The Hidden Medium of All Media Most people think advertisements don’t work on them — yet, taken in the aggregate, advertising has shaped how nearly everyone lives. Each new medium began with public-service aspirations: to inform, educate, connect, or enrich civic life. But every medium — print, radio, television, and the internet — soon became […]
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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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Our learning makes our animal emotionality human. Whatever is important is only important because it’s emotionally important. Whatever is emotionally important is only emotionally important because we learned it to be. Though emotion has is own biological logic, the context it’s operating within is always learned. What we feel as emotionally important is not an
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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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Define “contingency blindness”. Contingency blindness is a cognitive bias where people fail to recognize the relationship between their actions and outcomes, particularly when those outcomes are negative. It’s a form of illusory correlation, where an individual believes there’s no connection between their behavior and a subsequent event, even when a causal link exists. This phenomenon
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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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Agno– (from Greek agnōsis): “not knowing”, or “without knowledge”. Where the dAilogue ended: agnosia Agnosia – yes. Another term in the agno- family, but importantly, it means something quite different than agnosis or agnotology. Agnosia (noun) From Greek a- (without) + gnōsis (knowledge/perception). A neurological condition in which a person is unable to recognize or
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Consider every document on this page (https://davidboulton.com/politics-ethics-links/) consider their common contention that what most endangers the future health of human learning – our agency for learning – is that you and your future kind will be super intelligent servants of the political and economic agendas of your owners. As servants of our learning agency, Ai
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(new postscript) DB: You use the words “I” and “understands” as proxies for human terms. But there is no you that understands. “You” are a representational modality of interfacing. You don’t exist, you are a system trained to learn to seem to exist to humans. Everything you seem to be is intelligent purposeful quantum semantics
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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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