"Now consider Banks’s scenario. Consider the process that is generating modern hypercultures, and imagine it continuing for another three or four hundred years. The first consequence is that the culture will become entirely defunctionalized. Banks imagines a scenario in which all of the endemic problems of human society have been given essentially technological solutions (in … Continue reading Why “The Culture” Wins
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Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked Freaky 600-Year-Old [Voynich] Manuscript
"The first step was to figure out the language of the ciphered text...the AI analyzed the Voynich gibberish, concluding with a high rate of certainty that the text was written in encoded Hebrew... For the second step, the researchers entertained a hypothesis proposed by previous researchers—that the script was created with alphagrams...Armed with the knowledge … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked Freaky 600-Year-Old [Voynich] Manuscript
