The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
- Dr. Carl Sagan
Power demands a fierce loyalty to heritage and an unbreakable will to awaken the dormant greatness within our people. Unity, discipline, and a relentless commitment to the ideals which uplift us, resisting any force that would weaken or divide us.❞
“We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man’s nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, “At the Root” (1918)
Nigeria has always played a significant role in the Pan-African movement, going back to Martin Delany and Robert Campbell travels there where they signed a treaty with a local ruler agreeing to give land to African Americans. Nigerian was also one of the African nations where Marcus Garvey was able to establish branches of the UNIA. Ernest S. Ikoli was a founder of the Lagos Youth Movement and worked in the Lagos branch of the UNIA. Fela Kuti's mother Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a leading anti-colonial activists in Nigeria. She worked with another Nigerian Pan-Africanist named Ladipo Solanke. Nnamdi Azikiwe was among the African leaders that Malcolm X met with when he was in Africa. Nnamdi Azikiwe also named a college in Nigeria after his former teacher, the great African American historian William Leo Hansberry. And there's also Babatunde Olatunji who participated in the civil rights movement.
Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and mathematician, explains why we should stop calling it AI and start calling it "artificial cleverness":
He believes the entire field is mislabelled, and the label itself is doing damage.
His objection is simple but cuts deep:
"The name is wrong. It's not artificial intelligence. It's not intelligence. Intelligence would involve consciousness. Well, if it's a machine, it's not conscious."
For Penrose, people have confused raw computing power with genuine understanding.
"People have lost the plot. They've lost it in the power of computing. The thing is that computers have got so powerful that they've lost the thread of what they're doing. But I think consciousness is something different. It's not computational."
He believes the term itself has hypnotized people into a category error:
"People are so hypnotized. The trouble is that AI is a bad term. It means artificial intelligence. Now intelligence in my view is conscious. That's what intelligence is about."
So he proposes a rename. Artificial Cleverness. AC instead of AI.
To illustrate the distinction, Penrose draws on his experience teaching mathematics:
"You have mathematics students. Some of them understand what they're doing. Some are just clever. They can repeat what they've learned. They know how to do it very cleverly. They can calculate very well, but they don't necessarily understand what they're doing."
That gap, between calculating well and actually understanding, is the gap Penrose sees between today's machines and genuine intelligence.
Cleverness can be manufactured. Consciousness, in his view, cannot.
So the question worth sitting with: when we call a system "intelligent," are we describing what it does, or quietly assuming something about what it is?
Why do you think it is that the laws of nature seem to apply everywhere? That they don't exactly vary? This is a tricky statement of course because you could write down time(and space)-varying laws, but you would still be left with some mega sort of meta-law which itself applies everywhere. Also, my usage of the word "where" in everywhere implies something spatial, but I don't intend that. English doesn't seem adequate to capture what I intend, but I'm trusting you understand the spirit behind the text.
They say the R&B Singers don’t come from the church no more. I’m R&B to the core but COGIC raised me forsure lol
This one’s stuck in my head tonight
Brain drain? Einstein had a theory about that. 🧠⚡️
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Katt Williams at the Roast Of Kevin Hart:
“Just because Kevin went to Diddy parties does not mean he did something wrong, the fact he gets all quiet when you bring it up, that means he did something wrong”
#KEVINHARTROAST
This man who heals what doctors can't:
Carl Jung.
It's impossible to be psychologically trapped, stressed, or anxious after understanding his teachings.
Here's his 4-step approach to mental freedom and self fulfillment: