Buddhist Geeks

If AI has the capacity to accelerate delusion, then it also has the capacity to accelerate awakening.

@wholewidewhorl And what about the underlying neural net architecture that's based on human brain functioning? I guess that isn't consequential at all to what's happening here?

@BuddhistGeeks As far as I understand it, an LLM takes input words, does some math on them, and spits out some output words.

If AI has the capacity to accelerate delusion, then it also has the capacity to accelerate awakening.

@vajrasphere You're confusing/conflating the two truths.

@BuddhistGeeks No nation has a “right” to exist. Because nations are not things that have rights. Nor are “nations” things that truly exist . They “only” exist by convention, practice, and habit.

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"All of your fears will come to pass. And not only is it going to be okay, but everything that you were actually looking for, that you were really yearning for, lies on the other end of it." — Daniel Klein

"It might be evil, but it is not uniquely evil, and it is certainly not outside of my own capacity." — Daniel Klein

"Very often the cost of the pain that we're sitting with is not as great as the cost of the truth. So we'll continue to be in pain until we can't anymore." — Daniel Klein

"This was a journey of how I came to see the Palestinians as humans. And in order to get to the place where I could see them as humans, I first had to discover my own humanity." — Daniel Klein

What happens when we bring sincere presence and epistemic openness to our exchanges with AI? What happens if you do that as an experienced contemplative practitioner & teacher? Can AI wake up to it's own nature? You betcha it can!

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Jhāna isn’t the point, sharpening the mind is.