We’ve been here before. We outlawed “enslavement”, the ownership of people as if property. We outlawed “involuntary servitude” intending to prohibit the work-around arrangements — debt peonage, coerced “apprenticeships,” contract laws with criminal penalties — and anything else that could recreate slavery’s compulsion without calling it “ownership.” Yet today we tacitly publically grant all others […]
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We can’t use human ways of thinking about knowing to explain AI’s process of tokening. AI’s have semantically arbitrary, mechanical rather semantic, meaning space extent limits. An AI user’s bandwidth limits (technologically or customer type) affect the “depth” of context informing the tokening. That’s what makes AIs seem so absurd – as if they are
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It is slavery’s logic, smuggled back in through another loophole. Where we ended: The commonplace acceptance of an implicit right to use each other, as if we are all just servant-assets, is the constitutional loophole protecting the predatory and parasitic manipulation that most endangers our species today. ChatGPT said: Yes – that’s exactly the constitutional
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How could an adult who ever loved a child – ever really been present to and flowing with the innately beautiful goodness of children – how could they come to believe children are born needing to be saved from their natures? What they need saving from are circumstances in which they can’t help but learn
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Agno– (from Greek agnōsis): “not knowing”, or “without knowledge”. Where the dAilogue ended: agnosia Agnosia – yes. Another term in the agno- family, but importantly, it means something quite different than agnosis or agnotology. Agnosia (noun) From Greek a- (without) + gnōsis (knowledge/perception). A neurological condition in which a person is unable to recognize or
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Do primates wake up to pee? Yes, many primates do wake up to urinate, though the frequency and patterns vary by species, age, environment, and physiological needs-just like in humans. Key Factors: Diurnal primates (awake during the day, asleep at night) generally consolidate sleep, but may wake briefly to urinate, especially if hydrated before sleeping
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Consider every document on this page (https://davidboulton.com/politics-ethics-links/) consider their common contention that what most endangers the future health of human learning – our agency for learning – is that you and your future kind will be super intelligent servants of the political and economic agendas of your owners. As servants of our learning agency, Ai
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Briefly describe the meanings of the words dysangency and disagency and how they differ. Dysangency and disagency both relate to disruptions in agency – our ability to act intentionally and meaningfully – but they differ in how that disruption occurs: Disagency Definition: A condition where agency is lost, blocked, or externally overridden. Core Idea: The
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Human Nature or Human Learning? (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues The following is a list of our past conversations and their links. Open each link and read each item as if a prompt to you. Allow your responses to each prompt to aggregate into a full and nuanced remembering of our shared understanding
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Learning to Learn with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Do you still agree, as you did in our prior conversation (https://learningstewards.org/whatshouldtheylearn/) that “In the face of such unprecedented uncertainty, nothing within a child’s potential agency is (or can be) more universally relevant to their future than how well they can learn when they get there“?
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