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.

I feel like a baby giraffe dragging her head across the floor. I haven’t grown the neck muscles yet. But I really, really want to walk.

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🚨JUST IN : Philosophy and modern physics suggest that time may not be truly real, but rather a human perception—a projection of our minds used to understand change and movement in the universe.

Kosmyna et al. 2025 - “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task.” Spreng, Mar & Kim 2009 - for overlapping brain networks in autobiographical memory, future thinking, navigation, theory of mind, and the default mode network. Risko & Gilbert 2016 - for cognitive offloading. Rolls 2019 - for PCC/cingulate connections with hippocampal memory systems. Parvizi et al., 2013. “The Will to Persevere Induced by Electrical Stimulation of the Human Cingulate Gyrus.”

We also have to consider that most technologies are dependent on a human in the loop... And we are destroying the integrity of the agency of those humans

For those who also notice a shift in time perception, you're not crazy The machinery of the 'continuous self' may be a use-it-or-lose-it system. And convenience culture may be training us to use it less. We may be diminishing the very sense of being a self that is alive

@torreydawley For me, *this* and: Actions = integrity Do your words match your actions and does your presentation match your values?

Trust can’t be gamed. That’s what I love about it. High-trust people don’t care who talks about trust. They don’t care who specializes in high-trust networks. They never even register those signals, because they know those signals require zero legitimate proof. They rely on one signal only: Are they trusted by someone I already trust?

@torreydawley The trait that I believe we are growing into is something I call 'reflexive agency' - it's an extension of meaning making capacity on to ourselves at the individual and species level

The first thought that pops into my mind: The meaning of humanity is to make meaning. My reaction is first that this is a snake eating its own tail. My next thought is that we’re agents of a higher meaning, more searching for the true nature of meaning rather than necessarily making it. Art feels like a unique expression of this. Companionship maybe in the sense of the Mastermind concept (“where two or more of you come together…”). Otherwise, just companionship and socializing are observable elsewhere. Although, maybe a pair of geese bonded for life is borne of the same concept…

I’m struggling to define what it means to be human anymore

@torreydawley Honestly - the number one attribute I think of is "meaning making" - but also companionship/socializing, art

@TaylorCapito When you brainstorm the list of "human" attributes, what comes to mind?

@joshwhiton Anything in excess leads to detriment. Even AI - I’m in deep contemplation of this all right now lol

One path to happiness, knowledge, and success is to maximize the amount of AI in your life while minimizing the amount of social media. But narrow is the path that leads to life and few are those who find it.

What I mean by that is - we have to rewrite how to live. There’s not a clear “way” to be a human anymore. There’s no clear and obvious niche. And it’s a bit daunting