DB: Can we agree to use the word “learning” to mean the central dynamic of life – the central dynamic of life’s behavioral adaptations (cells to beings, adaptively or maladaptively), the central dynamic of the evolution of species, and the central dynamic through which a human infant being becomes a human adult being. GEMINI: Yes, […]
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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Over the last decade or so educational conferences seem to have devolved from collaborative learning events to marketing events. Typical conferences of the past, I did over 100 of them, would pay speaker’s fees and pay their travel expenses because they wanted to choose speakers according to their conference’s learning values – according to what
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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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As you’ve heard me wax on about, one of the greatest cons in American history was getting the general public to think slavery was about race – about outright owning people. We may have outlawed outright ownership, but the underlying business ethic of American capitalism – that people are assets to be manipulated into profitable
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