主题：Jason Silva：我们现在就是神 -- 万年看客
难道你是在电影院看的？
这才是信息技术的本质。
人类是桥梁而非终点：人类是思想的载体，是信息的传承，直到有效率更高的载体取代人类，则人类消失。
理解即发现模式：感知与灵魂，无非是多层模式识别的结果。
人造系统的效率越高，看上去就越像自然系统：巧夺天工说的就是这个意思。
真既是美，美既是真：外形的美感与设计的合理效率的提高有本质上的关系。
我们决不能忘记我们是宇宙当中的革命者，决不能心甘情愿地为杀死一切生命的自然秩序充当走狗：人类改造自然的动力其实就是进化的动力，只不过超越了生物体层次的进化，进入了更深层次的进化。达尔文主义不仅限于生物，也可以解释万物。
为了软件定义更多底层资源，不是不可能。
“著名心理学家尼古拉.汉弗莱对于惊叹情绪的生物学优势这样写道：一个物种对于自身存在感到惊奇赞叹的能力居然具有进化上的优势，这难道只是巧合吗？换句话说，惊叹情绪是自然选择的结果，因为这种情绪使得生命感到自己在宇宙当中具有意义，并且更加努力地生存与发展。再换句话说，惊叹情绪有助于我们的生存。最近斯坦福大学的一项研究在某种程度上证实了这一点。研究发现，经常感到赞叹的人能够得到切实的好处，他们更容易对他人抱有同理心与激情，更倾向于利他主义，心理也更健康。这项研究将惊叹定义为感知的扩展。感知扩展得如此广大，以至于你不得不调整自己的心智结构，唯此才能适应并且接受这样的体验。我们都有过这样的体验，例如第一次俯瞰大峡谷或者第一次被IMAX影院的效果所压倒的时候。对于惊叹感受的最精妙描述或许来自罗斯.安德森。他在谈论哈勃望远镜的时候这样说道：哈勃望远镜为我们带来了主体论层面上的觉醒，有力地叫醒了我们，迫使我们在几乎逼近无限的尺度上思考时间与空间。凝视着哈勃望远镜拍摄的深空照片，我们完全可以用我们的视神经来感知宇宙之初直到今天的整条时间线，将大到不可思议的事物容纳进小到不可思议的事物当中。他说通过这些探索成果的美学力量，哈勃望远镜将极其复杂而抽象的天文学概念凝练成了一目了然的光线与颜色。这也再次证明了我们所熟知的名言，真既是美，美既是真。”
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this is a good piece, worth reading several times, thanks for translation and posting.
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"物理直观"
FB paid $2b to acquire Oculus, thinking virtual reality will be the next information platform after mobile
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生产关系
one of marx's greatest contributions to whatever is: he actually points out very correctly that the core of political economy is 生产关系, with everything else is basically an "underlying", from which 生产关系 is derived from, as an "derivative", and derivative becomes a life of its own, with 上层建筑, 意识形态 reinforcing the 生产关系 as dominated and managed by winners (or elite or the ruling class)
example 1):
"所谓离线秒下的强大功能，领导一声令下马上就歇菜了 [ 文青 ] 于:2014-04-30 02:09:22 复:4004926
八月廿六:莫名其妙的“净网”行动
就这完全不靠谱的环境，指望依赖云盘看片么？"
最搞笑的是，开始明明说是要扫黄，结果这么长时间了，那几个最有名的黄网还都好好的呢，没人提也没人动，新闻联播里净网办公室的发言人，信誓旦旦的说，扫掉了几百几千个黄网。他们是真傻还是假傻啊，骗谁呢。"
obviously it is not about 黄网, 黄网 is an underlying, a vehicle by which chairman X's ideology is doing a ideology 战争演习 kind of things
example 2):
in a bull market, your program will be coded to front run everybody else in buying high beta stocks of whatever: those stocks are "underlying" /vehicles for you to take advantage of market's bullish mood, you don't really care about those stocks itself: you buy them because they are a simply better "Ponzi underlying".
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now in future, if goog/FB "own" all the platforms of internet/mobile/AI/virtual reality etc, and making it available by broadcasting from outer space "universally", then everybody can trade "生产关系" by using whatever the underlying which could be anything
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what is the implication?
there would be many, such as "生产关系" often manipulated by politicians and financial capitalists will be increasingly exposed with "物理直观" in a virtual reality platform, with trading(information collecting and processing) of "生产关系" no longer 壟斷寡斷 "controlled and traded" by a few elite, it would be becoming a mass market, with bid-ask spread and trading margin vastly reduced, benefiting the whole society.
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as said before, partially due to the lack of "物理直观", modern physics and math are hard to learn such as in the area of quantum physics (lab work is one of the keys);
and once we get into social science, it is even worse, or becoming worse than before:
as posted before, social mass are almost becoming 腦殘 by the 24/7 of 高積量熱輻射 of all kinds of ideology of various "生产关系" BS.
a case for further study is mainland china: they really don't have 水牛城辣雞翅 with an special uncle sam made sports sauce flavor, which can help you 屏蔽 熱輻射 of TG's 24/7 ideology machine gun firing, more 腦殘 at population level likely, as a result, omg(:).
and in wall street, the "evils" there are not "better" in any way when compared to TG's political ideology 熱輻射: 腦殘 likely for many victims of modern financial capital market.
kind of 达尔文进化论 of post cold war version, 杀人不见血, why not?(:)
so, winners (individual, groups, or nations) will take away the 寶貴的 capital from losers. losers are not supposed to have any capital, theoretically.
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Oculus Joins Facebook | Oculus Rift - Virtual Reality ...
www.oculusvr.com/blog/oculus-joins-facebook/
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Jason Silva (born February 6, 1982) is a Venezuelan-American television personality, filmmaker, and performance philosopher. He resides in Los Angeles, California and New York City.
Silva earned a degree in film and philosophy from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. He, along with Max Lugavere, produced and starred in a video documentary/performance piece entitled "Textures of Selfhood"—an experimental film about hedonism and spirituality. "The Party-Philosophers" and "Intellectual Hedonists", as named by Angeleno Magazine, borrowed the name for the film from the Hedonistic Imperative, a website promoting the end to suffering by philosopher David Pearce.
The Atlantic describes Silva as "A Timothy Leary of the Viral Video Age".[1]
Public speaking[edit]
An active and prolific speaker, Silva has recently spoken at Google, The Economist Ideas Festival, the prestigious DLD Digital Life Design Conference in Munich, TEDGlobal, the Singularity Summit, the PSFK Conference, and the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.[2]
At TEDGlobal this past June 2012, Jason premiered "Radical Openness," a new short video.[3] In September 2012, Silva presented his Radical Openness videos at the opening keynote at Microsoft TechEd Australia.[4] Radical Openness was also featured in his presentation at La Ciudad de las Ideas conference on November 10, 2012.
In September 2012, he appeared at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, where he presented a speech entitled "We Are The Gods Now."[5]
Brain Games[edit]
In 2011, Silva became the host of Brain Games on the National Geographic Channel. The show set a record as the highest rated series launch in Nat Geo's history, with an average of 1.5 million viewers for the first two episodes.[6]
Shots of Awe[edit]
In May 2013, Jason started a YouTube channel called "Shots of Awe", wherein he uploads short, inspirational videos that explore topics such as the emergence of life, the evolution of intelligence, and the advancement of technology.[7]
Other[edit]
Silva has been featured in The Atlantic,[1] The Economist,[8] Vanity Fair,[9] Forbes,[10][11] Wired,[12] and many others.
In 2011 he became a fellow at the Hybrid Reality Institute, examining the symbiosis between man and machine.[13]
On August 15, 2012 he appeared on CBS This Morning.[14]
On September 24, 2012 he appeared on Australian ABC program Q&A alongside Tanya Plibersek, Kelly O'Dwyer, Mark Carnegie & Elliot Perlman.[15]
His film ATTENTION: The Immersive Power of Cinema[16] is part of the exhibition 'KINO und der kinamatografische Blick' ('CINEMA and the cinamatographic gaze'), 20 March - 2 June 2013, at MEWO Kunsthalle in Memmingen (Germany).[17]
He has appeared multiple times as a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.[18]
On March 18, 2014 he was a guest in an episode of SourceFed's Tabletalk.[19]
云计算某种程度上也是在做这个。
“著名心理学家尼古拉.汉弗莱对于惊叹情绪的生物学优势这样写道：一个物种对于自身存在感到惊奇赞叹的能力居然具有进化上的优势，这难道只是巧合吗？换句话说，惊叹情绪是自然选择的结果，因为这种情绪使得生命感到自己在宇宙当中具有意义，并且更加努力地生存与发展。再换句话说，惊叹情绪有助于我们的生存。最近斯坦福大学的一项研究在某种程度上证实了这一点。研究发现，经常感到赞叹的人能够得到切实的好处，他们更容易对他人抱有同理心与激情，更倾向于利他主义，心理也更健康。这项研究将惊叹定义为感知的扩展。感知扩展得如此广大，以至于你不得不调整自己的心智结构，唯此才能适应并且接受这样的体验。我们都有过这样的体验，例如第一次俯瞰大峡谷或者第一次被IMAX影院的效果所压倒的时候。对于惊叹感受的最精妙描述或许来自罗斯.安德森。他在谈论哈勃望远镜的时候这样说道：哈勃望远镜为我们带来了主体论层面上的觉醒，有力地叫醒了我们，迫使我们在几乎逼近无限的尺度上思考时间与空间。凝视着哈勃望远镜拍摄的深空照片，我们完全可以用我们的视神经来感知宇宙之初直到今天的整条时间线，将大到不可思议的事物容纳进小到不可思议的事物当中。他说通过这些探索成果的美学力量，哈勃望远镜将极其复杂而抽象的天文学概念凝练成了一目了然的光线与颜色。这也再次证明了我们所熟知的名言，真既是美，美既是真。”
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I have to quote this piece again, and needless to say, thanks to the 万年看客, and the great internet, and ccthere.com, obviously.
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to make quick and "dirty" points as a "derivative" product, I am going to use china as an example, and TG as a political scientist/sysadmin/trader.
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“著名心理学家尼古拉.汉弗莱对于惊叹情绪的生物学优势这样写道：一个物种对于自身存在感到惊奇赞叹的能力居然具有进化上的优势，这难道只是巧合吗？换句话说，惊叹情绪是自然选择的结果，因为这种情绪使得生命感到自己在宇宙当中具有意义，并且更加努力地生存与发展。再换句话说，惊叹情绪有助于我们的生存"
immediately, I thought about this famous chinese language post ("为什么汉语是世界上最先进的语言"), where it is said "中国人的驕傲 is in our blood", etc
then I googled "中国人的驕傲 ccthere.com", quite a few, the following one is worth reading
【原创】和炸药奖擦肩而过的中国人（工作都是在中国作出的） [ 黄河故人 ]
http://www.cchere.com/alist/1824333
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"情绪的生物学优势" at individual level, or group level are obvious, although the science aspect of it are yet to be "modeled", etc
here I want to talk about our 中国人的驕傲 as a nation, as a language, as a culture, as a mindset, as "我的中国心" no matter where you go, whatever science you work with: overseas Chinese would most likely have all kinds of 田涮锅辣 (google not good at pinyin yet, damned)
1 of examples: how come this Indian guy get picked up as CEO of MSFT, and I could imagine how many "fxxk u" curses out of those Chinese folks working in MSFT that day and the nightmare just started for many of them, man, and elsewhere in US.
and how about going back to China after all these curses of "fxxk u", well, easier said than done, then go back to your damned job whatever and wherever, most likely with an Indian guy as your boss in IT & many other industries here in US, watching your ass, omg(:)
what is the point? the point is: compared to India, Chinese is much more highly homogeneous, 同性质的，同类的, almost to the point of 近亲繁殖, as a huge macroscopic system of 1.3 Billion people and growing, and there is no second one in the world.
while china had been almost 絕熱 vs global heatbath for most of its 5k years, Indian as a culture, nation, and a system has done much more information and energy exchanges with outside world, etc.
then, about 100 years ago, 十月革命一声炮响 给我们送来了马克思列宁主义, with 马克思列宁主义 almost as a "science version" of our traditional Chinese culture in many aspects, omg, our 思想"祖宗" actually has been "global", part of it being white, according to 中共政治局常委刘云山.
and of course, the opposite of 驕傲=思想的牢笼, it almost happens as much as 驕傲的生物学优势.
情绪, 驕傲, as some kind of 玻色子 things or derivatives, it has to embedded in some kind of 经典形式 for "production" as we know, much like in 量子光学, where 光 part is still handled mostly with 经典 Maxwell's equations;
and where is this damned 经典 "underlying" for 驕傲? those super smart political scientist/sysadmin/trader would ask immediately, time is money, man, get your ass out there first.
or what is that "killer stock" with the best beta and "Ponzi underlying" for which herds will chase at the top tick once market opens?
of course, in mainland china, it is 伟光正 TG Central, and after all, TG has done fairly well anyway, in many areas, with some solid fundamental BS with which one can do the road show in selling to the potential investors(:)
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back to the mainland china, once we have a model, the rest is easy, purely technical: you design and figure out a cavity/腔 kind of thing, put this Chinese nation's 中国人的驕傲"玻色子" into it, and then you can play this 中国人的驕傲 a few times, and as you get experienced with more data collected and analyzed , you can almost anyway play it anyway you want, for a good profit, with all the beautiful spectrums, is life beautiful? 江山万代红;
a big part of that cavity design and engineering is of course GFW, and the GFW team, you guys better get that damned thing built really solid.
or 提头来见(:).
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【原创】和炸药奖擦肩而过的中国人（工作都是在中国作出的） [ 黄河故人 ]
http://www.cchere.com/alist/1824333
"周厚复的有机化学反应电子理论也就是他最重要的工作。是从反应物通过基团之间反应得到一种产物而得不到另一种可能的产物（化学反应的选择性）的实验事实归纳出来的规律，从而通过科学的思维，创立该理论，用反应物的电子结构机制来合理地理解化学反应。从当时的科学水平看，是一种比较先进的尝试，那时物理化学角度还没有酸碱平衡常数、反应动力学和量子化学出发更定量地来研究有机化学反应，还没有或刚刚开始。而当这些方面的研究深入之后，他的工作渐渐的被人淡忘了"
【原创】为什么汉语是世界上最先进的语言（上） - 网站首页
www.ccthere.com/article/3847181
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2013年2月17日 - 首先要承认标题只是个噱头。总看到有人在争论到底汉语是先进还是落后。虽然我不是专业人士，但是就用点通讯和存储上的概念来聊聊为什么汉语 ...
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the following can not be better understood in the context of
"著名心理学家尼古拉.汉弗莱: 情绪的生物学优势 "
Moravec的悖论 [ Fuhrer ]
http://www.ccthere.com/alist/3808130/4
"Moravec的悖论": "强相互作用" [ 晓兵 ]
"actually, or 低级别的感觉运动技能 such as 阶级斗争 一抓就灵 "BS" is much more challenging, it is full interaction at humanity level, and we all know winners/losers payoff is often life vs death".
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globally, "情绪的生物学优势" is a zero sum game, obviously, humanity as a dissipative system has to play 達爾文遊戲 to renormalize capital(energy conservation and growth) market to constantly reward winners and punish losers.
if uncle sam prevails with his "情绪的生物学优势", then more likely there will be no "情绪的生物学优势" for Tgchina as it is now, or regardless of whatever TGchina will do from now on, "it is all too late", the worst case scenario.
Chinese traditional mind model of "天人合一和諧" is more likely "self entertainment/spiritual drug" than anything else, and with that, 内战内行 外战外行 is more likely in terms of global game outcome in the foreseeable future for TGChina's political elite.
more likely, "江山万代白" for Uncle Sam, covering globally other than TGchina.
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locally in mainland china, even more than likely, it is and will be 江山万代红, TGchina should be ok economically and politically, as posted many times for many reasons, with "中国人的驕傲" (as reinforced & further modeled by TG with its GFW) as TGchina's major capital in fending off uncle sam's white wolves offense.
and more likely, some kind of deal will be worked out eventually between uncle sam and Tgchina, than otherwise;
and it looks like for now, uncle sam wants TGchina to open up its market for US SP500 financials, services etc, the real game behind TGchina's 资本市场对外开放's smoke and fire?
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狗译原文（http://thedailyomnivore.net/2013/01/23/moravecs-paradox/)：
Moravec的矛盾是人工智能和机器人技术研究人员发现，传统的假设相反，高层次的推理只需要很少的计算，但低级别的感觉运动技能需要巨大的计算资源。汉斯·莫拉维克，罗德尼·布鲁克斯，马文·明斯基在20世纪80年代明确提出的原则。莫拉维克写道，“这是比较容易使计算机具有成人级的性能智力测验或玩跳棋，很难或根本不可能给他们一岁的时候，它涉及到感知和流动性的技能。”
http://www.ccthere.com/article/3995590