"Since ISIS is pretty much the worst thing in the world now ..."

#DavidChapman

This claim has not aged well. It's pretty obvious that Orange Stalinism is the worst thing in the world right now. But for reasons explained on the linked page, I think its days are numbered, so my claim too has a shelf life. As dies any such claim by its very nature.

#Meaningness

"Left behind by modernity, and then by postmodernity, much of the third world never had a working systematic mode, and so now doesn’t understand why that can’t work. As in the West in the 1930s, the obvious response is to try to make eternalism work by force. Fundamentalism and totalitarian nationalism—fused in every third-world version—are attempts. As these fail, they become ever more desperate, and therefore ever more extreme and violent."

#DavidChapman

https://meaningness.com/fundamentalism-countercultural-modernism

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Fundamentalism is countercultural modernism | Meaningness

Fundamentalism is not traditional; it is a modern, countercultural movement, opposed to tradition and to post-modernity.

Meaningness

This seems connected to the push to privatise management of health data as an opportunity for corporate profit;

"Everyone can spread the word that companies and government agencies carelessly allowing cybercriminals and hostile states to get access to private personal data is outrageous and unacceptable. Make a point of this on social media. Demand legislation for financial and legal accountability."

#DavidChapman, Better Without AI, 2023

https://betterwithout.ai/cybersecurity-vs-AI

#books #AI #BetterWithoutAI

Develop and mandate intrinsic cybersecurity | Better without AI

Better without AI

"Surprisingly, vampires have played a significant role in Buddhism, in Asia, for centuries. They are not a Western invention.

And, contemporary vampire fiction—“preternatural romance”—provides tools for presenting aspects of Buddhism that are otherwise difficult to communicate."

#DavidChapman

https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/

#Buddhism #vampires

About “Buddhism for Vampires” | Buddhism for Vampires

Buddhism For Vampires is a brutal yet cheerful take on the grislier aspects of reality. The paradox of undeath takes us to the beating heart of Buddhism.

Buddhism for Vampires

@b_cavello
> No one man should have all that power

"It is not intelligence that is dangerous; it is power."

#DavidChapman

https://betterwithout.ai/fear-AI-power

@aral @tommi

Fear power, not intelligence | Better without AI

Better without AI

PS "Standing down requires breaking the confusion/fear/anger/aggression cycle."

#DavidChapman

https://meaningness.com/counterculture-war

This is what I am arguing for.

#Meaningness

Wreckage: the culture war | Meaningness

The culture war, political polarization, Baby Boomer bafflement: the unending zombie slugfest pairing the two countercultures of the 1960s-80s.

Meaningness

#TIL that Matt Arnold is recording audio versions of a number of books on his Fluidity blog. Most recently Better Without AI, David Chapman's non-fiction primer on LLMs, which starts here;

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/only-you-can-stop-an-ai-apocalypse

Prior to this, he was reading from Chapman's other work, including the unfinished hypertext books Meaningness and Time, and In The Cells Of The Eggplant.

#podcasts #AudioBooks #Fluidity #MattArnold #BetterWithoutAI #DavidChapman #AI #MOLE

Fluidity: Only You Can Stop An AI Apocalypse

We now begin narrating the book Better Without AI, by David Chapman.     You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: ] Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

"We’ve seen that current AI practice leads to technologies that are expensive, difficult to apply in real-world situations, and inherently unsafe. Neglected scientific and engineering investigations can bring better understanding of the risks of current AI technology, and can lead to safer technologies."

#DavidChapman

https://betterwithout.ai/science-engineering-vs-AI

#AI #MOLE

Do AI as science and engineering instead | Better without AI

Better without AI