Friday, January 28, 2022

Robot performs complex surgery on pigs without human aid

 https://www.engadget.com/robot-surgeon-laparoscopic-surgery-pig-intestine-102038885.html

There is such a great potential here, but there is also reason for caution.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/autonomous-robot-proves-to-be-a-better-surgeon-than-humans

https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/27/laparoscopic-surgery-performed-by-a-robot-without-human-assistance

https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/01/26/star-robot-performs-intestinal-surgery

So eventually there could be veterinary robotic surgeons that won't have to run a simulation to operate on digital_pets , zoo and farm animals. Then eventually they could operate on human cadavers and sim versions of human patients. Ultimately, some robotic surgeons will operate on humans, while military robots will kill people. Hopefully, their signals will never get crossed or get their programming hacked.

Exploring mind-bending questions about reality and virtual worlds via The Matrix

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/exploring-mind-bending-questions-about-reality-and-virtual-worlds-via-the-matrix

Reality+: A Conversation with David Chalmers on the Philosophy of Virtual Worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3VrPAR9Yvs ACC https://www.youtube.com/c/ArthurCClarkeCenterforHumanImagination/videos

https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393635805#!

Of course The MATRIX series of movies are just part of the larger set of VR and AI themed productions. Such Sci-Fi entertainment can continue to motivate curious people to ponder and explore, The Nature Of Reality. (TNOR)

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Virtuosity and Gamer, etc...

The movies Virtuosity and Gamer are in some ways, like two stories that are at opposite ends of the spectrum. 

"In Los Angeles, Lt. Parker Barnes and John Donovan are testing a virtual reality system that is going to be used for training police officers. The two are tracking down a serial killer named SID 6.7 at a restaurant in virtual reality. SID (short for Sadistic, Intelligent, Dangerous, a VR amalgam of the most violent serial killers throughout history) causes Donovan to go into shock, killing him. The director overseeing the project, before Commissioner Elizabeth Deane and her associate, William Wallace, orders the programmer in charge of creating SID, Dr. Darrel Lindenmeyer, to shut down the project..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuosity#Plot (1995)

Virtuosity is an interesting story about a psycho runaway AI-VR program that escapes into the physical world. In essence, it's a digital entity that wants to unleash its monstrous ways upon the world.

In Gamer, a psycotic computer programmer is enthralled with the prospect of using nanotechnology to turn some people into remote-controlled puppets.

"In 2034, computer programmer Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall) invents self-replicating nanites that replace brain tissue and allow humans to control other humans' actions and see through their eyes. The first application of Castle's "Nanex" technology is a virtual community life simulation gameSociety, which allows gamers to manipulate live actors as their avatarsSociety becomes a worldwide sensation, making Castle the richest man in the world. He then creates Slayers, a first-person shooter where the "characters" are death-row prisoners using real weapons in specially created arenas. Unlike Society actors, Slayers participants are not paid; instead, they volunteer in exchange for the promise that any Slayer who survives 30 matches will earn his freedom (though no one ever has).

John "Kable" Tillman (Butler) is the crowd's favorite, having survived a record 27 matches (no inmate before him has managed to last more than ten). He is exclusively controlled by Simon (Lerman), a seventeen-year-old superstar gamer from a wealthy family.

An activist organization called the "Humanz" hacks a talk-show interview with Castle and claims that his technology will one day be used to control people against their will..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamer_(2009_film)#Plot


The 'Gamer' Movie... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwRYze6ZikU , https://www.youtube.com/c/Joeseppi/videos


In the first Avatar movie, genetic ET copies are grown. Then a person can link and remotely control their physical avatar like a puppet on another world (Pandora). As long as people want to be free in this worlds reality, they might want to think twice about ever fully becoming someone's DNA Avatar or VR puppet. However, since the protagonist in Avatar (Jake_Sully) was a paraplegic, it was advantageous for his consciousness to eventually transferred into a younger, LARGER and stronger body. https://james-camerons-avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Tree_of_Souls   


Digital entities and DNA copies.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=digital+actors

Things Leading Up To The Matrix Resurrections and Beyond

 https://gamerant.com/matrix-resurrections-fans-forgot-sequels-bad

The 4th movie in the series certainly offers a new perspective.

https://screenrant.com/matrix-resurrections-5-sequel-not-happen-wachowski-explained

However for some, it might not have been necessary. 

https://screenrant.com/matrix-resurrections-analyst-deja-vu-black-cat-powers-explained

Whether people just want to consider the 4th movie as bonus material, or as a nice addition to the overall story, that's up to each viewer as to how far they want to go with it.

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

A woman falls ill after exposure to monkeys at Pennsylvania crash site

"A woman who offered assistance at the scene of a truck crash involving captive lab monkeys in rural Pennsylvania says she has fallen ill after being exposed to the animals' feces and saliva." https://www.phillyvoice.com/monkeys-pennsylvania-woman-sick-danville-truck-crash-cdc-research-peta

There is a danger anytime that lab animals get loose.

https://www.dailyitem.com/news/update-3-monkeys-loose-following-crash-in-montour-county/article_12a9b164-7b01-11ec-8e93-b7f073436cb4.html

Especially when the public doesn't even know what might be in the animals.

https://6abc.com/monkey-truck-crash-danville-pa-monkeys-escape/11498297

Conjecture, even a panic could start.

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2022/01/22/lab-monkey-pennsylvania-crash-troopers-danville-montour-county/stories/202201220035

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/police-truck-with-100-monkeys-crashes-some-of-them-missing/2022/01/21/2af14d00-7b14-11ec-9dce-7313579de434_story.html

100 monkeys or just 12_Monkeys?

https://www.themarysue.com/plague-monkeys-because-why-not

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110842

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/app/uploads/2014/09/Excerpt-from-The-Hot-Zone-for-PBS-NewsHour-Education-Random-House-Publisher.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone , https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16213.The_Hot_Zone , https://richard-preston.net/book/the-hot-zone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone_(American_TV_series) , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YxNYnHTxAg

https://variety.com/2019/tv/features/the-hot-zone-adaptation-science-ebola-cgi-monkeys-1203225624/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/review-of-the-hot-zone-96325494/

https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1994/10/31/the-lurking-plague

"The movie Outbreak came out several months before 12 Monkeys, and journalist Richard Preston’s 1994 book The Hot Zone about lethal filoviruses was a national bestseller. Still, for most of the world’s population, a massive pandemic had not been a pressing concern since the Spanish Flu killed 50 million people between 1918 and 1920. Now there is a rising feeling that the next one won’t come a century from now. It could arrive much sooner and could be far worse." https://www.theringer.com/movies/2021/1/5/22213761/12-monkeys-terry-gilliam-history

https://longreads.com/2021/01/18/complete-history-12-monkeys-pandemic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Monkeys#Plot , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15s4Y9ffW_o , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Monkeys#Filming , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Rmtxf-NVE

https://letterboxd.com/film/the-hamster-factor-and-other-tales-of-twelve-monkeys


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=monkeys

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=hamsters

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Pennsylvania

Saturday, January 22, 2022

Bitcoin Has Lost Half Its Value...

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-22/bitcoin-extends-slide-and-has-fallen-than-50-from-record-high

It's almost all gone into the toilet!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2022/01/21/bitcoin-sinks-to-six-month-low-leading-crypto-market-downward/?sh=29209d30352e

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10430991/Bitcoin-nearly-halves-peak-Nasdaq-posts-worst-week-pandemic-onset.html

Has Bitcoin really lost its $HIT?

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shitcoin.asp

https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/shitcoin

https://www.shitcoin.com


WATCH OUT For These!! ...SH!TCOINs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBnWQRs1bPQ , https://www.youtube.com/c/CoinBureau/videos


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalik_Buterin , https://vitalik.ca 

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0 | Lex Fridman Podcast #188 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW0QZmtbjvs , https://www.youtube.com/c/lexfridman/videos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalik_Buterin#Ethereum , https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2021/11/03/ethereum-co-founder-vitalik-buterins-net-worth-hits-146-billion-as-ether-is-trading-at-all-time-high/?sh=26fcf18c2250

https://decrypt.co/91000/ethereum-founder-vitalik-buterin-dumped-7-billion-shib-how-why A big dump? That's a BIG $HIT!

https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/01/25174542/how-did-ethereums-vitalik-buterin-vaporize-6-7-billion-worth-of-shiba-inu

https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-stories-vitalik-buterin-talks-creating-ethereum-in-previously-unreleased-2014-interview

https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/2021/11/16/meet-dmitry-co-founder-of-ethereums-creator-vitalik-buterin

https://www.forbes.com/crypto-blockchain/?sh..

https://money.usnews.com/investing/cryptocurrency/articles/bitcoin-vs-ethereum-which-is-a-better-buy

https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/12/12/better-buy-bitcoin-vs-ethereum/

So much of it has gone into the toilet

Digital Hamsters in HK?

 https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3164231/nft-hamsters-project-launched-hong-kong-amid-public-backlash-over

Unfortunately, having your hamster or other pets killed and replaced with digital versions, doesn't really bring them back.

https://fortune.com/2022/01/21/hong-kong-hamster-cull-covid-nft-resurrect-pets-online

Sure people will have pictures and videos of their pets, but once they have died, that's it for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_simulation_game#Digital_pets

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/20/hong-kong-hamsters-covid

https://hongkongfp.com/2022/01/20/covid-19-hamsters-abandoned-in-streets-as-hong-kong-announces-mass-cull-ngos-shocked-concerned/

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hong-kong-warns-people-stop-trying-prevent-covid-hamster-cull-2022-01-21

"The day Hong Kong decided to kill 2,000 of the cuddly creatures to fall in line with China’s zero-Covid policy marks a new, dystopian low." https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-19/killing-hamsters-drives-hong-kong-to-new-low-in-meeting-china-s-zero-covid-dream

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/18/hong-kong-cull-thousands-hamsters-covid-pet-shop-virus-animals


The 6th Day - RePet TV Spot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOBjNo5sIgI


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Artificial+Animals+and+Digital+Pets

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=hamsters

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=mice

How Klaus Schwab built a billionaire circus at Davos

 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/01/how-klaus-schwab-built-a-billionaire-circus-at-davos

Such an elite club of the wealthy and powerful aren't under any obligation to appease the masses. Indeed, they can set the policies and mandates to maintain control over the masses. 


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=James+Bond+Villains

Sunday, January 16, 2022

Limitless and Lucy

Although Limitless and Lucy have totally different story-lines, they still share a common theme. That is in boosting or enhancing the human mind and brain far beyond normal.

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/limitless-movie-review

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/limitless-2011

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limitless_(2011_film)#Production

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(2014_film)#Production , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egBRU_EJhOI

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/07/life-is-futile-so-heres-what-to-do-with-it-according-to-lucy-a-spoilereview (This is an interesting Sci-Fi story about taking a person's mind up to greater heights, but not everyone gets it.)

Of course many dismissed the movies Limitless and Lucy for being too out there. A good Sci-Fi story is about pushing the limits and reaching the fringe.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/lucy-2014 , https://film-vault.fandom.com/wiki/Lucy

Thursday, January 06, 2022

Pittsburgh New Year’s Day meteor explosion equivalent to 27 tonnes of TNT

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/exploding-meteor-over-pittsburgh-2022-20220106.html

The timing of this is very peculiar, especially for Pennsylvania

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/04/pittsburgh-new-years-day-meteor-explosion-equivalent-to-30-tonnes-of-tnt-says-nasa

Sometimes an event or an occurrence that is depicted in a book, movie or TV production will actually happen.

https://www.space.com/exploding-meteor-boom-pittsburgh-new-years-day

There might a partial similarity, a general coincidence, or an overall synchronicity.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/boom-heard-in-pittsburgh-on-new-years-day-was-likely-an-exploding-meteor-180979310/

 Fortunately, there was no physical impact with the planet from this recent meteor.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/05/pittsburgh_meteor_explosion_nasa

Although this object wasn't big enough to wipe out a city or a state, there is always the potential that one could someday. 

https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/new-years-day-meteor-explodes-over-pittsburgh/1120361

Then that someday would become doomsday from a big object crashing in from space.

The timing of Don't_Look_Up and The_China_Syndrome is uncanny & goes right into synchronicity. That's because less than a month after the release of Don't Look Up in December 2021, an object from space almost hits the earth. The_China_Syndrome was released in mid March 1979, then the Three_Mile_Island_accident occurred in late March 1979. 

"Kate Dibiasky, a Michigan State University astronomy Ph.D. candidate doing work with the Subaru Telescope, discovers a previously unknown comet just inside of Jupiter's orbit at 4.6 au from the Sun. Her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy, calculates that it will impact Earth in about six months and is large enough to cause a planet-wide extinction event, which NASA internally confirms." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Look_Up_(2021_film)#Plot

https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/06/dazzled-and-damned-by-the-demo-the-best-tech-industry-critique-in-dont-look-up

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/netflixs-dont-look-up-breaks-viewership-records/1100-6499391

"On March 16, 1979, twelve days before the accident, the movie The China Syndrome premiered, and was initially met with backlash from the nuclear power industry, claiming it to be "sheer fiction" and a "character assassination of an entire industry." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident#The_China_Syndrome

"The March 1979 release was met with backlash from the nuclear power industry's claims of it being "sheer fiction" and a "character assassination of an entire industry".[11] Twelve days later, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Syndrome#Response_of_nuclear_industry

VR stories might not directly prove that this world is part of a cosmic simulation. https://www.cyberpunkreview.com/virtual-reality-movies However, the perception of synchronicity might help to reveal that this is all part of a cosmic recording of data and information. 


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=nuclear+power

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Pennsylvania

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=synchronicity