The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday March 4th, 2023
AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) by Jan Sand
Several highly respected prominent thinkers such as Elon Musk and the English physicist Stephan Hawking have warned that the creation of AGI, artificial general intelligence, which can quickly self-mature to a powerful control of all human civilization to leave humanity helpless in its power, represents a danger to human civilization that is far greater than the threats of planetary global warming or the misuse of nuclear weaponry that can alter this planet so completely that humanity and much of other life cannot recover. Since this development remains within the future of possibly a few or even many decades ahead, its occurrence is still very theoretical and unresolved. Some digital experts have declared that they feel the huge advance of artificial superior intellect is so valuable and yet, controllable, that there is no real danger. But even in its current primitive state, it has occasionally provided solutions to difficult problems that were beyond the understanding of the experts in control. This is a clear demonstration that this area of research can present problems that lie beyond the control of the experts investigating them.
Technological advances throughout history have magnified the human powers of observation and strength and general capability immensely and quite frequently have initiated fundamental changes in the way people relate to each other and to the way human possibilities integrate with natural forces. This has provided opportunities for the human species to multiply and control wide fundamental relationships of the way all life on the planet deals with its opportunities and threats. But the huge negative consequences of these worldwide agendas with small if any understanding as to how the vast mosaic of the forces of nature and life on the planet are sensitive to immense violations of the necessary restrictions to enlarged human activities now endanger necessary fundamentals of planetary life.
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First Things #poem by Dr. Lawrence Nannery
“I see many voices rising with the sun
sharp spears of the sun ,undulating with coming freedom
mother was there during liberation
i will be there for the other liberation
a revolution of million voices
voices of children of song
children of the soil
children unborn ,children born”
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Nikolai Kondratiev: The Long Economic Cycles by Rene Wadlow
At a time when civil society voices in Russia are being increasingly restricted, and there are wide-spread arrests of intellectuals, it is inevitable that we think of the the repression of intellectuals by Stalin in the 1930s. Thus we recall Nikolai Kondratiev (also written as Kondratieff) born on 4 March 1892 and exicuted on 17 September 1938 as part of Stalin’s “Great Purge” of those who disagreed with him. Konratiev held that the 1929 “Great Depression” was a normal part of a long 30 to 60-year cycle and that there would be a return to capitalist investment linked to new technologies and the related need for capital. Stalin believed that the depression was a sign of the permanent collapse of the capitalist system which would be replaced by Communism. Academic debate was not the style of Stalin. Kondratiev who was already in prison for eight years was shot by a firing squad.
Kondratiev came from a peasant family. Nevertheless, he was able to enter St. Petersburg University to study economics where he specialized in agricultural production and agricultural export issues. A bright student, he was noticed by the leaders of the first post-Czarist government of 1917 and was asked to deal food supplies by the Provisional Government. He served as Deputy Minister of Supply in the very-short last round of Alexander Kerensky’s government.
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Ma-Siri & Alexa #54 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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