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Gaming: The Harbinger of the Singularity?

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Is AI learning from human input and interaction? Will this bring our Robot Overlords to power? Don’t want the lesson? Skip to The Conspiracy! Defining the Singularity Singularity – The advent of Artificial Intelligence that exceeds that of its human creators. Along with becoming smarter than humans, these computers and machines also gain sentience and break free from the control of their human creators. Civilization is forever changed – but for better or worse is up for debate. It is important to note that Artificial Intelligence is disparate from the Singularity in that AI aims only to imitate human-like intelligence, and the Singularity is the rise of actual computerized intelligence – no longer artificially created. That is, AI can never exceed human intelligence because the intelligence present in an AI machine was given to it by its human creators. In the Singularity theory, machines are able to use the vast amount of human intelligence programmed into it to give itself true intelligence with which it may gain freedom from the programming bonds its

Everyday Paranormal Experiences, Interview #13

Everyday Paranormal Experiences, Interview #13

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“I just try to ignore it, got tin foil on my windows now,” was the first thing Shanna said to me as I sat down to chat with her about her experiences.  She took a crazy long drag on her cigarette and as the smoke seeped out of her nostrils she continued, “I mean, it’s either ignore it or let everyone think I’m crazy.  You ever seen that movie with Russell Crowe where he is some crazy guy who’s smart enough to know he’s crazy so he ignores the crazy part of his mind for his whole life?”  “A Beautiful Mind,” I offer.  “Yep!  That’s the one – well,” she flicks her cigarette butt, ashes and all onto the curb, “I feel like him only that I’m not so geniusy.”  She tells me her story while working her way furiously through an entire pack of menthols.  She first caught them when she was a little girl, she thinks she was probably eight years old at the time.  During this time

Everyday Paranormal Experiences: Interview #12

Everyday Paranormal Experiences: Interview #12

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Frederique worked at the small elementary school most of his life.  In fact, he has been the school’s custodian for 27 years, and thought he knew the building better than anybody – even better than the contractors that had built the place back in the 50’s or 60’s.  The school still held secrets, which he discovered to his dismay in 2009. “Frederique” is not his real name, he insisted I give him an alias and omit the name of his school, school district, and even the city and state in which he works.  I tried to assure him that none of my vast audience (all 18 of you) will likely know him by any of these details, but he insisted that his reputation would be in jeopardy if anyone deduced his true identity.  So, “Frederique’s” story will also be paraphrased as he refused to allow me to quote him or his manner of speech… He really should come work for us here at the ParanoidGamer, but that is a digression

Everyday Paranormal Experiences, Interview #11

Everyday Paranormal Experiences, Interview #11

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“I haven’t been there for probably thirty years,” Kenneth explained, “So I don’t know if it’s still there or not.  Or if it’s still haunted or not.  It was haunted when I lived out there, though.  Lots of people probably knew about it; whether they believed what they saw and heard or not, who knows?”  Kenneth was talking about an old ghost town a couple hours outside of Rawlins, Wyoming that him and his friends used to dare one another to visit when he was in high school during the early 70’s.  He described the place in pretty vivid detail, but admitted that he would most likely be unable to pinpoint it on a map since it had been so long since his last visit.  The place was an old ghost-town of the wild west, built upon the hopes of those seeking to strike it rich in gold, silver, and gems.  It was abandoned once coal and oil were discovered to be Wyoming’s true natural treasures; the crumbling remnants of banks, hotels, saloons, the city jail

Everyday Paranormal Experiences, Interview #10

Everyday Paranormal Experiences, Interview #10

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“Who believes in those kinds of things,” Braden asked, “I mean, once they’re grown up and all? That’s how I know what I saw was real, ‘cuz I don’t believe in that kinda’ stuff.  I probably wouldn’t believe my story if I heard it from someone else, so I know how it sounds.  I still don’t know if I should believe my eyes.” Braden’s candid account of what he saw and how it made him feel ring similar feeling chords with myself.  I’m a skeptic, even of my own experiences, just as it sounds Braden is.  His tale is brief, he doesn’t give many details, and it’s obvious he’s still trying to decide if maybe his experience was just a dream or something he saw in a movie. He was on his way back to his car in the parking lot of the grocery store he stopped at after work one afternoon when he saw a commotion in the parking lot across the street.  At first, he thought it was

Everyday Paranormal Experiences, Interview #9

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Suzie was a little girl when it happened, eight or maybe nine years old she thought.  Whichever the age she was, Suzie remembers it vividly and tears made her eyes glassy and wet.  She could not tell me what happened to her and breaks off the interview, said she changed her mind and asked me to leave her porch. I was at a loss for my week’s assignment. She called me back to her house a couple hours later, but I was unable to make the trip downtown so late in the day.  She offered to tell me her story over the phone.  I don’t like talking on the phone, but I needed her story and so I agreed.  It started out awkwardly, but she soon forgot she was telling me the story and just recounted her tale to herself, or so was my impression at the time. “I get the feeling all of the time and I always wonder if it’s happening again,” she began, words coming timidly at

Everyday Paranormal Experiences, Interview #8

Everyday Paranormal Experiences, Interview #8

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I’m pretty skeptical about people’s stories – especially the more bizarre and flamboyant they get, but I’m not interviewing people to judge their credibility.  I’m interviewing them to hear about all the different experiences people have (or claim to) with the paranormal, be it ghosts, aliens, monsters, or other unexplained phenomena.  The experience I will relate in this week’s article is one I collected from an interesting person with a particularly interesting experience. Nelson, as I will refer to him since he didn’t want me to use his real name, caught my attention at a local coffee shop when he asked the cashier if the change she was handing back to her was “marked.”  She assured him it was not, but he still insisted on her replacing the three bills and several coins with different ones, just to be sure.  Now, I usually have to look carefully for people with stories, but Nelson fell in my lap and I had to ask about his paranoia. “Someone after you, man?” I

Everyday Paranormal Experiences, Interview #7

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“I used to live out in the sticks, you might say,” Jenny told me apologetically, “I mean, it was a small town.  Still is.  And with them small towns like that, they come chock full of stories, I’m sure you know.” Having grown up mostly in small towns myself, I did know.  She was right, small towns seem to have a story of intrigue attached to nearly every family, building, or landmark.  Wetumka, Oklahoma was no different, and had its share of stories, including one about the haunted old school house just outside of town. “Nearly everyone knows about it,” she explained, “Most folk pass it sometime or another – being that it sits nearby the Wetumka Cemetery.  Now, it isn’t the cemetery that makes the school spooky in itself – fact is the school isn’t hardly that spooky at all.  Neither is the cemetery, now that we’re on the topic.” Jenny describes the town, a small farming community near a few bodies of water and rivers, mostly flat grasslands

Everyday Paranormal Experiences, Interview #6

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I can see the goose-bumps raise the hairs on his arms, Carlos swallows before blurting out, “Them eyes along the road, they… they follow you!” I’m rather used to my interviewees taking pleasure in building their story up from the ground before getting to the good part.  Carlos was different though, he was sure that nature itself was out to get him – as he described himself, he was “a born’n’bred city boy, no shame in it.” He explained that his father had left his family when he was too young to remember it, and his mother had the insurmountable task of raising him and his four siblings alone in the Detroit slums.  Carlos was the youngest of the five children, and when he graduated from high school (he was only the second of his siblings to do so) he moved out of his mother’s home to start his own life.  This freed his mother from the burden of dependent children and she soon started to date again. Carlos’ mother,

Everyday Paranormal Experiences, Interview #5

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“Oh yes, I’ve seen her many, many times,” Mrs. Carlsen tells me with pride, “I doubt anyone is counting – I know I’m not – but I’m sure I’ve seen her more than just about anyone alive today!” The girl that Mrs. Carlsen refers to having seen so many times is a long dead Native American Princess that haunts the waters of one of the largest lakes in Minnesota, Mille Lacs. She’s very sparse on the details of the Princess’ story. She quickly explains that the Princess was left on an island in the lake by a Prince to keep her from harm’s way during a battle. When the battle was complete, and the Prince victorious, he was to return for her and they were to be married. Mrs. Carlsen describes that as days passed, the Princess soon came to realize her Prince must have been killed in the battle, and that she would be stranded on the island. Unable to swim, the Princess sat down and died of heartbreak

Everyday Paranormal Experiences, Interview #4

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This story is a recollection of something that happened when I was in high school… so yes, a long time ago, back in the 90’s.  Though I’ve actually ventured to the location that this story centers on, I have not actually had any of the experiences that I am relating.  Nor is this an interview, at least not in the strictest sense, as it is a re-telling of the facts and supposed events.

Everyday Paranormal Experiences, Interview #3

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“Don’t see what the fuss is,” Jim said as he lit another cigarette, “They been there forever, and how many kids go missing for ‘em? None!” Jim is a retired construction worker who just recently moved from Omaha to his lake house on Long Lake in Nebraska.  His wife was quietly reading next to him on the blue bench in the smoking booth of the airport we met at as the couple waited to board their flight back home.

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