Learning, July 4th, 2024

Reminder I the writer of this blog am not the people on any of these videos. I am trying to learn and providing as reference for others

My thoughts listening to these videos, reminder I am not an economist or international trade expert

Worthy of note Power and Deterrence factors into Cybersecurity NIST IR 8505 initial public draft, A Data Protection Approach for Cloud-Native Applications

AI Question and Reducing Cancer, July 4th, 2024

Disclaimer: following output is based on a question asked to Artificial Intelligence. Output is a starting point for conversation, has potential for mistakes.

I asked the following question to Google Gemini

Question: How do I reinforce less cancer in the world without reinforcing the metaphor of people as cancer? (forgot the question mark originally, added here for benefit of readers)

Output: To reduce cancer incidence globally without resorting to harmful metaphors, focus on these key areas:

  1. Prevention and Early Detection:
    • Advocate for policies promoting healthy lifestyles, including balanced diets, regular exercise, and avoiding tobacco and excessive alcohol consumption.
    • Support research into cancer prevention strategies and early detection methods, such as screenings and biomarkers.
    • Raise awareness about cancer risk factors and the importance of early detection through public health campaigns and educational initiatives.
  2. Research and Treatment:
    • Support cancer research to develop new and innovative treatments, including targeted therapies, immunotherapies, and personalized medicine.
    • Improve access to quality cancer care, including diagnosis, treatment, and supportive care, especially for underserved populations.
    • Advocate for policies that support cancer research funding and the development of new treatments.
  3. Environmental and Occupational Health:
    • Address environmental and occupational carcinogens by advocating for stricter regulations on pollutants, chemicals, and radiation exposure.
    • Support research into the link between environmental factors and cancer risk, and promote the use of safer alternatives.
    • Raise awareness about occupational hazards and the importance of protective measures for workers.
  4. Global Collaboration:
    • Foster international collaboration on cancer research, prevention, and treatment initiatives.
    • Share knowledge and resources to address cancer disparities and improve cancer outcomes globally.
    • Advocate for global policies that prioritize cancer prevention and control.

By focusing on these areas, you can effectively contribute to reducing the global burden of cancer without resorting to harmful metaphors or stigmatizing language.

Additionally:

  • Choose your words carefully: Avoid using language that dehumanizes people with cancer or reinforces harmful stereotypes.
  • Focus on the disease, not the person: Remember that cancer is a disease, not a personal failing or moral judgment.
  • Emphasize hope and resilience: Highlight stories of cancer survivors and the progress being made in cancer research and treatment.

By adopting a compassionate and inclusive approach, you can help create a world where cancer is less prevalent and where everyone affected by cancer receives the support and care they deserve.

Thoughts from someone that is not a doctor –

  1. Research Ethics gets less than ideally turned up, factors into humanization
  2. Less Oppression like wars, greater peace facilitates more time and resources to invest in projects like improving cancer research
  3. Greater accountability in funding of projects and greater oversight sometimes leads to higher value out – oversight at times might increase oppression, oppression might not lead to ideal breakthroughs and innovation – Government projects not always lean is same vein of thought, more red tape and regulation might not always lead to ideal value out
  4. Feedback today factors into better cancer research and artificial intelligence 100 years from now. Progress gets set to unlikely at times, all gains that have been made will be made – I don’t want to instill false hope, and I don’t want to reduce hope by limiting progress in advance. Progress known as possible beats giving up in advance. Innovation changes things History of Flight (nasa.gov), from what I am reading sounds like first MRI machine was created in 1970s. 2124 likely will have innovations we haven’t dreamed of today.

Blender 3D Updates Learning, July 4th, 2024

Reminder I am not the one on the following videos, I provide because I find useful figure others might find useful as well

Testing a bit, noticing a bit of banding effect on an emissive lantern I added to my seen on the walls that I do not see in cycles.

Also geo nodes mesh to volume on a sphere seems to not reflect with Raytracing on, Raytracing does seem to reflect on other objects.

Christianity Thoughts on July 2nd, 2024

Reminder I am not a Preacher, Minister, or Priest

“But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful” (Luke 6:35-36).

People have tendency to paraphrase, trying to comprehend people might set the combination to give and expect nothing in return.

If someone gives training, education, a lesson. Expecting nothing out of those that are learning might lead to less learned. Burdens for students not all good, giving a safety message without people realizing dangers and being safer is a level of expectation.

If I give to a Charity, I don’t always have the time of day and motivation to track down and make sure every penny is used ideally for all parties. That said I give and I expect it to get to and help those in need. Less people suffering set to an expectation, one shouldn’t invest in?

If a Preacher gives a sermon, expect nobody to be saved, nobody to learn from the value delivered? Does Faith equate to expectation, expectation on things that cannot always be proven, have truth amplified on in ideal lights? If a Preacher is helping someone on one side of town he is taking it on faith that others on the other side of town are done right by, no faith could lead to constantly stuck in the middle never helping anyone in the process.

There is value in expecting nothing in return. People that give don’t want to be leverage to others. Expectation is not always ideal leverage out.

If you are a CEO and have 1000 employees. All of them set to giving their time, days of their life freely, expecting no salary in return does not seem like it would amplify Golden Rule sufficiently. Less dehumanization and slavery turned up matters, gets less than ideally turned up in society as shown via historic precedent, Humanization and Dignity, not treated as a slave factors into the Golden Rule. People have fought and died for Human Rights because they think it is a cause worth dying for – if someone is willing to die for it then they are worthwhile to invest in protecting for all.

More Human Rights and Dignity invested in, in advance, will likely lead to less desires for change and war, less desire for change and war factors into peace. “Blessed are the peacemakers…” – Matthew 5:9. There are likely others in society that might like to invest in similar words as well, what is given is more than what is seen and read.

Reminder writer of this document is Human, might be missing something critical.

Computers, mouse click, expect nothing to happen? Red light turns to green light, not teach others to expect people will move forward? Expectation might lead to not walking into the street.

Less Dehumanization and Slavery

A citizen, any citizen has potential to be set to a criminal, as someone that is less desirable to have around, reduces profit by presence. Allowing this is not good, has shown precedent over time for being misused and reused as a way to reinforce power and people that already have money and power.

Prison and Jail workers are treated at the same level as other humans and workers in society, or not considered at same level? A society that shows throughput can be enabled and reinforced based upon paying other citizens less than what we deem as required for humans is consequential.

The idea might be that hard work is good, criminals get options they might otherwise not have. That said reinforcing in the minds of fellow citizens that they are less than in society, when society hasn’t been perfect before, isn’t perfect now, reinforces LTIs less than ideals on the common seems problematic in many regards.

Throughput gains based upon less oppression matters and are not ideally turned up. Someone that is worked to death in the Texas sun, is different than someone who has air conditioning, has proper nutrition and water, is paid sufficiently, and is treated with dignity and respect as a human being. If it factors into and facilitates the roads we drive on better to know we are reinforcing throughput that values and respects human life and dignity for all citizens.

Mindsets matter, factors into potential for less child labor conditions that might not always ideally be given oversight – border problems in Texas are real, oversight is less than ideal, reinforced less than ideally and that might lead to undocumented workers that might not have their humanity respected sufficiently.

Faster, more supported paths to citizenship might lead to greater levels of humanization less potential unknowns and that seems worthwhile to turn up.