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Especially when dealing with shinny new technological tools/toys, today's systems designers tend to neglect doing a thorough and honest Cost-Benefit Analysis. The "Anything that can be done, must be done" philosophy is highly wasteful and destructive.
#Design #Economics #Technology #Infrastructure #Philosophy #Comment #Ideas
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A primary challenge & opportunity our generation faces is how we deal with the rapid collapse of most traditional institutional / organisational models (nation, governance, science, business, healthcare, religion, etc.) & how to redefine our relationship to nature, self & others.
"The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others." - CarlJung
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What is Dreambooth & how to use it?
#Comment: Those "generative selfies" startups being built on-top of this now distract from the obvious killer biz-case. Generative Porn: Upload 5 pics of any person, get back HQ nudes. Easy to build, Big $, 0 Ethics. Live in 1 month? It will be interesting to see how organized crime quickly becomes a giant player in generative A.I media & how naive A.I tech bros react to it. Black-hat generative botnets can be useful for the Mafia (+ intel agencies) in so many ways, it's bound to explode.
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Today in the fall of western civilization: Why do so many right now want to *believe* we are living in a sci-fi cyberpunk world, defined by tech like AI? Could it be they subconsciously sense that the fundamentals of our culture, economy & ecology are collapsing & clinging to "progress' is a illusory comfort blanket? 🤡
#Comment #Economics #Culture #Technology #Narrative #Religion
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A generative shift in perspective
Possibly the best thing about "AI Art" it that is accustoms an entire generation to the idea that "reality" itself is an infinite latent space out which multimodal experiences are generated in spacetime, based on the intention of the animal observer.
"In reality time and space exist in you; you do not exist in them." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
"The universe is simply the spatial/temporal logic of the animal observer" - Robert Lanza
#Mindful #Generative #Art #Philosophy #Magic #Comment #Ideas
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Monodisciplinary
Many professionals in academia & industry have a tendency to overfit on their job/discipline category: "I am a pro in X & hence ONLY interested in X info & people". Such narrow minded "monodisciplinary" behaviour is bad for collaboration & creativity. Why does it keep happening?
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A opportunity space i deeply care about
For a growing number of serious health challenges - such as burnout, tinnitus, PMS, heart disease, cancer & surgery recovery - the medical system is advising patients to "relax", "exercise" & "be in nature". Yet they offer no help how to practically develop and maintaining such life-style change. A giant missed opportunity.
I deeply care about this opportunity space. When ever time permitted, been doing product research & development work on this with friends for years - creating a practical solution that really excites me. I strongly hope we will find a way to bring it live & help many in need.
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The current excitement around AI & AGI is missing the bigger picture & is unimaginative. Hic sunt dracones my friends: This century will be predominately defined by "Mind Over Matter" and all its applications and implications going mainstream. Reality is exactly what you think it is.
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Interesting thread on organizational blindness in tech product development
Comment: Likewise, the entire technology sector has massive hypocrisies and dark Blindspots, that are obvious but nobody is allowed to mention.
"All engineering projects develop their own cultures over time" - Comment: Very true. In my experience, teams that are dominated by engineers tend to develop (subconscious) hostility towards all non-engineers, including their own customers (which they call users, akin to drug user)
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On putting a price on nature
For followers of the cult of techno-capitalism, abstraction is a holy duty, everything has a price and the total commodification of nature is a natural law. These are non-negotiable commandments, even for the progressive cultists.
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The implicit promise of generative media and the elephant in the room
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Electrical frequency discrimination by fungi Pleurotus ostreatus
Soon humanity will recognize that nature is full of super intelligent beings - much more powerful than any artificial thing we build. Seeing them requires a shift in perspective, as they operate at radically different timescales & beyond simply notions of bodies & communications.
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.‘Lying flat’, or tang ping, a social protest movement, went mainstream in China last year, referring to the idea of just doing enough to get by. But now, some Chinese youths are ‘letting it rot’ by not even attempting to participate in society to begin with."
#Comment: Expect to see more of this type of thing globally, in lock-step with the rise of "naked automation" (tech with no social/education/culture plan)
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Was asked today by a ghost from the past about my knowledge of "any teams/companies/individuals who you think do a really good job of providing context for health information". My comment:
Regarding teams that provide context to health info (ML & beyond): I've done my research deep dives on this general topic and have some hunches - fairly obvious insights, nothing particularly groundbreaking. But frankly this entire space is completely full of spooks/intel/military/mafia front-orgs and front-people: From the early days of Tavistock etc. all the way to the digital twining of entire populations under permanent bio-signals surveillance, and the altering of bio/psycho-dynamics of masses as part of new types of "currencies" on the "internet of bodies", all under the framework of full-spectrum dominance extended to all aspects of biological life on earth. As i personally believe in the profound power of relaxation and am a life long explorer of that path, i find this all far to stressful and hence stay far away. From my perspective meditation, relaxation and true kindness and care are more effective than all of the Bio-AI-intelligence-blabla in the world. But ultimately, everybody has to follow their own path and truth - and I'm not here to preach but to practice.
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Synthetic people living in artificial realities, powered by real energy
We are in the middle of a global energy crisis, people in the EU struggling to keep their houses warm, and the technology community is hyper-scaling their totally mindless use of electricity mostly for entertainment purposes. SNAFU. WTF. (Image generated with Stable Diffusion - prompt: "A woman warms herself up with her Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090")
#Technology #ML #Generative #Crypto #Infrastructure #Comment
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On Meditation and Open-endedness
"That is why I think meditation and relaxation research is in effect open-endedness research: because a deeply open-ended process is inevitable when humans introspect in the real world, understanding what it means to constrain processes that are fundamentally unconstrainable."
Was my comment in reaction to:
And finally, Niti's comment in reaction to mine:
As you have said before, decentering the seat of consciousness from the brain to flow through to the rest of body is a disruptive process, and I highly recommend its practice.
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Don't confuse intensity with meaning.
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Generative Webdesign
I suspect right now a couple of teams are training generative ML models that are geared towards web design. Soon enough infinite site design variations can be produced with just a few prompts. Will it break the web design trend that all sites look very similar - or make it worse?
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A Boulevard trash headline and article? Yes, sure. Yet, it refers to a research paper written by Marcus Hutter et.al, currently at Deepmind, that is worth taking serious and carries the same basic message. Very few in the AI community have the foresight and courage to see and name the monster than is being concocted in hidden corners. Troubling how few critical voices are speaking up.
