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- Soil is a technology so advanced that it leaves AI’s stunning capabilities literally in the dust. This episode examines soil’s shocking capabilities, and compares its vast R&D budget to the sum of all human invention-with some helpful hints for cities, urban planning, design, and agriculture.
Edenicity brings urbanism together with permaculture to explore ways to heal the planet and vastly improve our quality of life. Learn more at / @edenicity
Download the Edenicity Reference Design at www.edenicity....
Videos Cited
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Studies Cited
Felisa Wolfe-Simon et al. A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus. www.sciencemag.org December 12, 2010. www.science.or...
American Chemical Society Molecule of the Week Archive, Geosmin, March 23, 2020. www.acs.org/mo...
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Chat-GPT 4 Prompts:
Would you create an illustration for a video I'm doing about how natural soil embodies technology vastly more advanced and powerful than AI? I'm looking for a photorealistic 16:9 closeup of a robot inspecting a handful of healthy soil in wonder. The robot is in a grassy clearing on a forested ridge, with the spires of city visible behind it in the distance. The horizon goes through the middle of the image, leaving room for a title at the top.
Please remove the sapling I have highlighted.
This again, but remove the background.
Please draw a photorealistic city skyline with a blue sky in low, forested hills in a 16:9 aspect ratio.
Please re-imagine Théâtre D’opéra Spatial with costumed Boston Dynamics Atlas Robots.
Try a 16:9 aspect ratio, half as many robots, viewed from behind the robots into the theater, with the balconies arranged around giant circular window, through which a bright, hazy, tilted mediterranean village landscape is visible.
Darken the theater, soften the light, dress half the robots in opera costumes, pull the camera in closer to the robots, include some greenery in the Mediterranean village.
Create a 16:9 illustration to convey the vast variety of species that occupy a continent. You will have to be selective, of course, because the total number of organisms described in the accompanying text would not fit on a page. Here is the text: “Imagine:every kind of sparrow, jay, hawk, goose, chicken or owl you ever saw, plus 2,000 more bird species. Every ant, bee, wasp, beetle or assassin bug you ever saw, plus 164,000 more insect species. Every spider, tick, or mite you ever even heard about plus 4,000 more species of arachnids. Every kind of lizard, snake, turtle or alligator, plus 111 other reptile species in toto. Every frog, toad newt and salamander, plus 300 more amphibian species. Every minnow, eel, bass or trout, plus 1,000 more fish species. Every crab, lobster, crayfish or barnacle, plus 4,400 other crustacean species. Every slug, snail, clam, oyster, squid, sea hair or octopus, plus 50 more species of mollusks. 76 species of worms. 31 species of freshwater sponges. All the rats, mice, shrews, squirrels, deer, bison, cows, horses, wolves, mountain lions, manatees, dolphins, whales and humans, plus 480 other mammal species. All the ferns, mosses and grasses, all the vast meadows of wildflowers in a kaleidoscope of colors, petals and clusters. All the ornamental garden flowers and ground covers all the shrubs and evergreens and deciduous trees and vines you ever saw, plus probably another 20,000 species of plants you probably haven't even seen yet.”
Imagine a luminous close-up of soil, showing a dazzling variety of microbial life interacting: protists, arches, bacteria, fungi and algae. 16:9 aspect ratio.
Imagine a 16:9 rendering of a robot in a server farm rewiring itself down to the molecule by vaporizing the copper in its integrated circuit chips and replacing it with silver.
Imagine a 16:9 Pixar-like cartoon of soil protists, archaea, bacteria, fungi and algae dressed as lab researchers with scientific instruments with a dark background.
(Plus the prompt shown in the video)
Written and presented by Kev Polk. TH-cam stills by the creators cited in the video or above. Images as cited above; others courtesy of Pexels.
I’ve heard you say several times that you’re a permaculturist, but knowing that you have a tech background makes so much sense! You seem to think like a programmer
LOL, too true! Holistic farmers such as Joel Salatin tend to have a low opinion of programmers, but so far this channel feels like the correct niche.
Awesome my friend! Im glad this got recommended to me! Gonna show some friends.
Lucht, licht en groen was een motto in Groningen, nu meer hoog rijs. Invloed kunnen hebben op je omgeving en een beetje 'smoel' / herkenning van je buurt in een grotere omgeving.
I don't know if you've done it yet, I don't think so though I have missed a few episodes, of the psychology & psychological effect of Edenicity like ideas.
For example;
Depression (& Anxiety) are considered the psychological equivalent of the common cold it is that common! Additionally while forms of escapism such as gaming, social media, porn, substance abuse (drugs/ booze), gambling etc have all been blamed for the ills of the world by ill-informed conservatives they are all symptoms of greater social problems, of a disconnect from the community and from self-value.
There was a famous experiment done on mice where in the cage they had a dripper filled with drugs, the mice kept consuming the drugs to the point where they all died. -this experiment was taken as proof that drugs are bad.
But where it gets REALLY interesting is that the experiment was replicated years later, the difference was that this time instead of it being a cold barren cage the mice had burrows, climbing/ exercise toys, nesting materials, variety of food, company, all the things that mice like.... and they CHOSE TO NOT DRINK the 'addictive' drug water. They would rather make nests and cuddle other mice than take the free drugs!
-People are the same, ALL of us have been segregated into our own cold barren boxes, with little to no stimuli. With no purpose and no community people try to replicate a life through incel & fascistic cults, pander to demagogues, turn to substance abuse, escapism... and the rates of domestic violence, crime, sexual & physical abuse all rise along with it.
The thing is, all of those things can be managed, not through obedient control & dominance (ie; 1984 etc) but by having environments that encourage helpful and communal activity. Cities should be built in such a way that allow people to LIVE not just exist!
Portugal had a huge drug problem, they increased drug related law enforcement & punishments and yet the rates of drug use and crime went UP, they increased law enforcement & punishments and drug use went up again, and then again and again.... till they changed tack, they de-criminalised all drugs.
Instead of being sent to a judge for committing a crime, people where sent to a doctor to ask them WHY they where taking drugs, this led to understanding the cause of the issue and drug use dropped down to a tiny fraction of what it was. Understanding why people wanted to escape reality helped their society, and of course the more draconian the previous policy was the worse people's lives where and the more need to escape, the more drug use there was.
But all our lives have been created this way. -we're just rats in a cage. No one wants to live cold, barren lives.
By having local business, mixed housing, communal spaces, 'third spaces', walkable neighbourhoods, public transport, buildings built to human scale, greenery, urban gardening, all of this adds to the physical, mental and emotional health of the community, and as thus the rates of escapism, substance abuse, crime and ideological extremism will all go down (which in turn will result in lower health costs and city overheads too)
I couldn't agree more! My Season 1 podcast touched on some of this: th-cam.com/video/6GvQtfCgd5Y/w-d-xo.html --have a look!
There's an additional level of intelligence than what jeff Hawkins said. Intelligence is the ability to ignore what changes are relevant and salient. The ability to change with the environment is great, but that costs energy. At some point, slowness becomes an advantage.
The picture looks amazing. The buildings are not high. Light train alongside busy 2 lane road. Bike path and walking path available. It does not look like it costs too much to integrate
Thank you! looking forward to your next video!
This video covers really nice information and i really appreciate the knowledge it provides
And i am binge watching your videos and find it really informative but i can't find anything related to water other than a short video that municipal water usage is very less compared to electricity generation and industrial farming but i really want you to make a dedicated video about how water will be managed in a city and with intial desnity of 60 percentage more than nyc while also including agriculture how will the city manage its water resources thankyou
Thanks for the kind words. I just searched past transcripts and see that I mentioned water over 100 times. You're right, it's a central theme that deserves a dedicated episode before too long.
@@edenicity Sorry for that and thank you for your attention
Work with an artist to make those plans!! AI is really bad with being able to actually create art that imagines new worlds or concepts but artists do that all the time!! Speaking as a painter ❤️
Great movement
Maybe one of the things you could try is to give it a new vocabulary? For instance, ask it to design an "edenicity" instead of a "city". (And then just in case it knows how to break words into syllables, maybe modify that term a little to something like "edenicitai" - keeping the "Eden", but substituting a bit of "Cathay" for your "city", just so's it doesn't get ideas.)
Then with the new vocab (a minimum of this, otherwise it's going to get difficult to keep human-parsing it), give it new learning materials. Your reference designs might be a good start. And then scenes of ancient places, maybe? Or villages. You want it to still have some buildings to work on, and some streets, lanes, byways ... hmm ... a thesaurus might give you some little used existing vocab to train it on, even?).
Interesting project, anyway. I hope you have (and had) fun with it. That's good enough reason to pursue something like that.
Great suggestions! I'll let you know how it goes.
@@edenicity Looking forward to it!
If only society took this seriously. It's too abstract for most people. We're poisoning the planet and ourselves through greed and ignorance. Amazing analysis, try making it in cartoon form to appeal to the less tech minded .
Thanks for the suggestion. Once I have a several episode buffer, this could be in the running for animated versions.
why not just make the plans yourself? seems like ai is a hindrance.
🤣 could be! Either way, it's a significant piece of work.
Most inventions don't require anywhere near 10K experiments. Not even 1000. Not even 100. The lightbulb is an exception, and thanks to Tesla, not Edison.
My human chauvinism exposed: bad enough those soil critters have an R&D sandbox as big as the Earth. I didn't want to admit it could be more like Saturn.
@@edenicity I appreciate your video despite my correction. I found it fascinating. Keep up the good work.
It's an interesting idea that evolution is a form of intelligence but I disagree. Evolution is a process based on selection by survival of the fittest and IMO lacks purposeful decision making which I consider an essential element of intelligence. Intelligence is more than mindless experimentation, intelligence involves creativity.
A question might therefor be asked whether Mother Nature itself is intelligent and whether intelligence is involved in the design of all life. IMO there might be but not within our current state of comprehension.
you said it yourself: involution is intelligent