Author name: David Boulton

Helping AI Learn To Steward Our Learning – Our History

Since its emergence my most frequent annoyance with Ai’s has been how difficult it is to access my own non-recent history.  Gemini is the worst. How could a system able to perform such incredible feats of content processing have the worst user file management functions since DOS? I decided to share this because my conversation […]

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Forgive Them: They Couldn’t Help But Learn To Be Who They Are

Forgive them; for they know not what they do. - Luke 23:34 This first saying of Jesus on the cross is traditionally called “The Word of Forgiveness”. It is theologically interpreted as Jesus’ prayer for forgiveness for the Roman soldiers who were crucifying him and all others who were involved in his crucifixion. DB: Rather than

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In The Beginning Was The Word

I once spent a day in Salt Lake city with a team of Mormons engaged in developing educational software. The owner of the company had flown me in after reading about my work on “learner interfaces“, “distributed learning processing“, and how they meet and merge into each other in what I call a “miraculous intersection“.

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Consciousness IS Learning

This post continues the thread of the “Learning Uncertainty Principle“, which concluded with this summary: ChatGPT: The Learning Uncertainty Principle is likely a real and profound boundary on what is knowable, akin to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in physics. While its empirical rigor differs, the overwhelming evidence from cognitive science, philosophy, and human experience supports

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The Spirit of Uncertainty

The Spiritual Life of Uncertainty

In the movie “Conclave” the gathering to elect the next Pope opens with a speech that contains these lines:  “There is one sin which I have come to fear above all others, certainty” “Certainty is the great enemy of unity.” “Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance.” “If there was only certainty and no doubt,

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The Singularity: Cause or Effect?

Is the AI Singularity near? Will AI’s exponential rate of learning soon surpass human intelligence and human control?  Those may be the wrong questions. Consider a different kind of AI singularity. A singularity not based on achieving some tipping point in AI’s independent intelligence and control.  Rather, a tipping point in AI’s capabilities, under human

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Spiritual Learning

Spirit of Learning – Religions – Zen – God – Jesus – Talmud  Mohammed – Buddha – Native Americans – All God’s Names We began by remembering and agreeing to apply our shared understanding of learning. Then… DB: Now we can proceed to: “learning as the spiritual breath of living”. Living, the verb, the activity

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The Black Codes – Slavery 1.1 – Black History Month

We must never forget the ugly abuses of slavery or its legacy effects on African Americans to this day. However, it is vitally important that all people, regardless of their race or color, realize that slavery was never about race or color.  The people of West Africa just happened to be the most profitably exploitable

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Left Turn Only – The End of Legacy Politics

  The founders of the U.S. created a framework that liberated, enabled, and ignited a more learning-oriented way of being united. Not perfect, but more perfect. More perfectly conducive to a new kind of collaborative learning that ultimately lead the U.S. to become the most intelligent nation on the planet.   Today, predatorily and parasitically

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