Joseph Voros
@TheVoroscope
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Physicist→Futurist. Strategic Foresight: Scanner, Researcher, Analyst, Consultant, Educator, Facilitator, Speaker • Various Adjunct & other positions
Gone from here. I now post at:
Joined February 2010
And, therefore, we find ourselves hurtling into the Sloppocalypse.
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Tonight two ideas collided in my head - @doctorow's ensh!tt!fication and AI slop - which leads to ensloppification. Now I see that @latentgravity had the same idea a few months back. Rats. But, this means we are now in the Ensloppocene - the Era of (AI-)Ensloppified Everything.
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The last formal presentation I made at @Swinburne a week before COVID hit (& the subsequent "COVID redundancies" bit). The core message of seeking digital privacy in the "Surveillocene" (the era of 'surveillance everything') has only become more pointed. https://t.co/qTKwOF36jI
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Dear @FermiGame - in case you are looking for an idea as to what a galaxy-scale civilisation might decide to do to its galaxy, perhaps take a look at this idea (which I hope the Breakthrough Initiative & Square Km Array will take a much closer look at): https://t.co/gTgoDEzl3l
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Twitter says it's my Twitter birthday from 12 years ago. But I actually joined in Sept 2008 to watch live-tweets of the Large Hadron Collider being fired up. I stayed maybe a week or two then signed out & deleted that account. This account is an experiment that is still running
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I spoke about this at a workshop 1.5y ago: “Aggregation of open source data on a grand scale is viewed as the main value of the database, as it can pull in family & professional connections, use location tracking from social media & potentially be combined with other databases”.
Profiles of more than 16,000 military personnel from Australia, the United States, South Korea and Britain have been found on a leaked Chinese database: https://t.co/pg14hG0j7y
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After 20 years, today is my last day as regular staff @Swinburne (I’m one of the 1st wave of COVID redundancies), but will still be an Adjunct Prof for at least a little while. I depart without *any* regrets or rancour - it has been a total blast & the most fantastic time.
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Yes, the time will come when March 2020 will be looked back upon with fond nostalgia as the all-too-brief lull before the storm....
Fatalities keep doubling every 3 or so days. This is early in the peak. As hospitals reach and breach capacity, this rise is likely to steepen.
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“The Square-Kilometer Array (SKA) is now being set up. I would think that Hoag’s Object might make a very nice calibration target which could be used for configuring and fine-tuning the instrument during its commissioning and subsequent testing.”
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Today is 20 years since I started contributing to the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence by running SETI@home, developed by @BerkeleySETI. https://t.co/3SK33VfS5W Ever since 2010 I've wished astronomers would take a closer look at Hoag's Object https://t.co/gTgoDEQo5l
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Solar sails to move stellar material outward; a ring of stars in the galactic habitable zone: a big garden to cultivate biol intelligence?
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And then I saw Hoag's Object (PGC54559)! Could it be an example of a K Type III civilisation? An intriguing thought! http://is.gd/fGBDQ
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Perhaps such intelligence might move material out of the way (further out?) to create a stronger luminous flux from the galactic core bulge?
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One question that comes up is: What could be a marker of a Kardashev Type III civilisation consisting of post-biological intelligence?
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For some months I've been thinking more re configns in the parameter space of 'contact', as in my paper: J Futures Stud 2007;11(3):1-28.
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Is SETI actually looking in the right places? http://bit.ly/bYWLNz For an earlier view on this see http://bit.ly/dbwqW1
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Unlike the Universe, this tweet-stream begins with an imperceptible whimper, not a Big Bang. Apologies to TS Eliot.
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