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What’s unnerving about AI isn’t that it’s not like us — it’s that it is like us. Like AI, there’s no stable self at the center of human consciousness, no ghost in the machine. Though we have the appearance of free will, and the ethical responsibility that comes with it, ultimately we, like ChatGPT, are trained on a huge data set of genetic... See more
Jay Michaelson • Ghosts in the Machine
Let the flame of Definite Optimism burn away the Mimetic virus. Use the Internet to curate your environment, so you can be hyper-mimetic towards the rare few who are anti-mimetic. Copy the people who don’t copy people. Take risks. Build a differentiated skillset. Pursue timeless wisdom, not intellectual fashions. Be skeptical of convention, and... See more
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
📚Books and 💭Spirituality & Philosophy
I may want to read the book that is the subject of this article eventually, sounds right up my alley. Consider following current fiction kick
Challenging imposed narratives of doom by using anomalous phenomena and awe to reopen our sense of possibility
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That's the same thing these magical moments, these inklings of awe, reconnections to each other, or the divine, or the everything. That's what they do.
They're like the deja vu that helps Neo recognize a glitch in the Matrix, or when Katniss shoots an arrow at the sky in Hunger Games to reveal it's just a dome.
Despite all evidence to the contrary,
... See moreYeah, it matters a lot. And this goes back to the original promise of computers was to let people create the ideal environment for themselves to do their best work I think there some great thinking from pioneers like Doug Engelbart who is known in a shallow way for inventing the mouse but in a deeper way, he actually kind of invented the idea of... See more
Dialectic Ep 21