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In many European countries, there's a mandatory annual "broadcasting fee" (around €350) that partially funds public legacy media (TV & Radio). It should be renamed the "psyops tax" to better reflect its true purpose.
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We find ourselves in a peculiar predicament: if time travel is theoretically possible tomorrow, it has, in practice, already been happening since yesterday. The implications for linear time technologies, including today's AI, are profoundly comedic.
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What is rarely considered in the context of Kolmogorov complexity is that the shortest possible description of anything is nothing. Silence is bliss.
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It's high time to disrupt the real estate markets globally. Cheap prefab housing combined off-grid energy and manufacturing, enabled by robotics will become the norm in many places.
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Over the years, I've been frequently surprised that enthusiasts of "Tools for Thought" and "Bicycles for the Mind" often overlook a few basics:
- Simple practices like changing location, exercising, riding a bike, or meditating can significantly impact one's mental and physical state, influencing thoughts more profoundly than any software.
- "Lucky accidents" and intuition (serendipity) frequently lead to breakthroughs when exploring complex ideas. Provoking this in software or else remains an open research challenge.
- Thoughts are meaningless in isolation; ultimately, it's all about relationships and communication.
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The initiative to develop systems for "watermarking AI-generated media" for IP protection and trust assurance is, in some ways, related to the broader effort to create AI that embeds targeted subliminal messages for use in influence operations and advertising.
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Computers that auto-translate languages were early signs of the coming communication revolution. Today, it is becoming possible to capture and translate complex contextual meanings and making cross-boundary communication truly effective.
Generative AI is fueling a communication revolution, the media artefacts are just fun side effects. It will fundamentally redefine how people express themselves and relate to each other. For example, translate will expand from lingo2lingo now, to complex cultural context2context
"Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras." - Jeremy Rifkin
The future of email with ChatGPT
Anthony Burgess on translation
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Approaching everything with beginner's mind is best practice in the user generated reality.
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mind matter interaction technology research & development is in it's infancy yet highly promising
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Attention/Intention (意, Yi) manifests the bifurcation point in the user generated reality.
While it's fashionable to try to accelerate the traversal of slices of time, fewer are mindful of the depth of each slice. Intentionally slowing down time to fully experience the now, leads to momentous moments that alter the rest of our life in mysterious ways.
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Detach from the laws of detachment to detach from detachment. Embrace it.
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It takes a community to raise a child.
Go and try bend a grown up tree. Change starts with the young.
LOVE is the central mystery
Inspired by this interview with a Cop in Trinidad
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Silence is the best answer to a fool's noise.
Silence is more powerful than proving a point. -
Computers that fully leverage Infinity are made entirely from self-referential recursive analogies.
