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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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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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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Last week, Dr. Rick Lippin, a friend and the leader of an online group of thought leaders, asked this question: Would someone please explain to me why Climate Change wasn’t a major issue in the recent Trump/Harris Presidential Election? (It was barely mentioned or covered) Extreme weather if not disasters are now at ALL our
Biden left office warning that a small number of super-wealthy individuals have taken control of the country. Echoing Eisenhower’s warning of the Military Industrial Complex, Biden described how these oligarchs used the Tech Industrial Complex (they own) to manipulate the opinions, beliefs, and behaviors of enough of the American population to elect their proxy. Brexit,
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“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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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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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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