[FRIAM] Yeeah Coin Miners made it hard to get parts

Sat Jan 22 12:32:44 EST 2022

> Welcome to the Singularity!
>
Paralleling Technological Singularity and Buddhist Enlightenment:

    https://www.speakingtree.in/blog/before-and-after-enlightenment

A version of the above that really stuck to me included the phrase:

     "the only difference between after enlightenment and before 
enlightenment is the awareness that you have always been enlightened!"

To recognize we are "on the cusp" of the Singularity is to recognize 
that we (modern humans, hominids, vertebrates, multicellular life, life 
itself, self-organizing matter ?) have always been (somewhere) on the 
cusp of a Singularity?

To channel SteveG, we have always been on a least-action path, what does 
it change (internally) when we recognize such?

mumble,

   Steve

>
> How do we even measure the derivatives of the change in 
> multiple/compounded domains (like computational 
> hardware/software/applications crossed with terrestrial/air/space 
> transportation which can be decomposed into yet other critical 
> technologies (power management, sensors, navigation, control systems)?
>
>
> The current impact of "supply chain failures" seems to open the door 
> to another layer of logistics ML/AI which seems like a critical 
> stepwise move toward global scale AI that transcends any 
> human/corporate/national oversight and takes on a "life of it's own".
>
>
> I haven't tracked Musk's analysis/critique of AI lately but as the 
> biggest target (squashable bug) for a global-scale emergent AI, he 
> would seem to be an obvious individual human/company victim of an AI 
> "leveraging" him out of the picture or into the biggest tool in the 
> box?  By some measure it seems he already is?  I can't tell if his ego 
> allows him to recognize this or if it requires it of him?   Trying to 
> squirt himself across space to Mars before it catches up with him?  
> How DO you close that door behind you well enough to keep HAL from 
> following you (stowaway)?
>
>
> I think plenty of people (e.g. Gil's Gamers, MAGA-heads, the 
> non/working poor, Millenials, etc) are already being ground up by "the 
> system" which is just getting bigger/faster/smarter.   I don't mean to 
> project consciousness onto this amoeba-like emergent Leviathan 
> (Hobbes), just a higher-order of organization as alluded to in the 
> OOE/ALife work like this:
>
> Cultural Evolution and OOE 
> <https://openended.protolife.org/t/evolved-open-endedness-in-cultural-evolution/1422>
>
> OOE <https://openended.protolife.org/>
>
> Designing Computational Substrates using Open-Ended Evolution 
> <https://watermark.silverchair.com/isal_a_00294.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAs0wggLJBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggK6MIICtgIBADCCAq8GCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMXbd_0vI3nAzg9Tp-AgEQgIICgPPbNYo3j8us8tRa1uhLime9JEAh0_FdLiu_jgdernc7Phy1d93OmrA2MQBd1eDcP_HEI5rbhnaaY2eUDWoWsQJAVnT6vNL6GNzE3DZc8PmI0w2a4teNYxuWJhzf1Rid_FwKS-jyeGgYiMcVqhaaEUuN5vhAgH4LwXIBqhwOVNDYmSm3lYZW9eQYQ8wwGGdGB8vCxUCyBFPbralxNFBrqn6JAhkYp8HPfAF01r93Utznf5Xd2RHG5dSpKyRtaVFk-00zHIEEjbNu0DkZVBdLCx-xHpy7Dfywa7kKbB2YurtmwRfghu-eJPo_efWcIULbU7p9UQ4lOJypjzenJ4s-meCXS-SKV1zsoeiLEWpaQKr4BJWt2xhA0YLyh-oOhsq8QpQfZgXrOrTHAnbPjzFJRZZcOI-JZPQBVRr2fNMsyL5Lgo6_9VeA7QEXncfs8WnlqBOgTFM5nxwKdSJaKMB23oBCwcI4aCSE47oWxTmfmKDFpNQdvUPVuylumn8KOsuz4qHS8Yq89atYDBreYQaaEgJ6yIQteseEA4wdt7qehwfPpZi2cm18-nzngQDX8tdk0UQRKM6g0pJfx0Cgmq95Clqe8Fekd1QM4BUA1mJH-ZAQVCDascV294nTLIrXjaD-ZjeucmMSrVPsDnZdE0-Oa2nwRRASWO7s7xlX7HEqdZYRmb7NYvEh0Y71vO2HcgFEhOi-8w8l-kJIqzzzNu6vzDHShU6cYU4opilGsbKJjrqrNjE8ZWzoudu957bEuthyKDvGQ9ZGt_pUd2phCQXXKZrvmccyWdNo1W9OOl9iRkkZMu0TsmQaCxU1Iw6K5ElDYWzKbzb0mJ9y3ZtCfExgbKY>
>
>
> I think all of this entertwines/weaves with a couple of our other 
> threads here... I can barely keep up with reading (often skimming) 
> most of them, much less having deeper thoughts about them much less 
> doing significant analysis (re EricS acknowledgement) of any of it.
>
>
> On 1/21/22 9:56 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> It is unbelievable to me the resources Tesla is expending on machine 
>> learning and automatic driving.    They've transcended GPUs (12,000 
>> wasn't enough) and are designing their own chips for custom 
>> supercomputers now.
>>
>> https://youtu.be/j0z4FweCy4M?t=6324
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Gillian 
>> Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Friday, January 21, 2022 8:35 PM
>> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group 
>> <friam at redfish.com>
>> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Yeeah Coin Miners made it hard to get parts
>> https://www.windowscentral.com/roughly-25-graphics-cards-went-crypto-miners-and-speculators-first-quarter-2021-according-report
>>
>> TLDR: GPU's get used in a lot of places. I didn't know tesla used 
>> them for tensor processing. Or they needed tensor flow processing at 
>> all. Would that be for the self driving mode? Anyway: a big kvech in 
>> gaming cercles: no parts to get even /needed /part replacements since 
>> a lot is in the hands of crypto minners, or just available. I'll give 
>> this a bit of a bullwhip rating.
>>
>> https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/06/19/crypto-miners-are-probably-to-blame-for-the-graphics-chip-shortage 
>>
>> as well
>>
>>
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