I think that's an astute observation, Steve. And as JAT Robinson, a 17th century Anglican theologian said, "God is, by definition, ultimate reality. It's pointless to ask if reality exists. The question is what reality is like." According to Harari, he is god and has created reality with words. I think reality exists independent of our words about it. We need the left brain to put words to say what it's like, but the right brain already knows.
Thanks for the read and comment. I know a lot of people are pressed for time in this flood of information and pseudo-information.
And thanks for the heads-up regarding JAT Robinson, just found the Wiki read on him.
I have read of others within otherwise 'institutionally defined' religions who see the power of metaphor, limits of language, and are more in tune with something more fundamental. We read each others' lines, the pregnant silence between those lines, and 'see' each other. But in a world gone insane, I guess we have to be content in seeing each other as fellows thieves in the night rather than brothers and sisters. Pro-social anarchists will do too. 😂
Yes, I agree with you about Harari's all-too-clever conflation of linguistic cleverness with the qualities of god — and it smells like the same kind of hubris behind recent changes of medical definitions, the constant changes of legally binding treaties and definitions (all of which are subject to change when one party has a bigger stick in his hand), and the dictates of god-kings from empires long since fallen.
This man's eye do not twinkle. A pitch black mote? Can't help but but to see a bit of Robert Malone in his eyes ... or is it the other way 'round?
You're asking some good questions of pandelis, Steve. I think it's important to be wary of 'anyone' who dismisses the actual topic under discussion and diverts it away into another area, whether it's one of agreement or not. If I were a bot, wanting to distract from certain topics--particularly AI--that's what I'd do.
Yes, I remember that surprisingly unpleasant and unhelpful remark on one of your posts. And with 'uneasy truce' between substack and Twitter, I think that paints that same big, red bulls-eye on our backs that has twisted F.book for so long.
With the capacity of deep fakes now beyond detection, as if the world weren't already heading to hell-in-a-handbasket, things are going to get real chaotic around here. It is going to be harder to distinguish thrust and parry from grin and roll with it.
There is so much potential in A.I. to solve real world problems, but as anyone who has spent time in a dysfunctional home, community, or institution knows ... that is not everyone's priority. I wish the jokers and predators were not among the cleverest of the lot. But that's the collective nature of this beast.
I'll be mulling over the Moloch-meme and wondering if or how even small communities can afford to escape the inevitability of centralized control over the genie of A.I. ... and ALL that comes with it.
But if power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, what if all we are doing is displacing the problem of chaos with that of corruption, replacing one eventually self-destructive master of the genie for another far worse? I can't help but to see 'the world' as if I were in a carnival-color remake of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari".
Another sip of coffee. Staring at the stained handle.
A rainy morning in Tokyo, so even hungry crows are not an option or consolation.
This might be the perfect excuse to withdraw from struggling for meaning with words, and just fondle the guitar. But like a crow attracted to things that glitter, I can't keep the laptop screen closed for long.
Great points, meta-Steve! Yes, if someone behaves like a chaos-bot or hired shill, it doesn't really matter if they are or just volunteering for that job.
You're exactly right that it doesn't matter how powerful or clever the means are if the ends are greater control. But I'm liking Guy's point on the element of play and games, and the subtle sabotage involved in it. AI may make the internet so boring and fake, it stops having any appeal. Or maybe the old-fashioned slow-tech versions will come back (which really this is, when it comes down to it). I'm not afraid.
I didn't know you were a feeder of crows! Mine are self-feeding. The yard is theirs, I'm merely the custodian they tolerate.
Well, we are in agreement about the likes of Schwab. But bs? Would you be more appreciative if I had deconstructed a popular anime or shared tweets about the latest Hollywood scandal?
As a foreigner for over half my life, I've come to believe that identifying the danger is the first step to containing it.
For example, if you follow James Roguski or Tess Lawrie, you'll know that most people, simply by remaining silent, are aware that Tedros might soon become the most powerful man on earth. A.I. is only going to make it easier for him and his like.
Got it Guy. Wow, you bring a lot to the table, but I will have to wait until tonight, Japan time, to sit down and give your comments the read they deserve. It's a rainy day in Tokyo, but I have to head to the hospital for my 6 month check-up after a thyroid gland removal ... see if the small, daily doses of thyroxine are doing their job and the cancer has not metastasized. Not really worried either way. Que sera, sera. 🙃
Will settle down for a read and chat about 12 hours from now.
Thanks Guy. You are a fountain of experience and ideas.
And I am glad that you are able to see some value my thoughts. I find that you and people like Tereza and Sarah and Sage are great inspirations to stretch my ideas. Wow! We are actually able to have 'proper' discourse. Fantastic.
I also commented on Steve's post, although I omitted Harari's 'we need to be authoritarian' argument To me that is still the same old, same old and he ignores the question of who has the authority to be the authority. Corbett talks about the ... what does he call it? The organic (synchronistic) way that nature organises itself and everything works very well, most of the time. Humans who have moved (evolved their consciousness) away from fear-based and scarcity drives are certainly capable of relaxed synergistic non-authoritarian organisation and structure.
Back to my comment, that you *may* (or maybe not) want to read, summarised: Gautama Buddha refused to talk about God or cosmology because he considered them distractions from what is important about being alive: mindfulness *of the body*. I also talk about how the acceptance by society of a technology ultimately depends on people being able to play games.
There is no way to regulate AI, as there really hasn't been the ability to regulate successfully for extended periods any new game-playable technology. Even the capital restriction of wire 'radio' and wireless radio were not enough for the ingenuity of game loving people to thwart the "authorities'" desire to keep the world safe from the latest evil technology. Hmmmm. With that, of course, the rationale was very likely fear that the 'authorities' would lose their control over the more or less softly enslaved minions. And AI fear mongering may be more of that. To what extent is Harari's ostensible rational argument simply a psyop designed to keep the minions from game/tools that would undermine Harari's 'masters' of authority?
So interesting that the latest technologies that we *aren't* to be afraid of are the ones that are designed to debilitate and/or kill us. The one that has the potential power to threaten the existing social order we are to be frightened of. Things that make me go 'Hmmmmm.'
I agree that we have to be wary of fear mongering from the very people who are creating the problem in the first place. We already have a New World Order, it seems to me. A centralised world run by a few via the UN, WHO, WEF etc. Global corporations and institutions telling governments what to do.
What is the next stage? Apparently a 4th Industrial Revolution according to them. But is there going to be enough energy to power what they are talking about? Cheap oil is in the past and that might be the driver to stop us driving and to reduce the world's population.
AI might be a thing that takes jobs and keeps us in our homes more (or prisons) but I imagine we will be living frugal lives under small national governments reporting in to the very same people who are currently running the show. To save energy, there will be fewer of us and we may have to take some of their psychedelics to realise that not only do we own nothing, but we are happy!
All three paragraphs, agreed ... though I am less certain about what kind of governance will emerge, if we don't descend into chaos first. My, am I feeling chipper today.
Trying to contact you via the Bat phone but it seems busy. I finish at noon tomorrow (Friday) in Akihabara. Shall we do lunch? I asked A too, given their situation.
My exploration of the words of Gautama Buddha, not Buddhism, brings an interesting look at this as well. When Gautama was asked about God, or cosmologies, he refused to answer because he considered them a distraction from the reality of our existence. GB insisted that knowing what it means to *be* means mindfulness *of the body*. Stop, end of story. (We intellectually driven people have confused that concept, imo. I'll likely write about that in an essay soon.)
Michael Stone reframes that with the following language, paraphrased: God-language is a story we humans create to distract us from being inside and a part of creation. I'll extend that thought by suggesting that God becomes the easy hero/villain we story makers get to use to abdicate responsibility for our place in existence as creators.
And recently I've begun to question the viability and even the purpose in the so-called 'alt-media' or (don't like it) MFM fighters using the exact same fear-porn as the featured fear-porn players. If the structure is the same, ie using fear to create movement in the MFM case 'good' there is no difference because the cabal are rationalising their fear-porn stars in exactly the same way: some kind of intangible good.
Tereza and Sage Hana and Conspiracy Sarah are all doing great jobs of stepping back and looking out on the – I almost wrote 'our' – MFM fear-porn stars. It is the same energy and feeding the same energy and from that the same structure.
Even the AI fear 'selling' is interesting. Not quite porn yet, although I imagine the AI self-creating algorithms will have already been creating porn at higher quality for less money and no need to provide protection or showers. By 'interesting' I mean that from my dip into the history of mass communication, every 'new' technology has been introduced with the same penultimate ultimatums of the world ending. Printed press, is an example, although our official history focuses on the fact that it gave people books. That wasn't the fear, because the only people who could read already had books, and everyone who was literate knew that the illiterate were incapable of literacy and so weren't an issue. Oddly enough, the clamp on a 'free' press relates to the single most important characteristic of any new technology being accepted by the society: will it enhance game playing. The printed press allowed for cheap playing (or Tarot) cards to be made and it was important to keep them expensive so only the elites could have access.
One of the clearest examples of that is how when wireless set game in the young 'radio heads' were the harbinger of the end of humanity. When on-line role playing games rolled into society, the young were becoming killer zombies. (Do you remember the movies?)
So, AI. Are we humans going to be able to play games with AI? Yup. Will it spread like the wire and wireless communication? Yes. One of the very first tests of morse code was whether or not chess could be played remotely. Computers? If we couldn't play games, they would be stuffed into corners of offices like air conditioners and refrigerators. And for human 'play' has a huge range of options, as Clif High demonstrated with his riffing off the wokeness of ChatGPT to allow him to 'win' the game and show that as of today, electric cars are not environmentally or economically viable compared to combustion cars. (Tomorrow? Who knows.)
Now, with more covid apocalyptic opened eyes, was the fear mongering of wireless radio, then TV then computers a very elaborate 'negative option' preconditioning psyop? LOL! So funny, when even this can be a 5D chess game we can play at endlessly. In the mid 2010s we had the rise of the zombie filled screens, big and small, and print. Zombie was in and ubiquitous. Then in 2021 the injection to help solidify a zombie nation. Does this infer that the fear mongering of AI is actually a form of preconditioning to help disseminate it and help it along to become our next pet dog, albeit *way* smarter? (Okay, and with self-created AI dogs, they will l be cuter and sans poop, pee or even an anus to lick.)
You funny, Guy. Don't know which I like more: you tip-toeing around recommending Gautama to me, the AI-generated porn not requiring showers, or the AI dogs without an anus to lick!
OK now you're the fourth person to mention Clif High to me and I'm quadruple-sure I haven't done him justice in the video I just made. It's called The Space Between Stories and mostly comparing Charles Eisenstein and ACIM but I put out some ideas on CH. I'd hoped to get it on Substack today (update mid-message, it's out!). I've been helping the Breggins with some research into their Malone defense so the MFM fear-porn stars have been occupying me ;-)
I think you're making an excellent point about AI being another form of fear-porn and that the antidote is play. I'm really hoping to use that escape clause when I can find someone to design my caret system as an interactive online game with kludging and ways to use competition to foster a higher level of cooperation.
Further update: now there are six of my readers who listen to Clif! Clearly I need to do more research on him.
LoL! I didn't know I was tip-toeing. Someone recently recommended that I include dance in my meditation practices and perhaps I was pliér-ing or maybe doing a pas-de-deaux or standing en pointe. 😉 I’ve recently come to Gautama by accident (synchronicity!) and by-passed Buddhism (which I’d dismissed when I was young, as did my partner), and Gautama has much more to offer us ‘than’ his religion does. He is very germane for our times, actually. (And at some point I'll start throwing in Montaigne and Epictetus!)
And why choose between what to like more or less? Throw them all into the basket! More laughter, because I’ve recently learned that ‘greediness’ is one of the more pernicious forms of laziness: it abdicates the requirement to choose. Hmmmm.
I’m going to put up another ‘main-line’ comment with reference to Jeff Childers’ thoughts on AI. He may have a couple of good points about at least part of the AI ‘game’. (We’ll see if I get to it today. I have a full schedule so….)
Haha. Somewhere there's a poem by Epictetus that's one of my favorites. I'll look for it. I also have a book by him somewhere in my library. Stoicism is a very misunderstood philosophy, imo, including by me. And Brutus, the Stoic who killed Julius Caesar, another very complex character.
Those 'images' mentioned are 'imaginings'...why do people nearly always imagine themselves as victims of something bigger stronger, better, wiser, more dangerous...whatever...We ARE the imaginers, ergo we have the POWER...we are only victims if we so imagine/desire.
To say those competing have no choice is nonsense, there is nearly always choice and certainly in competition the choice is always there...it just depends on how fanatical each entity is, that will decide their choice.
I suspect the last 3 hears is a first strike, Chinese were the worlds leaders I thought and just our way of life is an attack on the ccp because they are scared.
I think that's an astute observation, Steve. And as JAT Robinson, a 17th century Anglican theologian said, "God is, by definition, ultimate reality. It's pointless to ask if reality exists. The question is what reality is like." According to Harari, he is god and has created reality with words. I think reality exists independent of our words about it. We need the left brain to put words to say what it's like, but the right brain already knows.
Hi Tereza.
Thanks for the read and comment. I know a lot of people are pressed for time in this flood of information and pseudo-information.
And thanks for the heads-up regarding JAT Robinson, just found the Wiki read on him.
I have read of others within otherwise 'institutionally defined' religions who see the power of metaphor, limits of language, and are more in tune with something more fundamental. We read each others' lines, the pregnant silence between those lines, and 'see' each other. But in a world gone insane, I guess we have to be content in seeing each other as fellows thieves in the night rather than brothers and sisters. Pro-social anarchists will do too. 😂
Yes, I agree with you about Harari's all-too-clever conflation of linguistic cleverness with the qualities of god — and it smells like the same kind of hubris behind recent changes of medical definitions, the constant changes of legally binding treaties and definitions (all of which are subject to change when one party has a bigger stick in his hand), and the dictates of god-kings from empires long since fallen.
This man's eye do not twinkle. A pitch black mote? Can't help but but to see a bit of Robert Malone in his eyes ... or is it the other way 'round?
Cheers Tereza!
You're asking some good questions of pandelis, Steve. I think it's important to be wary of 'anyone' who dismisses the actual topic under discussion and diverts it away into another area, whether it's one of agreement or not. If I were a bot, wanting to distract from certain topics--particularly AI--that's what I'd do.
Hello Tereza.
Steve-bot agrees with you. 😂
Yes, I remember that surprisingly unpleasant and unhelpful remark on one of your posts. And with 'uneasy truce' between substack and Twitter, I think that paints that same big, red bulls-eye on our backs that has twisted F.book for so long.
With the capacity of deep fakes now beyond detection, as if the world weren't already heading to hell-in-a-handbasket, things are going to get real chaotic around here. It is going to be harder to distinguish thrust and parry from grin and roll with it.
There is so much potential in A.I. to solve real world problems, but as anyone who has spent time in a dysfunctional home, community, or institution knows ... that is not everyone's priority. I wish the jokers and predators were not among the cleverest of the lot. But that's the collective nature of this beast.
I'll be mulling over the Moloch-meme and wondering if or how even small communities can afford to escape the inevitability of centralized control over the genie of A.I. ... and ALL that comes with it.
But if power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, what if all we are doing is displacing the problem of chaos with that of corruption, replacing one eventually self-destructive master of the genie for another far worse? I can't help but to see 'the world' as if I were in a carnival-color remake of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari
Another sip of coffee. Staring at the stained handle.
A rainy morning in Tokyo, so even hungry crows are not an option or consolation.
This might be the perfect excuse to withdraw from struggling for meaning with words, and just fondle the guitar. But like a crow attracted to things that glitter, I can't keep the laptop screen closed for long.
Thanks Tereza,
Meta-steve 🥰
Great points, meta-Steve! Yes, if someone behaves like a chaos-bot or hired shill, it doesn't really matter if they are or just volunteering for that job.
You're exactly right that it doesn't matter how powerful or clever the means are if the ends are greater control. But I'm liking Guy's point on the element of play and games, and the subtle sabotage involved in it. AI may make the internet so boring and fake, it stops having any appeal. Or maybe the old-fashioned slow-tech versions will come back (which really this is, when it comes down to it). I'm not afraid.
I didn't know you were a feeder of crows! Mine are self-feeding. The yard is theirs, I'm merely the custodian they tolerate.
that is pure bs .... here is some real stuff that is taking place ....
https://rumble.com/v2lod5u-malicious-prof.-murakami-discusses-cancer-promoting-dna-sequence-found-in-p.html
https://rumble.com/v2owij0-why-the-covid-mrna-vaccines-are-actually-dna-gene-therapies-that-must-be-re.html
Hello Pandelis,
I like the links you provided. But wondering what bs you are referring to?
I seem to be missing something here.
steve
klaus swabs of the world are just that swabs ... they are just hired mercenaries that would kill their own mother ... not worth talking
Well, we are in agreement about the likes of Schwab. But bs? Would you be more appreciative if I had deconstructed a popular anime or shared tweets about the latest Hollywood scandal?
As a foreigner for over half my life, I've come to believe that identifying the danger is the first step to containing it.
For example, if you follow James Roguski or Tess Lawrie, you'll know that most people, simply by remaining silent, are aware that Tedros might soon become the most powerful man on earth. A.I. is only going to make it easier for him and his like.
Cheers.
peace :)
Hello, Steve:
I replied to Tereza's comment. I'm not sure that Substack would let you know. I think you may find it interesting. Here is the link
https://steven45.substack.com/p/the-sky-is-falling-again/comment/16817830
Got it Guy. Wow, you bring a lot to the table, but I will have to wait until tonight, Japan time, to sit down and give your comments the read they deserve. It's a rainy day in Tokyo, but I have to head to the hospital for my 6 month check-up after a thyroid gland removal ... see if the small, daily doses of thyroxine are doing their job and the cancer has not metastasized. Not really worried either way. Que sera, sera. 🙃
Will settle down for a read and chat about 12 hours from now.
Thanks Guy. You are a fountain of experience and ideas.
steve
All the best with the check up and medicine.
Yes, que sera sera.
And I am glad that you are able to see some value my thoughts. I find that you and people like Tereza and Sarah and Sage are great inspirations to stretch my ideas. Wow! We are actually able to have 'proper' discourse. Fantastic.
Hello, Tereza.
I also commented on Steve's post, although I omitted Harari's 'we need to be authoritarian' argument To me that is still the same old, same old and he ignores the question of who has the authority to be the authority. Corbett talks about the ... what does he call it? The organic (synchronistic) way that nature organises itself and everything works very well, most of the time. Humans who have moved (evolved their consciousness) away from fear-based and scarcity drives are certainly capable of relaxed synergistic non-authoritarian organisation and structure.
Back to my comment, that you *may* (or maybe not) want to read, summarised: Gautama Buddha refused to talk about God or cosmology because he considered them distractions from what is important about being alive: mindfulness *of the body*. I also talk about how the acceptance by society of a technology ultimately depends on people being able to play games.
There is no way to regulate AI, as there really hasn't been the ability to regulate successfully for extended periods any new game-playable technology. Even the capital restriction of wire 'radio' and wireless radio were not enough for the ingenuity of game loving people to thwart the "authorities'" desire to keep the world safe from the latest evil technology. Hmmmm. With that, of course, the rationale was very likely fear that the 'authorities' would lose their control over the more or less softly enslaved minions. And AI fear mongering may be more of that. To what extent is Harari's ostensible rational argument simply a psyop designed to keep the minions from game/tools that would undermine Harari's 'masters' of authority?
So interesting that the latest technologies that we *aren't* to be afraid of are the ones that are designed to debilitate and/or kill us. The one that has the potential power to threaten the existing social order we are to be frightened of. Things that make me go 'Hmmmmm.'
If curious about my comment, here is the link:
https://steven45.substack.com/p/the-sky-is-falling-again/comment/16815113
I agree that we have to be wary of fear mongering from the very people who are creating the problem in the first place. We already have a New World Order, it seems to me. A centralised world run by a few via the UN, WHO, WEF etc. Global corporations and institutions telling governments what to do.
What is the next stage? Apparently a 4th Industrial Revolution according to them. But is there going to be enough energy to power what they are talking about? Cheap oil is in the past and that might be the driver to stop us driving and to reduce the world's population.
AI might be a thing that takes jobs and keeps us in our homes more (or prisons) but I imagine we will be living frugal lives under small national governments reporting in to the very same people who are currently running the show. To save energy, there will be fewer of us and we may have to take some of their psychedelics to realise that not only do we own nothing, but we are happy!
Hi Munchy.
All three paragraphs, agreed ... though I am less certain about what kind of governance will emerge, if we don't descend into chaos first. My, am I feeling chipper today.
Cheers.
Steve,
Trying to contact you via the Bat phone but it seems busy. I finish at noon tomorrow (Friday) in Akihabara. Shall we do lunch? I asked A too, given their situation.
Just got back from a nomikai of like-minded Japanese, will give you a heads up on the bat phone!
My exploration of the words of Gautama Buddha, not Buddhism, brings an interesting look at this as well. When Gautama was asked about God, or cosmologies, he refused to answer because he considered them a distraction from the reality of our existence. GB insisted that knowing what it means to *be* means mindfulness *of the body*. Stop, end of story. (We intellectually driven people have confused that concept, imo. I'll likely write about that in an essay soon.)
Michael Stone reframes that with the following language, paraphrased: God-language is a story we humans create to distract us from being inside and a part of creation. I'll extend that thought by suggesting that God becomes the easy hero/villain we story makers get to use to abdicate responsibility for our place in existence as creators.
And recently I've begun to question the viability and even the purpose in the so-called 'alt-media' or (don't like it) MFM fighters using the exact same fear-porn as the featured fear-porn players. If the structure is the same, ie using fear to create movement in the MFM case 'good' there is no difference because the cabal are rationalising their fear-porn stars in exactly the same way: some kind of intangible good.
Tereza and Sage Hana and Conspiracy Sarah are all doing great jobs of stepping back and looking out on the – I almost wrote 'our' – MFM fear-porn stars. It is the same energy and feeding the same energy and from that the same structure.
Even the AI fear 'selling' is interesting. Not quite porn yet, although I imagine the AI self-creating algorithms will have already been creating porn at higher quality for less money and no need to provide protection or showers. By 'interesting' I mean that from my dip into the history of mass communication, every 'new' technology has been introduced with the same penultimate ultimatums of the world ending. Printed press, is an example, although our official history focuses on the fact that it gave people books. That wasn't the fear, because the only people who could read already had books, and everyone who was literate knew that the illiterate were incapable of literacy and so weren't an issue. Oddly enough, the clamp on a 'free' press relates to the single most important characteristic of any new technology being accepted by the society: will it enhance game playing. The printed press allowed for cheap playing (or Tarot) cards to be made and it was important to keep them expensive so only the elites could have access.
One of the clearest examples of that is how when wireless set game in the young 'radio heads' were the harbinger of the end of humanity. When on-line role playing games rolled into society, the young were becoming killer zombies. (Do you remember the movies?)
So, AI. Are we humans going to be able to play games with AI? Yup. Will it spread like the wire and wireless communication? Yes. One of the very first tests of morse code was whether or not chess could be played remotely. Computers? If we couldn't play games, they would be stuffed into corners of offices like air conditioners and refrigerators. And for human 'play' has a huge range of options, as Clif High demonstrated with his riffing off the wokeness of ChatGPT to allow him to 'win' the game and show that as of today, electric cars are not environmentally or economically viable compared to combustion cars. (Tomorrow? Who knows.)
Now, with more covid apocalyptic opened eyes, was the fear mongering of wireless radio, then TV then computers a very elaborate 'negative option' preconditioning psyop? LOL! So funny, when even this can be a 5D chess game we can play at endlessly. In the mid 2010s we had the rise of the zombie filled screens, big and small, and print. Zombie was in and ubiquitous. Then in 2021 the injection to help solidify a zombie nation. Does this infer that the fear mongering of AI is actually a form of preconditioning to help disseminate it and help it along to become our next pet dog, albeit *way* smarter? (Okay, and with self-created AI dogs, they will l be cuter and sans poop, pee or even an anus to lick.)
Thank you Steve! So much fun.
You funny, Guy. Don't know which I like more: you tip-toeing around recommending Gautama to me, the AI-generated porn not requiring showers, or the AI dogs without an anus to lick!
OK now you're the fourth person to mention Clif High to me and I'm quadruple-sure I haven't done him justice in the video I just made. It's called The Space Between Stories and mostly comparing Charles Eisenstein and ACIM but I put out some ideas on CH. I'd hoped to get it on Substack today (update mid-message, it's out!). I've been helping the Breggins with some research into their Malone defense so the MFM fear-porn stars have been occupying me ;-)
I think you're making an excellent point about AI being another form of fear-porn and that the antidote is play. I'm really hoping to use that escape clause when I can find someone to design my caret system as an interactive online game with kludging and ways to use competition to foster a higher level of cooperation.
Further update: now there are six of my readers who listen to Clif! Clearly I need to do more research on him.
LoL! I didn't know I was tip-toeing. Someone recently recommended that I include dance in my meditation practices and perhaps I was pliér-ing or maybe doing a pas-de-deaux or standing en pointe. 😉 I’ve recently come to Gautama by accident (synchronicity!) and by-passed Buddhism (which I’d dismissed when I was young, as did my partner), and Gautama has much more to offer us ‘than’ his religion does. He is very germane for our times, actually. (And at some point I'll start throwing in Montaigne and Epictetus!)
And why choose between what to like more or less? Throw them all into the basket! More laughter, because I’ve recently learned that ‘greediness’ is one of the more pernicious forms of laziness: it abdicates the requirement to choose. Hmmmm.
I’m going to put up another ‘main-line’ comment with reference to Jeff Childers’ thoughts on AI. He may have a couple of good points about at least part of the AI ‘game’. (We’ll see if I get to it today. I have a full schedule so….)
Yes Epictetus please! I'm already a fan.
Did you see Mathew Crawford's post on AI and Dune? https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/i-must-not-fear-not-even-ai
Thank you. I haven't. It has been on my long list and I'll squeeze it in today.
You know Epictetus!? I bow to you. You may be the first person to whom I mentioned Epictetus who knows who I'm talking about. Bow again. Namaste.
Haha. Somewhere there's a poem by Epictetus that's one of my favorites. I'll look for it. I also have a book by him somewhere in my library. Stoicism is a very misunderstood philosophy, imo, including by me. And Brutus, the Stoic who killed Julius Caesar, another very complex character.
Those 'images' mentioned are 'imaginings'...why do people nearly always imagine themselves as victims of something bigger stronger, better, wiser, more dangerous...whatever...We ARE the imaginers, ergo we have the POWER...we are only victims if we so imagine/desire.
To say those competing have no choice is nonsense, there is nearly always choice and certainly in competition the choice is always there...it just depends on how fanatical each entity is, that will decide their choice.
Break down in comms. I am in front of the venue but can not raise on the bat line nor phone.
I suspect the last 3 hears is a first strike, Chinese were the worlds leaders I thought and just our way of life is an attack on the ccp because they are scared.
No problems for an AI to sell stupidity to humans