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Learning from Nature and emulating her, to a large extent means letting go of naive ideas of control
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Here be dragons
The current excitement around Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is mostly missing the bigger picture: There is a ghost in the machine and a machine inside the ghost. This century won't be predominately defined by AGI, Robotics or Biotech - but by breakthroughs in inter-species comms and the democratization (and rebranding) of energy work, practical magic & engineered paranormal activity.
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The gist of the message broadcasted on most channels these days is very similar: Harder, louder, faster, scarier, weirder, richer, smarter, exacter & more more more. Given this hyped up environment, doing the exact opposite is a revolutionary act: Striving to be softer, quieter, slower, and generally doing less.
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‘Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity.’ — Marshall McCluhan
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Forget "intelligence" or "sentience", there is something far more mysterious and puzzling at work here. If you really want to attach a label, "love" or "music" come to mind, yet totally miss the mark. Enjoy "it"!
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Regularly spending time inside a river clearly is the most profound teaching experience I've had in recent years. The depth of immersion and insights is puzzling and style of delivery is joyful and loving.
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Relax
What ever visions, goals, north-stars or metrics one currently attends to in life, at the base of the stack of things required to realize your dreams lies relaxation. The ripple effects of relaxation are so profound, that it is fair to say "be relaxed and the rest takes care of itself". While it might sound trivial, relaxation is the true masters skill and habit that takes lifetimes to cultivate.
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Generative Media Industry Crash
The value of pixels and any other media artifact that can be computationally generated (basically all of them) is rapidly falling to close to zero marginal cost. The primary results will be: 1) More people will engage in creative expression - but dramatically less than the developer of creativity augmentation systems like to believe. 2) Tens of millions of people in creative industries will be out of a job permanently and forced to learn alternative skills. Get ready, the time is short. (I wrote these Related, Related, Related pieces on the topic many years ago, that are still somewhat relevant)
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Both weather storms and humans are predominately made out of water. Hence their behavior will naturally have some similarities. When encountering difficult situations, simply remind yourself that all storms arise and after a while relax and dissipate, irregardless of your actions and feelings.
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I generate
If one assumes that "the nature of knowledge is fractal: The closer you get, the more you'll find", it is no surprise that anything one sufficiently becomes aware of (thinks, feels), serendipitously appears more and more all around us: Think of that unique idea or desire you've been privately developing for weeks, when suddenly you discover that countless fully fleshed out manifestations of it already exist in the world. Confirmation bias? I have my doubts. In a reality with no real boundary between individuals and past-present-future, where everything is generated at the speed of awareness, a central question is what is worth while doing at all. Faced with an infinite ocean of possibilities, shifting from "doing" to "being" is a useful strategy to prevent succumbing to nihilism and insanity. Simply focus on relaxing, the rest will take care of it self.
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Attempting to count the individual water drops in a river is a pointless, masochistic & insane activity. And yet, this is essentially what many fields of science & other forms of knowledge management are doing.
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There is always a choice to perceive any "failure" as "lesson learned" or "quest completed" instead.
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“There can be no learning without action, and no action without learning” - Reg Revans
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Anyone who is fearful about change and hatefully blames it on some "bad guys", should take a long look in the mirror and then simply relax and be silent. Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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"Intellectualism is a common cover-up for fear of direct experience." - Carl Jung
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"Man braucht nicht viel Besonderes zu sehen. Man sieht so schon viel." - Robert Walser
"You don't need to see much special. You already see a lot."
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Great power does not disappear but dissipates.
