#Arkhaven INFOGALACTIC #Castalia House
If you have ANY interest in games, you’ll want to tune into UATV tonight for a rare DEVSTREAM!
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Thanks for your patience.
As, obviously, is VP.
Hilbert: It’s so funny how both Neo-Darwinists and Creationists react in the same frightened way to EES. They immediately sense that naturalist EES shreds their fairy tales to pieces.
Hilbert: I really opened the can of worms here…. my conclusion: Bill is at least trying to understand EES. He knows it’s the leading theory of evolution. Everybody else here, including Vox (unfortunately), is just a fantasist, believing Jewish “Jesus Christ” fairy tales…
Hilbert: (in response to my assertion “it took me less than 30 seconds to determine EES is irrelevant.”) Tell me you’re a fanatical crank on a religious mission without telling me… I must say, you managed to deceive me for a moment. I told myself, surely he didn’t mean it this way… but then your mask slipped and it became undeniable… Apparently you even believe in the “Jesus Christ” fairytale and didn’t even realize that Jesus was Jewish and Christianity is just a delusional Jewish sect… Tell me about that empirical evidence again… I really should have noticed it earlier…
Hilbert: Damn, you’re really just a crank. I initially believed you were a serious guy trying to debunk Neo-Darwinism (as others already did). Turns out, McCarthy vs Vox was just two cranks battling each other… I said some of your expressions made you sound like a fanatical amateur and fantasist. Because I thought you weren’t one. But as it turns out, you actually are one. I simply didn’t know this. Now you openly acknowledge you’re not a naturalist but a fantasist who totally ignores the actual empirical evidence supporting the “concept of evolution”… Case closed. Sad, but that’s life. Bye.
According to Wikipedia, EES stands for The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis and consists of a set of theoretical concepts argued to be more comprehensive than the earlier modern synthesis of evolutionary biology that took place between 1918 and 1942. The extended evolutionary synthesis was called for in the 1950s by C. H. Waddington, argued for on the basis of punctuated equilibrium by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge in the 1980s, and was reconceptualized in 2007 by Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B. Müller.
It should not be confused with either the ESS or Evolutionary Stable Strategy, of which Richard Dawkins is so enamored and which is Game Theory applied to attempt to explain observed evolutionary behavior, or the Post-Darwinian Polythesis, which is not just an extension of the modern synthesis, which deals solely with adaptive evolution, but rather, a superset that incorporates both natural selection and ESS with Neutral Theory and various other mechanisms, including relictation. ESS is what I have described as an evolutionary epicycle.
The reason that it took me less than 30 seconds to determine that ESS is as irrelevant as most of the Intelligent Design concepts is because all of the ESS arguments are focused on the adaptive space that natural selection can effect, which a) are at most 2 percent of the average genome and b) don’t even begin to address the same fixation problem that eliminates the possibility of natural selection as a significant generative force. This is why the larger part of the science, the philosophy, the theology, and the general discussion of evolution has been an irrelevant waste of time, money, effort, and ink for the last 160 years.
I had already conclusively proven two things:
But now I have conclusively proven one more thing:
Because there is one thing game designers have that no scientists do. And that is unlimited 24-7 access to 96 cores with 512GB RAM and a multicore monster GPU with 96GB RAM, as well as the knowledge of how to effectively make use of that kind of computing power. Which is something we’ll be discussing with the people who made it possible on UATV tonight.
You know the drill. Post your Stupid Questions, or better yet, your insightful and intelligent questions, on SG.
Not a lot of posting today. I haven’t even read the news, because I’ve been finishing what can only be described as a massive and major translation from the German.
GERONA by Benito Pérez Galdós is this week’s new translation. It is the seventh of the first series of the Episodios Nacionales and was translated from the original Spanish by Vox Day. The ebooks have already gone out to the subscribers. It’s now available on Amazon for Kindle, KU, and audiobook.
A DESPERATE AND GLORIOUS DEFIANCE
In May of 1809 the French army arrived before Gerona: a Catalan city of narrow streets and stacked houses, held by a garrison far too small to hold it, under a governor who did not regard that as a reason to give it up. Seven months later, after eleven thousand nine hundred bombs were exploded, eighty thousand rounds were shot, and twenty thousand men lost in the assaults, the French were still outside the walls.
Andrés Marijuán was inside. An Aragonese private billeted with a locksmith’s family, he watched the city eat its horses, then its cats, then its rats, and at last nothing whatever. He watched the children of the house go out hunting through the rubble for anything with meat on it. He watched a physician, unhinged by grief, forge newspapers full of relief columns that were never coming, so that his daughter should not learn what had become of the world. And he watched Mariano Álvarez de Castro, dying on his feet, return the same answer to every summons to surrender that the greatest generals of the age sent him.
The way Galdós describes the siege of Gerona is the bleakest book in the first series of the Episodios Nacionales, and the most unsparing: an account of civilian endurance carried well past the point where endurance means anything, told by a survivor who cannot understand how he survived.
About the author. Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920) is widely regarded as the greatest Spanish novelist since Cervantes. Over four decades, he produced the Episodios Nacionales, one of the most incredible accomplishments of world literature ever written. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.
There is an excerpt available to read on Castalia Library. Tune in to the Darkstream tonight to learn more about this, see the new Byronics video, and hear some exciting news about the Byron AI project.
Kant, the Enlightenment, Veriphysics, and new music!
Don’t miss it tonight on UATV at 7 PM Eastern! First we’re discussing Based Books with the Based Books man himself, Hans Schantz. Then we’ll be joined by The Legend Chuck Dixon.
UPDATE: The stream crashed. Apologies. We’ll sort it out for next time.
The Happy Funtime Hour starts at 7 PM EST
I’ll be streaming on UATV tonight with JDA and possibly The Legend himself as well. Payment processors, aliens, obscure movies made from novels, and more!
UPDATE: Make that Darkhaven Nights!
War, rumors of war, and a new evolution paper. All tonight.
Iran War, Fake “Assassination Attempt”, Hardcoded, Hubs, and more.
Also, I’ll be streaming with Big Bear on Wednesday.