ChatGPT reaches 100 million users two months after launch. It had about 590m visits in January from 100 million unique visitors, according to analysis by data firm Similarweb.

Hut (Roman Zimbelmann): Training nanoGPT on my Journal. I'm looking into building a helpful chat bot that runs 100% offline, purely on the CPU of my 7-year-old laptop. (more)

Judea Pearl (born September 4, 1936) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks (see the article on belief propagation). He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models (see article on causality). In 2011, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded Pearl with the Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, "for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning".[1][3][4][5] He is the author of several books, including the technical Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference, and The Book of Why, a book on causality aimed at the general public. Judea Pearl is the father of journalist Daniel Pearl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_Pearl

KHole Report 5 (Aug'2015) on Doubt http://khole.net/issues/05/ (more)

A protocol invented by Robin Sloan. (more)

Yuval Noah Harari (Hebrew: יובל נח הררי [juˈval ˈnoaχ haˈʁaʁi]; born 1976) is an Israeli historian and professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1] He is the author of the popular science bestsellers Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014), Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2016), and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018). His writings examine free will, consciousness, intelligence, happiness, and suffering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Noah_Harari

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.[4] James is considered to be a leading thinker of the late 19th century, one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the "Father of American psychology".[5][6][7] Along with Charles S Peirce, James established the philosophical school known as pragmatism, and is also cited as one of the founders of functional psychology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James

Integrated information theory (IIT) attempts to provide a framework capable of explaining why some physical systems (such as human brains) are conscious, why they feel the particular way they do in particular states (e.g. why our visual field appears extended when we gaze out at the night sky), and what it would take for other physical systems to be conscious (Are other animals conscious? Might the whole Universe be?). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory Espoused by Erik Hoel. (more)

CLA is one of several futures techniques used as a means to inquire into the causes of social phenomena and to generate a set of forecasts as to the future course of the phenomena. As a theory, CLA seeks to integrate empiricist, interpretive, critical and action learning modes of knowing (loosely, science, social science, philosophy and mythology). As a method, its utility is not in predicting the future but in creating transformative spaces for the creation of alternative futures. It is also likely to be of use in developing more effective - deeper, inclusive, longer term - policy. (more)

Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. It is a subject of much research in philosophy of mind, psychology, NeuroScience, and Cognitive Science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness

"normal" waking/active mind? see Consciousness (more)

Erik Hoel: Your Book Review: The Dawn Of Everything. ON ROUSSEAU, ESSAY CONTESTS, POLITICAL MOTIVATIONS FOR REVISITING THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION, AND THE BOOK IS INTRODUCED (more)

Erik Hoel: INTRODUCING: The World Behind the World. What do you give away, when you write a book? What piece of yourself are you carving off, I mean? (more)

Erik Hoel: When video game addiction strikes. In college I played World of Warcraft too—my first semester I spent way too much time on it, and I too would dream of it, occasionally. We were both inside the supersensorium. And by “supersensorium” I mean the entertainment analog to a “supermarket” with all its conveniences and stocked shelves. (more)

5th-Generation (business) Management - responding to COVID-19 and Great Weirding) - see (2020-09-25) Rao Fifth Generation Management - unsolved - business agility? (more)

see Strategic Agility, Agile Product Development. 5GM?

3rd-Generation (business) Management - for Industrial-Age/Old Economy/command-and-control - see (2020-09-25) Rao Fifth Generation Management

Shareholder value is a business term, sometimes phrased as shareholder value maximization. It became prominent during the 1980s and 1990s along with the management principle value-based management or "managing for value". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_value (more)

Alexa in Senior Housing, incl Aging in Place (more)

GoogleAssistant in Senior Housing, incl Aging in Place (more)