Showing posts with label futures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label futures. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Could humans and AI become a new evolutionary individual?

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This PNAS opinion piece (open source) by Rainey and Hochberg is well worth a read.  It suggests that as different AI implementations suffus...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Why You Are Probably An NPC (Non playing character)

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I want to pass on this outstanding piece of writing from Gurwinder on Substack, in which he describes five different robotic human characte...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

AI is a Mass-Delusion Event - and - Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress

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I want to recommend two articles whose titles are this post's title, the first by Charlie Warzel in The Atlantic and the second by Kyl...
Monday, August 04, 2025

The coming societal collapse

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I want to pass on t his review in The Guardian by Damian Carrington , pointed out to me by a friend, titled   ‘Self-termination is most like...
Friday, July 25, 2025

The optimistic brain - fMRI reveals shared thought patterns.

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From Yanagisawa et al .:   Significance Optimism, defined as maintaining positive expectations for the future, is a crucial psychological ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Stagnation, disruption, and the future - A conversation between Ross Douthat and Peter Thiel

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A r ecent NYT Opinion article that I read through carefully when it appeared has occasioned aa lot of comment, so I have decided to use Min...
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...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Oliver Sacks - The Machine Stops

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  A slightly edited MindBlog post from 2019 worth another read: I want to point to a wonderful short essay written by Oliver Sacks before ...
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...