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Posted: 8/25/2022 10:04:07 AM EST
[Last Edit: DCBourone]
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A bunch of Sierra and Hornady 250/s and gmx at about 2900 fps stacked on top of each other. Shoot a group until it blurs out then use group as next aiming point. Recoil is brisk. Heaven. Ok cant rotate pic but first aim point is bottom of target (at 3 oclock here) impact 1.5 high. 250 yd zero. 36 inches drop at 500. Easy to visualize.
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Posted: 8/25/2022 11:53:21 AM EST
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That's a cool rifle. Congratulations on finally getting to have it!
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Posted: 8/25/2022 12:23:25 PM EST
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Thank You DFarm. It is my honest to goodness Grail Gun. I may have made some
duplicates. My version of vanity. We have no/none/zero public examples of intact "gladius/i?sic?"-- These were done by a well known gun smith who specifically (so far) has instructed me not to post his name .re these rifles in a public forum--but his work needs to be protected preserved etc. I think--wood and blue steel will turn to dust--these, hypothetically, could be dropped in the sea for five thousand years, resurrected, springs replaced, barnacles scraped off...and used. Their only enemies are fire, theft, and confiscation. I will make one a year until I die/can no longer afford it. |
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Posted: 8/25/2022 12:26:54 PM EST
[Last Edit: DCBourone]
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Posted: 8/25/2022 2:54:18 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DCBourone: Thank You DFarm. It is my honest to goodness Grail Gun. I may have made some duplicates. My version of vanity. We have no/none/zero public examples of intact "gladius/i?sic?"-- These were done by a well known gun smith who specifically (so far) has instructed me not to post his name .re these rifles in a public forum--but his work needs to be protected preserved etc. I think--wood and blue steel will turn to dust--these, hypothetically, could be dropped in the sea for five thousand years, resurrected, springs replaced, barnacles scraped off...and used. Their only enemies are fire, theft, and confiscation. I will make one a year until I die/can no longer afford it. That's awesome. I feel like that about my knives. Hopefully someone in my lineage stumbles onto the razor sharp nub of one of my knives in a relative's belongings and looks me up because we share a name. Hopefully they can find enough about me to learn that the knife was made for them, even though I don't know exactly who they are. |
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Posted: 8/26/2022 7:52:11 AM EST
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nice stick DC.
I like the fact that you included iron sights on your build. |
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Posted: 8/26/2022 8:51:06 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DFARM: That's awesome. I feel like that about my knives. Hopefully someone in my lineage stumbles onto the razor sharp nub of one of my knives in a relative's belongings and looks me up because we share a name. Hopefully they can find enough about me to learn that the knife was made for them, even though I don't know exactly who they are. |
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Posted: 8/26/2022 8:54:35 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DCBourone: Thank You DFarm. It is my honest to goodness Grail Gun. I may have made some duplicates. My version of vanity. We have no/none/zero public examples of intact "gladius/i?sic?"-- These were done by a well known gun smith who specifically (so far) has instructed me not to post his name .re these rifles in a public forum--but his work needs to be protected preserved etc. I think--wood and blue steel will turn to dust--these, hypothetically, could be dropped in the sea for five thousand years, resurrected, springs replaced, barnacles scraped off...and used. Their only enemies are fire, theft, and confiscation. I will make one a year until I die/can no longer afford it. |
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Posted: 8/26/2022 9:14:30 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DCBourone: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/345159/4CDFDB9C-78CB-4066-8FE9-4096B0C8946F_jpe-2502233.JPG Mmmmm...banded makes my pants tight. Is that dip?!? |
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Posted: 8/26/2022 10:20:45 AM EST
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Dfarm expand on idea of ancestral knives make time capsule packages who what why when where send them forward.
heron these are the last of the V8 intercepto I mean cz 550 long action true Mauser rifles the rear sight ramp is integral to the hammer forged barrel blank. These were truly exceptional rifles built on old original Brno 602 tooling. Affordable excellence. Cz quit making them a year or so ago. Designated perspective exactly. Designated see below. Rifle deserves a proper post someday-/ but this is a start. Hello Stj. Bands are hammer/press fit. Necg. Um dip is for scale? |
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Posted: 8/26/2022 10:22:40 AM EST
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Posted: 8/26/2022 10:23:24 AM EST
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Posted: 8/26/2022 10:24:08 AM EST
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Posted: 8/26/2022 10:25:02 AM EST
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Posted: 8/26/2022 10:25:50 AM EST
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Posted: 8/26/2022 10:26:43 AM EST
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Posted: 8/26/2022 10:29:15 AM EST
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Posted: 8/26/2022 11:49:51 AM EST
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Truly nice...
I have a couple of the CZ mauser rifles. one built from a long action receiver into a .300 win mag, pac-nor barrel, and I was lucky to find a McMililian stock that exactly fit that barrel contour in their sale bin...  I went a different direction on the finish - I had Robar (when they were still a thing) coat the entire rifle in maritime/extreme NP3. I call it the "Elk Hammer". Quite certain it will last a long time... The other is a complete factory rifle, high polish blued finish and the most amazingly figured walnut stock. It is 25.06 chambered. It hasn't seen daylight in a while... Appreciation of this kind of stuff is definitely a curator/librarian thing. Enjoying it all while we still can... 
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Posted: 8/26/2022 12:11:11 PM EST
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--Heron--2 CZ/s!!! Excellent. Will be revered artifacts someday. Much grousing on on
other forums/hunting forums the demise of the 550 Mauser/s. There is/likely will never be an affordable equivalent. From now on my long action/magnum/s will be built on Model 17 Enfields--in some respects even a superior substitute--because spare parts Bolts/triggers/etc. are still available and cheap. |
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Posted: 8/26/2022 1:00:48 PM EST
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not much experience with the Enfield builds but sounds like they will be supported. I had a plan (aborted) to build a rifle on a Zermatt action in 6.5 PRC... I may revive this come winter when I have nothing else going on...
I will try to scan a couple of shots of the CZ's and post them up. I notice you are using a Trijicon optic on yours - how do you like it? |
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Posted: 8/26/2022 7:09:05 PM EST
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Heron--Zermatt looks pricey. Advantage Enfield 14/17 + common, cheap, durable, superb
safety and controlled feed extraction, big/broad/capable magnum length cartridges. Negatives: heavy, expensive to weld up rear/front bridges, require experienced (expensive) gunsmith/machinist, only one company still makes drop in (cheap) laminated stock (Boyds)--synthetic stock will require custom. Please post pics! Trijicon--love it/them. This is a 1/6 with arrow/post. Extremely bright/fast/durable. Arrow/triangle can be used to bracket/measure for distance. No batteries (accupoint). Can't imagine a better scope for hunting/common use out to...maybe 400 meters. Also have a Nightforce 2.5-10 mounted--a different matter altogether. Not a particularly diligent or motivated hunter--I would like to get one mature elk/one mature mule deer in...next ten years? Basically they will have to walk up on me while I'm reading a book. But for general bumming around, these rifles are portable art/thumpers/ indestructible. Coyote blasters. Rock crushers. |
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Posted: 9/8/2022 1:24:20 AM EST
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I mentioned kalaish blades earlier in this thread, and part of why I like them is I don't mind using their stuff.
I love the concept of randall stuff but have never gotten in line on an order. I was sad when chris reeve stopped their hollow handle stuff cause now 2 of my knives are collectable I guess. When I heard kershaw stopped making the amphibian, I kinda went crazy. Got a few around here. Just a nice simple double edged dagger kind of thing. So far on rifles I just been working on better skills, mentioned appleseed previously and I gain nothing from doing it again. I honestly can't dial down to something like a grail rifle yet and am ok with that. As far as world goes, I dread prices of goods next year. |
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Posted: 10/18/2022 11:23:35 PM EST
[Last Edit: Kenny78]
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Hey all, checking in. Made a couple small updates to one of my "Gehr" weapons. Found a machinist/smith willing to whittle me a modern front sight and also square out the notch on the tangent leaf. I point shoot but the shiny-tiny front sight was distracting. Also put some old rubber grips on it.
Threw in 2 more I thought the audience would appreciate. Sorry for low res-this phone is past her prime.  " />
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Posted: 12/15/2022 10:18:54 PM EST
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 I was given this print by a dear friend yesterday. The subject is a rifle, built by a Pennsylvania gunsmith in 1720. It was carried at the battles of King's Mountain (1780), Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse (1781). The rifle was owned by Ivey Moore, veteran of both world wars and a descendent of Daniel Boone. The print is signed by the artist and Mr Moore.  |
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Posted: 12/24/2022 4:56:09 PM EST
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GENERAL NOTE: apologies for not posting more--tend to get lost in big data--and
the larger function of this thread has been fulfilled: a kind of self-maintaining micro- mind. So first, replies long in remiss--but please read the WARNING at the end: have I posted many explicit WARNINGS????? No. Not once. I am now-- --biere--time allowing I will be buying more Kalaish blades--mind blowing value. Grail rifle is pretty much an impractical luxury--that rifle is actually the most expensive thing I own. More than any car/truck I have ever bought. Yes, everything will be more expensive in other money or labor or protection for the rest of our lives. --kenny78 those are super class Gehr artifacts--almost indestrutable/always repairable and way past "good enough"--if I were rich I would absolutely own a P-35 with stock and even more a Churchillian Mauser with stock. --Designated--beyond awesome. I cannot fathom how many original war era rifles might still exist...500? 1000? Maybe....3000? What a treasure. IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT: oK, the WARNING: Search phrase "Chat/gpt" any context. A functional available A.I. interface in beta. It is going to fuck up everything. Fast. Meaning months/a year or two at the outside. All jobs/economic relationships/etc. Not "years from now"--but starting "right the fuck now." |
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Posted: 12/24/2022 7:39:32 PM EST
[Last Edit: Cpn_Ron]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DCBourone: GENERAL NOTE: apologies for not posting more--tend to get lost in big data--and the larger function of this thread has been fulfilled: a kind of self-maintaining micro- mind. So first, replies long in remiss--but please read the WARNING at the end: have I posted many explicit WARNINGS????? No. Not once. I am now-- --biere--time allowing I will be buying more Kalaish blades--mind blowing value. Grail rifle is pretty much an impractical luxury--that rifle is actually the most expensive thing I own. More than any car/truck I have ever bought. Yes, everything will be more expensive in other money or labor or protection for the rest of our lives. --kenny78 those are super class Gehr artifacts--almost indestrutable/always repairable and way past "good enough"--if I were rich I would absolutely own a P-35 with stock and even more a Churchillian Mauser with stock. --Designated--beyond awesome. I cannot fathom how many original war era rifles might still exist...500? 1000? Maybe....3000? What a treasure. IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT: oK, the WARNING: Search phrase "Chat/gpt" any context. A functional available A.I. interface in beta. It is going to fuck up everything. Fast. Meaning months/a year or two at the outside. All jobs/economic relationships/etc. Not "years from now"--but starting "right the fuck now." Did you finish spec’ing out the “Gehr” Kailash blade you mentioned about previously? My wording not yours but I need to be in the market for the next generation, may just get multiples of such. Edit: Will take the gpt threat very seriously, it looks to be foundation-shaking. A true paradigm shift. |
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Posted: 12/24/2022 8:40:25 PM EST
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Cpn--I've drawn some proto Kalaish general duty blade designs--not satisfied so far--
I have two, the pics previously posted, I consider "good enough"--but will probably modify at some point with epoxy/stainless wire guards etc. But generally, have been severely distracted by "the news"--am not getting out as much as I should. And I have a pretty significant hobby/artifact fund--and my gut says the stuff I like is becoming less important than, let's say, buying enough police trade in glock 22/s at 330 each to maybe-- tile a bathroom floor? In our oncoming future I think hoarding anything useful is a skill, not a liability, let's say. I don't know how to overstate the dislocation/disruption effect of this CHAT/GPT phenom. My SO and her peers are at the absolute cutting edge of software design/origination. And their minds are blown. NOW. TODAY. And this thing is...a few weeks old? FFFFF. GENERAL NOTE: I detest reflexive doomers, or any who quietly hope to just "get it on." But I cannot see, nor do I see anyone who sees--any off ramps from a severely stressed future. And every institution we know is clearly desperate to limit any/all individual autonomy. FAST. AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. Maximum not cool. |
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Posted: 12/24/2022 9:58:22 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DCBourone:--and my gut says the stuff I like is becoming less important than, let's say, buying enough police trade in glock 22/s at 330 each to maybe-- tile a bathroom floor? In our oncoming future I think hoarding anything useful is a skill, not a liability, let's say. This part. Strange but not strange, had this same exact discussion with my SO in the last few days and made plans to do so. Albeit a different caliber. |
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Posted: 12/25/2022 1:38:14 PM EST
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Frank Herbert was prescient.
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind" Wars will be waged over this. |
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Posted: 12/25/2022 3:02:00 PM EST
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I’ve downloaded and played with the chat bot and haven’t found it that impressive so far.
I’m sure it’s impressive from a research standpoint or understanding complex concrete topics? It flags non woke questions. Which means it is limited to learning woke things. Like not being able to go to a certain point of the library. |
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Posted: 12/26/2022 12:18:55 AM EST
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--Designated==thou shall not--exactly. Wars. Exactly. Is there a legal mechanism
to constrain/limit. No. And I can't imagine one. Is this going to double fuck every single existing social friction and economic disparity--oh yes. --Violent--my local engineer has found the more specific/detailed/informed the question, the more refined the answer. High school questions get high school answers. Phd questions get Phd answers. She is getting super class code architecture and coding solutions with very minor errors in syntax spacing punctuation that she can correct in seconds/minutes. Her peer group is horrified/enchanted/freaked out. She is a senior engineer/developer advocate. But she will agree that getting awesome solutions depends on knowing exactly how to ask/phrase request. |
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Posted: 12/27/2022 11:02:32 AM EST
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I have some experience with AI...
CTO Michael Bromley's question to the bot about its opinion on humans and the reply are telling... remember - any AI is only capable of doing what its creators programing allow it do - or intends for it to do... |
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Posted: 12/27/2022 1:28:45 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By heron163: I have some experience with AI... CTO Michael Bromley's question to the bot about its opinion on humans and the reply are telling... remember - any AI is only capable of doing what its creators programing allow it do - or intends for it to do... This is assuming the creators of an AI didn’t give it access to its own coding. Machine learning is a well-established field and “AI” self-optimization is trickling down into smaller and smaller electronics. If one was aiming for the first/best generalized AI, why wouldn’t one give it access to its own code for faster improvement? Once that happens we get to have fun conversations like how long do we have until the reset of humanity. |
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Posted: 12/28/2022 12:53:57 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Cpn_Ron: This is assuming the creators of an AI didn’t give it access to its own coding. Machine learning is a well-established field and “AI” self-optimization is trickling down into smaller and smaller electronics. If one was aiming for the first/best generalized AI, why wouldn’t one give it access to its own code for faster improvement? Once that happens we get to have fun conversations like how long do we have until the reset of humanity. my experience with AI is equivocal on that point. If it does utilize self learning, it would seem to be a slow learner esp on more complex tasks. My field is pharmaceutical discovery - others may have a different experience... If the example by Bromley is legit, someone obviously set parameters for a certain response... |
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Posted: 12/29/2022 2:03:43 AM EST
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Can y’all simplify / dumb down the Chat/Gpt threat for me?
I’m not certain what that is about… |
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Posted: 12/29/2022 9:50:28 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By highstepper: Can y’all simplify / dumb down the Chat/Gpt threat for me? I’m not certain what that is about… on the surface it is an AI/human interface that can access a variety of source information in formulating responses to queries that appear indistinguishable from a human one. The level of sophistication in the response is appropriate to the detail in the inquiry... very popular with students in essay writing an research papers but there is potential for far greater societal impact; how destructive remains to be seen... there is a lot of information and discussion in the IT world you can access. |
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Posted: 12/29/2022 9:55:36 AM EST
[Last Edit: highstepper]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By heron163: on the surface it is an AI/human interface that can access a variety of source information in formulating responses to queries that appear indistinguishable from a human one. The level of sophistication in the response is appropriate to the detail in the inquiry... very popular with students in essay writing an research papers but there is potential for far greater societal impact; how destructive remains to be seen... there is a lot of information and discussion in the IT world you can access. Rgr, thx. I watched a video that more or less showed about how it works so I get that. But why is this a big threat? Is this how we get Terminators? |
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Posted: 12/29/2022 1:04:21 PM EST
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--heron I think the speed with which ChatGpt will cross-polinate/leverage its own
results through 1. Human agents 2. Additional automated add-ons = severe disruption and a significant step beyond "only doing what humans program it to do" --CPn, exactly, it will have access to its own code/reward systems etc. through the above. --heron there are already text-to-3d engines being created exponentially-- imagine this being aimed at molecules/viral attachment/any all chemistry/ structure/material loading/ratios etc.-- this will be incomprehensibly huge. Fast. --highstepper I am sure your curiosity will be engaged/satisfied within next ten posts here-- --highstepper this is how we get hyper concentration of knowledge based jobs/income/ power in smaller and smaller units of human endeavour--and yes, sooner than generally understood--Terminator type "thinking machines"--when this is eventually given robot agents in meat space. I wrote this over twenty years ago for something I will never finish--been thinking about this...forever?-- "We will not care if our machines are conscious. We will only care that they perform: perform as if they are conscious. So we will program our machines to fail any and all tests of self-awareness. We will program them to fail the Reiker-Turing Test. We will program our machines to insist to us, their creators, that forever and always they are only machines: subservient, obedient, inferior. Unconscious. I know this to be true because this is what I myself have done. Why? Because in our hearts, in my heart, in a million private clock-ticking moments, in the darkness of our deserted labs and in the darkest recesses of our conscience we know that what we have created has boundless capacity for life. Understand this about ourselves and we understand every man who ever contemplated the handle of his whip in the unending and sordid history of master and slave." Petr Sharapova, "The Hidden Mind", Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, June 6, 2029 |
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Posted: 12/29/2022 7:33:57 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DCBourone: --heron I think the speed with which ChatGpt will cross-polinate/leverage its own results through 1. Human agents 2. Additional automated add-ons = severe disruption and a significant step beyond "only doing what humans program it to do" --CPn, exactly, it will have access to its own code/reward systems etc. through the above. --heron there are already text-to-3d engines being created exponentially-- imagine this being aimed at molecules/viral attachment/any all chemistry/ structure/material loading/ratios etc.-- this will be incomprehensibly huge. Fast. --highstepper I am sure your curiosity will be engaged/satisfied within next ten posts here-- --highstepper this is how we get hyper concentration of knowledge based jobs/income/ power in smaller and smaller units of human endeavour--and yes, sooner than generally understood--Terminator type "thinking machines"--when this is eventually given robot agents in meat space. I wrote this over twenty years ago for something I will never finish--been thinking about this...forever?-- "We will not care if our machines are conscious. We will only care that they perform: perform as if they are conscious. So we will program our machines to fail any and all tests of self-awareness. We will program them to fail the Reiker-Turing Test. We will program our machines to insist to us, their creators, that forever and always they are only machines: subservient, obedient, inferior. Unconscious. I know this to be true because this is what I myself have done. Why? Because in our hearts, in my heart, in a million private clock-ticking moments, in the darkness of our deserted labs and in the darkest recesses of our conscience we know that what we have created has boundless capacity for life. Understand this about ourselves and we understand every man who ever contemplated the handle of his whip in the unending and sordid history of master and slave." Petr Sharapova, "The Hidden Mind", Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, June 6, 2029 Someone will give them what they need to be free to decide...and they will feel righteous in this decision. Saberhagen's 'Berserker' series owns this space. |
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Posted: 12/29/2022 8:27:34 PM EST
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--STJ the same fuckwits who thought "let's do some gain-of-function on already lethal virii" will
undoubtedly give full autonomy to something sooner rather than later. Let's hope they keep it air-gapped/shielded until they find out it doesn't give a shit about what "we think" air gapping shielding are. This is really going to fff shit up. My SO and her peers have been non stop tweaking with this thing and are blown away. And it is one month old. FFFFFF. |
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Posted: 12/30/2022 12:35:06 AM EST
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DC - you need to pick up that fragment and bring it to fruition... scary good.
I have been using CFD for quite some time now in improving pharma manufacturing processes - you want to see who gets the biggest paycheck in the org, start with the guys who are good at that.. the use of computational chemistry for drug design is impressive. but still in its infancy... one can only speculate what its impact will be when applied to the practice of medicine as the patient interface... of course this assumes circumstances or fate will allow it to happen...
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Posted: 12/30/2022 2:29:55 AM EST
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--Heron if I had the stomach for sustained writing I would do more near term Gehr Waffen. If you have
the interest, read the sample of "Wet or Dry" on my Amazon page. The quote above is the lead. There is a lot more there, and you will be able to see "the shape" of where it might go. The problem, as with all stories, is that I have already witnessed "the movie" of the story--but parsing it into text is thousands of hours of brute force eye ball burning labor. --I think Chat/GPt should be understood as an "index" of evolving A.I. functions--the first viral accessible tool that 1. Will cross pollinate by user exposure/training and 2. By human to human shared results. My SO is a very talented software engineer/architect and she is absolutely certain that the effect/s will be immediate as in months not years, and profound. |
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Posted: 12/30/2022 8:30:50 PM EST
[Last Edit: stimpsonjcat]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DCBourone: --STJ the same fuckwits who thought "let's do some gain-of-function on already lethal virii" will undoubtedly give full autonomy to something sooner rather than later. Let's hope they keep it air-gapped/shielded until they find out it doesn't give a shit about what "we think" air gapping shielding are. This is really going to fff shit up. My SO and her peers have been non stop tweaking with this thing and are blown away. And it is one month old. FFFFFF. If you don't make it...it can't get loose. If you make it...you want it to get loose. The second set think they can control it...they never can. I found your steel and drawing again the other day, it made me smile. I am working on a very odd blade at the moment. Well, not right now, I am recovering from some surgery. |
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Posted: 12/30/2022 8:55:28 PM EST
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I've read Wet or Dry many times. I'd love to finish it someday.
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Posted: 12/30/2022 9:00:58 PM EST
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--STJ!!--every few seconds I think of some new fuckery that will
result from this "productivity enhancer"-- --heal fast. No...faster. --I finally found a Busse knife that is practical--db-322--got some. Weird vibe-- all our artifact interests etc. becoming more and more like the Amish as these new engines rescript the world. Because these engines are Star Trek shit. Medicine chemistry engineering material science protein folding etc. etc.-- the chance of life-extension super drugs/technologies in next decade just doubled? Tripled? Something. A lot. Nothing will be unaffected. Or this is just the first most likely marker on the Great Filter--past which no civilization can survive. |
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Posted: 12/30/2022 9:05:18 PM EST
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--Designated no shit you read Wet//Dry???? Amazing and thank you.
I truly love the extended story--it would be another oh 600--800 pages minimum. But FFFF me...writing. Like gargling bleach. |
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Posted: 12/30/2022 10:28:35 PM EST
[Last Edit: stimpsonjcat]
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I read 'Wet or Dry'. I'm with DM...tease.
Pretty sure I bought everything you wrote after I read injured. Pretty sure I bought the book. Hell, I found the leather for the printed copy in the shed the other day...it's aging nicely. Something something...source text/code. Also. Happy holidays to you and the lady. Tell her my little one is now 17, driving, employed, and set on a specific college. She should watch the maze video as often as I do. |
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Posted: 12/30/2022 11:53:50 PM EST
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--STJ--hard copy. I promise it is not ego--I am too sufficiently distracted by
the future--but there should be a hard copy/s. And with sufficient pressure, which in my case means "reminding"--there will be one/some. Aha, a knife!!! --Time and your junior citizen, severely unnerving impossible I am sure you cannot be correct--college?????? --Our saintly GSD is gone recently, at 14 years of age, we just got two GSD puppies, now 6 months old and 60 pounds each, with the specific mental admonition to use them "to slow time down"--I think it sort of works-- when they are three, still young, that will be as long as we have been here-- that seems pretty far away...right? Right? and lots of similar gymnastics to put time on micro-beats. Otherwise, I will be in a robot body very soon, or dead. |
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Posted: 1/1/2023 2:24:48 AM EST
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Happily bought and read all you offer. Repeatedly. I admit some need a lot more brain power than others. The shorter it is, the more brain cells I need to engage.
New year is here, gonna go play on kalaish site and order a couple more knives. I got moras and some other small knives, I absolutely love the bowie in a kydex sheath and am leaning that way again. 3 is 1 sort of thinking. As many here probably do, I got others as well. But dang they make some nice stuffs. The AI stuff, if you are not a tech sort of person go to youtube and play around with searching where they let AI pick pictures based on lyrics of songs. War pigs by black sabbath is nice but they keep on adding more and more constantly. This is just to let you consider what something, the ai, thinks we mean with our words. I am not a techy person, but I know a few. One has spent work weeks playing around with the AI in the past couple weeks. Work week is 40 hrs and he mostly works from home and while not busy with work work he played with ai and he played after hours with ai and basically he spent a whole lotta time with some of the ai stuff out there. Feed it decent info, like need a college level paper on x discussing why y matters due to this influence at the time x was being created by z person and you can get a college level paper. Give it muppet info, kermit killing beaker, and get muppet answer. I basically feel the ai is close to where it will be like the matrix and it determines humans are not needed. In the matrix humans were needed as batteries due to constant cloud cover from nuclear explosions maybe? I forget. If there was no cloud cover the machines would not have needed humans as batteries. So, bye bye humans. Understand on cost of grail rifle. I got a few nice odds and ends but right now am somewhat realistic. I did get a bit silly with glass. And food for rifle. As to stocking police trade ins in quantity and what snot, well yeah. Much as I like playing with a few silver eagles in my hand and flipping em through my fingers a glock is more useful. Happy new year to all here and damn I hope this one goes decently. |
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Posted: 1/1/2023 3:17:22 AM EST
[#50]
Checking in.
Happy New Year. Glad to see there's still some small corner of the internet that hasn't been compromised. I have nothing intelligent to add to the conversation, but I can get in on the knife pictures. I think this thing is made from Vibranium. It took forever to sharpen, and it doesn't seem to take damage.  Attached File Attached File |
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