Rolf von Behrens 🌿

Ecovillages • Regen Ventures • Prosocial AI • Holochain • Advisor to impact, regenerative & post-blockchain projects #gameb #sensemaking #decentralisation

[Rolf von Behrens 🌿 @rolfvb]

Building responsible & #regenerative #cryptocurrencies + making them safe for everyone. Eg: @holochain by: @artbrock https://t.co/Iu6HCUwc22

[Rolf von Behrens 🌿 @rolfvb]

@jogannez @itsolelehmann You could cross-correlate against independent ai projects & human experts.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

ok this is the most awesome project i've ever seen in AI:

a startup called Earth Species Project is teaching AI to understand and talk with animals

there's 8 million species on Earth, yet we can fully understand just one of them: us humans.

but the founders think AI is the first tool powerful enough to close that gap

so they built NatureLM-audio, the first large language model trained on animal sound instead of human text

instead of training from scratch, they took a model that already understands human audio and fine-tuned it on animal recordings (birds, whales, primates, etc)

the bet was that the patterns AI learns from human speech would carry over to animals

and it worked better than they expected. the model started doing things nobody trained it to do, like:

- counting how many animals are in a recording
- telling distress calls apart from friendly ones
- identifying species it had never heard before

it's the same emergent behavior we saw when language models got big enough to surprise their own builders, except pointed at the animal kingdom

a few of the (amazing) breakthroughs they've had:

1. they solved the "cocktail party problem" for animals. the AI can pull one individual voice out of a noisy group recording, like isolating a single sperm whale's clicks from the whole pod

2. they tagged wild crows with tiny recorders, captured 127,000 calls, including the quiet murmurs between family members that normal microphones never pick up.

the model can even tell an adult's call from a chick's. a whole layer of crow conversation we couldn't record before is now on tape

3. most of their work is the AI learning to listen. but with zebra finches, they've started generating brand new synthetic calls and playing them back, which is the first real step from understanding animals toward actually TALKING to them

what makes it particularly meaningful is that it feeds straight into conservation

> with the Hawaiian crow (nearly extinct, only a few hundred left) understanding their calls helps researchers decide which birds to breed together and where to release them.

> with whales, mapping their songs shows exactly how ship noise drowns out their communication, which tells you how to reroute ships so you stop killing them

and they're open-sourcing all of it, so any researcher can build on top

we might actually find out what the animals have been saying this whole time

[Rolf von Behrens 🌿 @rolfvb]

@itsolelehmann Ja - they wrecked it when they updated a while back.

[Jonathan Jarecki @Jonathanjarecki]

Links to watch and listen to this episode:

YouTube (video): https://t.co/LdBjfiI3xo

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[SpaceWeatherNews @SunWeatherMan]

I’m sure you have plenty of time… no need to start prepping.

The guy who never told you to be afraid one time in 15 years… never told you to be afraid of a solar event… told you to settle down during the 2012 fever… is telling you that you are running out of time.

[Michael Avenatti @MichaelAvenatti]

Sam Bankman-Fried and I were prison bunkmates and I know him well. So I read this with more context than most.

Sam and I argued more than once about the same thing: his refusal to accept ANY responsibility for what he did. Not once did he admit he’d done anything wrong — even after I told him repeatedly he could never begin to redeem himself without that acknowledgment.

You don’t earn a pardon when you can’t admit, even to yourself, that you did wrong.

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

Well, I did warn that Zcash ($ZEC) was developed from technology originating at Tel Aviv University, involved a venture-funded private company that charged a 15% founders’ tax on mining, had prominent Zionist investors such as Barry Silbert, and relied on assurances from Zionists such as Peter Todd that the keys had been destroyed.

Based on those factors, I viewed it as a questionable Mossad honeypot.

You can search my history for warnings about this one.

[Forum Geopolitica @FGeopolitica]

Scott Horton on how the “forever war” has become the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. @scotthortonshow @ClaudioGrass
https://t.co/BxSMu8jPKN

[Rolf von Behrens 🌿 @rolfvb]

A great listen:

[Claudio Grass @ClaudioGrass]

my latest discussion with my old friend Hrvoje Morić about todays satanic and global „Muppet-Show“ https://t.co/tO8XGJvt68

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

New mass surveillance system introduced in America

“If you thought flock cameras are bad, law enforcement now has a system that identifies you based on the signals coming off of every single device you have”

“It collects your Bluetooth, your Wi-Fi, your RFID signals from your phone, your smartwatch, your headphones, your car, your car's radio, absolutely everything. Then it builds what they call an electronic fingerprint, and their website gives an example of this.

So picture 70 cars drive by one of these systems. Every car has an iPhone, but not every car has the same iPhone model, same smartwatch that's on you, same headphones, same everything else. So they build a profile based on you, not just your car's license plate anymore. So that combination is unique to you.

They don't just need your license plate anymore. They don't even need a picture of your face. They just need the signals that your devices are already broadcasting. Can work in malls, subways, any public place, pretty much anywhere this can work. And then all of that information is gonna get stored on a server where it could be searched for later.”

This isn't some random theory, it's real and I researched the details

It’s called SignalTrace, its commercially available law enforcement tool. It extends beyond traditional Automatic License Plate Recognition by capturing publicly broadcast radio signals from everyday devices

Signals Captured: Bluetooth from phones, watches, headphones, car systems, Wi-Fi, RFID like tags, key fobs, luggage and other local device emissions

It creates a Electronic Fingerprint unique profile by correlating multiple device signals that travel together with a vehicle and person. This includes your specific iPhone model + smartwatch + car infotainment + headphones

This is a massive mass surveillance tool

tracking profiles without needing faces, plates, or warrants in many cases. Networks of these sensors could map movements across cities

It builds persistent tracking profiles without needing faces, plates or warrants. Networks of these sensors could map movements across cities

We have to stop this type of technology for being normalized. This is unlawful surveillance without a warrant

[Rolf von Behrens 🌿 @rolfvb]

Convenient timing. 🥴

[Jesse Michels @AlchemyAmerican]

🚨BREAKING: A cognitive scientist from MIT has mathematically proven that evolution guarantees we see zero percent of true reality, that most consciousness in the universe exists without a body, and that non-human intelligences with a wider window on reality than ours can reach in and manipulate it the way a programmer manipulates a video game.

Donald Hoffman (@donalddhoffman) is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine who has spent 40 years building a mathematical theory of the observer. His work was cited by John Wheeler in the "It From Bit" paper. He studied under Marvin Minsky at MIT, spent two decades secretly meeting with Francis Crick to study consciousness, and has nine specific mathematical conjectures on the table that would derive general relativity, quantum field theory and the Big Bang from a single framework. The top high-energy physicists in the world, Nima Arkani-Hamed and Nobel laureate David Gross, are already saying spacetime is doomed. Hoffman thinks he knows what replaces it.

This interview is the first time he has publicly laid out what his mathematical model explains about alien life, embodiment and the structure of reality.

It already derives time dilation and quantum wave functions directly from differences in observer window size. Physics has spent a century failing to solve the measurement problem because it has been looking in the wrong place. The observer has to come first, and no physicalist framework can get you there.

A consciousness with a larger observer window has access to the underlying structure of our reality in ways we can't perceive or counter. A craft going Mach 40 instantaneously in our headset could be a leisurely maneuver in theirs.

The implications for UAP and alien life are immense.
Embodiment, being locked into a body with fingers and toes as your only interface with the world, is a probability zero anomaly in the full space of possible minds. He also says current large language models are dumber than cucumbers. His new framework, the recursive trace logic, is a completely different architecture, and some of the biggest names in frontier AI have already come to him about it.

The framework has no ceiling, and the implication is a single unified consciousness exploring itself through an unbounded number of perspectives, each one capable of waking up.

Death, in this framework, is just the closing of an icon on the desktop.

Full conversation is live now.

[UpScrolled @realUpScrolled]

Never thought we'd be this excited about a privacy update, but here we are…

We've moved UpScrolled HQ to the Netherlands to level up our data protection and user rights. New home, new policies, same mission to put our community first. 🇳🇱

#upscrolled

[Rolf von Behrens 🌿 @rolfvb]

@RyLiberty Stealing isn’t nice. Neither is poverty. This is kinda a fucked thing they did for clickbait. 🥴

[Jay Anderson @TheProjectUnity]

When the scanners are out trying to round up the rebels, it's 2036 and you weren't ready for this.

[Rolf von Behrens 🌿 @rolfvb]

#cancer #biophysics #mitochondria :

[Logan Duvall Sowing Prosperity @prospertarian]

A few weeks ago, I was with @DrJackKruse

I made the statement, “My goal is to cure cancer.”

To which he responded with, “That's easy”, and proceeded with a single statement that has been playing in my head over and over.

It's been as impactful as when he told me years ago to have my son avoid screens and get a tan on his back.

I've spent countless hours trying to understand that.

Join Dr. Kruse on Patreon and on his website to get his teaching. Or listen to the hundreds of podcasts he's done.

We have done 5. (Posted the cancer related below) They are free and masterclasses.

I'm going to share my understanding in time.

Biophysics is bigger, more complex, and more fascinating than I ever could have dreamed.

[Pavel Durov @durov]

WhatsApp encryption is a giant fraud.

The state of Texas just sued WhatsApp for lying to users about privacy — because WhatsApp employees have access to “virtually all” private messages.

Now we know what WhatsApp’s founder meant when he said he “sold his users’ privacy.”

[Truth_teller 🇷🇺 @Truthtellerftm]

@usanewshq Another psyop coming.

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

A man who repeatedly raped a young child for YEARS was given only two months in jail by Ken Paxton.

This is who Trump and the Republican Party put in charge of Texas.

You are ruled by fucking pedophiIes.

This is the most overt corruption I’ve ever seen.

[Rolf von Behrens 🌿 @rolfvb]

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