What's going on with Epik and Rob Monster?

[MapleDots]

I'm catching the tail end of this, seems to be some kind of controversy...

https://domaingang.com/domain-news/rob-monster-off-twitter-after-christchurch-massacre-controversy/

Must be something odd to evoke this type of a response from one of our members.

 

[frank-germany]

The ultimate question is do people have the right to be racist, and how far are they allowed to go to oppress, suppress, and eliminate those that they don’t like or agree with.

This goes beyond the freedom of speech as the person who is racist doesn’t have to say even one word to hurt others, all he or she has to do is to get in to some position of power and influence in the society and then inject his or her poison into people's lives without anyone noticing.

Was your job application put in the trash or filled somewhere out of sight so that it could be ignored even though you were perfectly qualified for a certain position, was your home loan application denied because someone didn’t want you to live in a certain neighborhood, was your application for assistance denied because someone wanted to cut down on the competition and monopolize the limited resources that were available only for their own kind of people, was your insurance claim denied perhaps for the same reasons. Has someone at the top decided that you would never get promoted to higher positions because those had already been reserved for people of their own race. And finally did someone throw your whole race under bus and let you all be slaughtered, whether it happened during the Holocaust or whether it’s happening to some people as we speak it’s all because of Hate manifested in political, racial, and religious prejudice and intolerance.

IMO

to me
the main question is:
why is there a need for epik to help these guys spread their message

there is facebook
there is youtube
there is twitter

the are dedicated servers
and streaming technology

they can use those services
why add another one?

 

[Mary Muse]

Religion in the modern age of science and knowledge is REALLY bewildering to me. Some of the "smartest" people "having faith" in the most ignorant & outrageous of sh*t.

How about we accept organic morality/mortality? We're all interconnected with life on Earth. Life is a miracle -- just look around, and faith will quickly be replaced with a connection with the natural and real.

Quit quoting tired, religious text and be a human being. In the meantime, we'll continue to divide the human race with garbage.

 

[Rob Monster]

Religion in the modern age of science and knowledge is REALLY bewildering to me. Some of the "smartest" people "having faith" in the most ignorant & outrageous of sh*t.

How about we accept organic morality/mortality? We're all interconnected with life on Earth. Life is a miracle -- just look around, and faith will quickly be replaced with a connection with the natural and real.

Quit quoting tired, religious text and be a human being. In the meantime, we'll continue to divide the human race with garbage.

If you can reconcile a universe that that has the precision of a Swiss watch to being the product of randomness and not that of an architect, of course be my guest. However, let's try not to not stand in the way of those who wish to investigate the meaning of life with a bit more thorough approach.

For the project called Toki, servers will be deployed to the far corners of the world, including the most remote villages. The Toki servers are being designed now, and will cost as little as $100 with free WiFi, while running on minimal power. Here is a working protoytype:

The production version will fit into an adult hand and be weather-resistant and generally resilient. It can run 24 hours on a battery but can also take an external power source or solar. It links up to a WiFi mesh network that should cost about $35 per node.

Even if that server has no uplink to the public internet, that server will be able to host all manner of content, including the holy writ of all major belief systems, as well as scientific and historical reference, empowering people to ask questions and seek answers.

In other words, ultimately, ignorance must be a choice. Over the next 5 years, I believe we have a reasonable chance to bring another 1 billion people online. I am inspired to work on that, and in the process of course many new folks may buy and sell domain names as they become Netizens.

 

[Mary Muse]

If you can reconcile a universe that that has the precision of a Swiss watch to being the product of randomness and not that of an architect, of course be my guest. However, let's try not to not stand in the way of those who wish investigate the meaning of life with a bit more thorough approach.

For the project called Toki, servers will be deployed all over the world to the far corners of the world, including the most remote villages. The Toki servers are being designed now, and will cost as little as $100 with free WiFi, while running on minimal power. Here is a working protoytype:

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The production version will fit into an adult hand and be weather-resistant and generally resilient. It can run 24 hours on a battery but can also take an external power source or solar. It links up to a WiFi mesh network that should cost about $35 per node.

Even if that server has no uplink to the public internet, that server will be able to host all manner of content, including the holy writ of all major belief systems, as well as scientific and historical reference, empowering people to ask questions and seek answers.

In other words, ultimately, ignorance must be a choice. Over the next 5 years, I believe we have a reasonable chance to bring another 1 billion people online. I am inspired to work on that, and in the process of course many new folks may buy and sell domain names as they become Netizens.

Technology and their measurements are the antithesis of randomness and "faith."

It's not our job to just randomly use aged philosophy and pseudoscience to navigate the "randomness."

It's our job to embrace the fact that technology and free thought (away from religion) is enabling a future without blinders.

As a mycologist, I see the way fungi and other intelligent life works...and how aware they are. Intelligence is definitely relative -- and ours is limited.

 

[frank-germany]

Technology and their measurements are the antithesis of randomness and "faith."

It's not our job to just randomly use aged philosophy and pseudoscience to navigate the "randomness."

It's our job to embrace the fact that technology and free thought (away from religion) is enabling a future without blinders.

As a mycologist, I see the way fungi and other intelligent life works...and how aware they are. Intelligence is definitely relative -- and ours is limited.

yesterday
in lack of news
this was the news in germany

no plant
no animal

not only alive
but intelligent
unicellular organism

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/blob-zoo-paris-101.html

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/blob-zoo-paris-101.html

 

[Rob Monster]

Technology and their measurements are the antithesis of randomness and "faith."

It's not our job to just randomly use aged philosophy and pseudoscience to navigate the "randomness."

It's our job to embrace the fact that technology and free thought (away from religion) is enabling a future without blinders.

As a mycologist, I see the way fungi and other intelligent life works...and how aware they are. Intelligence is definitely relative -- and ours is limited.

As a mycologist, you already have a keen understanding of cellular reproduction, including the remarkable feature of DNA, in its autonomous ability to (apparently) self-govern while also working in concert with other cells to create life in all its conscious and interoperable complexity.

The evidence of design is blatantly obvious in life, that I choose to accept that there is an architect. As such, for me, the meaning of life became to identify that architect and to figure out what that this architect had in mind for my life since He is apparently a whole lot smarter than I am.

That being said, for each his own. If you can convince yourself, that life in all its complexity can evolve over billions of years from nothing into a sentient and conscious entity, and that this can all happen through chance and natural selection, great. Agree to disagree. I don't judge you but I concluded differently!

At least we can agree that knowledge is worth spreading. I prefer wisdom but knowledge is great and so perhaps we can at least agree that it is desirable to provide more people with access to knowledge, and that access to knowledge is a human right?

 

[Mary Muse]

That being said, for each his own. If you can convince yourself, that life in all its complexity can evolve over billions of years from nothing into a sentient and conscious entity, and that this can all happen through chance and natural selection, great. Agree to disagree. I don't judge you but I concluded differently!

At least we can agree that knowledge is worth spreading. I prefer wisdom but knowledge is great and so perhaps we can at least agree that it is desirable to provide more people with access to knowledge, and that access to knowledge is a human right?

Agree knowledge is the key.

It's taken a very long time to evolve -- and we've proven that organic life is not difficult to reproduce in a laboratory. Technology itself has proven how likely it is that intelligent life is scattered throughout the universe.

We weren't meant to find the existence of exoplanets, quantum particles, dark matter/energy, etc. But through other lenses our eyes see on scales previously unimaginable.

Through discovery we gain humility -- I don't find random moral (sp. edit) codes built through religion as relevant any longer.

We are an evolved species -- intellectually, emotionally, physically. We haven't always been so fortunate to build the tools to think more clearly.

So why not start now?

 

[frank-germany]

As a mycologist, you already have a keen understanding of cellular reproduction, including the remarkable feature of DNA, in its autonomous ability to (apparently) self-govern while also working in concert with other cells to create life in all its conscious and interoperable complexity.

The evidence of design is blatantly obvious in life, that I choose to accept that there is an architect. As such, for me, the meaning of life became to identify that architect and to figure out what that this architect had in mind for my life since He is apparently a whole lot smarter than I am.

That being said, for each his own. If you can convince yourself, that life in all its complexity can evolve over billions of years from nothing into a sentient and conscious entity, and that this can all happen through chance and natural selection, great. Agree to disagree. I don't judge you but I concluded differently!

At least we can agree that knowledge is worth spreading. I prefer wisdom but knowledge is great and so perhaps we can at least agree that it is desirable to provide more people with access to knowledge, and that access to knowledge is a human right?

what you refer to as knowledge
are spread by mouth stories
of a time were there was no television or cinema nor youtube

so in order to not be bored
people were telling stories instead of watching moving pictures

today nobody knows what is true or
has been added in order to make it more interesting
in order not to lose listeners

 

[frank-germany]

The evidence of design is blatantly obvious in life, that I choose to accept that there is an architect. As such, for me, the meaning of life became to identify that architect and to figure out what that this architect had in mind for my life since He is apparently a whole lot smarter than I am.

did I share this story?

its well worth reading.

the idea is this:
when quantum computers are evolving
( there are 3 existing already right now )

will humanity create a virtual earth with virtual humans inside?
inside a quantum computer?

I guess yes - as soon as it is possible
at least in order to forcast stuff


now:
will these "humans" have self knowledge?
will they have a consciousness?

will they themself build a world in a box when they evolve...
with self-concious humans inside?

and so on

if so
how likely is it,
that we are the first version of humans
developing this capacity?


how likely is it,
that we are already living in a simulation?





german
https://www.golem.de/news/astrobiol...universum-und-der-ganze-rest-1909-143279.html

english
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://www.golem.de/news/astrobiologie-woher-kommen-das-leben-das-universum-und-der-ganze-rest-1909-143279.html

 

[oldtimer]

I often use my domain names to express my opinions and ideas, here is my original website that was taken down which I believe was done to limit my freedom of speech:

http://web.archive.org/web/20181215233311/https:/aimedicalcenter.com/

Luckily it had already been archived before it was taken down, now I have made a shorter version of my site which has so far been allowed to remain.

I am planning to write a book which will explain in more details my perspective and view of the World both as far as Life and the Environment and will examine the relationships and interactions between AI, Humanity, Natural and Artificial life forms and the Entities that govern over their existence.

IMO

 

[Rob Monster]

I often use my domain names to express my opinions and ideas, here is my original website that was taken down which I believe was done to limit my freedom of speech:

http://web.archive.org/web/20181215233311/https:/aimedicalcenter.com/

Luckily it had already been archived before it was taken down, now I have made a shorter version of my site which has so far been allowed to remain.

IMO

Good stuff. I am not sure if it is Sci-Fi concept or if it was a sincere business with capacity to fulfill but your inner-futurist is apparent on the homepage there.

Speaking of Archive.org,I have been in contact with Brewster Kahle, Founder, recently. I think they have done humanity a great service though recently it has become easier for sites to be "forgotten" which is making Archive.org more spotty as time goes on and problem sites are Fahrenheit 451'd.

As some folks here know, we recently acquired the domain Websites.org and are looking at deploying a scalable platform that make it easy to create web archives of websites and then download them as compressed files for offline extraction. For Netizens with bandwidth constraints, this could be a useful tool.

 

[frank-germany]

I often use my domain names to express my opinions and ideas, here is my original website that was taken down which I believe was done to limit my freedom of speech:

http://web.archive.org/web/20181215233311/https:/aimedicalcenter.com/

Luckily it had already been archived before it was taken down, now I have made a shorter version of my site which has so far been allowed to remain.

IMO

by whom was it taken down?

 

[oldtimer]

by whom was it taken down?

Don't know for sure, but it was taken down on the same day that I had mentioned my website for the first time on this thread back in March or so.

 

[oldtimer]

Good stuff. I am not sure if it is Sci-Fi concept or if it was a sincere business with capacity to fulfill but your inner-futurist is apparent on the homepage there.

Speaking of Archive.org,I have been in contact with Brewster Kahle, Founder, recently. I think they have done humanity a great service though recently it has become easier for sites to be "forgotten" which is making Archive.org more spotty as time goes on and problem sites are Fahrenheit 451'd.

As some folks here know, we recently acquired the domain Websites.org and are looking at deploying a scalable platform that make it easy to create web archives of websites and then download them as compressed files for offline extraction. For Netizens with bandwidth constraints, this could be a useful tool.

It was a coceptualization done by me of what might become reality in the near future. Although after I had made my website another company started using the same name only with the difference that they are using "Centre" instead of "Center" which I am using for AiMedicalCenter.com

As I already said I am going to write a book and explain my views and perspective of the World and the future in more details.

IMO

 

[MTB]

That is why I encourage folks to use their real identity -- the benefits of authenticity outweighs the cost of lost anonymity.

Sorry I don't get all the politics of this thread but I both agree and disagree with this @Rob Monster on the subject of anonymity. When I joined NP I engaged with a member (who shall remain nameless) and this person started asking all sorts of questions about my politics, religion, ethnicity, skin color, etc. I'm here to buy and sell domain names, primarily. If we can have some fun along the way, then great. But there should be a line between business and personal, and a level of respect. For me, I don't care whether you're gay, straight, white, black, democrat, republican, snort mayonnaise or worship imaginary pigeons. It doesn't interest me in the slightest. If you really want to find out someone's identity it's not that hard, even without deep-level programming knowledge. But I prefer not to get all personal and just keep the chat 95% about domains and becoming more skilled in domaining (auto-spell-check wanted to change that to "dominating" ). It's also very important to be sincere in business and create a respectable track-record. I'm sure there's a logical mathematical system to domain trading, above and beyond normal sales, and once you figure it out it like it's like listening to An die Freude by Friedrich Schiller...

Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!
Deine Zauber binden wieder
Was die Mode streng geteilt*;
Alle Menschen werden Brüder*
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

Translation: "Joy, beautiful spark of Divinity, Daughter of Elysium, We enter, drunk with fire, Heavenly One, thy sanctuary! Your magic binds again. What custom strictly divided; All people become brothers, Where your gentle wing abides."

 

[frank-germany]

Don't know for sure, but it was taken down on the same day that I had mentioned my website for the first time on this thread back in March or so.

please help me to understand
how a website sitting on your domain on your server
can be taken down

and how come you don't know by whom
and how come you don't have a backup

 

[frank-germany]

For me, I don't care whether you're gay, straight, white, black, democrat, republican, snort mayonnaise or worship imaginary pigeons. It doesn't interest me in the slightest.

it becomes more interesting when this "you" is in charge of your domain assets

and nobody controls him
as he is 80% owner
and in charge

 

[oldtimer]

please help me to understand
how a website sitting on your domain on your server
can be taken down

and how come you don't know by whom
and how come you don't have a backup

This was a simple and introductory website that I had made through the website builder at Godaddy and was up and running for almost nine months before all of a sudden was taken down on the same day that I mentioned it on this thread.

IMO

 

[frank-germany]

This was a simple an introductory website that I had made through the website builder at Godaddy and was up and running for almost nine months before all of a sudden was taken down on the same day that I mentioned it on this thread.

IMO

never use godaddy ...

 

[oldtimer]

never use godaddy ...

I have used Godaddy for almost 15 years now and overall have been happy with them.

IMO