cyborgs with super strength and toughness,
but there's a lot of other modifications we could make that might be handier.
No pun intended but one example would be steadier hands.
As someone with a neurological condition that makes my hands shake, I tend to be a touch
envious of folks who can work on intricate things, those steady nimble fingers we think
of surgeons having.
It would be nicer to be able to type as fast as we thought and never miss a key, or going
back to the sensory angle, to have fingers more sensitive to touch and texture.
We have a lot of options here that are underexplored.
Lungs that filter out toxins, get oxygen better, so you could breathe easily in low pressure
without long adaptations periods or needing a drug like Diamox to help with altitude sickness.
Maybe one that could filter oxygen right out of water, likes gills, or even electrolyze
it right out of water.
Maybe ones that could seal up your throat if you got exposed to vacuum and start scrubbing
carbon dioxide so you can reuse it as oxygen.
Maybe alterations that let you eat a rock and process it into everything you need.
It kind of helps with concerns about food supplies and farm space if little factories
in your body can process dirt into food without using plants as a middleman.
Back to medical applications, what about little bands near major arteries that could clamp
down as tourniquets if you suffered an injury causing massive blood loss?
Now you can't tie a tourniquet around your neck if your head gets chopped off, but what
if you could?
Someone lops off your head and back up bluetooth connections kick in to send and receive signals
from your body while your arteries and veins constrict to stop blood loss and a small backup
'lung' in your sinus cavity turns on and supplies oxygen and keep your blood flowing
and oxygenated for a while.
There a things that can do most of a muscle or bone's job better or lighter or taking
up less space, so instead of packing in enough synthetic muscle to let you lift a car or
giving yourself the Wolverine adamantium laced bones, maybe you replace them to keep to human
norms of strength only, or just a little better, and use that space and energy for other things.
Maybe synthetic skin that feels just like the original, and in both senses of that,
let's you have that heightened sense of touch too.
Maybe it is very injury resistant, maybe it can suck air in through your pores to help
you breathe, or help with cooling, a lot of these components might build up phenomenal
heat when in use after all.
Take a lot of energy to run probably too, but maybe you don't need batteries and can
derive it from your food, or maybe that synthetic skin could be photovoltaic too, though for
modesty's sake solar panels built into your clothes might be better.
You can take things like that pretty far too, especially if you have dense enough power
storage or generation to run big things.
Modifications to let you walk around without a suit on an airless moon or swim around in
ultra-cold liquid nitrogen, all while looking and feeling otherwise human are probably feasible.
Lots of redundant or backup systems for extreme conditions probably are too.
Not 'a' mechanical heart to replace your normal one, but a bunch of small pumps distributed
through you to provide assistance and backups for pumping blood.
Not bones made of titanium so you can get hit by a car, but hollow ones made of titanium
that inside them included the necessary mechanisms to fabricate bone marrow to make red blood
cells and the rest of that space is data storage, a backup or supplementary kidney or liver.
Some compressed oxygen to use if you can't breathe, a backup brain to distribute your
thinking outside of your head.
Mental Augmentation Speaking of brains moves us into mental
augmentation.
Now as I said we've discussed this before and we've also discussed the general difficulty
in contemplating what we really mean by intelligence and augmenting it, so we will bypass that
today.
It is very easy to imagine being smarter but also very hard to imagine being smarter, so
to speak.
What we can easily imagine is integrating electronics and computers into the mind.
Our brains are phenomenally powerful, but they are tuned toward certain tasks, and not
designed with many things in mind that are helpful nowadays.
The ability to add or multiply eight digit numbers is something the most primitive electronic
calculator could do in an instant.
It would also be nice to be able to enter a room and instantly know how many folks were
in that room and what all their names were, not just have that data show up on your augmented
vision, but to actually know it.
Search functions of all your sensory recordings would be handy too.
It's a chilly day and you want your green sweater, but going back and looking through
every recording of the last year trying to find when you last saw it doesn't help much.
That's actually something we are very good at, our brains can search our memories quickly.
But the ability to recall things from years back with crystal clarity, and to do it quick
and easy, right to the relevant memory, is a massive advantage.
On the more extreme end of things, being able to make ourselves smarter, make
it so we can truly see 50 colors not just red, green, and blue, making it so you aren't
zooming in with your eyes to see things far away or small but actually have a visual resolution
that high, would require some big changes and improvements to our brains themselves,
not just some chip that can see that you are picturing your green sweater and knows you
want to find it, then runs searches through those digital recordings of your memory.
So what would this be like?
These more extreme forms of augmentation where you have abilities like this?
It's worth considering because many of us will probably live to see a lot of this come
to be.
Many of these things are emerging right now, and with better health comes long life, more
time for such things to come about.
I wouldn't think feelings of invincibility would be too bad, after all there would be
plenty of other folks who were like you, but there would certainly be a lot of confidence
in knowing that even if you had a heart attack by yourself the paramedics would be there
in minutes, that would be even higher if you knew you had several redundant pumps that
could take over.
Even if everybody else is just as souped up as you are, there's a lot to be said about
being able jump off a tall building and not shatter every bone in your body when you landed,
or not only not being able to lose your keys but remember where you left that paperback
you read ten years ago, and more over remember every page of it so it doesn't matter where
you stuck it.
One could argue that if you altering folks enough off the baseline with all these
superhuman abilities they might no longer really be human.
I'm not sure I could entirely argue that wasn't the case, and while I personally
don't like terms like transhuman or post-human, there is some validity to that concept.
When we tie it to life extension, which we've also discussed, even if we aren't making
people super-intelligent and even if they are staying human in appearance, there would
probably be something very different about a cyborg who had lived a couple thousand years
and could recall any given moment of that with crystal clarity.
You can envision other people doing this in fiction or in a remote future generations
sense, but it's often a bit strange to try to imagine yourself with that existence.
What if you were cyborg'd up enough you could walk around on an airless moon without
a suit?
Traditionally when you get superpowers you are supposed to don a mask and cape and go
fight crime, but in a society where most folks can do that you have to find other things
to occupy your time, and you might have a lot of time, especially when factoring in
not only the possibility of radical life extension but also the notion of accelerated consciousness,
speed intelligence, that we discussed in the Transhumanism episode.
So we've looked at a lot of concepts today and I think we will end here.
Many of those were pretty far out there, stuff that might be centuries coming or never, others
ones we can expect within a decade or so with great confidence, all of them with the potential
to really change life here on Earth in profound ways.
Next week we will be returning to talking about getting life off of Earth in the Upward
Bound Series, and looking at alternatives to chemical rocket engines in the form of
atomic rockets, in The Nuclear Option.
The week after that, it will back to Existential Crisis Series for Infinite Improbability Issues,
and we are going to explore some of the stranger implications of concepts like the Many Worlds
Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and Alternate Universes.
Also, while we haven't picked a topic or time yet as of the writing of this episode,
I will be teaming up again soon with Fraser Cain of Universe Today.
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Cheese flan
Grate 60 g of sweet provolone
Heat 4 dl of milk in a pot
In another pot, melt 60 g of butter
Add 60 g of flour 00
Warm milk
a pinch of salt
nutmeg
provolone sweet
50 g of parmesan cheese
let it cool
Grind and bake the breadcrumbs
Put it in the fridge
Work the cream in the last steps
5 egg white
divide the 2 eggs from the egg white and add egg yolks one at a time
mount the seven egg whites in a total amount
Add a pinch of salt
Take the pan from the fridge and pour the cream
Bake at 180 ° for 25 minutes - static oven
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This homemade shampoo is one of the best ways for hair to grow faster - Duration: 1:58.
This homemade shampoo is one of the best ways hair grow faster
Sodium bicarbonate has many uses, and more and more people are being aware
its benefits.
Maybe you do not know, but baking Sodium is great to clean the hair
and leave a natural, healthy glow.
This recipe will give a new life to your hair!
To this mix 1 teaspoon of baking soda with 1 cup of water. If your hair
is longer, you can increase proportionately.
For hair to shoulder length use: 3 tablespoons baking for 3 cups
Water.
To use just apply the mixture on the hair dry or wet. Starting from the roots up
the edge. Leave to act in 1 to 3 minutes and rinse well.
Then remove thoroughly with warm water and pass a little apple cider vinegar.
For this, use 1 part apple cider vinegar 4 for water.
If you do not want to be smell, add a few drops of lavender essential oil,
mint or rosemary.
To pass the water with vinegar, tilt the head back and pour.
This treatment will even end up with dandruff.
You can use this natural shampoo to 2 times a week. If your hair from getting
dried, decrease the amount of bicarbonate sodium. If you get oiliness increase
the amount.
Each hair has a response to this treatment, so making adjustments is part of
process.
Know that water usually contains large amounts of chlorine and fluorine and this weakens
the hair.
So sometimes place a filter in the shower It is a great measure to improve health
your hair.
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ISSO QUE É VIDA - Duration: 4:47.
Let me tell you something
I've just arrived in Italy
It's 11.50am now
Yesterday, I left home in England at midnight
I took a bus, all the way to a coach station
I waited for an hour, then I took the coach
I went to the airport, then I took the flight
And the coolest thing was that the flight was full
But, by my side, right by my side
There were 3 empty seats
What did I do? I laid down. I slept for 2 hours.
Then I arrived in Napoli
Passport and stuff
Got there, took the bus
Now I'm home having a coffee
Today is my brother-in-law's birthday
I'm really happy to be here
My brother-in-law's just arrived here
I missed you
Give me a big fat hug because I'm really stinky
It's either photographing or filming, Caroline
Good bye everyone, see you later!
We're off to baptisms now
It's a very beautiful place
We're all happy here because a very dear brother is getting baptised
That's it
Another baptism here in Italy
I was working, behind the cameras
This beautiful place
We like to do it in open spaces
Because we are witnessing to non-believers
They're not used to it, a lady came to ask us what was this
Other people saw it and came to us
So we take the opportunity to preach the gospel
So that they can be saved as well, mate
We're here
There's still a lot of noise around, as you may notice
Today we had baptism and The Lord's Supper
And the preparation for tomorrow, because we're going to Jerusalem
It's gonna be insane, dude
First time there, I can't wait
So the next vlogs will be from Jerusalem
You can't miss it
Thanks for always keeping up with the videos
God bless you
See see see'ya
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Tu És O Meu Viver (You Are My Living) cc/subtitles - Duration: 4:38.
You Are My Living
Lord,
In the middle of suffering,
I claim your name.
I am nothing without You.
Lord,
Blind for the ambition,
They smiling walks to the ruin.
They trust in illusion.
Lord Jesus,
Free us from evil.
You are my living.
Lord Jesus,
Light that guide me to the dawing,
To Father's arms.
Lord,
Many run from your pure Love.
They judge your servants.
They don't believe in the Savior.
Lord,
Consummated in corruption,
They prepare the soul to the eternal darkness.
Lord Jesus,
Free us from evil.
You are my living.
Lord Jesus,
Light that guide me to the dawing,
To Father's arms.
Heaven is the place in which I want to rest,
Delight myself in God's fields.
Children playing.
Love and peace always reingning.
I will teach my children the Love of Lord Jesus.
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Location Photo Challenges: Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey - Duration: 10:22.
In this video I'm joined by Mark Wallace
as we take on two
Location Photo Challenges.
Hello I'm Gavin Hoey, hey
I'm Mark Wallace and you're watching
AdoramaTV brought to you
by Adorama the camera
store that has got everything for us
photographers and today you join us down
on Brighton beach for
a Pointless Photo Challenge
I think pointless is the word
isn't it? Because we don't know what's
going to happen. We're going to get a
series of envelopes with some photo
challenges,
but we don't know what they
are and why we're doing them.
We just know their wacky.
Okay shall we go and do
the first one? Yes we're going to go to
Brighton, let's do it!
Photographers don't always have time
to exercise. That's true.
For, what is this? Prove that it's
possible to take a great photo
whilst running, whilst running how do you say that?
Whilst. Whilst. While we are running.
You have 15 minutes starting now!
So this doesn't have autofocus but I do
want to shoot RAW, I do want to shoot,
I'm going to use a different camera. I'm using
my GoPro Hero5. No this shoots RAW,
I'm doing it let's go! Woohoo!
What am I getting myself into?
Right shooting RAW GoPro Hero5
Wait a minute,
just look at the, look at the,
look at the thing again.
Just a minute.
The devil is in the detail,
photographers don't always have time
to exercise, prove that it's possible to
take a great photo whilst running.
It doesn't say I've to run
with a camera.
I've got a better idea,
this way.
This is how you spend 15 minutes
you spend the time setting up,
you don't just run off,
like a madman
because that would be
crazy time.
Oh this is ridiculous,
sorry I'm doing a crazy video.
It's a dare, I'm sorry. Oh okay.
12 second self timer
I can do this, I can run across there
in 12 seconds ready here we go okay.
Ooh, shall we go,
alright seven, six, five, four.
Let's see,
oh these are brilliant,
brilliant, these are the worst
pictures I've ever taken.
No these are not,
I should maybe run again.
I should run, I should run, oh!
Fingers crossed.
One more go.
One more time.
Are you still going? Yes.
Right here we go, go!
I, I'm going to break my ankle I think
I hurt myself?
Okay. That's enough.
I seriously hurt my ankle.
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six,
five, four, three, two, one,
take the picture.
I'm not running back,
if this doesn't a work?
Mark wins,
by default. Let's have a look?
Yes!
I'm done.
Wow!
You win!
We have another challenge Mr. Gavin Hoey,
I'm opening this up
and it says Street Photo Challenge.
Welcome to, welcome to Brighton
a city famed for it's colorful characters
yes there's many colorful characters,
your task is to shoot a triptych
of three images.
Shoot the best hat, beard
and footwear you can find.
You have 30 minutes starting now.
30 minutes?
Alright, well the crazy people are that way
that's where I'm going see you,
I love street photography
I hate street photography,
hate it, I'm so bad at it.
I'm far too British.
A man with a beard, okay.
I wouldn't worry I've got it on
self timer from the last challenge.
Why isn't it taking any pictures?
Oh yeah, because I'm on self timer.
A man with a beard.
I just roll my cigarette
and you just take it?
Yes. Okay
I won't even pay attention to you
How long does it go on for?
I don't really know like a,
done, cool!
I just feel awful, I hate this,
genuinely hate this.
Man with a hat.
Tick. Hat.
Shoes and then I can stop.
Man with a hat, there's a man with a hat.
Okay, I think
I'm happy with the hat shot.
I can just tick one off the list.
I can get one
where I can say yes
definitely happy with a hat shot.
Yeah okay, good enough.
I'm doing a photo challenge,
and I have to,
it's just like a scavenger hunt and I need the best
hat in Brighton. Can I take a picture of you? Yes.
Wearing the Hat?
It's going to be on video too. Okay.
Is that cool all right, let's take, yeah,
just ignore me. I'm just going to do the
best hat in the world.
I'm doing a photo
challenge I'm supposed to find different
things around Brighton, I'm supposed to find
the most awesome beard, can I take a picture
of your beard? No worries. Okay cool alright.
Okay so if it's into the light
it means people aren't going to see
me so quickly, so I want to be
shooting them this way
like that. Sorry.
That's alright.
That's great.
Excuse me, I'm doing a photo challenge
we're filming this and I'm supposed to
get the best footwear in Brighton.
Can I take a picture, from like your knees down?
Go for it.
it's going to be in a video on YouTube
is that cool. Yeah yeah cool.
Alright that's awesome so
you just text, I'm going to take picture
of your legs,
how, it's not creepy totally,
totally normal.
That is so cool, thank you for
being a good sport, I saw walking by,
I'm like god that is it, that is it.
So I've got legs, I need?
It's shoes you want though.
I mean shoes, shoes right,
that's why I'm shooting
shoes not legs.
Yeah. I mean't shoes.
Okay I think I've got them.
I think I'm done. There's my hat.
Excuse me.
I'm a photographer
and I'm on a photo scavenger hunt. Yeah?
Looking for the most awesome hat in Brighton.
Can I take a picture of you
and your hat? Of course. Is that cool?
I'm Mark by the way, what's your name?
Mark, alright. Alright just hang out there
I'm going to take a picture of your
awesome hat,
all I need is one more shot.
That's it boom, got it. Where is this going?
it's going to go
on a show called AdoramaTV. Oh right.
A, D, O, R, A, M, A,
AdoramaTV,
Yeah cool, thank you so much.
I think that's it.
We've shoes, footwear,
like hat and beard.
Well there you go I've really enjoyed doing
those. They were, well a little bit
pointless, as the name suggests, but that
doesn't really matter because it is
great fun and if you're having fun
with your photography
you're learning about photography
That is absolutely right just
get out there, try something new
and you'll be surprised
at the results that
you get, I was definitely surprised at
some of those challenges. Yeah they were
quite surprising and if you want to see
more surprising stuff you need to be
watching more AdoramaTV and the best way
to do that is to click on the
Subscribe button!
I'm Gavin Hoey, I'm Mark Wallace
Thank you for watching!
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W€R€WØLF ⌖ ÆSTHETIC PALETTE OC MAP † OPEN † - Duration: 4:51.
In a dream I was a werewolf My soul was filled with crystal light
Lavender ribbons of rain sang Ridding my heart of mortal fight
Broken sundown fatherless showdown Gun hip swollen lip bottle sip
yeah I suck dick Lose grip on gravity falls sky blinding crumbling walls
River sweep away my memories of Childrens things a young mothers love Before the
yearning song of flesh on flesh Young hearts burst open wounds bleed fresh
A young brother skinny and tall my older walks Oceanward and somber
slumber sleeping Flowers in the water, But Im just his daughter
Walking down an icy grave leading to my Schizophrenic father
Weeping willow wont you wallow louder Searching for my fathers power
Ima shake you off though Get up on that horse
and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
Ima shake you off though Get up on that horse and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
Ima shake you off though, Look back with no remorse
Hes a black magic wielder some say a witch Wielded darkness when he was wilein
(in-distinctive)
And born child and he was the bastard that broke Up the marriage
evil doer doing evil from a baby carriage And he was born with the same blue eyes
Crystal ships dripping with ice, diamonds coruscate In the night fireworks electric bright
And now hes got his own two sons Tries to hide his tears in a world of fun But
loveless bedrooms filled with doom Bring silent heartache July to June
swoon over new young hot flame Mourn the memories later Laugh now alligator
Laugh now alligator
Oh in a dream My father came to me
And made me swear that Id keep Whats sacred to me
And if I get the choice To live in his name
I'll pray my way through the Rain Singing Oh happy day
I dont mean to close the door But for the record my heart is sore
You blew through me like bullet holes Left stains on my sheets and stains On my soul
You left me broke down beggin for change Had to catch a ride with a man whos deranged
He had your hands and my fathers face Another western vampire different time same place
I had dreams that brings me sadness Pain much deep that a river Sorrow flow
through me in tiny waves of shivers Corny movies make me reminisce Break me down
easy on this generic love shit First kiss frog and princess
I'm a shake you off though Get up on that horse and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
I'm a shake you off though Get up on that horse and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
I'm a shake you off though Get up on that horse and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
I'm a shake you off though Get up on that horse and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
Ima shake you off though, look back with no remorse...
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Cyborgs - Duration: 32:01.
One of the most important things to remember when considering whether or not it's ethical
for people to become cyborgs, is that that ship sailed a long time ago.
Today we are looking at cyborgs, this subject having placed first
out of a few dozen options on the most recent topic poll over at the Channel's Facebook
Group, Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur.
I, of course, am your host, the aforementioned Isaac Arthur.
Cyborgs is an interesting topic, but also tricky one for me to cover
because it falls into that range of technologies where I feel we've let popular fiction kind
of let our imaginations run wild and not in the good way.
It's a topic that gets a bit controversial when it probably shouldn't be, and we have
a hard time defining what a cyborg is, in terms of what people think a cyborg is, in
such a way that it would not already include most of us nowadays.
When we explore the more proper definition we will see that it is even harder to argue
that we aren't cyborgs right now.
So instead of starting by defining what a cyborg actually is, let's ask ourselves
what it is not.
When I think cyborg I think of someone who looks like a regular human, but has some machinery
inside them, probably mostly microscopic, that helps with some task.
What a lot of folks picture is a guy with shiny metal arms, and sadly something a bit
less than human, or sometimes just as troubling, as more than human.
For that matter folks often confuse them with androids, which are
robots that look human, and the line could get blurry between the two on some paths.
Fundamentally a lot of terms like machine or robot or cyborg or android can get quite
indistinct.
This is something I always warn people about with definitions
for hazy concepts that are still emerging, you need a definition that includes all the
examples you think should be in there without including those which should not be.
That is very hard with a cyborg because, for instance, tons of people already have machines
inside them, such as pacemakers and cochlear implants.
We wouldn't normally call Jim a cyborg because he's got a pacemaker in his chest.
Similarly one hardly needs to make a machine out of metal, a plastic or ceramic machine
would seem the same.
Many of us do have fillings in our teeth or pins or plates in our bones or skull where
we got injured, we are not cyborgs.
Many folks have piercings or tattoos, they are not cyborgs either.
We also can't exclude things which are strictly medical as opposed to elective and cosmetic.
A man does not become a cyborg because he elects to have his arm replaced with a robotic
prosthetic rather than having lost his arm to an accident.
Nor would the sophistication of the device seem a key factor in our definition.
A person with an ancient wooden peg-leg would seem an absurd example of a cyborg, but it
is hard to argue some fundamental transition has happened by using some prosthetic that
is more sophisticated.
So what is a cyborg?
Our answer is in the actual definition of cyborg and of cybernetics, and how the term
originated, because it is a bit surprising and alters the perspective on this concept.
That new perspective is one I think far more useful to this topic too.
Cyborg is simply short for Cybernetic Organism, but most folks do not know what cybernetics
is or what it originally meant.
Unsurprisingly, like a lot of science terms, it is Greek, and we see it used all the way
back to Plato, who used it in the context of governing systems.
We see the term evolve a bit as we get into 19th century, when folks like Ampere, from
who we get the unit of electrical current, the amp, use it to discuss control and communication
systems inside mechanisms.
We had begun getting machines complicated enough to need lots of valves and so forth
to help 'govern' the proper function of the device.
Jump forward to the middle of the 20th century and we get the founder of the cybernetics
discipline, mathematician Norbert Wiener, defining cybernetics as the scientific study
of control and communication in the animal and the machine.
A cyberneticist might study a human to see the various feedback and control mechanisms
our body uses to regulate itself.
They might similarly study the weather and climate to see how that feeds back and regulates
itself.
Jumping forward another decade or so to the 1960s, and we see the term cyborg coined Manfred
Clynes and Nathan Kline, no relation, and was defined as follows: "A cyborg is essentially
a man-machine system in which the control mechanisms of the human portion are modified
externally by drugs or regulatory devices so that the being can live in some environment
different than the normal one."
There's some interesting language there, 'modified externally', 'drugs or regulatory
devices', and the part about living in a different environment.
They were talking about space explorers, and a cyborg would be a man in a spacesuit, for
instance.
Note, not the man, the man plus the spacesuit.
That is the cybernetic system and it is an it.
Now there's a strong implication of something long-lasting or permanent, throwing on a winter
coat to go out in the snow doesn't make you a cyborg, that would give us too trivial
of a definition, but it is not really 'you' anyway.
The cybernetic system is getting called 'it' not to imply a lack of humanity but in the
same way we would refer to a rowboat being powered by one or more people as an it.
The traffic system of a large metropolis is a complex one, as is its sewer system, and
both might be studied by cybernetics, that the one happens to have actual people inside
it doesn't mean we stop referring to it as it.
But no dehumanization is intended.
We begin to see what we are actually talking about is not replacements, but alterations
from the natural state.
Now natural is always a bit of an iffy term, especially when we talk about complex systems.
Nature is constantly in flux and only achieves brief states of meta-stability.
Natural and artificial are both terms that highlight the issue we have with definitions
and are obviously relevant to discussing cyborgs, but our interest in the moment is how if an
ecological system is destabilized by something, it will tend to settle into a new equilibrium.
Some plant moves in and one critter eats it and grows in number while another does not
and decreases in number, and the predators alter their numbers accordingly.
Ten years later a family of beavers moves into the area because the predators that used
to reside there are no longer as big a threat as they used to be.
Beavers being beavers, they dam up a river and the whole local ecologies changes again,
and so on.
New equilibriums are reached.
Individual organisms as complex as humans have their own complex ecologies inside them
and they change too, but as a whole that variation is fairly tiny from our perspective.
I don't catch a flu and sprout a third arm or suddenly develop a dislike for coffee.
A person who suffers hearing damage, lowering the range they can hear well, might pick up
a bigger fondness for drums than higher-pitched horns.
If we fix that, the situation may change.
It doesn't matter how, surgery, medication, transplants from someone else, cloned ear
drums, mechanical ones, or whatever.
But if we increased his range to include higher frequencies, we once again alter the state
of the system.
Again the method doesn't actually matter, our person can now hear ultrasonic sounds,
under our definition they are now a cyborg.
The field of cybernetics is again focused on such complex and dynamic systems of control
and communication.
Now whether you know it or not there are ultrasonic sound going on around you quite regularly.
Indeed there are sounds going on that most of us can't hear anymore, but little children
usually can, since our hearing decays with age and most strongly in those upper ranges.
There's actually a device called the Mosquito that generates irritating sounds in those
lost ranges which some places use to deter young people from loitering.
You can use the same on many animals to keep them away from an area.
A person given ultrasonic hearing might find all sorts of environments unpleasant, and
avoid them, they might find some music the rest of us enjoyed unbearable because the
instrument emitted horrible squeaks we couldn't normally hear.
Now, that's an easy fix, whatever you did to them to let them hear that can have an
off switch included, but it is a simple example of what we mean by cyborgs and cybernetics.
Your classic scifi or comic book cyborg with the metal arm that lets him hoist up cars
with that hand is rarely shown having his arm rip of or his spine snap under the weight
and forces.
It's a bit like superman, he can lift up a plane or train but for some reason the ground
under his feet doesn't collapse.
I'd imagine at least some writer explained that but a handwave is a handwave even when
dressed up to sound logical in the fictional science of scifi and comic books.
If you want to be able to punch through a wall we need to reinforce your skin so it
isn't shredded.
We need to make sure where it connects to the body has been reinforced so it does rip
free under the forces on your arm from hitting that wall.
If you want to be able to lift up heavy weights we have to modify almost every bone to handle
the stress.
I've seen a number of cartoons where someone whirls around like a tornado, but we know
spinning around causes vertigo, and we also know doing that causes the blood to rush to
your extremities.
So if you wanted to be able to do that you'd need to also alter that person to handle both
of those issues.
Of course we also have to worry that a person who has been augmented in some fashion could
have a personality change too.
The ability to bench press a truck could alter someone's behavior and not necessarily for
the best.
Now like many technologies that we discuss here, it is often the case that the ethical
or moral issues that arise are not entirely new ones.
If being a juiced up cyborg makes some folks arrogant and act untouchable and superior,
so too do many other things.
We often encourage folks to get into good shape for their health and include the mental
side of things too, it often helps with confidence or depression, so it is change but a good
one.
Though I've known a fair few folks who got into shape and became a bit unbearable.
So too, someone who has been poor their whole life and humble in demeanor might become quite
the jerk if they suddenly got wealthy.
I've known many a person who after getting an education became a bit of jerk about that
too.
We obviously don't consider someone a cyborg for such things, but it's fundamentally
the same sort of issue.
I am not going to ban going to the gym or starting a business or going to college for
fear it might make some folks get a big head.
Such being the case, I can't see the reason or difference in banning someone getting themselves
some cybernetic augmentations to be stronger or faster or smarter.
I wouldn't be surprised if some places did ban them of course, but many places would
not.
I remember last week I joked about a nice advantage of oceanic launches of rockets is
that doing it in international waters let you get around most regulations.
Talking with a friend afterwards I joked about how you could gamble at such spaceports too,
and casinos might make a nice extra source of income for such a floating island.
I could easily see cybernetic shops setting up there too.
Now while it is amusing to imagine floating cities springing up offering all manner of
services, likely many unsavory, that are banned or restricted elsewhere, the legalities of
cyborgs don't interest us too much today.
What does interest us, now that we've gotten the concept down, what it is and is not, is
what sort of augmentations we might see.
I'm going to mostly bypass the idea of being stronger, faster, or smarter, we already talked
about faster reflexes and thinking in the Transhumanism and Superintelligence episodes.
And the image of the super-strong cyborg who can flip cars, have bullets bounce off them,
and has a laser gun in the arm is honestly kinda boring to discuss.
We already know that concept and I'd have little to add.
Flashy concept but straightforward, and not actually that handy on a day to day basis.
I've divided the various types of augmentations into some general categories and we'll discuss
the options for each.
Those are Medical Applications, Augmented Reality, Sensory Augmentation, Physical Augmentation,
and Mental Augmentation.
Now in many of these cases it isn't necessary to actually implant anything at all, and it
doesn't make much difference to us today.
Beginning with medical applications, it is worth noting that again cybernetics
is about communication and control of a system, and we see that strongly in this subject.
The first and most obvious medical application that could be viewed as augmentation is something
that let's you keep track of your health.
We already have this emerging, watches that kept track of your heart rate too have
been available for a long while, but the FitBit and its competitors are starting to get quite
common.
I wear such a device on my wrist and I'd imagine many of you do too.
What's actually handy about such things is that the data can be sent to your smartphone,
with its greater capacity for running applications, and you can look at it and see other things
like how you are sleeping.
As a diagnostic tool for doctors this is fairly handy, and as such monitors improve its medical
value will improve too.
Such monitors might come to monitor almost everything, we might figure out how
to do detailed analysis of our blood without poking a hole in ourselves to get a sample,
but implant or something you wear, it is very easy to imagine us all having monitors constantly
keeping track of everything going on inside of us and also what we put inside us.
You don't need to input manually what you ate because various detectors in or on you
run analysis on what you are eating and say that cheeseburger has this many calories.
Or perhaps you've got a little sensor in your stomach that's keeping track of nutrients
and toxins coming in.
Others are tracking your white cell count, or if you are deficient in iron or Vitamin
C, or if you are dehydrated.
Long before you get a headache or noticeable symptoms of a cold it's detecting the signs.
With that information you can take action before it gets bad and requires more effort.
With all that data available it can say take an aspirin or ibuprofen, but more over it
can say, take exactly 172 milligrams of ibuprofen or 42 micrograms of Vitamin K. And if you
have any nice implants that can precisely administer exactly the right amount at the
right times and frequencies, the results would be beneficial.
Needless to say that same information, available to your doctor, could help us diagnose severe
conditions long before they become problematic or life threatening too.
We can also imagine more sophisticated implants might be able to manufacture these things
inside of you, just alerting you if you needed to eat something that it was low on for manufacturing
the required medicine.
Even further along those lines would be nanomachines augmenting a person's immune system or repairing
damage, but we've discussed that before.
Of course if you've got little machines inside you they might need some fairly atypical
supplies, and you might have to consume something weird like Gadolinium.
There's a scifi book series called Merkiaari Wars by Mark E. Cooper that revolves around
transhuman cyborg soldiers called Vipers, and it's a pretty good read, but in it they
have to occasionally drink what they call a "Viper Smoothie" that's reported to
taste horrible and has all the necessary bits for their cybernetic components and nanomachines.
It's amusing to read about them cringing while drinking the things but realistically
you'd probably only need small amounts you could take in a gel capsule.
I could easily multivitamins for cyborgs having the recommended daily values of Tungsten or
Graphene or Silicon.
In the nearer term, an obvious application I suspect we will see become the norm soon
would be for life monitors that could call for medical assistance on its own.
We actually have this, but it's not in regular use on healthy people.
As the devices get more common and reliable, and as smart phones become more ubiquitous,
we can imagine that it will become more and more common for everyone to have a wrist monitor
that could call emergency services.
Obviously you need to take steps to avoid lots of false reports, but it is interesting
to think of the impact on society if that became reliable and normal.
Even on something like crimes, since we have a lot of accurate information to help figure
out what happened and when.
Of course we also have the ability to include in those monitors things like cameras on our
person recording events and our location.
It is a bit creepy to think of anyone being able to see what you saw and know where you
are, but with the right privacy protections you could seriously deter violent crime when
just about everything is being recorded by your victim and potentially stored off site.
Of course for all that monitored information to be useful we have to have some way of seeing
it.
This brings up the concept of Augmented Reality, which differs from Virtual Reality in the
sense that it is overlaying stuff on your normal senses of things around you, not sticking
you in a totally simulated environment.
I suspect many of you are already familiar with this concept and it is also pretty straight-forward,
so we won't spend much time on this.
Whether we are discussing a pair of glasses or contact lenses that display information
or something directly connected to your brain's visual cortex, the basic notion is simple
enough.
I'm sitting there talking to someone and information is being displayed for me.
My heart rate, an email from a friend, the person I'm talking to's name, my three
o'clock reminder to go to the store.
Now this has many potential entertainment and safety uses, but keyed back into the notion
of monitoring things, when I get to the store in a bit it would be nice to be able to look
inside my fridge or pantry at home and see what I'm low on, without having to actually
go home.
It's nice to be able to have a road map display on your vision while driving, but
it is even nicer to have an impressive sensor suite on your car that is monitoring your
surroundings with much more focus and accuracy than you can and can lay down the road boundary
lines on your vision when it's foggy or snow is covering them, or highlight oncoming
cars before you can see them, or detect cats or dogs or deer or kids near the road and
highlight them so you're noticing them sooner.
A radar in your car that fed the information to you as a visual overlay.
Or can send an alert from your health monitors letting you know you're sleepier than you
think and need to pull over for a nap and some coffee, or give you a little buzz when
it notices that after an hour of driving you are getting highway hypnosis.
Of course it is even nicer if you don't have to rely on your car's sensors because
you've got your own upgunned sensory package.
Sensory augmentation that let you see into infrared or hear ultrasonic.
That let you zoom in on things too small to see clearly or too far away.
That enhances your sense of taste or smell or touch, maybe even adding new things we
can't normally taste.
There's some debate about what we can taste, we know of five for sure, salty,
sweet, sour, bitter, and umami, the savory taste we associate to MSG.
Some other have also been suggested, and there's argument about what exactly taste is, but
with just those five we have a panoply of dishes and tastes we enjoy by mixing the intensity
and ratio of those.
As we do with color, when we essentially can only see red, green, and blue, we can still
make a huge spectrum of color hues and textures.
If we added a fourth cone, say one sensitive to infrared, could we alter the
brain to see this as a new distinct color?
Or several, as that spectrum is far bigger than the standard visual one?
Including a device that saw infrared but showed it to us as red is handy, but what new experiences
are available when it is a new color?
How much better a meal if you can taste three or four entirely new flavors?
It would be handy to hear ultrasonic or see behind you, but how much neater to be able
to hear instruments designed just for ultrasonic ranges or truly see fifty or sixty colors,
not just combinations of three?
Of course our brains would need to be physically modified for things like that,
which we will get to shortly, but it is also worth remembering that sometimes you don't
want your senses augmented, indeed you might want them attenuated.
It would be rather nice to have the ability to shut off your smell around foul scents,
or tune out loud distracting noises.
Particularly if this could be done automatically, removing glare or blinding lights, filtering
out just those sounds you don't want to hear so you can focus on what someone is saying
to you in a crowded room.
Of course an alternative to that is ears you can move around to focus on sound,
like cats can do, but that would be a physical augmentation, so let's move on to those.
As I mentioned, we see plenty of examples of cyborgs with super strength and toughness,
but there's a lot of other modifications we could make that might be handier.
No pun intended but one example would be steadier hands.
As someone with a neurological condition that makes my hands shake, I tend to be a touch
envious of folks who can work on intricate things, those steady nimble fingers we think
of surgeons having.
It would be nicer to be able to type as fast as we thought and never miss a key, or going
back to the sensory angle, to have fingers more sensitive to touch and texture.
We have a lot of options here that are underexplored.
Lungs that filter out toxins, get oxygen better, so you could breathe easily in low pressure
without long adaptations periods or needing a drug like Diamox to help with altitude sickness.
Maybe one that could filter oxygen right out of water, likes gills, or even electrolyze
it right out of water.
Maybe ones that could seal up your throat if you got exposed to vacuum and start scrubbing
carbon dioxide so you can reuse it as oxygen.
Maybe alterations that let you eat a rock and process it into everything you need.
It kind of helps with concerns about food supplies and farm space if little factories
in your body can process dirt into food without using plants as a middleman.
Back to medical applications, what about little bands near major arteries that could clamp
down as tourniquets if you suffered an injury causing massive blood loss?
Now you can't tie a tourniquet around your neck if your head gets chopped off, but what
if you could?
Someone lops off your head and back up bluetooth connections kick in to send and receive signals
from your body while your arteries and veins constrict to stop blood loss and a small backup
'lung' in your sinus cavity turns on and supplies oxygen and keep your blood flowing
and oxygenated for a while.
There a things that can do most of a muscle or bone's job better or lighter or taking
up less space, so instead of packing in enough synthetic muscle to let you lift a car or
giving yourself the Wolverine adamantium laced bones, maybe you replace them to keep to human
norms of strength only, or just a little better, and use that space and energy for other things.
Maybe synthetic skin that feels just like the original, and in both senses of that,
let's you have that heightened sense of touch too.
Maybe it is very injury resistant, maybe it can suck air in through your pores to help
you breathe, or help with cooling, a lot of these components might build up phenomenal
heat when in use after all.
Take a lot of energy to run probably too, but maybe you don't need batteries and can
derive it from your food, or maybe that synthetic skin could be photovoltaic too, though for
modesty's sake solar panels built into your clothes might be better.
You can take things like that pretty far too, especially if you have dense enough power
storage or generation to run big things.
Modifications to let you walk around without a suit on an airless moon or swim around in
ultra-cold liquid nitrogen, all while looking and feeling otherwise human are probably feasible.
Lots of redundant or backup systems for extreme conditions probably are too.
Not 'a' mechanical heart to replace your normal one, but a bunch of small pumps distributed
through you to provide assistance and backups for pumping blood.
Not bones made of titanium so you can get hit by a car, but hollow ones made of titanium
that inside them included the necessary mechanisms to fabricate bone marrow to make red blood
cells and the rest of that space is data storage, a backup or supplementary kidney or liver.
Some compressed oxygen to use if you can't breathe, a backup brain to distribute your
thinking outside of your head.
Mental Augmentation Speaking of brains moves us into mental
augmentation.
Now as I said we've discussed this before and we've also discussed the general difficulty
in contemplating what we really mean by intelligence and augmenting it, so we will bypass that
today.
It is very easy to imagine being smarter but also very hard to imagine being smarter, so
to speak.
What we can easily imagine is integrating electronics and computers into the mind.
Our brains are phenomenally powerful, but they are tuned toward certain tasks, and not
designed with many things in mind that are helpful nowadays.
The ability to add or multiply eight digit numbers is something the most primitive electronic
calculator could do in an instant.
It would also be nice to be able to enter a room and instantly know how many folks were
in that room and what all their names were, not just have that data show up on your augmented
vision, but to actually know it.
Search functions of all your sensory recordings would be handy too.
It's a chilly day and you want your green sweater, but going back and looking through
every recording of the last year trying to find when you last saw it doesn't help much.
That's actually something we are very good at, our brains can search our memories quickly.
But the ability to recall things from years back with crystal clarity, and to do it quick
and easy, right to the relevant memory, is a massive advantage.
On the more extreme end of things, being able to make ourselves smarter, make
it so we can truly see 50 colors not just red, green, and blue, making it so you aren't
zooming in with your eyes to see things far away or small but actually have a visual resolution
that high, would require some big changes and improvements to our brains themselves,
not just some chip that can see that you are picturing your green sweater and knows you
want to find it, then runs searches through those digital recordings of your memory.
So what would this be like?
These more extreme forms of augmentation where you have abilities like this?
It's worth considering because many of us will probably live to see a lot of this come
to be.
Many of these things are emerging right now, and with better health comes long life, more
time for such things to come about.
I wouldn't think feelings of invincibility would be too bad, after all there would be
plenty of other folks who were like you, but there would certainly be a lot of confidence
in knowing that even if you had a heart attack by yourself the paramedics would be there
in minutes, that would be even higher if you knew you had several redundant pumps that
could take over.
Even if everybody else is just as souped up as you are, there's a lot to be said about
being able jump off a tall building and not shatter every bone in your body when you landed,
or not only not being able to lose your keys but remember where you left that paperback
you read ten years ago, and more over remember every page of it so it doesn't matter where
you stuck it.
One could argue that if you altering folks enough off the baseline with all these
superhuman abilities they might no longer really be human.
I'm not sure I could entirely argue that wasn't the case, and while I personally
don't like terms like transhuman or post-human, there is some validity to that concept.
When we tie it to life extension, which we've also discussed, even if we aren't making
people super-intelligent and even if they are staying human in appearance, there would
probably be something very different about a cyborg who had lived a couple thousand years
and could recall any given moment of that with crystal clarity.
You can envision other people doing this in fiction or in a remote future generations
sense, but it's often a bit strange to try to imagine yourself with that existence.
What if you were cyborg'd up enough you could walk around on an airless moon without
a suit?
Traditionally when you get superpowers you are supposed to don a mask and cape and go
fight crime, but in a society where most folks can do that you have to find other things
to occupy your time, and you might have a lot of time, especially when factoring in
not only the possibility of radical life extension but also the notion of accelerated consciousness,
speed intelligence, that we discussed in the Transhumanism episode.
So we've looked at a lot of concepts today and I think we will end here.
Many of those were pretty far out there, stuff that might be centuries coming or never, others
ones we can expect within a decade or so with great confidence, all of them with the potential
to really change life here on Earth in profound ways.
Next week we will be returning to talking about getting life off of Earth in the Upward
Bound Series, and looking at alternatives to chemical rocket engines in the form of
atomic rockets, in The Nuclear Option.
The week after that, it will back to Existential Crisis Series for Infinite Improbability Issues,
and we are going to explore some of the stranger implications of concepts like the Many Worlds
Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and Alternate Universes.
Also, while we haven't picked a topic or time yet as of the writing of this episode,
I will be teaming up again soon with Fraser Cain of Universe Today.
For alerts when those and other episodes come out, make sure to subscribe to the channel,
and if you enjoyed this episode, hit the like button and share it with others.
Until Next Time, Thanks for Watching, and Have a Great Week!
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Learn English Alphabet Letter T & Words by Endless Alphabet | Kids Educational Video - Duration: 2:32.
Learn English Alphabet Letter T & Words by Endless Alphabet | Kids Educational Video
Learn English Alphabet Letter T & Words by Endless Alphabet | Kids Educational Video
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Angelica Pickles Comes Back from Running Away | Rugrats | The Splat - Duration: 2:38.
HEY, YOU GUYS.
IT'S RAINING.
WE BETTER GO INSIDE
OR WE'LL GET ALL WET.
I'M ALREADY WET.
ME, TOO.
AREN'T YOU COMING, ANGELICA?
I CAN'T COME WITH YOU, TOMMY.
IF I GO IN THE HOUSE YOUR PARENTS WILL SEE ME
AND THE WHOLE THING WILL BE RUINED.
OKAY, BYE.
HOPE YOU DON'T GET WET.
YEAH, YEAH, REAL FUNNY...
LITTLE BALD IDIOT.
NOW WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?
OH, SPIKE.
OH, THAT GILLIGAN.
HEY, WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT THING?
OH, WELL.
I BET THEY'RE REAL WORRIED ABOUT ME NOW.
THEY'RE PROBABLY CRYING AND EVERYTHING.
HEY!
THAT'S MY DADDY.
AND HE'S LAUGHING.
WHAT'S GOING ON?
WHAT'S HE SO HAPPY ABOUT?
IT IS SO NICE TO GET AWAY
FROM THE RESPONSIBILITIES
OF PARENTHOOD.
I RUNNED AWAY FROM HOME AND...
AND HE'S HAPPY.
OH, NO, WHAT HAVE I DONE?
IT'S SO NICE...
( sobbing ): DADDY, DADDY.
ANGELICA, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
OH, DADDY
I HEARD YOU.
I HEARD IT ALL.
I'M SORRY I WAS BAD AND RUNNED AWAY FROM HOME.
I'M SORRY I CUT UP YOUR PAPERS
AND BROKE YOUR FAX MACHINE.
I'M SORRY
AND I PROMISE I'LL NEVER BE BAD AGAIN.
ONLY PLEASE TAKE ME BACK.
TAKE YOU BACK?
HONEY, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW YOU WERE GONE.
YOU DIDN'T?
NO, I THOUGHT YOU WERE STILL IN YOUR ROOM SAFE AND SOUND.
YOU MEAN YOU DIDN'T' EVEN KNOW I RUNNED AWAY?
I HAD NO IDEA.
OH, BUT SWEETHEART
YOU KNOW YOU'LL ALWAYS BE MY PRINCESS
NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO.
YOU'RE MY BABY AND I LOVE YOU.
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Melania Trump's Rep Would Like You to Know She Isn't "Miserable" With Donald - Duration: 1:54.
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Trey Gowdy Gives Update On Michael Flynn Probe - Day 97 - Duration: 5:26.
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Money Smart Kids Episode 7: Kids Guide to Money Handling part 1 - Duration: 4:37.
Hi guys!
Missed us?
We are back with another Kids and
Money topic, because we know that you want to be smart with your money.
How good a saver are you?
I am not good at saving and when I hide my money, I can't find them
Today we will discuss super simple tricks that will help you become a better saver.
And if you are new to our Kids and Money Series, start from the beginning - click on the link
in the description below or the card right above.
Use 4 banks instead of one.
Instead of keeping your money in one big pile - break it into small piles - SAVE, SPEND,
INVEST, and GIVE.
Spending bank is for anytime expense (snacks, gum).
Saving bank is for the bigger things you want to save on (like a playstation).
Investment bank is for the money you won't need for a few years - this money can grow
and give you back interest.
Giving bank is for giving to charities and anyone who you think needs help.
Decorate each bank to make it fun!
2.
Set Savings Goals!
How much should you save each month?
That depends what you're saving for.
If you need to save $100 because you want buy something in 10 months - you will need
to put $10 aside for 10 months - it's that easy!
Want to get it sooner - put $25 aside for 4 months and you will have your $100 in 1-2-3-4
months.
Can I save $100 in one day?
Can you make $100 in one day?
Save First, Spend Last!
Here is a big rule about the money - you can only spend once!
Let's say you have $5 and you blow it all up on soda and pizza - that's it.
Money is gone!
You can't turn the clock back.
You can't save because there is nothing to save.
Instead, take 2 dollars.
Put it into your saving bank.
You know have $3 left to spend for now AND you saved some money for something bigger.
What: There is no do over?
That is just awesome :(
OMG!
We are all out of time - come back next week we have more tips that will help your to become
better savers and better and better spenders.
And if you know of someone else who wants to become money smart, tell them about our
KIDS AND MONEY SERIES.
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Building support from all-time home base of Daegu - Duration: 2:47.
Yoo Seong-min of the Bareun Party -- one of the two conservates in the running for the
top office -- headed south to Daegu once again.
Shin Se-min explains why the star of recent presidential TV debates is stopping there
for the second time since official campaigning began last week.
He's back,… back at home.
Greeting the locals with his trademark smile,… the Bareun Party's Yoo Seong-min holds their
hands to ask for support.
Yoo is here in his hometown of Daegu to build up support in a region where his approval
ratings have been inching higher in recent days.
Although still far below the top three dominating the polls, one of the latest opinion surveys
shows the conservative candidate's approval ratings topping 5-point-4 percent in this
region; Daegu and Gyeongsang-do Province.
That's the highest figure tallied for Yoo.
"The splinter conservative Bareun Party's Yoo Seong-min continues his efforts to reach
out to his people.
And with the decision day just a little over 10-days away, the candidate is working his
way up, rallying support from once the conservatives' home base."
Despite emerging signs and outright proposals by his own party members that the conservative
parties should consolidate around a single candidate - most likely the center-left People's
Party Ahn Cheol-soo - Yoo Seong-min is driven to finish the race on his own.
"Don't be rattled.
I *WILL end this race with you all."
But it's not all merry.
Unlike the previous presidential elections, the Korean public, disappointed by the utter
failure of the conservative Park Geun-hye government, is more favorable to left-leaning
parties and even the loyal conservatives are hesitant about throwing their support to right-wing
candidates.
But, on-the-ground sentiment at the economist-turned-politician's campaigns isn't all that bad.
"A candidate with a clean, just past; who is trustworthy and knows his stuff,... and
that's Yoo Seong-min."
"It's not about regionalism.
It's about how right, or how left you are.
Based on that, I vie for strong right-candidate."
"I still have not decided.
Some of the candidates with conservative views confuse me, I'll need more time."
"It's about time we have someone with the right type of conservative background.
Yoo should run the country."
Despite words of candidacy deals, Yoo remains steadfast to his cause... that he will chart
a new path for the conservatives.
Shin Se-min, Arirang News.
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The WRONG Question To Ask A Realtor - Duration: 4:18.
Gary Wong: Hey, guys.
It's Gary Wong with garywongrealty.com again.
People know me as the Christian Realtor.
I'm also the author of The Book on Vancouver Real Estate.
Today, I just want to share a video in my car.
It's been awhile since I last filmed in my car.
Today, I want to talk about something that I've been doing these days.
For the past year, I've been mentoring other real estate agents and I'm certified as a
[McDawn 00:00:47] Realty Certified Mentor.
I mentor new real estate agents who want to pass the post licensing requirements.
Then the common question and barrier that they go through is that when they meet their
clients, their clients ask them how many years in the business have you been in.
The problem is that I think that's the worst question to ask real estate agents.
Why?
Because it's really not about how many years in the business they've been in.
I've seen veteran realtors with 30 years experience make huge mistakes.
They're just dropping the ball.
They're not doing their due diligence when working with their clients.
They're not looking up whether a house is an owner built house or whether it's built
by a particular builder.
They're just dropping the ball, but I've also seen newer agents that are also dropping the
ball.
At the end of the day, it's not about how many years in the business you've been in
but how diligent and how hard working the agent is.
I've met a ton of agents in the industry, and there's just a lot of bad agents.
Honestly, there's just a lot of bad agents out there.
The agents aren't doing what they should be doing for their clients.
They're not working their best interest.
They're not fully disclosing everything.
They're trying to pressure their clients to buy or sell.
I really think they have a short term thinking.
They're not really thinking in the long term, building a long term relationship with their
clients.
When you interview a realtor, just don't focus on how many years in the business they've
been in.
Focus on what they're going to do, how hard are they going to work.
If they don't know the answer, are they going to go and find out.
Are they going to be on top of things?
Are you low on their priority list, or are you very high on their priority list?
Are they going to get back to you?
I think the key is to really look at the realtor and see whether this realtor has the grit,
has the character to really do what's best for you.
Don't look at the years of experience.
Don't look at the number of awards they've made.
those awards speak something but it's not everything.
I've won a bunch of awards, but I've also seen a lot of award winning real estate agents
that they don't know what they're doing.
Really it's about whether they're a good fit, whether they really do what they say and say
what they do.
I'll share more in another video so that's it for today.
Gary Wong with garywongrealty.com.
Until next time, God Bless you.
Thanks, guys, for watching my video.
Please subscribe and share with your friends.
Email me if you have any more questions.
Thank you.
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Ash Ketchup vs. May (Pokémon Abridged) - Duration: 2:48.
Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready for the final fight?
Coming in with that can-do Kanto attitude,
we've got the maniac himself,
Ash Ketchup!!
And if it wasn't your Game Boy Advance that made your palms sweat,
your imaginary girlfriend, before you even knew what that was,
May!
*fox whistle*
You know the rules! Eight thousand life points!
And no holding back! And if I don't see some guts,
I might just have to disembowel someone myself
If I win,
you gotta take me to see Transformers!
Like the original one?
That came out like 10 years ago...
This episode came out like...10 years ago...
Whatever!
if I win, we're going to churn some butter!
Wow! That sounds like a great way to spend some time together!
Oh wait...
you mean it like that!
Begin!
Alright Treeko, give it to her hard!
Ugh, I evolved two months ago!
Sceptile! Shoot your bullet seed all over them!
Ash! Do you have any idea how inappropriate that is?!
Oh like you don't like gardening!
Watch out folks! There's only 30 seconds to go!
That's like 2% of your favorite anime!
Alright Treeko! Finish it up by letting it all out in one big burst!
Who won this showdown of the ages? Sorry folks, we're having uh, technical difficulties with the smoke!
I hope I win so I can get some!
Ash, is that seriously all you think about?
HEY! Once you've had Burger King, you don't rest until you get it again!
Oh, you mean it like that! Wait, how are we reading each other's thoughts?!
Huh? -Hey!
Uh, Nurse Joy? Both Pokemon survived...what now?
We haven't written down what to do when a tie happens...
Aw f**k it!
They both won!
Aw geez. These days, they make it so everyone wins. What's the fun in that?
Mmhmm.
That was a great battle May!
Thanks Ash!
So you, uh, wanna go back to my place for some uh,
fun?
Ash, we're not having sex.
DAMNIT!
Hey guys!
Thanks so much for watching this series all week long!
Pokémon Sun and Moon Abridged Episode 4 is coming very, very, soon!
So stay tuned!
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Trump to tighten economic sanctions, gear diplomatic efforts, have doors open for dialogue - Duration: 1:52.
The Donald Trump administration gave a rare briefing to the entire U.S. senate... on how
it's going to deal with North Korea.
Connie Kim outlines what appears to be a softer stance than what we've heard in recent weeks.
America's policy on North Korea has now been made a lot clearer: the Trump administration
says it plans to tighten economic sanctions and pursue diplomatic measures... but keep
the door open to dialogue.
The new administration's first joint statement followed a rare, classified briefing at the
White house for the entire U.S. Senate.
The U.S. has called the North Korea issue an urgent national security threat and a top
foreign policy priority,... but the administration appears to have pulled back from having "all
options on the table," as it's said previously.
Rather, the strategy for getting the North to de-escalate will be economic and diplomatic.
"I was reassured to hear about initiatives the Trump administration is taking to consult
and communicate closely with our allies so there isn't a misunderstanding and to do the
same with China.
China has vital interests in this region and area and China is the most vital player in
making sure that the world correctly perceives North Korea as a very dangerous, very unstable
regime."
"Well North Korea has to notice that the president is trying to build support for his policy
with the U.S. Congress.
I think it was a smart move but it's more of a pep talk.
The Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the top administration officials I
think it's to try to get the Senate to support the president whatever he might decide to
do."
"Here in South Korea,... the government has evaluated the U.S. administration's stance
on North Korea as an unprecedentedly strong one... and expects that a UN Security Council
meeting on Friday, dealing solely with the North Korea nuclear issue will add momentum
in cornering Pyongyang.
Connie Kim, Arirang News."
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Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"? - Brendan Pelsue - Duration: 5:10.
"War and Peace,"
a tome,
a slog,
the sort of book you shouldn't read in bed because if you fall asleep,
it could give you a concussion, right?
Only partly.
"War and Peace" is a long book, sure,
but it's also a thrilling examination of history,
populated with some of the deepest, most realistic characters you'll find anywhere.
And if its length intimidates you, just image how poor Tolstoy felt.
In 1863, he set out to write a short novel about a political dissident
returning from exile in Siberia.
Five years later, he had produced a 1,200 page epic
featuring love stories,
battlefields,
bankruptcies,
firing squads,
religious visions,
the burning of Moscow,
and a semi-domesticated bear,
but no exile and no political dissidents.
Here's how it happened.
Tolstoy, a volcanic soul,
was born to a famously eccentric aristocratic family in 1828.
By the time he was 30, he had already dropped out of Kazan University,
gambled away the family fortune,
joined the army,
written memoirs,
and rejected the literary establishment to travel Europe.
He then settled into Yasnaya Polyana, his ancestral mansion,
to write about the return of the Decembrists,
a band of well-born revolutionaries pardoned in 1856 after 30 years in exile.
But, Tolstoy thought,
how could he tell the story of the Decembrists return from exile
without telling the story of 1825,
when they revolted against the conservative Tsar Nicholas II?
And how could he do that without telling the story of 1812,
when Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia
helped trigger the authoritarianism the Decembrists were rebelling against?
And how could he tell the story of 1812 without talking about 1805,
when the Russians first learned of the threat Napoleon posed
after their defeat at the Battle of Austerlitz?
So Tolstoy began writing,
both about the big events of history
and the small lives that inhabit those events.
He focused on aristocrats, the class he knew best.
The book only occasionally touches
on the lives of the vast majority of the Russian population,
who were peasants, or even serfs,
farmers bound to serve the owners of the land on which they lived.
"War and Peace" opens on the eve of war between France and Russia.
Aristocrats at a cocktail party fret about the looming violence,
but then change the topic to those things aristocrats always seem to care about:
money,
sex,
and death.
This first scene is indicative
of the way the book bounces between the political and personal
over an ever-widening canvas.
There are no main characters in "War and Peace."
Instead, readers enter a vast interlocking web
of relationships and questions.
Will the hapless and illegitimate son of a count
marry a beautiful but conniving princess?
Will his only friend survive the battlefields of Austria?
And what about that nice young girl falling in love with both men at once?
Real historical figures mix and mingle with all these fictional folk,
Napoleon appears several times,
and even one of Tolstoy's ancestors plays a background part.
But while the characters and their psychologies are gripping,
Tolstoy is not afraid to interrupt the narrative
to pose insightful questions about history.
Why do wars start?
What are good battlefield tactics?
Do nations rise and fall on the actions of so-called great men like Napoleon,
or are there larger cultural and economic forces at play?
These extended digressions are part of what make "War and Peace"
so panoramic in scope.
But for some 19th century critics,
this meant "War and Peace" barely felt like a novel at all.
It was a "large, loose, baggy monster," in the words of Henry James.
Tolstoy, in fact, agreed.
To him, novels were a western European form.
Russian writers had to write differently because Russian people lived differently.
"What is 'War and Peace'?" he asked.
"It is not a novel.
Still less an epic poem.
Still less a historical chronicle.
'War and Peace' is what the author wanted and was able to express
in the form in which it was expressed."
It is, in other words, the sum total of Tolstoy's imaginative powers,
and nothing less.
By the time "War and Peace" ends,
Tolstoy has brought his characters to the year 1820,
36 years before the events he originally hoped to write about.
In trying to understand his own times,
he had become immersed in the years piled up behind him.
The result is a grand interrogation into history,
culture,
philosophy,
psychology,
and the human response to war.
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W€R€WØLF ⌖ ÆSTHETIC PALETTE OC MAP † OPEN † - Duration: 4:51.
In a dream I was a werewolf My soul was filled with crystal light
Lavender ribbons of rain sang Ridding my heart of mortal fight
Broken sundown fatherless showdown Gun hip swollen lip bottle sip
yeah I suck dick Lose grip on gravity falls sky blinding crumbling walls
River sweep away my memories of Childrens things a young mothers love Before the
yearning song of flesh on flesh Young hearts burst open wounds bleed fresh
A young brother skinny and tall my older walks Oceanward and somber
slumber sleeping Flowers in the water, But Im just his daughter
Walking down an icy grave leading to my Schizophrenic father
Weeping willow wont you wallow louder Searching for my fathers power
Ima shake you off though Get up on that horse
and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
Ima shake you off though Get up on that horse and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
Ima shake you off though, Look back with no remorse
Hes a black magic wielder some say a witch Wielded darkness when he was wilein
(in-distinctive)
And born child and he was the bastard that broke Up the marriage
evil doer doing evil from a baby carriage And he was born with the same blue eyes
Crystal ships dripping with ice, diamonds coruscate In the night fireworks electric bright
And now hes got his own two sons Tries to hide his tears in a world of fun But
loveless bedrooms filled with doom Bring silent heartache July to June
swoon over new young hot flame Mourn the memories later Laugh now alligator
Laugh now alligator
Oh in a dream My father came to me
And made me swear that Id keep Whats sacred to me
And if I get the choice To live in his name
I'll pray my way through the Rain Singing Oh happy day
I dont mean to close the door But for the record my heart is sore
You blew through me like bullet holes Left stains on my sheets and stains On my soul
You left me broke down beggin for change Had to catch a ride with a man whos deranged
He had your hands and my fathers face Another western vampire different time same place
I had dreams that brings me sadness Pain much deep that a river Sorrow flow
through me in tiny waves of shivers Corny movies make me reminisce Break me down
easy on this generic love shit First kiss frog and princess
I'm a shake you off though Get up on that horse and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
I'm a shake you off though Get up on that horse and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
I'm a shake you off though Get up on that horse and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
I'm a shake you off though Get up on that horse and Ride into the sunset Look back with no remorse
Ima shake you off though, look back with no remorse...
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Persone... LAVATEVI!!! - Duration: 7:28.
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Call Blocking for AT&T Phone | AT&T Account Management - Duration: 1:38.
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from telemarketers or automated robo calls.
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Call Blocking is a free service on your AT&T phones
that you can use with a simple code on your phone handset,
or you can even manage Call Blocking online.
To block future calls from an unwanted number,
answer the call and then hang up,
or just wait for the rings to stop.
Then, pick up your AT&T phone handset
and dial Star (*) 61.
And the number that just called you
won't be able to call you again.
You can also set up and manage your blocked-calls list online.
Log in to your account at ATT.com
and select "My Digital Home Phone";
and then "Check/manage voicemail or features".
Select the "Phone Features" tab at the top
and then, in the Call Filtering section,
select the arrow next to Call Blocking.
Now select "ON" to set up Call Blocking.
Just enter the number you'd like to block
in the Add Number field, including the area code.
After entering each number to block,
select the "Add" button to the right
and, when you're all done, select "Save".
You can enter up to a hundred phone numbers.
If you'd like to remove a number from the list,
just select the "X" next to that number,
and then select "Save".
Once you've created your list of blocked calls online,
you easily turn Call Blocking on by dialing Star (*) 60
and follow the voice prompts,
and turn call blocking off
whenever you like by dialing Star (*) 80.
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Fun anime music #51 | Funny anime moments #51 | anime crack | coub anime (Specially) +18 - Duration: 5:56.
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Military Kids Speak Out! Part 2 - Duration: 0:57.
What was the hardest part of moving here?
The hardest part was because I had to move a lot of boxes.
Well I like that he facetimed me because I could see his handsome face and stuff.
You learn to rely a lot on who you have at home.
What are you most proud of about your dad?
That he helps up keep the town safe.
I'm proud that he is willing to sacrifice so much.
What do you think the best branch of service is?
I think it's to be I think it's to be the leader of the ship.
It's something not every kid gets to do.
I think it's cool being a military kid.
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Sessions and Trump Campaign to Make Immigrants "Public Enemies Number 1" - Duration: 5:12.
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Hollywood Accounting | How Movies Make Nothing - Duration: 5:22.
Harry Potter and The Order of the
Phoenix. Forrest Gump. Star Wars Return of
the Jedi. What do each of these three
movies have in common? Each was a
blockbuster, either the number one or the
number two movie all of that year. What
else do they have in common? Each was also
unprofitable. Kind of surprising, huh?
How could these movies lose money, they were
all mega, mega hits? Well, the reason
behind this is a little thing known as
Hollywood Accounting. Hollywood
Accounting refers to the creative
accounting methods used by the film,
video and television industry to budget
and record profits for film projects.
Expenditures can be inflated to reduce
or eliminate the reported profit of the
project, thereby reducing the amount
which the corporation must pay in
royalties or other profit sharing
agreements as these are based on the net
profit. Basically it is a very sneaky way
in which Hollywood movies will purposely
lose money, on paper, to avoid having to
pay royalties or profits to others. Over
80% of Hollywood movies fail
to make a profit. So how do they do this
or get away with it? For each new film a
movie is set up as its own corporation
the entire point of which is to lose
money by paying fees to the studio
producing the movie. So if Superhero
Studios decides to create a film called,
say "Batman 5", they create a shell company
"Batman 5 Incorporated". Superhero Studios
that overcharges "Batman 5
Incorporated" for every aspect of making,
marketing and distributing the movie. By
the time Superhero Studios finishes
paying itself through "Batman 5
Incorporated" to perform work that costs
100 million dollars "Batman 5
Incorporated" will be on the hook for 1
billion dollars. So what they do is when
they are producing a movie they make the
movie its own company. They then charge
all the production costs to that movie
and these are way over inflated and so
the movie never
makes any money because they owe so much
money to the company, so on paper the
movie never makes any money. The reason
behind this seems to be just hoarding
profit shares promised to actors, writers
and other individuals or organizations.
So then if anyone asks for a share of
the profits of "Batman 5" the producers can just
point to "Batman 5 Incorporated" since it
is still paying off its debt to the
original company that set up "Batman 5 Incorporated"
there are no profits to
share. Paramount Pictures famously
offered Winston Groom, the author of
Forrest Gump, 350 thousand dollars and a
three percent share of net profits for
the rights to his novel Forrest Gump.
Since Forrest Gump is still not
profitable, he did not receive any share
of the profits, that three percent was
worth nothing because Forrest Gump
apparently has not made any money.
Two years after the
re-release of The Return of the Jedi in
1997, David Prowse the actor who played
Darth Vader, the body that is.
Said that
he is still receiving letters informing
him that Lucasfilm had no profits to
share with him. "I still get these
occasional letters from Lucasfilm
staying that we regret to inform you
that as Return of the Jedi has never
gone into profit we've nothing to send
you. Now here we're talking about one of
the biggest releases of all time I don't
want to look like I'm bitching about it
but on the other hand if there's a pot
of gold somewhere that I ought to be
having a share of I would like to see it"
So not only is Hollywood finding a way
to screw audiences out of money it's
also finding a way to screw to people
who work in Hollywood out of money as
well. This has been going on for, well
decades, and as we are constantly hearing
about the death of Hollywood in that
Hollywood is losing money there will
probably be a more few more of these
tactics, yeah, because,
well, studios love money. But I hear you
say I'm constantly hearing about this
movie or that movie that was just
released a couple of months ago being
the highest grossing movie of all time.
And yeah, you're right of the twenty
highest grossing movies of all time, not
adjusted for inflation that is, 18 of
them were made in the last ten years. But
many people put that down to rising
ticket prices. Less people are going to
see the movies but they're paying more
for that so it evens it out. Also of
those top 20 grossing movies of all time
16 of them were sequels so they're
already guaranteed an audience. And that
does it for me and Hollywood. Thanks for
watching, Mike
Out. Ok bye bye
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Try To Build A Mountain © 2005 by Raymond Allan Kuran - Duration: 3:32.
What's a troublin' you my friend do you want to let me know? Is it something that your hangin' onto and won't let go?
Or is it something you wanna work out on your own? I can feel the tear drops within my Soul.
Why don't you try to build a mountain? You'll find your Kingdom there.
You say you wanna run away and hide somewhere today. Just remember one thing, what you pack insides gonna follow you along the way.
Why don't you try to build a mountain? You'll find your Kingdom there.
You say you wanna rise with the eagles today. Your so close to the ground that you'ld better be on your way.
Why don't you try to build a mountain? You'll find your Kingdom there.
You say you want all your prayers to be answered today. They will come to you when your ready in their own special way.
Why don't you try to build a mountain? You'll find your Kingdom there.
Why don't you try to build a mountain? You'll find your Kingdom there.
Written by Raymond Allan Kuran off Let It Shine album © 2005 SACanada
Grateful to have worked with on : Not In Vain album© 2004 SACanada Let It Shine album © 2005 SACanada Wayne Posnik : Producer, mandolin and owner Grassroots Sound Recording Studio. Manitoba Canada Matt Moskalyk: Lead guitars, bass, drums. Elaine Markwart: Back up vocals and banjo Ken Bialek: Lead guitar ( One Night Stands ) Scott Pinder: Mastering Raymond Allan Kuran: Song writter, rhythm guitar and vocals.
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