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Janice Anne Wheeler's avatar

By focusing on rebuilding and creating, we can begin to attract that energy back into our lives...

Hello Laura! You resonated with me on this post and subscribed to my work SPARRING WITH MOTHER NATURE. One of my readers realigned me on positivity just last month, a reminder to stay in the now and enjoy the small things even if the world is crashing and burning....

And...I must comment on WISDOM and hope that mine mindfully, positively continues to grow. I'm betting your work will assist. Thanks!

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Laura Miller's avatar

Hi Janice! I hope that we can all stay focused more positively. We must always work to ensure that the not good (which admittedly happens) doesn't distract us from the good stuff. I'm so glad that we get to mindfully and positively grow together (I love that combination!) through this moment and the future.

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Kurt Rolland's avatar

An AI algorithm is like water, it can never rise above its creative source. It does what it does because a human designer designed it to do that. The more we think AI is human-like, the more we humans look like computers – to the loss of human dignity. AI is nothing more than the latest “fad” of algorithm + processing power + data. There is nothing new "under the sun."

Humans have ontological attributes that computers can never objectively attain, but at most can only mimic through fakery - either well or poorly; some of these are demonstrable, others innate: Soul, spirit, imagination, creativity, self-awareness, humor, wisdom, morality, judgment, love, empathy, disambiguation…I could go on… An “acts like” test can never be the test of human authenticity just as a “tastes like” test can never ensure you are eating a real apple.

Truth and wisdom lie outside us - outside our existential subjectivity and narcissism - if we just have the courage and humility to look outside ourselves and seek its objective nature - it can set us free from ourselves.

I am not aware of any historical or practical observance of macroevolutionary biology in action – so why are we so convinced of the same occurring (macroevolutionary non-biological silicon/intelligence) with AI (singularity). I consider it a superstition or “wish fulfillment,” not science.

I recommend a read: The Machine Stops, by E.M. Forster, 1909.

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Laura Miller's avatar

I agree, we must look beyond ourselves and to the world beyond. Seeing ourselves from outside seems to be a life's work. Radical acceptance of where we are the only path to a future worthy of the journey. The more shape the journey, the more shallow the rewards. We deserve better from ourselves.

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