Is failure the only way to learn?

Consider the billion-dollar debacle in the Nevada thermal solar power experiment. Now I say experiment because it did fail. Could it have been foreseen that complexity in so many areas foretold failure? So many of the technologies incorporated were unproven and pure experimentation with such a colossal investment that even the financing was experimental.

This is what humans do. They run headlong into catastrophe with little forethought and after-the-fact just say oops, it probably was a bad idea.

Artificial intelligence is going to be as dumb as its creators. Perihelion Engineering is that with each pass through the perihelion you have a new day and new vision having learned from your mistakes.

Stupid is defined as could learn but refuses. To foresee is virtuous. Solar power will show that maintenance costs will trump any short-term energy gains and will fail in the long term.

Prophecy, perhaps. I hope I live long enough to see the result.

The Big Bang is Bad Science

 

I would like to talk to you after you realize that the universe is infinite and did not have a beginning. That the multiverse is what you are looking at, from the infinitely small to the infinitely large and that anywhere the observer is, is the center. That the black hole in the center of the galaxy is the infinite future as we undergo compression from dark matter. Regardless of how fast you travel toward the center of the galaxy you can never get there.

When you begin to think in infinite terms, a panacea of possibilities emerges. Infinite intelligence is aware of you and since autonomy is paramount they can only watch. Parents must allow the child to ultimately stand on its own lest it never know true freedom and you only pray the child does well.