Showing posts with label future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label future. Show all posts
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Deric and DeepSeek R1 on the enteroceptive self in a small world - taking refuge in troubled times

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This post on an exchange with DeepSeek R1 is a followup on my previous post describing the Chat GPT 4o response to some of my idea fragmen...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

The Coup has already happened.

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It's a Coup!   Go to dogegov.com and click on articles in the drop down menu to learn about our new masters.  

Even more cheerful reading....on civilizational war and oligarchic technocracy.

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I hesitate to add to the ongoing flow of negativity in the infosphere,  but I will pass on my edited ChatGPT 4o summaries of articles by Ven...
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Monday, February 03, 2025

“Now Is the Time of Monsters”

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I pass on links to two articles in the same vein, one by Ezra Klein , the other by Ventkatesh Rao , with Klein noting how we are facing four...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

The birth of aspirational multiethnic populism

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I have pulled some clips from an excellent substack piece by Yascha Mounk to cement and archive his main points for myself and also pass on...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Steven Fry: "AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?"

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I have to pass on to MindBlog readers and my future self this  link to a brilliant lecture by Steven Fry. It is an engaging and entertainin...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Sustainability of Animal-Sourced Foods - how to deal with farting cows...

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I've just read through a number of articles in a Special Feature section of  the most recent issue of PNAS on the future of animal and ...
Saturday, September 28, 2024

Networks of connectivity are the battleground of the future.

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From Nathan Gardels, editor of Noema Magazine: " From Mass To Distributed Weapons Of Destruction " :  The recent lethal attacks at...
Sunday, September 15, 2024

A caustic review of Yuval Harari's "Nexus"

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I pass on the very cogent opinions of Dominic Green, fellow of the Royal Historical Society, that appeared in the Sept. 13 issue of the Wall...

The Fear of Diverse Intelligences Like AI

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I want to suggest that you read the article by Michael Levin in the Sept. 3 issue of Noema Magazine on how our fear of AI’s potential is em...
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Friday, August 30, 2024

The delusions of transhumanists and life span extenders

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One futurist story line is that we all will be seamlessly integrated with AI and the cloud, and bioengineered to live forever. This simplist...
Friday, August 02, 2024

The Ooze is Growing

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In case you haven't seen enough pessimistic predictions about the next ~10-20 years, I pass on the following clips from a recent instal...
Friday, July 19, 2024

MindBlog does a survey of futurists and recommends a few.

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In the wild and wooly world of thinking about futures for the earth, its living forms, and humanity there exists a tier of well know public ...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

An essay on Geopolitics and Globalization

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I want to pass on one complete section, indicating titles of the others, of  a larger essay addressing tribalism versus global consciousnes...
Friday, June 28, 2024

How AI will transform the physical world.

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I pass on the text of wild-eyed speculations by futurist Ray Kurzweil recently sent to The Economist , who since 1990 has been writing on ho...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Off the rails - inequity and unfairness built into capitalism

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I have largely withdrawn from posting items relevant to the details of our current political and social malaise, but I want to pass on a few...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Managing the human herd

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 This post is a dyspeptic random walk through thoughts triggered by the front page photograph of the Wall Street journal of June 17, 202...
Monday, June 17, 2024

Empty innovation: What are we even doing?

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I came across an interesting commentary by "Tante" on innovation, invention, and progress (or the lack thereof) in the constant ...
Friday, June 14, 2024

The future of life.

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I want to pass on this science magazine review of Jamie Metzl's new book "Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revo...
Monday, May 13, 2024

How the US is destroying young people's future.

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When I wake up in the morning, I frequently remind myself to be grateful for the luck of having been born in 1942, and being able to ride th...