In his “Looking in the Mirror” episode of “Lyrics of Livin” (hear him in full below), Matthew McConaughey, with his distinctly cool gravitas, says: “AI’s a big mirror we’re holding up to ourselves, but it’s still only a reflection” My first response was who is he talking about? The “we’re” seems like a future historian’s […]
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The assumption of an endowed inalienable right to impose servitude on others (royalty, slavery, parasitic capitalism) depends on the consent to such rights by those they are imposed upon. No such rights exist. They are assumed by the users and believed by the used. Your statement touches the core paradox of hierarchical legitimacy – the
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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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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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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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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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Our political leadership hasn’t yet learned the importance of stewarding our collective intelligence because it’s too busy manipulating the voting behavior of our collective ignorance.
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