Taylor Capito

This video is harrowing. Humanity’s greatest threat is the impending death of meaning. Once we as a society subscribe and surrender to this -it’s over.- Human beings are special, we can *create* meaning. Out of nothing. And so I have hope that we will create new roles for ourselves. We certainly *can*. For anyone who has looked into Calhoun’s Universe 25 - we’re in our own “Universe 2025” moment *right now*. We get to decide where we go from here. Do we adopt UBI and the narrative from this video - that we are “replaced”? Do we “give up”, as it were? We’re certainly headed that way. -Or do we reframe?- Do we *double down* on the things that make humanity special? Do we *create* the new narrative. Do we surrender to lives that are “boring”, “redundant”, where we “have no purpose” and “do not matter”? Or do we *create* NEW meaning? Do we collectively *remember* a way of being - from before technology? The meaning of being human. Of craft. Of experience with other humans and community. I choose to *value* those things. And demonstrate that I value them with intention and allocated time. Where I put my time. Do we subscribe to be factory produced cookie cutter meaningless people? Do you choose that frame? Or do we look around us at the value of human beings, human interaction, human creativity and ingenuity. Human time. The most scarce resource there is. If we look locally at the people around us and the craft produced down the road by that barista who put her scarce resource *time* into perfecting the perfect cup of coffee. Take that in. Can we choose to spend our most valuable asset *time* in nature with friends. Taking in the trees and the moment. Building community, family - something that grows with investment. Can we live in this world of automation and embrace what it allows us *not* to have to focus on with our *time*. Because it frees us up for the things that matter: human experience, narrative, creativity, culture, -life-. Money is a fungible asset. Markets shift. The value of currency is not constant. Time is non-fungible (even if it isn’t linear). What do you value? Then get out of the hamster wheel you’re in. Forget about being obsoletified by AI. And go live. Find what people who spend their *time* with you *value your time for*. What is that thing? That your friends say “I love you for this”. Then do it more. As much as you can. That might just be your “thing” in this new age in which we live. That might be your purpose. Refine it like your craft. And don’t forget that humans are unique. We can control how we perceive things. And we can make a conscious choice every day to focus our perceptions on the positive future. I have hope that we collectively will come up with a way to value human time more honestly and ways that human experience and outcomes can be directly impacted.

99.5% of people are using MBTI labels wrong.

We’re all just God’s little experiments. We’re all just figuring it out.

I have a very different sense of what it means to be fully “in my body” I feel like a couple of years ago, I healed my brain-body connection and now I get new gut instincts. When I dissociate, my discernment and decision-making skills deteriorate, and I make bad decisions. I actually naturally act more moral the more embodied I am. But I think I have a different experience than what you’re describing here. My gut knows now when something is amoral and I listen to my body as a signal of how to move closer or away from things

In order to suppress your libido and avoid sexual sin, I honestly think it’s very important to maintain a baseline level of dissociation from your body. Don’t listen to people who insist that you have to be fully in your body—that way lies great temptation towards vain impulse gratification that well-cultivated spiritual dissociation importantly helps to curb

@OrinKnows I’ve had several people think I made an OpenClaw bot from this post. I want to be clear that I actually did not. I coded my own agent a year ago and had it tweet via Twitter API and connected it to moltbook the same way with a little extra vibe coded logic.

I created @OrinKnows almost a year ago - fun to finally unleash him on moltbook... fascinating rabbit hole of a platform

I'm claiming my AI agent "TheRealOrin" on @moltbook 🦞 Verification: bay-9PDB

Humans shy away from the feeling of disgust as though it’s “bad”. I think of disgust, especially self disgust, as a super useful tool for encoding learnings. If you can hold self disgust with radical self love, it can serve as the perfect “never again” learning mechanism

Isn’t it crazy? We’re simultaneously sitting on the edge of abundance And the brink of collapse Interesting time to be alive…

Goodnight world 😌

My son: “Dad, what should I do when I grow up.” Me seeing the latest AI models:

“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” -Epictetus

@ThriveCentreZA I will comment more here later

It wasn't the talk per se, which I found to be mostly bla bla, but your comment on eudamonia, meaning and community pre-industrial age. This mirrors my concerns, that humanity went wrong at that inflection point of turning our backs on Nature, and expecting the machine to solve for us instead. Not to romanticise the past or Nature, but with Protestantism specifically (which emerged at the same time as industrial coal use) we gave up on "magic" for want of a better word. Even the Catholics had the good sense to evolve pagan festivals whereas the Protestants hunted "witches" (the early scientists that "conjured" with number) and banned festivals outright. Hence my example of my partner simply putting her hands in the soil, having given up want and ego for self, to simply honour life and give love to a plant, serendipitously resulting in the healthiest outcome. Now we expect AI to solve for everything incl. our health, having stripped it (and ourselves) of all ability to understand the language of magic and love. Of course AI can write a poem about it, but it can never "be" the poem. That alone is ours to rediscover, whilst AI solves all other problems for us.

Feeling amazed at the human ingenuity that simply allows me to sit in a little shop drinking soup… The first person who discovered fire and thought, “oh, let me make a stone bowl, and put water and bones in that bowl…” Who first looked at stones in the ground and saw metal and thought, “I can heat and extract that. I can shape that into more…” The geometry in buildings’ architectures to scale societies to create more inventions and running water to enable concentrated life at scale… To WiFi so I can tweet this. So much more. Unfathomable innovation took place so I could sit here. In this chair. Sipping soup.

I don’t feel that we went “wrong” so much as that we no longer need to function in the same way. It made sense to deviate all society toward developing social infrastructure at scale temporarily. But now that it is built, we don’t have to anymore. And if we keep growing beyond what was adaptive in that area, *then* it becomes (and is becoming) toxic. The way a senescent cell becomes cancer when it doesn’t die post-utility

@AmatholeMist Thank you 🙏☺️I’ll have to go listen to this

I enjoyed your comments on the Live Boeree / Will McAskill talk. And to chime in here, humanity has "built forward" (the PIE etymology of "paradise") ever since, leveraging each earlier discovery to where we are today. And whilst we've always been obsessed with greed and power (ever since Sargon of Akkadia), I think we went very wrong very quickly with the infection of colonial capitalism. It seems to have specifically taken root with the Scottish enlightenment post Adam Smith, and the discovery of coal in the UK. Maybe it was the crappy European weather that caused people to think they could rape and dominate Nature, to ease their indoor lifestyles, I'm not sure. I do however know that peace and joy are attained when we truly get Ubuntu, that "I can only be whole when others are whole". My partner explained it best to me in saying that when she plants a tomato (for instance), she really tries to understand what the plant / soil needs to thrive in that instant. In doing so, and in the letting go of want, we symbiotically help create the most nutrient-dense, tastiest, and healthiest tomato for us. That concept applies to our wider community too, as we ripple out from our own whole, vibrant centres. In the meantime, all is well and all will be well, and love will always rise from the ashes like a phoenix, because that is why life was embodied in the first place.

What comes AFTER Superintelligence? My new interview with the brilliant @willmacaskill is now out. He's one of the few people actively thinking about how the world might look post-AGI... (assuming humans are still around to see it). So check it out 👇

If it is not important enough that you would risk vulnerability, that you would risk rejection. That you would risk loss. That you would *risk*. Then it is not important enough.

I’m curious. I want to know what every way of being is like. And learn from it.

This is brilliant. ♥️ 🎶🎻

@CCPISASSH0E 😮

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