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Spiff20:
Then Port Harcourt should be capital being the most developed in the 2 regions, anything less than that? then they should make do with their tiny 5 states that's not up to Oyo state in size.

new2020:
Of what good is the size of Oyo state when Ebonyi is 10x developed than it. By the way, the smallest state in size in SE; Anambra is almost 3x of Lagos...99% of yolobas don't this because they are terrible in geography.

mrvitalis:
Am in total support of this. ... this will make the ijaws feel among and there should also be 100% true federalism.. .. Every region manage what u have and pay 30% to the centre.... .. Local government should also go
The center will only Carter for security, economy and foreign policy

Spiff20:
Then Port Harcourt should be capital being the most developed in the 2 regions, anything less than that? then they should make do with their tiny 5 states that's not up to Oyo state in size.

lacasera14:
I don't see a light at the end of this tunnel called Biafra Struggle. PMB has a lot on his plate already to be distracted by this struggle, infact the more they struggle they get arrested and reduce their chances of ever producing an igbo president and even appointments in Buhari cabinet. They should just chill.

lacasera14:
I don't see a light at the end of this tunnel called Biafra Struggle. PMB has a lot on his plate already to be distracted by this struggle, infact the more they struggle they get arrested and reduce their chances of ever producing an igbo president and even appointments in Buhari cabinet. They should just chill.

Kaakulator:
[b][size=25pt]A steady rise of artificial intelligence could give human societies time to adapt to the impact of the technological change. But humanity might face huge problems if an incredibly smart AI such as Skynet suddenly appeared tomorrow. That’s why several AI researchers have begun looking to history for times when a technology suddenly improved by huge leaps and bounds. They’re also willing to pay anyone between $50 and $500 for strong historical examples of such abrupt technological change.

The “research bounties” on offer come from the AI Impacts project, an initiative founded by researchers from the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in Berkeley and the University of California, Berkeley. They’re hoping to find strong historical examples of “discontinuous technological progress” in which a technology underwent a sudden jump in improvement. A large discontinuity involves more than 100 years of progress at once. A moderate discontinuity might mean more than 10 years of progress at once. So far, the researchers have listed two examples of large discontinuities: the development of nuclear weapons during World War II and improvements in high temperature superconductors starting in 1986.

Early nuclear weapons represented a jump of about 6,000 years of past progress in a single step. Today’s AI technology remains well below human levels of intelligence, but a similarly large discontinuity could quickly turn the tables. Such a leap for AI would almost certainly have huge implications for humanity, regardless of whether or not it went rogue like Skynet or had more beneficial impacts. The AI Impacts project has received funding for its research from Elon Musk, a Silicon Valley pioneer who has openly warned about the potential dangers of AI. (The Boston-based Future of Life Institute chose the AI projects that received Musk’s funding.)

AI Impacts has offered two categories of “research bounties.” The first category involves finding examples of discontinuous technological progress and pays out anywhere between $50 and $500.

To assess discontinuity, we’ve been using “number of years worth of progress at past rates”, as measured by any relevant metric of technological progress. For example, the discovery of nuclear weapons was equal to about 6,000 years worth of previous progress in the relative effectiveness of explosives. However, we are also interested in examples that seem intuitively discontinuous, even if they don’t exactly fit the criteria of being a large number of year’s progress in one go.

Any interested person can email a paragraph that describes their example and includes sources to back up their claims. Sources would ideally have “at least one time series of success on a particular metric,” such as the amount of energy released per unit mass of explosive in the case of comparing nuclear weapons with past explosives.

The second category of research bounties pays out $20 to $100 for examples of a person acting to prevent a risk that was at least 15 years away. This category only requires you to submit one sentence that includes a link or citation supporting the claim. Anyone serious about submitting good examples will want to read the full criteria at the AI Impacts blog. Submissions for both categories can be emailed to katja@intelligence.org.

AI Impacts hopes that studying historical examples of discontinuous technological progress will provide insight into whether AI technology might also undergo a sudden leap in improvement. That’s certainly no easy task, but it may still prove easier than trying to predict the full consequences of AI suddenly becoming the equal or superior of human intelligence. Many U.S. leaders naively predicted that the atomic bomb would eliminate the need for much conventional warfare after World War II; a mistaken assumption that cost the U.S. military dearly during the first hot conflict of the Cold War.

Do you think the AI will undergo a sudden leap in technological progress and take humanity by surprise?

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Kaakulator:
[b][size=25pt]A steady rise of artificial intelligence could give human societies time to adapt to the impact of the technological change. But humanity might face huge problems if an incredibly smart AI such as Skynet suddenly appeared tomorrow. That’s why several AI researchers have begun looking to history for times when a technology suddenly improved by huge leaps and bounds. They’re also willing to pay anyone between $50 and $500 for strong historical examples of such abrupt technological change.

The “research bounties” on offer come from the AI Impacts project, an initiative founded by researchers from the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in Berkeley and the University of California, Berkeley. They’re hoping to find strong historical examples of “discontinuous technological progress” in which a technology underwent a sudden jump in improvement. A large discontinuity involves more than 100 years of progress at once. A moderate discontinuity might mean more than 10 years of progress at once. So far, the researchers have listed two examples of large discontinuities: the development of nuclear weapons during World War II and improvements in high temperature superconductors starting in 1986.

Early nuclear weapons represented a jump of about 6,000 years of past progress in a single step. Today’s AI technology remains well below human levels of intelligence, but a similarly large discontinuity could quickly turn the tables. Such a leap for AI would almost certainly have huge implications for humanity, regardless of whether or not it went rogue like Skynet or had more beneficial impacts. The AI Impacts project has received funding for its research from Elon Musk, a Silicon Valley pioneer who has openly warned about the potential dangers of AI. (The Boston-based Future of Life Institute chose the AI projects that received Musk’s funding.)

AI Impacts has offered two categories of “research bounties.” The first category involves finding examples of discontinuous technological progress and pays out anywhere between $50 and $500.

To assess discontinuity, we’ve been using “number of years worth of progress at past rates”, as measured by any relevant metric of technological progress. For example, the discovery of nuclear weapons was equal to about 6,000 years worth of previous progress in the relative effectiveness of explosives. However, we are also interested in examples that seem intuitively discontinuous, even if they don’t exactly fit the criteria of being a large number of year’s progress in one go.

Any interested person can email a paragraph that describes their example and includes sources to back up their claims. Sources would ideally have “at least one time series of success on a particular metric,” such as the amount of energy released per unit mass of explosive in the case of comparing nuclear weapons with past explosives.

The second category of research bounties pays out $20 to $100 for examples of a person acting to prevent a risk that was at least 15 years away. This category only requires you to submit one sentence that includes a link or citation supporting the claim. Anyone serious about submitting good examples will want to read the full criteria at the AI Impacts blog. Submissions for both categories can be emailed to katja@intelligence.org.

AI Impacts hopes that studying historical examples of discontinuous technological progress will provide insight into whether AI technology might also undergo a sudden leap in improvement. That’s certainly no easy task, but it may still prove easier than trying to predict the full consequences of AI suddenly becoming the equal or superior of human intelligence. Many U.S. leaders naively predicted that the atomic bomb would eliminate the need for much conventional warfare after World War II; a mistaken assumption that cost the U.S. military dearly during the first hot conflict of the Colcd War.

Do you think the AI will undergo a sudden leap in technological progress and take humanity by surprise?

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lincolnj88:
i repeat only igbos are biafran ...we dnt need d urhobos , ijaws and itsekiri, isoko ... But be rest assured biafra will collect the 9 igbo speaking local government from delta, the igbo lga in river state.... U can stick to ur nigeria or form ur niger delta republic..... Mind u biafra has more oil wells in its territory dan d rest of niger delta, more power plants and its nevver aland locked country

ikechu1278:
I'm completely against other minorities joining Biafra. Umu SE listen to me, please please stop including the minorities. I'm Igbo from SS and I am loudly telling you people , including the is going to be a disaster. If you ppl know tribes in SS, you wouldn't even be thinking of it, in reality they'll drag Una down. It shuld be igboland of SE and SS alone. Everybody else can go answer their papa name

ikechu1278:
I'm completely against other minorities joining Biafra. Umu SE listen to me, please please stop including the minorities. I'm Igbo from SS and I am loudly telling you people , including the is going to be a disaster. If you ppl know tribes in SS, you wouldn't even be thinking of it, in reality they'll drag Una down. It shuld be igboland of SE and SS alone. Everybody else can go answer their papa name

erikcantona:
they are biafrans by birth but a refferendum will be conducted for them to decide but am sure many of Dem crave for biafra as one woman called biafra from akwaibom and was singing a very touching song with there language and praizing director with full assurance that his community wnts biafra as soon as. Posible desam wit some part of edo state some part realy want biafra

Spiff20:
Then Port Harcourt should be capital being the most developed in the 2 regions, anything less than that? then they should make do with their tiny 5 states that's not up to Oyo state in size.

lincolnj88:
i repeat only igbos are biafran ...we dnt need d urhobos , ijaws and itsekiri, isoko ... But be rest assured biafra will collect the 9 igbo speaking local government from delta, the igbo lga in river state.... U can stick to ur nigeria or form ur niger delta republic..... Mind u biafra has more oil wells in its territory dan d rest of niger delta, more power plants and its nevver aland locked country

ikechu1278:
I'm completely against other minorities joining Biafra. Umu SE listen to me, please please stop including the minorities. I'm Igbo from SS and I am loudly telling you people , including the is going to be a disaster. If you ppl know tribes in SS, you wouldn't even be thinking of it, in reality they'll drag Una down. It shuld be igboland of SE and SS alone. Everybody else can go answer their papa name

erikcantona:
yoruba people have now registered with new moniker to claim IGBo hahahah. This people wnt sieze to amuze me!!bijaw kallabari ogoni all are more biafran then IGBOs am from OBUMA in degeme lga of rivers am a pure biafran!!isee iseeee !! Get behind us you agents of. Divide and rule

erikcantona:
biafra is not by force if they want they can join or stay with nigerisa nobody is forcing them a woman from akwaibom called radiobiafra and was singing for Us it was so emotional

erikcantona:
they are biafrans by birth but a refferendum will be conducted for them to decide but am sure many of Dem crave for biafra as one woman called biafra from akwaibom and was singing a very touching song with there language and praizing director with full assurance that his community wnts biafra as soon as. Posible desam wit some part of edo state some part realy want biafra

Duru1:
Igwe Ocha is Igbo land and it is not negotiable whether it will be included in the Republic of Igbo land or even Biafra. Please you can take your south-south crap and shove it for all I care.

ikechu1278:
Dude best believe those other minorities people fight over the dumbest thing especially land. It's suicidal to include them in biafra. They'll drag it down. As for Edo, only igbanke is included in Biafra which I support.

Spiff20:
Then Port Harcourt should be capital being the most developed in the 2 regions, anything less than that? then they should make do with their tiny 5 states that's not up to Oyo state in size.

EasternLionn:
Who are you to tell me what I should do ?

lincolnj88:
i repeat only igbos are biafran ...we dnt need d urhobos , ijaws and itsekiri, isoko ... But be rest assured biafra will collect the 9 igbo speaking local government from delta, the igbo lga in river state.... U can stick to ur nigeria or form ur niger delta republic..... Mind u biafra has more oil wells in its territory dan d rest of niger delta, more power plants and its nevver aland locked country

emmysoftyou:
mr man you talk like condom(bomkom).

Ph is not the most developed.
Go to akwa ibom and see what they called most developed.

i only prefare rivers state becos the state has boundaries with akwa ibom,ijaws and igbos..

but to be sincere with you, you need us more than we need you boi..

ikechu1278:
I'm completely against other minorities joining Biafra. Umu SE listen to me, please please stop including the minorities. I'm Igbo from SS and I am loudly telling you people , including the is going to be a disaster. If you ppl know tribes in SS, you wouldn't even be thinking of it, in reality they'll drag Una down. It shuld be igboland of SE and SS alone. Everybody else can go answer their papa name

Curlieweed:
Thanks, bro. You seem to be living in my head. I'll rather support "one" Nigeria than Biafra with any non-Igbo ethnic group.

Some people are just preparing a recipe for disaster. What will be the difference between the new state and Nigeria? You will just have a smaller version of Nigeria. This is exactly what happened with South Sudan, yet some people want to subject our people to the same shame and failure.

erikcantona:
igbankes only we dnt need binis @ all