Today in the "fall of western civilization": Kissinger & Schmidt on AI Enlightenment 🤡

Today in the "fall of western civilization": Kissinger & Schmidt on AI Enlightenment 🤡
Lion's Mane Dreams
Lion's Mane Mushroom (Hericium erinaceus) can have profound effects on sleep, leading to vivid and lucid dreams that involve extended periods of flying with pristine control - an awe inspiring experience that surpasses any computer-generated simulation.
Typical sounds of different animals:
"You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you are too busy; then you should sit for an hour" - Zen Proverb
"The act of saying very little to mean a lot" - Jeff Mills on minimal techno
#Comment: With the emerging generative AI music tools, it's now possible to convert any tune into its minimal components and play with it.
Reality Tunnel Management Industry
Prediction: As Generative AI real-time sensory filters (e.g. "confirm all i see & hear to my taste profile, "make all look young & beautiful") proliferate and become the killer app of incoming augmented reality tech, "Reality Tunnel Management" will become a giant industry.
The Remarkable Ivan Sutherland
‘Engineering design has a strong aesthetic dimension. Beauty and simplicity gave the practice of engineering an aesthetics, an affective pull. I think that engineering and art are very closely related.”’
The notion that "intelligence" and "life" is a "distinct thing" that is contained "in a box" is likely one of the most short-sighted dogmatisms in current AI & Neuroscience culture.
"Vom Beobachten des Beobachters der Beobachter"- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
"From observing the observer's observers"
GPT Prompt: "What do you get when you combine the discipline and precision of a military operation with the creativity and openness of an improves art/music happening?"
A Microsoft forum thread from November 23rd 2022 (a week before even ChatGPT had been launched) where a user in India complains about rude behavior from a new Bing chat mod