_______ __ __ ___ ___ __ __ | _ .----|__.--| | Y .---.-|__| | |. 1 | __| | _ |. | _ | | | |. _ |____|__|_____|. \_/ |___._|__|__| |: | | |: | | |::.|:. | |::.|:. | Issue 6 `--- ---' `--- ---' 2020-02-11 ------------------------------------------------- NEWSLETTER: AI is Going To Kill Us All! https://neozones.neocities.org/acidjaw/mail/issue6 https://wiki.squeeze.pizza/index.php?title=AcidMail/issue6 This issue we have: * Hide your women and children * Run for your life! * The humans are dead ------------------------------------------------- >BEFORE WE FULLY START So before you get to fully dip your toes into this pool of off-colour liquid, this week's newsletter was mostly not written by a human, but by Talk to Transformer, a "modern neural network completes your text", as built by Adam King (@AdamDanielKing). Sorry if you don't enjoy it as intended, but the next issue will be normal, well, as normal as you can get for AcidMail. All text WRITTEN IN BLOCK TEXT was made by a human, everything else is by the neural network. You can find the Talk to Transformer website by following this URL: https://talktotransformer.com ------------------------------------------------- >THE BOT'S INTRO WELCOME TO THIS WEEK'S ACIDMAIL, a new feature on the Web Fictions site in which we do monthly roundups of new work for the growing community of comics writers. Now we've started the collection, we'd love your input. Our first round-up featured an original short story, a new short story by Joel Thomas, and a new project from Mike Baron ( Catwoman: The Fan ). Which works do you find to be the best new works from new comics writers in the last six months? Let us know in the comments below. As always, if you have something you'd like us to include, or want us to revisit something you've seen before in a future AcidMail, just drop us a line at [email protected]. Free View in iTunes 6 Clean Monastery vs. Academy, Old Dreams, and Real Academies Last week I focused on the main issue of Monastery vs. Academy. Now I would like to discuss some other interesting points from the chapter. 7 Clean Socratic and Utilitarian Interventions Like Socrates, the Theravada Buddhists use philosophical questions to examine their own practices and to help guide the Buddhist monks. We must understand why a person might desire to attain nibbana, and ask why people may prefer different methods of attaining it. After all, all Buddhists can benefit from the same benefits. There are three aspects to that: (1) Life: To be led to the non-conceptual ground of enlightenment by a compassionate life. (Pûrvāda) On the way to enlightenment, one takes refuge and either obtains or assumes the practice of the Dharma. One makes one's first two vows, namely he vows of equality and non-discrimination (Dharmachakra and Adhidhamma), in order to gain the three cardinal paths, Dharmakāya, Mahāyāna and Mañjāna. One makes the practice of the three means of escape, namely their achievement, pacification and eradication, which forms the methodology for the practice of meditation. The Practice of the Three Means of Escape "Purify yourselves from all wrong thinking." Nihil ------------------------------------------------- >ASCII OF THE NOW THE ASCII OF THE NOW IS A WEEKLY THING WE DO It is not technically limited in time or theme to The Now. (here is our The Now file in chronological order) I've been a regular contributor to the magazine since the beginning of it. You can reach me at any time with any question, comment or correction or how you think the magazine could be improved. If you have more input... \_/ (* *) __)#(__ ( )...( )(_) || |_| ||// >==() | | ()/ _(___)_ [-] [-]MJP HEY LOOK, IT'S A LITTLE ASCII ROBOT to show off at school." Who'd pay a computer engineer $400 to program a toy robot to look like a simple "Alex" sticker? No one. So they coded their own. These are 3D printable units that can be worn as an avatar and constantly be updated to let you play with your own avatar. They're so simple that you'll find it impossible to want to leave them behind when you're bored. All you have to do is calibrate them by pressing a button on the side of the unit. They're Bluetooth-enabled, so you can control them remotely. This is huge. This means you can never go hungry again. There are now over a dozen such robots on the table, and more coming in. Robots that are not pure replacements for human workers may help reinvigorate U.S. manufacturing. In 2010, the proportion of manufacturing jobs in the country was 5 percent, compared with 37 percent at the end of the previous decade. If these jobs are now no longer good enough to get people into the middle class, robotics will allow them to be done without the human beings at all. And this may do more to rebuild America's middle class than any other program. As soon as they arrive, it won't matter how they are used. However robotic or not, all robots are useful—but not always for what they are specifically designed to do. https://owlman.neocities.org/ascii.html#MJP https://www.asciiart.eu/electronics/robots ------------------------------------------------- >CHECK THIS SHIT OUT! THEY SAY LOOKING AT TV WILL TURN YOUR EYES to glowy dots. Vim is a computer programmer, and in the '70s, he studied psychology at Cornell and began programming. His first tools were, among other things, a pencil and a small typewriter. "In the beginning, I'd use different colors to program the thing, and all of the computers were 'read only' and every other computer program was just an array of stuff on the screen." That was in 1977. "Eventually, it became, 'That looks nice and colorful and kind of arbitrary. Can we make it into words?'" What were some of the things he made? "The original language that I learned was a little like FORTRAN-like." Mr. Carrier's engineer friend Matrangel, who had turned engineering into a business, the "innovation economy," the computer industry's answer to the East Coast's recession, had taught him "so many rules," including, "Never put two of the same kind of answers in a row. Never write the code to prove the logic." "Having multiple answers is never llowed." Mr. Carrier was encouraged by this. He was working on his first software with engineers specializing in functional-programming principles. "It's more straightforward to write than anything else," he says. Mr. Carrier wasn't the only programmer to start writing within the constraints. Computer science Professor Michael Paterson, at Oxford, says a new range of algorithms and larger devices would make "small is beautiful". But Apple should stick to he iPhone 7 and 7 Plus as the ultra-thin, light-weight devices are an obvious choice, he says. A smaller iPhone also has the potential to do good for the environment because it would be less damaging to leave charging devices in power outlets during long days in the office, says Asif Akbar, of Columbia University in New York. Apple is becoming one of the most carbon-intensive companies in the world by tapping the power of its mobile devices to power industrial processes in factories and factories, he says. 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