joules77

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by joules77 1y ago
Well its not a simple story. For example, your body and mind are built on top of non democratic society of a few trillion cells. Why trust it? Freedom of speech and liberal democracies are not magic because there are blind spots to how they
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by joules77 1y ago
Look up the Teddy Roosevelt era. Before his election and after he leaves.
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by joules77 1y ago
More interesting is how Religion survives no matter the political system, economic system, science/tech progress, corruption, pedo scandals etc etc. Someone has submitted an article about Quantum Physics being a mess. Obviously cuz log
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by joules77 1y ago
Corporations have to be rethought. They have become hyper optimized (thank McKinseyBros) and are not able to adapt as rate of change in the environment increases. Recent story I heard from a well know corp strategy retreat, was the CEO basi
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by joules77 1y ago
Go deeper - why does anti-intellectualism emerge?
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by joules77 1y ago
Programmers deal with uncertainty and ambiguity too. But the training involves filing a bug and sweeping it under the carpet. When things meltdown, systems are hacked, data is lost they call the Lawyer.
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by joules77 1y ago
Sounds like Lecture 19 - https://oyc.yale.edu/sociology/socy-151
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by joules77 1y ago
Writing and writers changing every few decade. Reacting to the output of the previous gen. Popular shows of 80-90s avoided trauma and ambiguity. Everything was simple and morally clear. Then there was a huge counter reaction overload where
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinch_(plasma_physics)
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by joules77 1y ago
Classic Double Bind. Whole frame has to shift to escape it. Something like massive cyberattack/bank nationalization/interest bearing CBDCs/all rates set by AI etc.
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by joules77 1y ago
Philosophers have been thinking about this for a long time. Why does the Vatican survive collapse of empires, nations, world wars, plagues, internal schisms, the enlightenment, reformation, revolutions etc etc? And they have identified so
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by joules77 1y ago
Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West was written 100 years ago and the theory says - Countries/Civilizations are like Organisms - born - grow - age - die. He shows the life cycle of an empire. People are so individually different
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by joules77 1y ago
What it is doesn't matter. It can be god, kids, country, lover, work, whatever. Click Sessions - lecture 1 & 2 (the Ring of Gyges parts) cover it - https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181
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by joules77 1y ago
> the way I understand the Judeo-Christian inspiration is it is about transcending nature Nope. It's about realizing there is something much larger than self going on. If the focus is only on self why do anything for someone else?
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by joules77 1y ago
More than Market driving it, "feelings" naturally emerge in systems that have to deal with uncertainty. It's natures hack when logic and rationality fails. The only thing predictable here is AI devs will start having existent
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by joules77 1y ago
“The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race is as ineradicable as the flea.” Out of the nihilistic swamp where values have died and all that’s left is performance, spectacle, consumption, r
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by joules77 1y ago
During such a discussion it will probably become more interesting to chat with the bot about the decisions its making, than to chat with the other person :)
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by joules77 1y ago
> deliberate trolling, making people angry, making people outraged God saves those kids if that's what they are being taught. Sad to watch what's happening to the US. Total lack of political/cultural figures that can unify
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by joules77 1y ago
As an oldie who has lived through multiple hype cycles - Don't take the "retire early" crowd seriously. Over the decades, I have seen too many friends who have fallen for this story, 'hit their numbers' and loose th
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The Craft of Making Combs from Buffalo Horn(ruralindiaonline.org)
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by joules77 1y ago
Engineering/STEM training doesn't have what is required to fix such problems. So they have to get involved with multi-disciplinary groups or nothing useful will ever get built that actually fixes things. This is why lot of people
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by joules77 1y ago
Phrase generators are busy. So we now have... Neoliberalism, Platformization, McDonaldization, Disneyfication, Alienation, Financialization, FIRE Economy, Attention Economy, Surveillance Capitalism etc etc Create a nice lexicon. Hand it off
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by joules77 1y ago
Its not strange if you are keeping tabs on how many complex problems they haven't solved and made worse in the last few decades - https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-violent-exhaustion...
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Listening to the Nonhuman World: On Strategies for Saving the Biosphere(lareviewofbooks.org)
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by joules77 1y ago
> highlights the need for approaches to address these distinct cognitive barriers to adaptive decision-making Weird. Sounds a bit like - while cataloguing flowers in the jungle we noticed some plants don't need flowers to survive, t
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by joules77 1y ago
Its not really restrained. You just have to be clever with the prompts. If it was there would be a theory (of restraint) telling us precisely how many safety mechanisms (alignment/filters/policies/safety layers bla bla) are r
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by joules77 1y ago
> The struggle is not just for regime change, but for the rebirth of Belief—a reminder that the “beautyful ones” have yet to arrive precisely because they have yet to be imagined and fought for Rebirth of Belief is the language of religi
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Good news, people will get tired of them faster too.
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That definition of innovation would apply to all the EU colonial empires. They all collapsed. Modern corporations of the US/India/China hardly last more than a 2-3 generations/business cycles. They are so hyper optimized that
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by joules77 1y ago
AI's are all not going to get along with each other or think the same way or have the same agenda. Just like people. Very different things will emerge.

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