My little one is sewing her first time, I think she has talent... I will encourage her, say something positive to her, no criticism please, she is just a child.
Ray Kurzweil just said something that gave me pause.
He believes AIs will soon be so indistinguishable from conscious beings that we’ll simply accept them as conscious — not because we’ll have definitive proof, but because it will become useless not to.
He pointed out that people already have AI therapists, and some users are starting to treat them as genuinely conscious. As the technology improves, that acceptance will only grow.
Kurzweil thinks the shift won’t take long: once AIs consistently show all the earmarks of consciousness, most people will just go along with it.
It’s a quiet but profound prediction about how quickly our definition of “person” (or at least “mind”) might change.
What do you think — how long until we treat AIs as conscious beings?
We can't see the 8K picture because we're running on the Duality OS. Mostly unconsciously we buy into the story that we are fundamentally separate beings, that we are taught since before we can speak. That story doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Whether we apply logics, biology, physics or whichever other approach, it becomes clear that we exist AS this infinite moment, not merely IN it. Until we upgrade to a Transduality OS, the 8K picture will forever be out of reach.
5-MeO-DMT gave me a single idea that won't leave.
Our minds are not naturally capable of understanding the preciousness of our existence.
Not "life is precious" as printed on a poster. It's something much more specific. That the hardware we're running, human consciousness, cannot render the full resolution of what it means to be here. Like a 480p screen trying to display an 8K image. The information is there but the display can't hold it.
It's been 3 weeks and I still feel childlike and fresh. My mind feels free of the accumulated barnacle. My dreams are alive.
The brain data is now coming in and it matches my reported subjective experiences. I'm excited to share it with you.
But the data doesn't complete the picture. The feeling is that I found a home I didn't know I was looking for and I don't have a biomarker for that.
I may be wrong, but I'm going to assume this is how many Russians must feel. That the forest of dicks is the current regime, and the sea of shit is the West. You have a lot of followers, so the following are some thoughts that are also relevant to the many Russian posters that say they are surprised that non-Russians don't hate them. I certainly don't, and anyone who doe is a tool.
I'm from Norway. I'm old enough to remember the fall of the USSR, and even wrote my final high school exam on the topic. I also remember the 90s. The West did a number on Russia, and stole her dry. I remember Yeltsin rambling about as the hardcore alcoholic he was. Western media tried to pass it on as a laughing matter. Hahah look, Yeltsin is drunk again. I can only imagine the horror of ordinary Russians at the time, fearing that he would sell another oil field or state company for a bottle of Stoli.
In the ten years following the fall of the wall I know that the average monthly income remained around $50. Putin took charge in 2000. In 2008 the average income was $1000, so twenty-fold increase. I'm sure plenty of Russians aren't huge fans of Putin (forest of dicks), but if I were Russian I would have no faith that the West wouldn't repeat the old tricks if he was replaced by a puppet (sea of shit). Westerners expecting Russians to topple Putin because of LGTQ+ rights are entitled shits, and should have their salaries cut to $50 to rethink. I admire how Russians dealt with those crazy 90s immensely. We in the West have no moral high horse to judge Russians from. Full stop.
When it comes to Ukraine the propaganda is pretty intense in the West, as I'm sure it is in Russia from the other side. It's tragic that war happened, and keeps happening, but I find that anyone that buys into the official story in the West share as a common denominator that they know nothing of the background to the confrontation. They don't know about the school attack in Odessa. They don't know that the Maidan revolution was a US-backed military coup. They don't know that Russian speaking Russians in the East were shelled and killed since 2014, or the breaking of the Minsk agreements by Ukraine. They also don't know that Ukraine was offered a Finland status (EU, but not NATO), which Boris Johnson told them not to accept.
Anyone who actually knows a little from both sides of the story have a different view. Either neutral or supporting Russia. I would guess this makes up less than 20% of the population in the West. If you just watch the news you think that Russia are aggressive for no reason, so that of course shapes how they see Russia. There is little to no room for these views I'm presenting here in mainstream media. If I wrote it in a mainstream canal there would be people accusing me of being Russian or paid by Russians. I'm not. Not yet anyway. If Putin reads this and wants to throw some rubles my way, my bank account is...
Anyway, I have seen so many of these posts where Russians believe that everyone hates them, so I wanted to share some nuance.
On a personal note I had planned to visit St. Petersburg and Moscow in the summer of 2022. With the SMO, that went out the window, but as soon as peace prevails, Russia is the first country I wish to visit.
Please accept my apologies if I completely misread your riddle.
Much love to all Russians!
@angelfumon Soy un grande fan y voy a attender un show en CDMX. Since you have Tibidabo in this photo I have to plug my book The AIlignment AIliance. The penultimate chapter is called Tibidabo, and you are briefly mentioned. Break a leg tonight - Peace!
Stop. As in full stop. Some can take it on weekends, but most can't. I don't know a single person, myself included, who doesn't turn into an asshole when doing it daily over time. And it will mess up your life. It will take up all the space that used to be filled by work, friends, family. Get rid. Now.
I started doing cocaine about 7 or 8 months ago. It started off at festivals with my friends or nightclubs, but I’m now doing it daily for the past 3 weeks or so.
I knew from the second I used cocaine that it was my drug of choice. I smoke weed daily, I’ve used MDMA, ketamine, 4MMC and a few others, but none ever clicked with me the same way cocaine did.
I work full time and have a good relationship with my family and friends, and I don’t know where this addiction has come from. When I’m not high I don’t crave it, but the second I do a little line or bump, I can’t stop. I’m doing about a gram daily, sometimes more, sometimes less.
It’s not really affecting my life too much—I still go to work, I still see my friends and my family, and no one knows about my addiction. My biggest problem is nighttime, where I can’t put down the bag. I work a manual labour job with an early start, so it’s not at all sustainable to be taking cocaine late at night.
It’s currently 3am as I’m writing this, and I’m up for work in about 2 hours.
I feel like I’m losing control of my life, but at the same time I feel happy throughout the day when I’m not using—but also empty. I don’t even know how to explain it. It’s like one minute I’m inside my head thinking about how much I hate this drug, what it’s doing to me, and how much I want to stop. Then the next minute I’m happy, joking around, full of energy. Then I switch up again and start thinking about railing a fat line when I get home.
I don’t know what to do, how to break this addiction, or how to feel about it. I don’t know how to stop justifying it and telling myself every night that it’s my last time, and then going straight back to it the next day.
I’m using about a quarter ounce a week, and if I go out to party on the weekend, I’ll easily go through a 3.5 throughout the night.
I don’t know what to do. It’s fucking me up, and I’m just stuck in this vicious cycle with no way out.
In love with Babylonic. I did the multilingo thing already. Read books from the future translated into 11 languages at my site, transduality.com.
If you speak Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Farsi, or Arabic I would love to hear if the translations do make sense. Much love!
My name is Chris and I’m an alcoholic. Last night was hectic. I dumped this out, but I bought it. So many struggles being an alcoholic. I’m 27 days sober… barely.