Qualia ProductionsLinks designed as unions of hearts and knots are shaped to symbolize the goal of improving social and societal relations into universal mutual compassion via interconnected “skin in the game” and “soul in the game”.
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Part 5 Making the ”Unity of Bliss” chainQualia Productions2020-07-31 | Links designed as unions of hearts and knots are shaped to symbolize the goal of improving social and societal relations into universal mutual compassion via interconnected “skin in the game” and “soul in the game”.
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qri.orgAnders Amelin - Gone but never forgottenQualia Productions2023-08-07 | My iPhone stores my memories. And creates nice little films about days to remember, events or different environments. Today, it is time to remember Anders a little extra. Time passes and some dates are harder to get through than others. The 7th of every month is the reminder of the time that has passed without Anders. Four months now. In this film, which was generated by the friendly intelligence/software in my phone, Anders is presented in different styles, serious, a little crazy, behind the scenes from our other films, practice before the real shooting etc.Anders Amelin Dissonant NothingQualia Productions2023-05-19 | "Dissonant nothing is the most horrible conscious state!" - Anders Amelin August 2, 2020Orcs or freedom? - Support Ukraine!Qualia Productions2022-12-10 | There is nothing in the laws of the universe which says that history has to repeat itself. But, as Albert Einstein remarked, only two things are infinite. The universe and human stupidity. And I am not so sure about the former.
Some people worry about the future consequences of artificial superintelligence. But maybe it is far more pertinent to worry about the current consequences of natural superstupidity. The kind which looks at history, picks the worst bits of it, and says “Let us do it again”. Or the kind which looks away and thinks that this is somebody else’s problem.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine, YaleCourses
Ukraine must have existed as a society and polity on 23 February 2022, else Ukrainians would not have collectively resisted Russian invasion the next day. What does it mean for a nation to exist? Timothy Snyder explores these and other questions in a very timely course.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz_1Mx1MaO6sw_ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- pixabay.comAre there similarities between crystals and states of mind?Qualia Productions2022-08-16 | Qualia Research Institute is working on the hypothesis that conscious mind states consist of topologically segmented electromagnetic energy states which are produced by the electrochemical activity of brain neurons.
In that model, states of consciousness, or “qualia”, are energy bundles which may grow and dissolve in a mathematically similar way to how mineral crystals grow and dissolve in magma. Magma behaves as a growth medium. Small changes in the composition and temperature of the magma can lead to big changes in the types and properties of the crystals which grow or dissolve in it.
The top face on the ruby crystals shown as an illustration gets re-shaped into a tip by growing out of existence as the temperature of the growth medium is progressively lowered. Growth inhibition effects are more pronounced at low temperatures than at high temperatures. Crystal complexity becomes higher as growth temperature decreases, but overall symmetry becomes lower.
The brain behaves as a growth medium for qualia. Qualia grow and dissolve many orders of magnitude faster than mineral crystals, but it is still a somewhat analogous process when viewed mathematically. In the brain, the low temperature crystallization conditions may mathematically correspond to a normal waking state, while the high temperature conditions correspond to an advanced meditation state.
In the brain it is small changes in things like neuromodulator molecule concentrations which lead to big changes in the types and properties of the qualia which grow and dissolve in the brain tissue medium. Psychedelic substances can drastically reshape qualia by interfering with their growth process.
Both mineral crystals and qualia have properties which can be mapped with the tools of mathematics. Please feel welcome to go to the QRI website and find out more!
Discovering the Mathematical Structure of Consciousness qri.org
Andrés Gómez Emilsson - Solving the Phenomenal Binding Problem: Topological Segmentation as the Correct Explanation Space youtu.be/g0YID6XV-PQ
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All ruby crystals shown in the video were grown by QRI advisors.Can topological segmentation model pleasure, pain, - and hardness?Qualia Productions2022-08-11 | Qualia Research Institute is working on the hypothesis that conscious mind states consist of topologically segmented electromagnetic energy states which are produced by the electrochemical activity of brain neurons.
When geologists searched for a relative hardness scale of minerals with enough increase in hardness at each step for easy distinction by a scratch test, the result was the Mohs scale. However, when measured on an absolute scale, the progression in hardness from talc to diamond turns out to be nonlinear. Diamond at Mohs 10 is actually several times harder than corundum at Mohs 9.
Biological evolution can be said to have “searched” for relative pain and pleasure scales where clearly subjectively distinguishable brain activity states can now be ordered by human psychologists on a relative scale in a similar way to the way human geologists put together the mineral hardness scale. Surprisingly, the absolute values of each step on the pleasure and pain scales are roughly similarly nonlinear as the mineral hardness scale. In line with QRI research, this could be because both the hardness of materials and the mental states of minds are brought about by structuring of the universal electromagnetic quantum field.
Experiences of pleasure and pain are examples of mind state properties on the valence axis, which forms a spectrum going from neutral towards increasingly negative experiences in one direction and towards increasingly positive experiences in the other direction. It is the fact that many degrees of positive and negative valence can “meld” in the same moment of experience which makes it possible for us to have generally intelligent common sense decision-making where we choose the best option among several conflicting alternatives.
But why does the valence scale appear to be nonlinear? In everyday life the range of valences is often limited and seems approximately linear, but if you happened to be stung by a bullet ant or got reunited with your long lost child, you’d be surprised by how incredibly intense some of the more uncommon valence states are, compared to what you would have guessed based on only ordinary everyday life.
The answer might be found in drawing a parallel with the much smaller topologically segmented electromagnetic energy states better known as atoms. Atoms can interconnect into solids, liquids or gases. How strongly atoms interconnect turns out to also be on a nonlinear scale. For solids, the strength with which the atoms are held together is reflected in the hardness. For gases, the strength with which the atoms are negatively held together is reflected in the pressure. Liquids are ”neutral” in that they have essentially no hardness and exert very little pressure in weightless conditions, although external forces can readily be transmitted through them.
Does the brain produce some mind states which are like liquids, some which are like solids, and some which are like gases? The gas-like states could put “pressure” on the liquid-like ones to make them feel negative. With positive valence, the liquid-like ones may “crystallize” into different topological geometries with several levels of “hardness”. The whole process being self-organizingly orchestrated by an interplay of neuro-modulatory molecule concentrations, sensory input, and the memory information stored in synaptic weights. ------------------------------------------------- Discovering the Mathematical Structure of Consciousness qri.org
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All jewelry shown in the video was created by QRI advisors.When Russia Invades - Transhumanist SatireQualia Productions2022-07-19 | Here we take a glance in an eastward direction in geopolitics, and in a past to future direction in time. Eventually it all comes down to intelligence, but the most difficult to improve aspect of intelligence is in the values and ethics department. -------------------------------------
Transcript: Russia invaded Eastern Sweden in 1808 but failed to capture Gotland. Strategically, the island of Gotland is to the Baltic Sea as Crimea is to the Black Sea. An unsuccessful Russian invasion took place here a couple of centuries ago. But will a future Russian invasion be equally unsuccessful?
- We have, in that direction – Finland… Estonia… Latvia… Lithuania… Russia… Poland… Sweden. - Vladimir Putin intends to change it into – Russia… Russia… Russia… Russia… Russia… Russia… Russia!
Russian troops came in on ships under false flag in April of 1808. No Swedish soldiers were on Gotland at the time. The Russians occupied the island without a fight. But the Swedes were quick to send troops from the mainland. Swedish soldiers arrived on this beach in May, and they outnumbered the Russians. Negotiations followed where the Russians decided to throw in the towel and go home. Without a fight. Their occupation of Gotland lasted 3 weeks.
However, in the Swedish mainland territories east of the Baltic Sea, the Russian armies outnumbered the Swedish ones. A third of Sweden was therefore lost to Russia. The Russian regime of today expects to pull off something similar in Ukraine, with the risk of precipitating World War 3. A possible Great Filter event from which civilization on Earth may be unable to recover. Perhaps declining into a “Dark Ages” of desperate poverty and warlord rule, from which only the still hypothetical future Martians might be able to rescue humanity.
A self-sustaining and highly governance capable civilization on Mars is worth investing in as a backup plan for humanity, but it may take longer to get that off the ground than technological singularity enthusiasts expect. In the next few years, the solution is to be found in the upgrading of intelligence. Both in developing artificial general intelligence and in understanding how the human mind works and how to best protect it from psychological warfare. For, while artillery can reduce entire cities to rubble, highly efficient future psychological warfare may shatter our very souls. ----------------------------
Thanks also to pixabay.comThe Master Ring of ConsciousnessQualia Productions2022-03-26 | A ring made of qualium and valencium joined by gold. Valence – Ruler of Qualia. The Master Ring of Consciousness. One ring to rule them all One ring to find them One ring to bring them all And in the brightness bind them Into mathematical order Where the possibilities lieEmergent Simplicity or A Toy Model of the 5-MeO-DMT Psychedelic EffectQualia Productions2022-03-26 | Please note that psychoactive substances should only be used where doing so is legal, and never without professional supervision.
Take a complex system, add one extra component to it, and in some cases the system then self-organizes a system-wide simple pattern.
Planet Earth is an example of a very complex system, which includes water and biosphere. If a certain amount of carbon dioxide were to be added to it, Earth would “tip” into being a drastically simpler system where neither life nor liquid water would exist. Temperature would still exist, although much more uniform and high than before.
A sober human brain is another example of a very complex system, which includes the experience of selfhood and agency. If a certain amount of 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyl tryptamine were to be added to it, the sober conscious brain activity would “tip” into being a drastically simpler system where neither selfhood nor agency would exist. Emotional valence would still exist, although much more uniform and high than before.
Emotional valence is a basic parameter of the mind, about which people of the early 21st century are as ignorant as people in the ancient world were about temperature. Is high temperature a supernatural property which emanates from the sun god, or is it a physics phenomenon? Is high valence a supernatural property which emanates from the biblical God, or is it a physics phenomenon?
In our toy model of emergent simplicity we use alignment of magnetic microstates in metal. This is almost but not quite entirely unlike that which goes on in the brain.
For our video about a toy model of neural annealing, please follow this link: youtu.be/tqRA2m9zlns
For a research paper on emergent simplicity of a magnetic state in a metal alloy, please follow this link: arxiv.org/abs/1302.0833
qri.orgThinking Like a Musical Instrument or Psychoactive Substances Give Access to the Nature of BrainsQualia Productions2022-01-21 | In this video we illustrate the similarity between the brain and a musical instrument. The brain tissue is represented by metal and the brain activity by sound. The effect of substances such as psychedelics and dissociatives is mimicked by heating and cooling the metal. The engineering term for such heat treatment of metal is “annealing”. What we demonstrate is a very simplified toy model but which can be surprisingly useful for understanding the overall type of system dynamics going on in brains.
The model is based on the fact that both sound and neuronal firing are examples of oscillatory activity which can have different frequency, amplitude, coherence, and damping. Hammering the metal represents the memory imprint made in the brain by our ongoing experiences. The sound pattern produced by the hammered metal contains complexity which corresponds to learning. But a side effect of the increased complexity is lower overall consonance of the oscillatory activity.
To stay healthy, the brain must periodically undergo what the Qualia Research Institute calls “neural annealing”. In a neural network model, this can be thought of as redistributing synaptic weights more globally across the connectome and thus make the learned information more harmoniously integrated and holistically retrievable. This normally happens during sleep but can become even more powerful with meditation and psychedelics.
In this demonstration where metal is annealed, it is the positions of the metal atoms which adjust themselves so that the entire piece of metal becomes a better conductor of sound. It may seem strange that this can happen, but neither the metal nor the brain is fundamentally magical. Both cases involve self-organizing system dynamics.
In the case of the brain, the activity is accompanied by conscious experiences. The Qualia Research Institute works under the assumption that these are not magical either but can be modeled mathematically in a similar way to chemistry and physics. It is then necessary to test how measurements of brain activity correlate with conscious experiences not only during sober waking life but also under conditions which are very different.
The QRI is building a new paradigm for understanding the mind and the brain. With a focus on psychedelics and other mental state altering methods as scientific research tools and candidates for use in next-generation psychiatric- and pain treatments. We are a small upstart group with opportunities for volunteers and donors to get involved. If you are interested in learning more, please contact us via this e-mail address: hello@qri.org qri.org
Thanks to Pixabay for all images and videos that are not our own: pixabay.comNatural Stupidity & the Fermi Paradox or The Tyranny of the Intentional Object -Transhumanist SatireQualia Productions2021-12-29 | Albert Einstein is quoted as having remarked: Only two things are infinite. The universe and human stupidity. And I’m not so sure about the former.
Is Artificial Intelligence really no match for Natural Stupidity?
Maybe “Natural Stupidity”, or “NS”, is not limited to humans but is a general feature of minds produced by Darwinian evolution. Humans have managed to engineer so called Artificial Intelligence, or “AI”, but this is really just a buzzword for advanced statistical methods. Perhaps the NS of Darwinian life prevents true AI from being developed anywhere in the universe. Civilizations running on only NS would not be expected to become competent enough for interstellar travel. A possible solution to the Fermi Paradox.
Or, could it be possible that a small group of technology entrepreneurs are in fact reverse-engineering how the conscious intelligence of brains is actually produced? If so, it would seem too good to be true. But is it nonetheless happening, under the radar of the entire establishments of artificial intelligence developers, neuroscientists, and philosophers of mind?
Special thanks also to Marina Thorborg for allowing us to include her photographs of propaganda posters from the Mao era of China.
Quotes from: Albert Einstein, John Kenneth Galbraith, Karl Marx, Karl Liebknecht, Douglas Adams, Scott Adams.Christmas Greetings 2021 from Maggie & AndersQualia Productions2021-12-05 | Musik: We Wish You a Merry Christmas av Twin Musicom licensieras enligt licensen Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.orgQRI - Pioneers of Mind TechnologyQualia Productions2020-12-25 | The Qualia Research Institute is a newly formed group of entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers on a mission to solve mental health from first principles of physics, and turn psychology into a discipline built on mathematical modelling of key mental state properties and their inter-relations. The QRI team is spearheading the formulation of testable hypotheses about universal structural properties of conscious experience. They are the world‘s first movers in formulating hypotheses about the valence experience of “good or bad” at the right level of description, which is necessary for testability. The QRI is also developing testable models of the fractal nature and wave harmonics of neural activity self-organization. The goal is to lead us into The Future of Mental Health: Personalized Harmonic Re-Tuning. Partnerships with sponsors and investors are needed for this to become reality. This video kicks off the QRI fundraising campaign of 2021. Will you join?
Thanks and credit to: - Slides from the presentation on the Symmetry Theory of Valence (STV) (1:34) by Andrés Gómez Emilsson from the Qualia Research Institute to Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris and his team at The Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London. - Tracer Replication Tool (0:44) by Lawrence Wu and the QRI team. - Hyperbolic QRI Logotype (3:33) by Hunter Meyer. - Illustration "Paradise Engineering" (4:20) by Wendi Yan. - A lot of images and videos from Pixabay.com - Stunning free images & royalty free stock. - Information and images from Wikipedia and NASA (2:57).Christmas greetings 2020Qualia Productions2020-12-04 | As we celebrate Christmas and look back on the year 2020, we may be excused for thinking quite a bit about disease and suffering. This does sadly have great relevance, but here at QRI Sweden we feel confident that further into the future there will be much more positive and indeed world-improving events which will overshadow even the covid pandemic, awful as it is. High on our list of candidates for these are the successes that the Qualia Research Institute has achieved during the year. The QRI has established itself as a valuable partner in collaboration and networking with key players in the human endeavor to at last begin to get a grip on the fundamentals of the “final frontier” compared with which even outer space can seem to pale: understanding minds.
QRI Sweden wishes everyone a most blissful Christmas and a healthy and harmonious new year. Maggie & Anders. qualiaresearchinstitute.org
Official Christmas present of the year as designated by the Swedish Trade Association. https://hui.se/stormkoket-ar-arets-julklapp-2020/
Music: Waltz of the Flowers (by Tchaikovsky), The Nutcracker, (YouTube audio library, free license) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_NutcrackerPart 6. Making The “Dual Element” silver pendantQualia Productions2020-09-12 | The “Dual Element” silver pendant symbolizes the pioneering work done by the Qualia Research Institute (QRI) in building a science of consciousness. The QRI aims to develop a science of consciousness with the same exactness as we currently have in chemistry. Chemistry can explain why matter has the triple aspect of being able to exist as either a solid, a liquid, or a gas. A future science of consciousness should likewise be able to explain why matter has the dual aspect of containing either conscious or nonconscious information. Before the elements and mathematics of chemistry had been discovered, there was the proto-science of alchemy. Silver was not known by the alchemists to be an element, but it was assumed to be coupled with the Moon. The psyche was also thought to be connected with the Moon. In this video we show how the alchemy inspired “Dual Element” pendant is made out of pure silver with a touch of gold. The background music is Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.
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qri.orgPart 4 Making the ”Entropy Contrast” pendantQualia Productions2020-07-31 | The high-entropy alloy nuggets are set as “stones” in low-entropy fine silver to yield a maximal contrast in metallic material properties combined into this jewelry piece.
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qri.orgPart 3 High Entropy Alloy nugget manufactureQualia Productions2020-07-31 | A combustion synthesis approach produces dramatic changes in enthalpy and entropy, resulting in jewelry-sized nuggets of experimental high-entropy alloy, “HEA”.
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qri.orgPart 1 Silver wire from silver nitrateQualia Productions2020-07-31 | Laboratory reagent silver nitrate well past the expiration date gets recycled into silver wire for making jewelry chains.
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qri.orgThe seven seals of security or Safety through uncertainty - Transhumanist SatireQualia Productions2020-01-05 | An intellectual twister for mental annealing in the right set and setting. Mildly satirically touching on a fixer-upper of a species: humans. Likeness between members of it and characters depicted may not be accidental. The final answer is demonstrably 42 but the question still up in the air or blowing in the wind of a realm beyond the maps provided by contemporary science and religion. Some possible directions of surprising reflection included: What would be the downside of making Elon Musk more predictable? Is there a connection between safety and consciousness? Is there more to Schelling Points than usually assumed? Could a creative mathematician like Ben Goertzel tell the difference between directed panspermia and morphic resonance by analyzing patterns in the genetic code?
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goertzel.orgEngagement in Paradise - Transhumanist SatireQualia Productions2019-11-20 | See the making of our engagement rings which we wore for the first time on November 19th, 2019, in the Swedish nature reserve “Paradiset”. Yes, that does mean “paradise”. The right organization for a future civilization could create a paradise for all. The wrong one could become “The Poorhouse 2.0”. Smart moves made now may turn out to make all the difference. We are convinced that one of those moves is to develop physics models of emotional wellbeing and the state space of consciousness. Once that has been achieved we are set to get married!
Credits Music: Composer Åke Wassing - Se nu tittar lilla solen in igen, at the piano August LinnmanSummer in Sweden Stockholm 2019Qualia Productions2019-10-25 | ...Winter in Sweden Stockholm 2019Qualia Productions2019-10-25 | ...Spring in Sweden Stockholm 2019Qualia Productions2019-10-25 | ...Bergius Botanic Garden 2019Qualia Productions2019-10-25 | A visit to the Bergius Botanic Garden. Ideally situated at Brunnsviken, an inlet of the Baltic Sea, the garden is part of the city’s national park, protected by law to preserve natural and cultural values for the future.
The primary objective of the Bergius Botanic Garden is to support teaching and research about plant diversity, but the garden is also a recreational spot and a source of botanical knowledge for all its visitors. With a history stretching back to the 18th century, the garden is today owned and managed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Stockholm University.Autumn in Sweden Stockholm 2019Qualia Productions2019-10-21 | Memories from Abbe and Britta's hikes in the forests in the Stockholm area and in the Tyresta National Park. This autumn we found plenty of mushrooms.Qualia or When A.I. equals Advanced Incompetence - Transhumanist SatireQualia Productions2019-10-09 | We share the red pill as we move on to philosopher of mind David Chalmers’ “hard problem”: qualia. Here we enter a territory of incompetence much more grandiose than the inability to protect the environment or to figure out how to align social interactions.
Subjective experiential mental function is known as consciousness or sentience. The various conscious experiential states are called “qualia”. Consciousness is, by definition, the only type of thing one can ever experience, yet it is mostly ignored by science, with excuses like “that which is subjective cannot be objectively studied”. However, when someone studies anything, they make use of their subjectivity. Notably, the most important property of experience, “valence”, or how good or bad something feels, can be placed on an axis from negative to positive. Almost but not quite entirely unlike a thermometer scale.
The Qualia Research Institute, the QRI, is a newly formed group of people in the United States. A group starting to develop ways to put degree numbers on how enjoyable or painful qualia are.They expect to eventually produce entire “weather maps” of conscious mental states for all entities. A map with no features on it at all, may correspond to a hypothetical type of intellect known as a philosophical zombie. Just how intelligent such an entity can ever be is completely unknown in 2019. That’s because the scientific study of how consciousness arises is still on the same primitive level as the sciences of astronomy and chemistry were, hundreds of years ago. Sciences then also known as astrology and alchemy.
qri.orgMinnesarkivet-Gotland 15-22 juni 2019Qualia Productions2019-06-28 | Sommarsemester midsommarveckan 15-22 juni 2019. En magisk vecka med naturupplevelser utöver det vanliga.Part 3. Robot Feminine Submission or Simulated Servitude - Transhumanist SatireQualia Productions2019-06-28 | Might it still be possible there won’t be any new social dilemmas after all? Given that robot brains will be “wired” to actually prefer subservience and never seek social esteem for themselves? On more reflection however, this is going to be just like the role of women in most societies over most of history. It was as “natural” for women to conform to the wishes of men as it is for people today to conform to the agendas of corporations and nations. We simply have to conform in order to make a living. Autonomy and free choice are no absolutes.
Creative solutions to these thorny issues are most successful in the form of comedy, such as the sentient animal in Douglas Adam’s “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”. The animal is genetically engineered to have as her final goal to become the dish of the day. It may be viewed as a parody on Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”, where all societal problems have been solved by technocrats who allocate embryos to a variety of specialized artificial wombs, to produce an optimal mix of distinct categories of workers and managers. The babies are then collectively reared under exact protocols to give them the suitable attitudes for optimal performance as everything from janitor to CEO. Pleasure-inducing drugs are given as a reward for good behavior…
Thanks to Pixabay for all pictures that are not our own: pixabay.comPart 2.The Dilemma: Silicon is not real carbon or Follow the Money & the Power- Transhumanist SatireQualia Productions2019-05-23 | ”But, we were only going to give you an award!” An anonymous Swedish transhumanist of our acquaintance came up with the idea of awarding the first aligned human level AI with a gold medal in the spirit of the Nobel Prize. If our descendants become an upgraded form of human mind and body, the first one among them should go down in history more than the teams that did the necessary engineering. The initiative was forwarded by us to a number of AI alignment experts. This sort of thing comes quite naturally to Swedes, obsessed as they are with prizes as emotional relief from that bitter arctic cold. There is a Royal Academy for this purpose, severely dysfunctional but nonetheless able to award Bob Dylan with the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature. “How many roads…” Our benefactor imagined the Nobel Peace Prize as the inspiration more than that for Literature. Granted, it would be quite impressive if an AI wrote something like “Moby Dick”, but what we’d like here is a 100% artificially embodied person capable and committed to improving humanity on a societal level with empathy as the guiding star. It would thus take much more than fake it till you make it on some chat channel, as in the classical “Turing-test” from 1950. The transhumanist spirit of it instead requires our historic robot to genuinely be a good person, one who fully understands the value of uncertainty. Someone the likes of whom are currently all too rare in this world. None of the experts were interested, however. Nick Bostrom instead discouraged the idea on the grounds that future intelligent AI might not appreciate tokens of social esteem. Come to think of it, neither did Bob Dylan when he got the Nobel Prize in Literature…
Thanks to Pixabay for all pictures that are not our own: pixabay.comPart 1. The Humanitarian Superpower or Sweden as an Existential Risk - Transhumanist SatireQualia Productions2019-05-07 | Among ethnic stereotypes in the USA, there is one about Chinese being smart. And one about Swedes being dense. Chinese immigrants in the USA during the 19th century were subjected to discriminatory legislation. Swedish immigrants were hired as maids. If we are anything to go by, we may confirm that Swedes indeed are slow on the uptake and that China seems to act with lightning speed on everything except privacy. But will that remain so forever?
Could people from Sweden precipitate an existential risk for the political leadership of China? An “existential risk” is a risk of going extinct. Is there any way such a thing might occur? It would have to involve the development of some instrument of power capable of conferring as much decisive strategic advantage as the first nuclear weapons did for the USA in the 1940’s, and that Swedes would be somehow involved. Impossible?
-I am Britta. -And I am Abbe. We are two ordinary Swedish administrators who had very little insight into high technology. But then we started wondering how accelerating technological development is going to impact on society. So we decided to make some videos inspired by this book, which is authored by another Swede. One who is a futurist scenarios analyst. We chose to do this because of our commitment to the Arch Mission Foundation, which seeks to preserve and disseminate humanity’s most important information across time and space.
Thanks to Pixabay for all pictures that are not our own: pixabay.comDel 3. Det tredje genuset eller Simulerad undergivenhet - Forts från del 2 - Transhumanistisk satirQualia Productions2019-05-07 | Del 3 i filmserien: Superintelligens eller Fattighuset 2.0 Det tredje genuset eller simulerad undergivenhet
Denna film är direkt fortsättning på del 2 "Följ Pengarna och makten". Men tänk om det ändå inte blir ett dilemma med människoliknande robotars förslavning? Man lovar nämligen också att man kommer att designa robotarnas hjärnor så att de helt enkelt kommer att vara mentalt förprogrammerade som slavar. Vid närmare eftertanke visar det sig emellertid att detta är exakt så som kvinnoförtryck utövats i de flesta samhällen under långa perioder av historien. Det var lika ”naturligt” för kvinnor att anpassa sig till männens viljor, som det är för de flesta människor idag att anpassa sig till agendorna hos bolag och stater.
Inom science-fiction-komedins värld finns något liknande i form av kossan som ville bli uppäten, i boken ”Restaurangen vid slutet av universum” av Douglas Adams. Djuret rekommenderar sin möra bakdel som dagens rätt och lovar att slakta sig själv på ett humant sätt. Denna genmodifierade romanfigur kan uppfattas som en parodi på det kastsystem som skildras i Aldous Huxleys ”Sköna Nya Värld”.
Tack till Pixabay för alla bilder som inte är våra egna: pixabay.comDel 2. Dilemmat: Kisel är inte riktigt kol eller Följ pengarna och makten - Transhumanistisk satirQualia Productions2019-04-29 | Del 2 i serien Superintelligens eller Fattighuset 2.0, svensk speaker Dilemmat: kisel är inte riktigt kol eller Följ pengarna och makten
Men, vi skulle ju bara ge dig en utmärkelse!” Vi fick möjlighet att känna de stora AI-experterna på pulsen genom ett spralligt initiativ från en anonym svensk donator som gillar visionen att våra ättlingar kan komma att bli en uppgraderad intelligensform. Varför inte dela ut en prissumma och en guldmedalj till den första robot som klarar av den avancerade mentala uppgiften att vara en inpassad människa med full intelligens, handlingskraft och empati?
Det faller sig ju så naturligt i Sverige, detta arktiska skitland besatt av priser. Med en numera (2019) havererad kunglig akademi som år 2016 ännu var funktionell nog för att dela ut nobelpriset i litteratur till musikern Bob Dylan. ”How many roads…”
Tack till Pixabay för alla bilder som inte är våra egna: pixabay.comQualia Productions The 2018 memorial archiveQualia Productions2019-03-05 | This is our story in picture and film of the year that went by. The 2018 memorial archive for all future historians to take part of. High valence and strong qualia.
Detta är vår berättelse i bild och film om året som gick. 2018-års minnesarkiv för alla framtida historiker att ta del av. Hög valens och stark qualia.Del 1. Den humanitära stormakten eller Sverige som existentiell risk - Transhumanistisk satirQualia Productions2019-02-12 | Bland etniska stereotyper i USA finns en om att kineser är smarta. Och en om att svenskar är korkade. I USA utsattes kinesiska invandrare under 1800-talet för diskriminerande lagstiftning. Svenskarna anställdes som hembiträden. Om vi ska utgå från oss själva kan vi bekräfta att svenskar faktiskt har ganska mycket tomrum i huvudet, och vi kan även se att Kina sopar banan med allt och alla hela tiden. Men, kommer det att vara så i all evighet? Skulle personer från Sverige kunna utgöra en existentiell risk för Kinas politiska ledning? Med existentiell risk menas en risk att försvinna. Finns det något sätt som det skulle kunna hända på? Det skulle förutsätta att det kommer att utvecklas något maktmedel som ger minst lika stort strategiskt övertag över resten av världen som de första kärnvapnen gjorde för USA på 1940-talet, och att svenskar skulle komma att vara inblandade. Omöjligt? -Jag är Britta. -Och jag är Abbe. Vi är två ordinära svenska administratörer som inte hade särskilt mycket koll på högteknologi. Men sedan bestämde vi oss för att göra en film om den här boken, som är skriven av en annan svensk. En som är framtidsanalytiker. Vi valde boken på grund av vårt engagemang i stiftelsen Arch Mission Foundation. Den stiftelsen har till uppgift att bevara all kunskap åt eftervärlden miljarder år in i framtiden. ----------------------
Tack till Pixabay för alla bilder som inte är våra egna: pixabay.comStjärnresan eller Avstånd i rymden - Inom rymdfarten är alla siffror motbjudandeQualia Productions2018-11-08 | Har du någon gång funderat över avstånden i rymden. Hur långt det är till närmsta stjärna? Hur många planeter det finns i vintergatan? Hur stor är solen i jämförelse med andra stjärnor? Vi undrade också, och tog reda på hur det är. Ibland blir faktiskt svaret 42 men det finns även andra mer motbjudande siffror. Häng med på vår semester genom Sverige så ska vi ta dig på en annorlunda Stjärnresa. Det började som en idé och slutade i en filmtrilogi.
Del 1 På hemmaplan Del 2 På väg Del 3 To Stars end and beyondDel 1 - Stjärnresan eller Avstånd i rymdenQualia Productions2018-11-08 | Qualia Productions presenterar: Stjärnresan eller "Inom rymdfarten är alla siffror motbjudande" som Slartibartfast sa i Liftarens guide till galaxen av Douglas Adams. En stjärnspäckad trilogi med hiskeliga avstånd.
Här börjar vårt filmäventyr då vi lär oss filma som ett proffs med mobilen efter att ha gått en onlinekurs hos Stockholm PixelHouse. Vi valde att göra en svensk version av filmtemat ”How far is the nearest star” från Cody´s Lab fast vi gjorde om det i en annan skala. I vår skalmodell är jorden stor som ett sandkorn och solen är som en ärta. Hela vårt solsystem får plats på en fotbollsplan och Nasas Voyager 1 och 2 hamnar strax utanför planen. Ett ljusår är i vår modell 50 kilometer. För att komma till den närmaste stjärnan måste vi åka 21 mil. Vi startar i Stockholm och hamnar då i Kumla. Och på den vägen är det, från plats till plats. Vi kommer till vackra platser och annorlunda sevärdheter på vår färd genom Sverige till Bohuslän.
Denna första del visar hur allting startade, våra förberedelser och utplaceringen av hela vårt solsystem längs med en fotbollsplan.
Del 1 På hemmaplan - Hur hamnade vi här? - En näve sand - Paradiset, födelseplats för en stjärnidé - Cody, En inspirerande YouTuber - Stjärnskott - Semesterplanering
Här är en länk till vår inspiratör och YuoTuber Cod'ysLab : youtube.com/channel/UCu6mSoMNzHQiBIOCkHUa2AwDel 2 - Stjärnresan eller Avstånd i rymdenQualia Productions2018-11-08 | Här är del 2 i vår filmtrilogi. I del 1 visade vi hur allt började och placerade ut vårt solsystem längs med en fotbollsplan. Nu i del 2 är det dags att resa iväg på semester från Stockholm och vår närmsta stjärna Proxima Centauri kommer hamna i Kumla enligt vår skalmodell av avstånden i rymden.
I Kumla besöker vi Kvartorpshögen som är Sveriges största industriminne och består av ungefär 35 miljoner kubikmeter slagg från tidig oljeskifferindustri, och med konstprojektet Konst på hög, utnämnd till Sveriges märkligaste sevärdhet. Till toppen leder ”Trappan”, som ingår i konstsamlingen, med sina 427 trappsteg och är ett populärt träningsställe. Sedan tar vi oss vidare till Alpha Centauri A och B på en plats nära Kumla Kriminalvårds anstalt, som för övrigt har 420 platser. Sen går färden vidare till Göta kanal där vi placerar Barnards stjärna.
Nästa etappmål är dubbelstjärnan Sirius A och B som hamnar i Uddevalla, närmare bestämt vid Kurörds skalbankar, ett naturreservat som består av snäck- och musselskal. Efter många många mil till kommer vi till dubbelstjärnan Procyon A och B som hamnar vid Haftstensklippan med vidunderlig utsikt och sist men inte minst placerar vi ut stjärnan Vega. Där får vi vara med om en fantastisk golfprestation på Orust golfklubb i Morlanda.
Häng med på vår resa!
Del 2 På väg - Trappan till Yggdrasil - En fängslande inrättning - Baltzars ränna - Skalbolagsbanken - Höghöjdsfika - Hole in one utan hålDel 3 - Stjärnresan eller Avstånd i rymdenQualia Productions2018-11-08 | Nu har vi kommit fram till 3:e och sista delen i vår filmtrilogi. I del 1 visade vi hur allt började och placerade ut vårt solsystem längs med en fotbollsplan. I del 2 startar vi vår resa och placerar ut stjärnor vid vackra platser och speciella sevärdheter i Sverige. Denna del har vi tillägnat vår favoritkomiker Douglas Adams genom att placera ut 3 viktiga stjärnor som figurerar i hans böcker.
Det är Arcturus som är känd som hemvist för den Arcturiska megaåsnan som blev omkull pratad av att Djupa Tanken. Den placerar vi i Barrevik på västra Orust. Nästa stjärna på tur är Ursa Minor Beta där förlaget som ger ut Liftarens Guide till galaxen ligger. Nu räcker inte Sverige till längre så behöver en båt för att korsa Atlanten på längden för att komma dit. Vi hamnar då i Argentina.
Sist men verkligen inte minst är Betelgeuse. Från den stjärnan kommer Ford Prefect, Artur Dents vän och följeslagare på alla äventyr i rymden. För att nå den stjärnan måste vi korsa hela stilla havet, för att slutligen hamna i Peking i Kina. I vår skalmodell där solen är som en ärta är Betelgeuse stor som en luftballong.
Där tar vår resa slut men om vi ändå vill fortsätta till Trantor i vintergatans centrum och det supermassiva svarta hålet måste vi resa ca 37 varv runt jorden. Och vill vi ta oss till Terminus på andra sidan galaxen blir det 100 varv till runt jorden. Dessa planeter finns inte på riktigt, de är från Stiftelse-trilogin, av vår favoritförfattare Isaac Asimov, men det är lika långt för det. Till sist måste vi nämna att dessa böcker faktiskt ligger i handskfacket på Elon Musk Tesla Roadster som han skickade ut i rymden så planeterna befinner sig bokstavligt i rymden.
Del 3 To Stars end and beyond - Blåsningen - Spräckt budget - Internationellt vatten (glöm inte handduken) - Trantor och Terminus - Adjöss och tack för ossPart three - The Star Trip or Distance in spaceQualia Productions2018-11-08 | This is part 3 in the trilogy. It is dedicated to our favorite comedian, Douglas Adams. We place 3 stars of Hitch Hiker’s Guide fame. Closest to Earth is Arcturus, known for the Arcturian mega-donkey which got its’ legs talked off by Deep Thought. Then comes Ursa Minor Beta, home of the company publishing the Hitch Hiker’s Guide. Here, Sweden is no longer big enough as we’d need a ship to take us all the way along the Atlantic Ocean to Argentina.
Last but certainly not least is Betelgeuse. From its’ system came Ford Prefect, Arthur Dent’s companion during improbable adventures in space. To reach it we must keep going from Argentina all the way across the Pacific Ocean to Beijing, China. Appropriately the world’s number one country houses the model’s biggest star. In the model where our sun is the size of a pea, Betelgeuse has a diameter of around ten meters, the size of a hot air balloon.
That wraps up our star trip, but if we were to keep going all the way to Trantor at the center of the Milky Way, we’d have to circumnavigate the Earth 37 times. To reach Terminus, at the “other end” of the galaxy, add another 100 laps. These places are fictional planets featured in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy. Fictional or not, it would take quite an effort to get there. Actually, the fiction itself is in space in the form of a copy of “Foundation” laser-written into a disc of silica glass. It hitched a ride with Starman and Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster launched on the first test flight of the Falcon Heavy.
Part 3: To Star’s End and beyond - Inflation - Busted budget - International waters (don’t forget your towel) - Trantor and Terminus - So long and thanks for all…Part two - The Star Trip or Distance in spaceQualia Productions2018-11-08 | Here comes part two. In part one we showed how it all started and how we got the solar system model lined up alongside a soccer field in South Stockholm. Now it’s time to go on a vacation trip by car from Stockholm towards West Sweden.
Our nearest star, Proxima Centauri, finds a location at the top of Kvarntorp Mound which is a 35 million cubic meter heap of shale residue remaining after oil extraction and recently designated as the biggest industrial landmark in Sweden. The mound has been turned into a sculpture park voted to be the most singular sight in the country. The 427-step wooden staircase leading towards the top is itself one of the artworks and has become a popular spot for exercise.
After Proxima it’s on to Alpha Centauri A and B on location as close as legally possible to the “Kumla” maximum security prison housing up to 420 inmates. Further on west of Kumla the highway crosses the idyllic waterway “Göta Kanal”. Right next to that intersection is our location for the red dwarf Barnard’s Star.
Our next pick is not the closest dwarf after Barnard’s Star, for there are several and all of them quite dim. Instead we move on to the doublet Sirius A and B, which is the brightest star in the skies of Earth. Location for it is a protected ice age relic: the shell banks at Kuröd in the town of Uddevalla. At significant distance on from Sirius we come to another bright double star, Procyon, placed on the scenic view point “Hafstensklippan”.
The last one in this part is Vega, a bright star very visible from Sweden since it sits near the Earth’s north celestial pole. A most skillful golf strike accompanies this one, and we express our gratitude to the golf club in Morlanda on Orust Island for going that extra light year to assist us.
Join us on our trip!
Part 2 On the Road - Stairway to Yggdrasil - Imprisonment - Canal of the Goths - Shell company bank - High elevation fika - Hole in one without the holePart one – The Star Trip or Distance in spaceQualia Productions2018-11-08 | Qualia Productions presents: The Star Trip -or- “ In space travel all the numbers are awful” - Slartibartfast in the Hitch Hiker’s Guide by Douglas Adams. A star-studded trilogy with horrifying distances.
Here our space adventure starts as we slowly try to learn how to film ”like a pro” with our phones. We did a Swedish version of the video "How Far is the Nearest Star" from the youtube channel Cody’s Lab. The model of the sun is the size of a pea and that of the Earth the size of a small sand grain. Our entire solar system can be lined up alongside a soccer field. The NASA Voyager probes are off the field but just by a few meters. One light year equals 50 kilometers. It then takes 210 km to get to the nearest star. With a starting point at the soccer field in southern Stockholm, this brings us to the vicinity of Kumla. As we keep going to more distant stars, we encounter interesting sights and surprise events along the way to and in Sweden’s westernmost province, Bohuslän.
This first part shows how it all started, our preparations, and the placing of our solar system model along a soccer field.
Part 1 Home Turf
-What brought us here? -A handful of sand -Paradise, birthplace of a starry idea -Cody, an inspiring youtuber -Star shot -Vacation planning
Here is a link to our inspirer, Cody’sLab : youtube.com/channel/UCu6mSoMNzHQiBIOCkHUa2AwJourney to the Stars - Or - In space travel all the numbers are awfulQualia Productions2018-11-08 | Have you ever wondered about the distances in space? How far away the nearest star is? How many planets there are in the Milky Way? How big the Sun is compared with other stars? We were wondering, too, and started using a well-known search engine. In some cases the answer turned out to be 42, but there are also other, more awful, numbers. Join us on our trip across Sweden, where we give you a convoluted tour among some stars both near and far. It started as an idea and developed into a film trilogy.
Qualia Productions presents: Journey to the Stars -or- In space travel all the numbers are awful. Part one – Home Turf Part two – On the Road Part three – To Star’s End and Beyond.Stjärnresan eller Avstånd i rymden - KapitelstartQualia Productions2018-10-02 | Stjärnresan eller "Inom rymdfarten är alla siffror motbjudande" som Slartibartfast sa i Liftarens guide till galaxen av Douglas Adams.
En stjärnspäckad trilogi med hiskeliga avstånd.
Har du någon gång funderat över avstånden i rymden. Hur långt det är till närmsta stjärna? Hur många planeter det finns i vintergatan? Hur stor är solen i jämförelse med andra stjärnor? Vi undrade också, och tog reda på hur det är. Ibland blir faktiskt svaret 42 men det finns även andra mer motbjudande siffror. Häng med på vår semester genom Sverige så ska vi ta dig på en annorlunda Stjärnresa. Det började som en idé och slutade i en filmtrilogi.
Del 1 På hemmaplan Del 2 På väg Del 3 To Stars end and beyond