tag > Culture
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Traditional African Instruments are far more advanced than any AI music tools in key ways:
- Ideal for group performance, that builds friendship & community
- Easy to learn but takes a lifetime to perfect. Ideal for deep practice.
- No electricity required & lasts for decades
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While you are building walls of GPUs in military datacenters that will be totally outdated in 12m, these powerful walls of the monastery have lasted for thousand of years unchanged.
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To conduct and support high tech genocide with unfettered brutality & simultaneously babble something about the rise of "artificial super intelligence", is a clear sign of societal stupidity & accelerating degeneration.
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Nothing but a spectacle
Our American friends possess a remarkable knack for turning every facet of life into a commercialized spectacle. Whether it's tech, spirituality, childcare, science, or philosophy, the discourse inevitably devolves into a cacophony of marketing, shouting & superficiality. The overarching objective appears to be nothing more than extracting profit through manipulation. Even meaning itself is for sale for $9.99.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until is has destroyed itself from within - W.Durant
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Scheduling Contention Scope (in complex human civilization and the technologies it buillds)
