Showing posts with label future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label future. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 09, 2025

Promises and Perils of AI: A Mid-2025 Reading Roundup

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Here is MindBlog's  (Deric'c) prompt to ChatGPT4o:      "I have uploaded to Chat GPT one paragraph summaries of 9 articles  fr...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Rejecting blind builder and helpless witness narratives in favor of constitutive narratives

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I want to pass on this concise ChatGP4o summary of a recent piece by Venkatesh Rao  titled "Not Just a Camera, Not Just an Engine"...
Friday, May 23, 2025

A new route towards dystopia:? Sonifying tactile interactions and their underlying emotions to allow ‘social touch.’

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Our Tech-World overlords may be using work like the following from de Lagarde et al. to find ways for us to avoid requiring the evolved su...
Monday, May 19, 2025

AI is not your friend.

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I want to pass on clips from Mike Caulfield's piece in The Atlantic on how "opinionated" chatbots destroy AI's potential,...
Friday, May 16, 2025

On replacing the American establishment - the ideological battle for the soul of Trump World.

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 I want to pass on the first few paragraphs from Chaffin and Elinson's  piece in the May 10 Wall Street Journal, which give a juicy summ...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Does Language in our head have a Mind of Its Own?

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I pass on a brief opinion From Elan Barenholtz's Substack. He is an Assoc. Prof. of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Rato...
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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Carole Cadwalladr - This is what a digital coup looks like.

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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 ...