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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I’ve been very fortunate to be included in an email group with around fifty leading thinkers in healthcare and health science. The groups main initiator is Dr. Rick Lippin, who I’ve have known through correspondence only for 20 years. He is amazing at stirring up good conversations. He appreciates my perspective and occasionally tags me
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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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Still preclinical, but now backed by convergent 2018→2025 evidence, PBN Y1R is the central, non-opioid switch for enduring pain. Do you understand the thesis implicit in: “Scientists Found the Potential Off Button for Stopping Chronic Pain”: Nicholas Betley from the University of Pennsylvania has discovered that a previously overlooked group of neurons in the parabrachial
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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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We’ve been here before. We outlawed “enslavement”, the ownership of people as if property. We outlawed “involuntary servitude” intending to prohibit the work-around arrangements — debt peonage, coerced “apprenticeships,” contract laws with criminal penalties — and anything else that could recreate slavery’s compulsion without calling it “ownership.” Yet today we tacitly publically grant all others
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We can’t use human ways of thinking about knowing to explain AI’s process of tokening. AI’s have semantically arbitrary, mechanical rather semantic, meaning space extent limits. An AI user’s bandwidth limits (technologically or customer type) affect the “depth” of context informing the tokening. That’s what makes AIs seem so absurd – as if they are
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