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A.     The “sadder but wiser” person carries the voice of experience, which is the beginning of true wisdom. B.     The reward for conformity is that everybody likes you except yourself. --- Rita Mae Brown C.     All public officials with essential life and death recognizance should take a professional competency test every five years. This includes judges and doctors at the minimum. AI engines assisting in any profession should also pass competency exams. Elected officials should take a mental acuity test before every election. D.     What do TikTok and Alzheimer's have in common? Both steal your identity. E.     A popular boss is not a boss. A respected boss gets things done. F.      One danger of published falsified research is that it poisons AI datasets, causing AI systems to propagate falsehoods as truth. As you know, AI doesn't know right from wrong.

When it comes to intelligence, what is beyond or a "corner" is not the best question to ask. Perhaps, to ask what the forms of intelligence there are is the better question to ask. Then, the reader can order them by perceived importance: above, beyond, significant, or irrelevant. Of the many forms of intelligence, we give a short list. Linguistic Intelligence - The ability to use language effectively, whether in writing, speaking, or understanding complex texts. Think poets, novelists, or orators like Shakespeare or Martin Luther King Jr. Logical-Mathematical Intelligence - Skill in reasoning, problem-solving, and working with numbers or abstract concepts. Mathematicians like Einstein or computer programmers excel here. Spatial Intelligence - The capacity to visualize and manipulate objects in space. Architects, artists like Picasso, or even pilots rely on this. Musical Intelligence - Sensitivity to rhythm, pitch, and melody, ...

The Origins of Impossible Problems Introduction. Impossible problems have always been a part of the landscape of human thought. They arise from various sources, often rooted in cognitive, logical, or structural limitations. Some problems are truly unsolvable due to fundamental constraints, while others only appear impossible because of human limitations in understanding, reasoning, or approach. In many situations, we make difficult problems impossible because of our limitations, psychological and otherwise. It is a curious thought problem to consider what sort of limitations AI will reveal when we give it truly difficult problems to solve. We must hope that we humans have not transferred our complete reliance and dependence to machine-learning tools beforehand. Below are key sources of seemingly impossible problems, along with examples and a few references to philosophical and scientific thought. Impossible Problems . To explore impossible problems, we must consider our systems fo...

ODD THOUGHTS FOR FRIDAY (3/21/25) A.     Murphy's Laws illustrate real-world extensions of Newton's Third Law* on action. While Newton's law focuses on a single, equal and opposite reaction, life often presents multiple, varied reactions to any action. Therefore, effective decision-making requires anticipating and mitigating potential negative consequences before acting. * “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” B.     What do modern physics (quantum theory) and creationism/religion have in common? Answer. Both use probability theory in an essential way to tell and then prove their story, one through the famous wave equation and the other through the unlikelihood of evolutionary events. While the physicists talk about wave-particle duality, theologists talk about a mind-spirit duality. Physicists talk about particle entanglement, while deists talk about kindred spirits. In the realm of spiritual connections, a concept often consider...