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Info for a thread on SWS—Sentient World Simulator, from DARPA and Simulex, Inc.

2007-07-06T02:26:50-05:00

This one snuck right up on me. Big dawg shout to Mark Baard at The Register for this article:

http://www.theregister.com/2007/06/23/sentient_worlds/

Simulex Website ("PHARMACEUTICALS: Just one of the many industries we serve.”—for reals, it says that)

http://www.simulexinc.com/

What happens when you take military war-gaming technology, inject it with the latest discoveries in management, economics, and psychology, and apply it to business, political, and social situations? The answer is Simulex’s Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation (SEAS), the result of ten years of research conducted at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management, in association with the United States Department of Defense and several Fortune 500 companies.

What We Do

At Simulex, Inc., we use our exclusive license to SEAS to provide the next generation of consulting services to our clients in government and the private sector. Instead of experimenting with real people, SEAS allows clients to interact with synthetic people and observe what is happenin Using agent-based modeling in a business war-gaming environment, SEAS seamlessly incorporates all aspects of managerial decision making to provide a complete and integrated view of economies, industries, and organizations.

Our Goal

Our ultimate goal is to provide a totally customized product that will allow an organization to perform detailed exploration of the key issues it faces and create defined strategies that will shape its future.

Their recent press release boats “Baghdad Reduced to Bytes”—as we all know, the best way to model something is to rip it apart and see how it works. Too bad the “something” in question was a city with over four million people living inside it, right? Right.

http://www.simulexinc.com/news/03/

On a hot summer day in Iraq, U.S. soldiers fight a low-intensity counterinsurgency battle on the streets of Baghdad. At 10 a.m., a truck parks near a warehouse in a crowded part of town. The truck explodes, killing the men inside and one of the soldiers standing guard.

After securing the area, the remaining soldiers sound the alarm and call for help. Onlookers gather — some cursing the bombers and others cursing the Americans for attracting the attack. Eventually, emergency responders arrive and begin to treat the wounded and quell the mob. If it had occurred in the real world, this scenario generated in a Defense Department simulation would have immediate and future repercussions in the neighborhood, the country and the Middle East.

DOD creates hundreds of similar scenarios in the largest modeling and simulation environment that the department has ever built. DOD uses the simulated environment for a set of experiments, known as Urban Resolve 2015. Those experiments are redefining the way the military operates in urban environments. Urban Resolve is also changing the way DOD develops concepts, procures technology and conducts training.

The Joint Forces Command’s experimentation directorate often brings new concepts into JFCOM training centers to benefit soon-to-be-deployed solders, said Dave Ozolek, executive director of DOD’s Joint Urban Operations Office and executive director of the Joint Futures Laboratory at JFCOM. “What you’re seeing is a glimpse of the future.”

Urban Resolve is the most important and complex experiment conducted since Millennium Challenge 2002, Ozolek said. The 2002 experiment took three years to plan and cost about $250 million. DOD developed Urban Resolve in half the time and spent about $22 million.

So who’s building the show at Purdue University’s School of Management? No idea. Their site rewards investigation, though.
http://www2.krannert.purdue.edu/

There’s a fellah named Vernon Smith who’s got an “Experimental Economics Laboratory” there, described thusly:

The Vernon Smith Experimental Economics Laboratory (VSEEL) is a state-of-the-art facility for laboratory data collection for economics, management, and other social sciences.

Vernon won himself a Nobel Prize in 2002. The VSEEL is worth digging around inside, especially their collection of research:
http://www.mgmt.purdue.edu/centers/vseel/research.asp

That same department at Purde also has the GISMA school, which sounds pornographic but looks professional.
http://www.gisma.com/

Tobias Heilmann is the Executive Director of their Executive Education division—I’m unclear if that constitutes a conflict of interest.

And what’s Urban Resolve 2015? You can learn a great deal about it online. For starters, there’s the official website for it:
http://www.jfcom.mil/about/experiments/uresolve.htm

And here’s the “info paper” from Quantico:
http://www.wargaming.quantico.usmc.mil/programs/JCDE/UR2015/Documents/UR2015InfoPaper_NS.pdf

UR2015 is the second of three experimentation
spirals intended to investigate warfighting issues in an urban
environment. Spiral I, conducted from late FY03 to early
FY05, focused on developing situational understanding.
Spiral II (UR2015), which began in FY05 and ends in
early FY07, focuses on isolating an irregular adversary
and controlling a large urban environment. Spiral III,
scheduled for the FY06 - 08 timeframe, will focus on seizing
the initiative and controlling the operational tempo

That’s Boydspeak filtering through again, and we got a Skilluminati on John Boyd here:

Remote Viewing stuff by Daz Smith

2009-04-02T09:32:17-05:00

http://www.eightmartinis.com/
http://www.remoteviewed.com/
http://www.cosmicspoon.com/blog/

nicely organized, lots of docs

Charles Galton Darwin’s “The Next Million Years”

2007-07-05T22:40:40-05:00

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,820887,00.html

It takes a hardy man to predict the future of the human race for the next million years. Such a man is Charles Galton Darwin, 65, grandson of the late great Charles Robert (The Origin of Species) Darwin, and former Master of Christ College, Cambridge. His just-published book, The Next Million Years (Doubleday; $2.75), is sugar-coated with flowing, donnish English, but it contains a bitter pill for people with faith in human progress. The ultimate future of the race, says Writer Darwin, will be much like its deplorable past.

Darwin is a theoretical physicist, but he invades sociological territory where many sociologists fear to tread. He bases his reasoning about man’s future on what is sometimes called “social physics”: the idea that the behavior of humans in very large numbers can be predicted by the statistical methods that physicists use with large numbers of molecules.

Gloomy Prediction.
Physicists know that the motions of single molecules (e.g., in a gas) are unpredictable. They may move fast or slow and zigzag in any direction. But the impacts of billions of gas molecules against a restraining surface produce a steady push that obeys definite and rather simple laws. In the same manner, Darwin believes, the actions of individual humans are erratic and sometimes remarkable, but the behavior of large numbers of them over long periods of time is as predictable as the pressure of gas. All that is needed is to determine the basic, averaged-out properties of human “molecules.”

In Darwin’s view, the human molecules have one fundamental property that dominates all others: they tend to increase their numbers up to the absolute limit of their food supply. This is the familiar thesis of Thomas Malthus, a senior contemporary of Grandfather Darwin whose gloomy predictions of starvation have haunted mankind for 150 years.

Grandson Darwin restates Malthus. Human increase, he says, is a “geometrical progression.” The more it has increased, the faster it will increase in the future. Food supply, on the other hand, increases only “arithmetically” by simple addition. Past increases do not add to its speed of increase.

The natural rate of increase of passably well-fed peoples, Darwin says, leads them to double their numbers every 100 years. To feed the doubled population, food production must be doubled too. Twice as much land must be cultivated or the old land must be made twice as productive. In the next century the population will double again, and the earth must produce four times as much food as it does now.

Darwin admits that present-day food production can be stepped up. He says, for instance, that a way of turning wood into human food would be a great forward step. The Germans used this very simple process on a large scale during World War II, and “wood molasses” for cattle feed has been produced in small quantities in the U.S.

End in Sight.
But Darwin is not interested in such small details. On his chosen scale of 1,000,000 years they will not be important. Each laborious triumph in food production will only put off the evil day. The earth’s population will double again, again and again. After ten centuries of well-fed doubling, it will have increased 1,024 times. In the unlikely event that the food supply will have kept pace, another mere thousand years of doubling will certainly bring the end. In the year 3953 A.D., the earth will be felted with people as thick as mold on a Camembert cheese, and they will need 1,000,000 times as much food as is produced today. “It is quite impossible,” says Darwin, “for any arithmetical progression to fight against a geometrical progression.” When arithmetic finally loses to geometry, human increase must stop. Most babies that are born will die from the ills of malnutrition before they manage further to replenish the earth.

This sort of reasoning is as old as Malthus, and Darwin knows the arguments that are commonly used against it. One of them is to point out that the earth’s population has increased enormously since the time of Malthus, but that much of it is better fed now than it was then. His reply: humans have been living in a fleeting Golden Age that is due to the impact of science on transportation and agriculture. When the Golden Age is over (and its end is in sight), most of the earth’s babies will again starve.

Another familiar anti-Malthusian argument is that modern methods of birth control can keep population down to manageable levels. This is actually happening in many nations, including some of those that are best fed. Perhaps such nations as India, where humans are multiplying rapidly, can be induced to do likewise.

A New Species?
Grandson Darwin shakes his grey head over this hope. Birth control, he says, is possible biologically but not sociologically. In accordance with a kind of sociological Gresham’s Law, the people who restrain their birth rate will be supplanted by those who do not. Backward but ambitious races are sure to defy the birth rules and increase deliberately at the cost of their prosperous, birth-restraining neighbors.

It would take drastic action by a strong world government, Darwin says, to limit the earth’s population, and no strong world government is likely to last for more than a few centuries. As soon as it weakens even slightly, rebellious races or creeds will use the wombs of their women as weapons of social aggression.

Darwin’s conclusion is that the human race will have all sorts of ups & downs, perhaps even some more temporary Golden Ages. But the philoprogenitive pressure of its sociological molecules will undo it in the end. No matter what science, government and religion try to do about population, humans will increase like fruit flies in a geneticist’s breeding bottle. Stability will come only when starvation sets an impassable limit.

There is one distant ray of hope. By Darwin’s reckoning, the average animal species continues for only about a million years without major change. After that time the human species, still very young, may have produced a new species. Perhaps the neo-humans will be able to keep their numbers adjusted to their food supply without the help of starvation.

It’s pretty unbelievable—technically, unbefuckinglievable—that someone would “restate” Malthus when Malthus was proven wrong in his own lifetime. It’s an important foundation for the myth of scarcity, though, and a pillar of Elite eugenics.

Thanks again to Harflimon for giving me the heads-up on this book.

Glenn Beck - Worst Case Scenario

2009-02-24T15:07:46-05:00

Worst Case Scenerio - Part 1
Worst Case Scenario - Part 2
Worst Case Scenario - Part 3
Worst Case Scenario - Part 4

It looks like Beck has changed a bit since coming back from his terrible hospital experience.

Bob Thor was quite out of line when he compared the middle east to a bunch of misbehaving school children. hmmm..... maybe bombing countries that don’t agree with your policies isn’t going to make them change and isn’t the best solution....

An Independent Investigation of the CIA’s ‘Black Budget’ and the Second Manhattan Project

2009-05-09T19:55:36-05:00

http://www1.american.edu/salla/Articles/BB-CIA.htm

DARPA attempting to prove that brains are purely physical

2009-05-09T19:54:30-05:00

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/darpa-heat-energy-brains-now-make-us-some/

Introducing the Open Source Hardware Central Bank

2009-03-30T17:41:18-05:00

This seems like an interesting initiative, if their model is successful I wonder what other communities it could be adapted to?

Right now, the status quo, emerging trend for OSHW DIY’ers has been: build something, put up a bunch of money to build a few of them, if people like it, scale it up, raise money, realize you might lose all that money, charge a margin on top of it to cover your potential losses, start a small company to resell more, cross your fingers, maybe get lucky or maybe not. Setting up each little company takes an infrastructure investment like incorporation legal fees, Paypal transaction costs, and website hosting fees to name a few. For every small hardware project, there’s a potential to have to pay upwards of 40-50% of the initial cost of the project again in just infrastructure fees - that’s prohibitive and ridiculous for little guys like me.

The Open Source Hardware Bank will work to eliminate the scaling and quantity pricing problem for OSHW projects by funding the build of 2x the quantity of any Open Source Hardware product. That means, if a project has found a way to find 10 potential buyers, the bank will put down the money needed to fund 10 more, for a total of 20 products. If a project has found 25 community members to buy in, the bank will fund another 25, to bring the total quantity down to 50. This should reduce the unit costs by around 10-30% of any hardware project, and in the case of the Illuminato, it’ll reduce costs by almost 40%!

In return, anyone who pitches in money to the bank will get a modest and sustainable return on their investment, somewhere between 5-10%. Normally, this wouldn’t be a huge amount, but given what I’ve learned about the “real” economy recently, 30-50% return on investment may never have really existed in the first place, let alone represented “sustainable growth.” This money gets paid back and cashed out when the rest of the inventory is bought as a check that Justin, Andrew, or I write and sign personally.

http://antipastohw.blogspot.com/2009/03/introducing-open-source-hardware.html

Seeds of Deception (Monsanto)

2009-03-25T15:26:47-05:00

Seeds of Deception
By Jeffrey M. Smith

10 page summary:
http://www.wanttoknow.info/deception10pg

you know:
http://rapidshare.com/files/117630930/SeedsDecep.rar

GM propaganda:
http://www.wanttoknow.info/geneticallymodifiedorganismsnewsarticles-0-10000

Hakim Bey still preaching occult 5GW

2008-05-17T21:48:38-05:00

Endarkenists “believe in magic” and so must wage their guerrilla through magic rather than compete with the State’s monopoly of techno-violence. Giordano Bruno’s Image Magic is our secret weapon. Projective hieroglyphic hermeneutics. Action at a distance through manipulation of symbols carried out dramaturgically via acts of Poetic Terrorism, surrealist sabotage, Bakunin’s “creative destruction”—but also destructive creativity, invention of hermetico-critical objects, heiroglyphic projections of word/image “spells”—by which more is meant (always) than mere “political art”—rather a magical art with actual dire or beneficial results. Our enemies on the Right might call this political pornography and they’d be (as usual) right. Porn has a measurable physiopsychological effect. We’re looking for something like it, definitely, only bigger, and more like Artaud than Brecht—but not to be mistaken for “Absolute Art” or any other platonic purism—rather an empirical strategic “situationist” art, outside all mass media, truly underground, as befits Endarkenment, like a loosely structured “rhizomatic” Tong or freemasonic conspiracy.

source:
http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=2812

Todd Bentley, apocalypse-loving, faith-healing, Gen X super-preacher.

2008-09-03T11:29:40-05:00

Just caught up on Bentley today via Alternet:

Theocratic Sect Prays for Real Armageddon
http://www.alternet.org/story/96945/theocratic_sect_prays_for_real_armageddon/?page=entire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Bentley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeland_revival

Wiki’s LULZ are like no other…

The main focus of the services were on what supporters believe to be divine healing of conditions such as cancer, deafness, diabetes, and paralysis. Bentley’s most controversial claims consisted of twenty cases where he says the dead were raised. In an effort to verify claims of healing, Bentley’s staff said they welcomed as much documentation as people were willing to give, including verification from doctors. Nightline’s June 2008 investigation was unable to independently verify any of the healings.

Also quite rich:

At times, the healing services were criticized in mainstream media and on internet blogs for the occasional violence done to the participants.Todd Bentley was known to forcefully kick, hit, smack or knock over participants. In one incident a man was knocked over and lost a tooth. In another, an elderly woman was intentionally kicked in the face. During such times Bentley holds that the Holy Spirit led him to such actions.

IF THAT’S ADMISSABLE IN COURT I MIGHT JUST BE ABOUT TO CONVERT—PRAISE JESUS!!!!!