AI and humanity

Bookmarked How to use AI to ensure a more human society • V.H. Belvadi by V.H. Belvadi.

As a counter-example there is the absolutely outrageous suggestion that AI can be used to send our “AI avatars to meetings for us”. Unlike the example with antibiotics where, like a wrench or a lever, new technology was used to ease work that humans would have been inefficient at performing, the AI avatar suggestions treds on the very appreciation for finer aspects that human society should retain in human hands. It attempts to replace humanity.

Venkatram hits the nail on the head when reflecting on what matters if we want to ensure that we use AI to improve the human condition. The above quote illustrates something I’ve been struggling to express clearly. The dichotomy between a tool that increases human output versus a tool that replaces humanity.

#AI #Philosophising

https://lars-christian.com/notes/7d65d7110e/

Grief is a boulder

Grief is a boulder.

It is heavy, it is sharp.

It drags you down, it cuts you up.

With time you polish the boulder. Sharp edges dull.

Your strength grows, your skin thickens.

You lift, you hold.

You carry on.

#Grief #Philosophising

https://lars-christian.com/grief-is-a-boulder/

Bad for me, good for me

Bad for me

• Checking social media (becomes addiction, always makes me feel worse)
• Keeping up with the news (becomes addiction, always makes me feel worse)
• Consuming nicotine (becomes addiction, always makes me feel worse)
• Chasing material things (getting whatever just makes me want something else)
• Playing status games (reaching a new level just makes me want to reach for the next)
• Keeping up with the Joneses (always a Jones up the street with something out of my reach)

Good for me

• Reading books (requires effort, always makes me feel better)
• Reading thoughtful blogs (requires effort, always makes me feel better)
• Working out regularly (requires effort, always makes me feel better)
• Writing regularly (requires a lot of effort, makes my head feel clean)
• Showering in cold water (requires only a little effort, makes me feel great)
• Living in the moment (because there is nothing else)
• Doing meaningful work (work that is meaningful to me)
• Enjoying the process (anything else is unsustainable)

Notes

On social media

Even Mastodon is too much for me. I get caught up in polemic discourse, hottakes without nuance and black and white world views. It poisons my mind and I need to stay away.

To wit, I have retired my original Mastodon account. All my online sharing and socialising will be through this blog. To facilitate this, I have enabled comments, webmention and ActivityPub federation.

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On reading

Since my last month report, I’ve gotten back into the groove. I’m a bit behind on book reports, but will try to catch up with notes on the books I’ve read lately over the coming weeks.

On writing

I fell off the horse. Lost my streak. Couldn’t sustain getting up at 5AM in the morning, when life threw a couple of extra curve balls at me. Nothing serious, just life being life. Have to figure out when and how to make writing every day a sustainable habit. Will share more on this in future posts, as I attempt to figure it out.

My head needs it. My soul needs it. I need to make it work.

On life in general

Update coming to my /now page soon, as I’ve secured a new role at my current company. I’ll be working with stuff I really enjoy working on. But it also involves some changes that require some adapting on my end.

I’ll write a post on this, too, in the coming weeks.

#LifeUpdate #Philosophising

https://lars-christian.com/bad-for-me-good-for-me/

Reflections on the ephemeral early years of parenting.

https://lars-christian.com/halcyon-days/

Reposted Living at the speed of spiders – Relevant Information.
Vehicles then, eliminate the world by dilution, stretching out the experience of the world by cramping it together into a short walk of the clock, concentrating the world to only contain the relevant. Sometimes that is the desired outcome, but surely that shouldn’t be universal.

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https://lars-christian.com/notes/57bee61661/

About peace of mind:

I was just thinking about the meaning of the verb "to mind" as in "Do you mind?" or "I don´t mind."

On a basic level what is happening if you "mind" - that is in the sense of being bothered by something - is that something is processed by your intellect (mind). From there it seems to cause a sort of negative emotion.

So as a consequence: if you don´t process things through your intellect, they cannot bother you. You are at peace. ;)

#peaceofmind #mind #philosophising