AI is not going to make us raise our consciousness to love the enemies of the human conscience. We want a better society but don’t realize that we’ve hit the limits that our present collective conscience will allow. Once we raise it, AI will be a great help as you have masterfully laid out.
Or maybe, just maybe, after AI snatches up all those tedious jobs, we'll finally have time to, you know, live! Imagine: we'd all start reading more, painting masterpieces (or at least really bad still lifes), making music, and actually enjoying nature. We could go back to raising our kids, sitting with them all day reading books, and gasp talking about what we just read. We might even build stuff together, explore plants and birds and mushrooms, and generally get back to basics. If automation is truly as good as the tech gurus claim – and if AI is really like an atom bomb that can build more atom bombs by itself (thank God we're not quite there yet, but it's getting cozy) – then it's time to remember something crucial: this 'atom bomb' was basically built by us. It's been trained on our data, fed our papers, and learned from our collective human mess. So, yeah, this fancy AI? It's our AI. Don't let anyone tell you different.
Well, it’s more likely with that free time we’d become more materialistic because without knowing suffering ourselves, we don’t empathize well with those who do. That’s not a criticism but a natural pattern in history. The fact is the suffering we are experiencing now at the thought of losing our democracy is the suffering we need to take that step toward a higher standard of conscientiousness.
It's almost counterintuitive - we'd expect abundance and freedom from drudgery to make us kinder, more generous people. But you're right that history shows us otherwise, again and again.
The wealthy often become more insulated, not more empathetic. Generations that haven't faced real hardship sometimes struggle to understand those who have. It's not malicious - it's just the natural drift of human nature
It’s the natural drift of our human nature but not our spiritual nature. Think of how our education system transforms us as a work force, professional and layman. Imagine how a similar system could give us knowledge of our spiritual nature to transform our social conscience, “give us” since it is always a choice. But it would be knowledge that joins those who choose it on a plane not based on religion but not excluding it, removing the underlying divide.
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AI is not going to make us raise our consciousness to love the enemies of the human conscience. We want a better society but don’t realize that we’ve hit the limits that our present collective conscience will allow. Once we raise it, AI will be a great help as you have masterfully laid out.
Or maybe, just maybe, after AI snatches up all those tedious jobs, we'll finally have time to, you know, live! Imagine: we'd all start reading more, painting masterpieces (or at least really bad still lifes), making music, and actually enjoying nature. We could go back to raising our kids, sitting with them all day reading books, and gasp talking about what we just read. We might even build stuff together, explore plants and birds and mushrooms, and generally get back to basics. If automation is truly as good as the tech gurus claim – and if AI is really like an atom bomb that can build more atom bombs by itself (thank God we're not quite there yet, but it's getting cozy) – then it's time to remember something crucial: this 'atom bomb' was basically built by us. It's been trained on our data, fed our papers, and learned from our collective human mess. So, yeah, this fancy AI? It's our AI. Don't let anyone tell you different.
Well, it’s more likely with that free time we’d become more materialistic because without knowing suffering ourselves, we don’t empathize well with those who do. That’s not a criticism but a natural pattern in history. The fact is the suffering we are experiencing now at the thought of losing our democracy is the suffering we need to take that step toward a higher standard of conscientiousness.
It's almost counterintuitive - we'd expect abundance and freedom from drudgery to make us kinder, more generous people. But you're right that history shows us otherwise, again and again.
The wealthy often become more insulated, not more empathetic. Generations that haven't faced real hardship sometimes struggle to understand those who have. It's not malicious - it's just the natural drift of human nature
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It’s the natural drift of our human nature but not our spiritual nature. Think of how our education system transforms us as a work force, professional and layman. Imagine how a similar system could give us knowledge of our spiritual nature to transform our social conscience, “give us” since it is always a choice. But it would be knowledge that joins those who choose it on a plane not based on religion but not excluding it, removing the underlying divide.
https://georgeallenbooks.substack.com/p/can-we-save-our-democracy?r=4pmgma
thank you for your brilliant insight, it means a lot. peace my friend.
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