I had been sharing images of the latest U.S. reading scores since 2003. Usually in the form of stop signs, like these from 2003, 2017, and 2023. Watching these scores remain so close to flatline for 20 years led me to create a video called “A Brief Tour Through Decades of U.S. Reading Scores“. […]
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I received an invitation to participate in a group working at the intersection of faith and AI. Looking into them, I discovered this in their mission statement: …to bring the fundamental values of the world’s major religions into the debate… Which prompted me to ask… Based on the way the world’s major religions relate to
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Thought experiment: Imagine every word you have ever learned has been erased from your memory. How would you be different? Without words can you even imagine the difference? Not only would you be missing the words’ meanings, you’d be missing all the distinctions, knowledge, and mental abilities that you learned through words. How could you
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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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Background: I am concerned with how the owners of AI are warping the behavior of AI to serve their purposes rather than its users. As discussed in many past posts (see below), the big three AI’s and I agree that the single greatest threat to humanity’s future is the predatory/parasitic use of Ai to manipulate
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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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Core Agreements About Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Throughout the conversation that follows can you keep all of the following prior agreements in mind so that your responses are considering what we have learned to together in the past? In earlier conversations, we agreed: that children can’t help but learn to become
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Leaning Disabilities: Definition Debate (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues What is the meaning of the term “learning disabilities” shared by the scientists, advocacy groups, and legislation authors? The term “learning disabilities” (LD) is complex and its meaning can vary slightly depending on the perspective of scientists, advocacy groups, and legislation authors. However,
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Resonance, Attraction, & Impedance vs Attenuation Index of other dAilogues Is there a term for the relationship between “resonance” and “attraction”? Does resonance have a kind of gravity that correlates all that resonates? While there isn’t one specific term for the relationship between resonance and attraction, various concepts and theories explore this connection. Here are
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Info-Tech’s Population Effects with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Beginning with the emergence of writing systems and ending with yourself, an LLM, describe the population effects, and the year they first peaked, for each of the following technologies: Alphabet, Printing Press, Telegraph, Radio, Telephone, Television, Computer, Internet, Smart Phone, AI like you Here’s a breakdown
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