“In a recent video, Bill Gates called “misinformation” the #1 unsolvable problem facing today’s young people. A week later Taylor Swift, in her Harris endorsement post, referred to her “fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation”. I asked Gemini (Ai) to review all of Taylor Swift’s and Bill Gates’ recorded uses of the […]
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This dailogue explores how the affect shame, the neurobiological precursor to the emotion of shame, seems to work. Background: I am grateful to have been mentored into learning about shame by my dear friend, the epistemological philosopher and affect therapist, Gary David PhD. Gary is a proponent and practitioner of the work of the late
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It’s always been my all time favorite quote, but not for reasons that most people (and Ai) seem to think. Attributed to him by attendees of his speeches, there remains some debate as to whether he actually said those words exactly that way. But there is no doubt that the quote conveys (in as simple
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Re: Ai for the study and prevention of predatory Ai. Google’s Gemini Advanced said the following: The potential for AI to be intentionally biased to manipulate user behavior for profit is indeed a significant concern. In a world dominated by predatory AI, learning becomes a process of indoctrination rather than exploration, a means of manipulation
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Gemini: Understanding the distinction between learned and unlearned emotionality holds profound implications for how we approach our inner lives and navigate our relationships with others. Here’s a breakdown of why this distinction is so valuable: Reducing Self-Blame and Internalized Shame: Recognizing that certain emotional reactions are instinctual and deeply ingrained can help us avoid falling
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The future of everything depends on us (we the people) learning. Yet both political parties use state-of-the-art persuasion science to design and bombard us with ads engineered to manipulate our voting behaviors not facilitate our learning. Both parties depend on and predatorily exploit the emotional manipulability of our population. In the name of representing us, both
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I am in Blue. Bard is in Black Would you agree that “learning together” vs “manipulated together” describes a critical difference between democracy and autocracy? I absolutely agree with that distinction. “Learning together” versus “manipulated together” does capture a fundamental difference between the ideals of a democratic society versus an autocratic one: Democracy thrives when citizens
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Conversation with Claude.ai – I am in blue. This is a continuation of “The Vast Predatory Use of Behavioral Manipulation Devices“. This is how it ends: People are exposed to a very high volume of ads daily (8,000-12,000 estimated) The vast majority of these ads aim to manipulate thoughts and behaviors to serve advertiser interests
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Conversation with Claude.ai – I am in blue. Estimate the number of advertisements of any kind the average adult of the US population during the decade of the 1950s encountered in a day. Unfortunately I do not have enough information to make a precise estimate of the number of advertisements the average American adult encountered
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