Canoe_Captain

I hope this is the right thread for this.

Sorry, I overlooked the thread.

The article and the video published on August 4th 2014 includes among others Karen Straughan, Janet Bloomfield and Paul Elam. The title is "THE WOMEN OF THE MEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT". Link to the article. http://www.vice.com/vice-profiles/the-women-of-the-mens-rights-movement-751 Here is a short YouTube Short Trailer. There is an additional 15 minute video on the Vice.com article website. -- I just realised Carl Bartelt already opened a thread on this topic: https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/41228-women-of-mrmavm-coverage-on-vicecom/ --

Indeed I see Intelligence is too broad a term. This would be my definition of intelligence in this case: The speed at which somebody can recall information. The amount of information somebody can access in a given time to make a decision. The speed at which somebody can detect patterns in his environment.

I share your concern about the military. As an amateur I think two scenarios are plausible, either mainly code based AI, or feeling/learning AI might win in the race for sentience. But as long as humans are building the machines there is a point for philosophy either way. Until now humans are the most intelligent entities on earth and I assume that before AI's are the most entities on earth, there will be a time when hybrid humans enhanced with AI intelligence will be most intelligent. As more intelligent humans are not necessarily more moral, so should we not expect strong AI's to be automatically moral. Kurzweil also speaks about the huge importance of ethics to navigate the coming changes in his newest book. He mentions for example the "golden rule".

Stefan Molyneux once said that if the Singularity happened, he would welcome it, but he did not yet really react to the philosophical implications. Unfortunately I do not remember when he said this. He also recently posted a short comment on Facebook that I roughly remember to be like "Just watched the movie transcendence: Oh dear." Which Kurzweil book did you read? I liked to read The Singularity Is Near (2005) it partly summarizes his older books and gives a broader overview than his 2012 book "How to Create a Mind"

Thank you for your input. I am going to look at it.

A brief musical history of the land called Israel/Palestine. Including the 1960 Exodus song performed by Andy Williams and Quincy Jones.

I am preparing a presentation about the socio-economic landscape of India for the FDR YouTube channel. It's going to be an overview of the positives, the negatives and a future forecast based on current trends. I would like to cover relevant and interesting topics. What are your thoughts on India? I am interested in your first spontaneous thoughts: · What’s interesting? · Impressions · Stereotypes · Weaknesses · Strengths The video is going to be part of a series which includes already the USA, Australia, the UK and Canada

If your BitTorrent client is indicating that you are seeding then everything is working. You could configure your client to start when your PC boots up, but that is optional. Usually you can look up in your client statistics how much Mbits you uploaded. If your client does not upload/seed any torrent data, then the most likely reason is: no peer is downloading right now, but I guess that is not your problem. If you have a modern client that supports torrent RSS feeds than you could add the Bitlove Feed and host it as well https://bitlove.org/freedomain_radio_torrent/latest/feed.

I am excited to hear that and I am looking forward to read your feedback. I am giving it a try as well.

It partly depends on how many use Desktop machines and Labtops vs. mobile devices, because you need cheap bandwidth and abundant power supply and mobile devices often have neither. A canoe is not as glorious as a spaceship, but I wanted something that is not too demanding so I can focus more time and energy on FDR. The website bitlove.org shows you the number of downloads per torrent, so that you still have some measurement.bitlove.org/freedomain_radio_torrent

Stefan sometimes talks about the steadily increasing server bills due to increasing downloads of FDR podcasts. It's great that more and more podcasts are downloaded, but the donated money that pays the server bills might be used for other purposes if we reduce the load on the FDR servers. Here is a solution how we can reduce those bills. Torrent RSS Feeds to FDR Volumes · Volume 1 bitlove.org/freedomain_radio_torrent/volume_1/feed · Volume 2 bitlove.org/freedomain_radio_torrent/volume_2/feed · Volume 3 bitlove.org/freedomain_radio_torrent/volume_3/feed · Volume 4 bitlove.org/freedomain_radio_torrent/volume_4/feed · Volume 5 bitlove.org/freedomain_radio_torrent/volume_5/feed · Latest Podcasts bitlove.org/freedomain_radio_torrent/latest/feed The Easy Way to Listen and Share · Download and Install the open source Miro player available for Windows and Mac OSX. If you use the Miro website to download, you will encounter an installer that tries to install additional crapware. So just use the links provided in this bullet point. · After the installation go to "Sidebar" > "Add Podcast" and paste this URL bitlove.org/freedomain_radio_torrent/latest/feed · To start listening you just need to press "download" and then "play", · If you pause or switch to another podcast episode, the Miro player will remember the played position of your previous podcasts. · After you downloaded podcasts the Miro player will automatically upload your downloaded podcasts to other listeners. · The Miro player syncs with your Android and Kindle Fire devices. The Benefits · The FDR podcasts are stored decentralized on the listeners hard drives – a backup in case anything happens to the FDR servers. The decentralized system works quite similar to the Bitcoin network. · You get to give back to the community by letting your PC/Mac upload Podcasts to other listeners. · We help to reduce FDR’s server bills. The Disadvantages · You have to use a podcast software that supports BitTorrent, for example the Miro Player, but there are also other P2P players for Windows, Android, Mac and Linux. · You can not use your usual podcast player or site like iTunes, Stitcher or other Browser-based podcast services to download. After you downloaded a podcast, you can of course play it back with any MP3 compatible player. The Way to Listen and Share for Advanced Bittorrent Users · Use your preferred BitTorrent client to add the RSS Feed bitlove.org/freedomain_radio_torrent/latest/feed · You can also find a complete list and add torrents individually on this website bitlove.org/freedomain_radio_torrent How It Works Have your heard of BitTorrent? The FDR podcasts are shared in a peer to peer BitTorrent network. The website Bitlove.org creates torrents out of podcasts, it creates torrent RSS feeds out of podcast feeds. The feeds that I link to contain hundreds of torrents, each torrent is a Podcast. The torrents are downloading fast since currently the regular FDR servers are part of the P2P network. Other FDR Torrents · Somebody uploaded all the podcasts up to show 2299 in 22 packages. Robert Rak summarized the torrents here https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/39836-fdrpodcastscom-official-launch/?p=365010 (They are grouped by the hundreds. Package 3 thus includes podcast 300-399) · Somebody uploaded all the podcasts in 7 packages up to show 2728. You can look it up here thepiratebay.se/user/FDRURL. I waited up to an hour until these torrents started downloading. · One advantage of the Bitlove "Latest Podcasts Feed" is that it includes always the 250 most current podcasts.

Hello InquisitorM I think it is a sign of personal strength to share your story with others. At least I always felt uncomfortable and vulnerable when sharing intimate parts of my life. I have as well issues with posting feedback, always asking myself if my input is valuable. Nonetheless here it is: I think your approach to gradually increase the challenges you face in terms of commenting and jobs seems very reasonable. In my case I consider any small step as an improvement. Do you still live with your parents? My parents are toxic and living with them even for a few days made me unhappy and stressed out. This description of your feelings, seems similar to me to the experience an infant in an incubator could have. I have a younger brother who was a premature infant and spent his first weeks in an incubator. I am no expert, but I think at least some infants will experience a trauma because of this. (You probably read more scientific facts about his than me.) Aged 26 today, he was never employed and spent 90% of the years since graduating from school in his room in our parents’ home. I do not know if it helps you, but my brother had a good experience backpacking and camping in France and Spain by foot in late summer. He did so, to enjoy nature, to use his outdoor equipment for once and for the physical activity. During the first week he felt overstrained, was very unsure if he wanted to continue, but soon he fell in love with the concept. If he felt like talking he could talk to another traveler and if he felt like being on his own he could just walk for some days. After returning from this 2 month trip he was much more articulate and it was much easier for me to communicate with him. He was much more open and trusting towards me and the world. I suppose the process of traveling on his own gave him a sense of self-efficacy, increasing his self-confidence. He had plans to continue traveling indefinitely but after what was planned as a short stay at his parents’ home (after the journey), turned again into a long-term stay, he gradually reverted back to being sedentary, inhibited, self-conscious and closed-off. My brother also had 6 consecutive weeks of private inpatient psychiatric treatment but the effects seemed minor to me compared to his journey. I also had a childhood where I was almost all the time told what I was supposed to do with very low parental interest/acknowledgement in my own little hobbies, passions or interests. I think if parents do not support their children in pursuing their own interests, an important skill is underdeveloped: When those children grow up they miss the bridge/connection of their consciousness to their inner wishes and interests. I often feel & think like pursuing my interest is unimportant, or I do even not feel any interest in any job or work at all, which might be similar to the experience of life as numb. I hope & think that this missing bridge can be rebuild by somehow connecting emphatically to your own childhood. (I have unfortunately not really fully succeeded to rebuild my own bridge yet) I hope this somehow is valuable feedback for you.

Sundown - "Turn It Around" Locked out, Locked in, You have to scream and shout and break in the door till you find your way back in. Look left, look right. Don't be afraid to get on the way, You know you still got time. You got to turn it around, Baby when it all comes down Get your feet back on the ground. http://youtu.be/prhp3t8KN10

Thank you for your research and feedback. Everything until now I can use as feedback. By next week I want to already be finished with the presentation. Thank you for the offer though. If you like to do research for FDR presentations like me, you could offer some research help to Mike or check out the forum board for Freedomain Radio Projects

Hereby I let you know how it went so far. Thanks to all your feedback I was able to summon my courage and write to Sally in a hopefully improved way. We originally wanted to have a phone call. After that did not happen for 2 weeks, I wrote the mail. 2 days ago I wrote to Sally. Here is the translation of the email to Sally: ---------------------------------------- "Hello Sally The following message is probably going to surprise you, because it is completely unexpected. I am dating women from an online dating site currently. And sometimes I ask myself why I put all this work in filtering through this large amount of women, when I have already some nice female friends like you. Could you actually imagine having a date? I am very well aware that this idea might surprise you, but I still wanted to write it down. And unfortunately you seem to date men that are older than me If this message is too crazy for you, let's just pretend that I have never sent it regards, Canoe_Captain" ---------------------------------------- Sally took ca. 24 hours to answer me, this is the translation of her message: ---------------------------------------- "Hi Canoe_Captain, what a crazy idea! that was the first thought in my head. I have to admit I just had a long phone call with Martha* (*a shared friend) and we also talked about your "offer". I hope that does not bother you, but she knows us both well and was able to help me in my light bewilderment and overloading, by asking the right questions. Now to my second thought: Actually why not? I have already thought often that you are a really great guy, but I never connected that with a feeling of infatuation. That was until now the basic requirement to date somebody. But I am open to reassess my beliefs, as long we are honest with ourselves and tell the other one everything! So a basic readiness is existing. However some questions naturally remain open. For example how do you imagine the dating? It is not just around the corner, from my city to your city. I have to tell you that I am dating here in my city, and I am probably going to continue with it, as long as not deeper feelings develop somewhere. If that feels bad for you, it is naturally not possible.. So can we both retain this liberty for us? If that is too open and vague for you, I could understand that very well. But if we both approach it with the same openness, we actually do not have anything to lose! Do you know that, when sometimes everything feels so light, that thoughts unlock themselves to you, that make life seem much easier. I am having such a feeling currently. Would be nice, to keep that feeling for all life situations. So, now I am going to wait for you reply. Well, we can have a phone call in the next days. Oh and if you now do not see any value in this thing anymore, it goes for the same for this message: Just forget! Good Night” ---------------------------------------- (I already replied to Sally's message today) Do you have any thoughts?

I am putting together this presentation for Mike (his forum name is MMD). So that FDR has some additional material to make a video on the German economic and social landscape. I would suggest that you discuss your idea with Mike, since he started this research initiative. Thank you for your offer.

Thank you for that source, I might use that graph to bolster up the part on rising electricity costs. No Problem. If you post it till the night of Saturday 14th, I will be able to incorporate it.

A different perspective than mine is very likely going to improve the presentation. So I think it is of interest to hear your personal analysis (with links to the source material, if possible).

This thread is for information regarding a presentation on "The Fall of Germany - Coming Catastrophes in the German Economy". Please feel free to post interesting facts/statistics (preferably in bullet form) with links to the source material below. Michael asked me if I would like to put the presentation together, and I am happy to do so. Michael: “Basically, it's just a massive overview of the entire economic and social landscape of the various countries, the positives, the negatives and a future forecast based on current trends. Germany is our 5th biggest market, and we've already done videos on the top four markets.”

Common sense can be understood in this context as the programming that I received in early childhood, to not talk about my problems to people outside of the family. To not communicate my feelings to anybody if I assume my feelings to be problematic to people in my environment. And to not be honest but to modify the truth to let myself and my family look the best. To leave out all supposedly dark, evil, problematic parts of my past. I just realized that my common sense is programming that is toxic to real, honest relationships. Only by your question I am getting to think about this, thank you Wesley. The second meaning of common sense to me in this context was to estimate rationally. To estimate that to honestly speak about the full truth to Sally in one instant "would be too much to stomach for her." like Rainbow Jamz wrote.

I understand now better what you mean. I have surprisingly little hard knowledge about her needs and desires. It's all conclusions till now, based on knowing her friends and family. Maybe it is my culture's way or my way that I usually talk about needs and desires towards a relationship only after it is established that we are thinking about having a relationship. Before we would start a relationship, we would probably talk honestly about our needs and desires in a relationship. Until now I had just glimpses, like that she would be okay with a long-distance relationship during the first months. We talked about that when we recapped her last relationship.

I expect Sally to make the assessment if I meet all of her hard requirements. I estimate I have a 30% chance of meeting her criteria. It is a new concept to me, to ask myself if a woman deserves me and if I fit her criteria. Did you apply this concept in your life and how did it go? I just apply for every woman that both fits my criteria and that I am most attracted too. I think Sally deserves a partner like me that has self-knowledge and is able to communicate his feelings. On the 23rd I wrote to her on Facebook: Hi Sally, how are you? How was your business trip? Today 27th she answered me in the morning: "let's have a phone call within the next days, okay?" After considering the valuable feedback from all of you, I plan to suggest to Sally to spend some time together, like a two day city trip or something similar. Sally usually surprises me with her reactions and topics, so the call might go entirely different as expected.

As I regard her to be a virtuous friend since 9 year, I think I should date at least once before dating other women from OKcupid, that I have not met yet. I think I just entombed the sexual attraction. I always assumed that she was not attracted to me, so I forbade myself those feelings. I tried to shift my thoughts and feelings of sexual attraction to other woman, where I assumed more mutual attraction. I assume the shifting of thoughts and feelings has worked. "Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue." Since I regard her to be virtuous, I expect to fall in love with her if I get more exposure to her again. During the last years we only met ca. 3 times a year, that was enough to experience her emotional growth and spending a good time but only enough time to keep the emotional connection but not enough to strengthen the connection, I once before fell in love with a friend who I regarded virtuous in retrospect. Before I spent a one month trip with her she was just a nice pleasant friend, and afterwards I thought she is the girl of my dreams for the next 2 years. Due to me not communicating feelings and probably more reasons we stayed just friends. I would as well try to date that woman, but she got married in the meantime. Yes I think my fears of the truth and my hopes for the truth cancel themselves out. It feels like doing my homework. Until a positive or negative result I just try to remain stoic. Like driving a car at high speeds, I fear that to much emotions endanger my clear thinking. To go with high hopes into the conversation with Sally would not necessarily help, or would it? (It is a serious question. I am not sure.) I think I was attracted by my last girlfriend Tina, because she was good looking and had low self-esteem like me. Unconsciously I might have also looked for somebody that would control and micro-manage my life, like my parents did. Furthermore I did not not honestly communicate my large frustrations with my studies, I did not even admit the full extent of my frustrations to myself. I cannot speak for Sally and if she is ready for a new relationship. I agree in so far with you that I would like to explore, if deeper feelings would develop if we spent more time together. She is the most date worthy woman I know, so she currently gets more attention from me, since I am single at the moment.