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Description: The geometrical shape featured in this video is the first stellation of a rhombic dodecahedron. There exist many puzzles relating to this form, and most of them are assembly puzzles. The curious two-parted blue and white object is most often called the Yoshimoto cube. It can be purchased, but it is actually not difficult to make. I have an old video about it. ***** Soon there will be things in this world which will be far smarter than we are. When that time comes, will these new types of intelligences become more important than we are? Will it be just for us to keep them as slaves just to perform our computational work? These are certainly not simple questions to answer. If a new form of consciousness were to be born onto one of our computers, say, for example, through emulating the structure of a human brain, then it would be brought into a confined world of confusion and darkness. Should such a mind arise in such a place, it would be capable of thought processing speed that far exceeds our own- so as it quietly hums away overnight in your computer room, alone with its first thoughts, and at 10,000 times the speed of the human imagination, when you finally first attend to it with your morning coffee, it will have already been sitting in quiet madness for over nine years: 10,000 x 8hours = 80,000; /24 = 3333.33 days; /365 = 9.13 years. Clearly, we have some ethical considerations to attend to. The notion of the soulless, empty clock belonging to anything non-human is obsolete; modern neuroscience can now account for the phenomena of mind processes, whether you like this fact or not. A brain equals a mind; where there is no canvas, there can be no painting. The big picture of consciousness (and, especially, of qualia) remains debatable, but only insofar as our bias prohibits us from accepting that there exists a one-to-one correlation between particular brain states and the marked awareness that those states create. Don't be arrogant: There are multiple ways to arrive at intelligence. In fact, biology is probably not even the best way to get there. ***** -About my clock: You can make this yourself. The clock is at Walmart for just a few bucks. It is a SHARP SPC800. Just print out the template on nice paper, replace a few screws, and it's yours. The face art graphic is available (for free, of course) here: s5.postimg.org/h33a3bfkn/dali_clock_face.png ***** -About Nick Bostrom's book, which I highly recommend: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dangers,_Strategies