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Re: What documentary are you watching?
i am currently reading a book by Peter Cornish the man who came to Ireland with his wife and bought the land that he eventually gifted to rigpa. to me Peter Cornish seemed the true spiritual presence there rather than the since disgraced sogyal rinpoche
Re: The Plant Medicine Path
I haven't heard much from Pollen in a few years, but I remember liking what he had to say back then. His guidelines for food is what I try to follow to this day.
person
Re: The Plant Medicine Path
fascinating beliefs
Indeed. I believe we can find value in ideas of even rocks having 'medicine', teaching. Everything becomes sacred. Special. In vajrayana, blessing the river nagas (dragons) is one of many, some including me have participated in.
lobster
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
Awareness is like a timid, shy creature. It watches you constantly, wary and cautious. Only through patience and diligence can you gain its trust, and when you do, it will let you see yourself through its eyes.
~Thoughts from the cushion~
Shoshin1
Re: The AI tsunami
@Jason said:
As Hawking noted in his last AMA on a question about automation and unemployment:Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.
I think the ownership part is so critical to everything because it directly relates to who controls, programs, and predominantly benefits from the economy and technology as a whole, particularly when it comes to things like AI.
Very insightful, and thank you for the Hawking citation.
Jeroen
Re: The Plant Medicine Path
I was looking into Shinto and animism today, fascinating beliefs. Animism was a core facet of most indigenous beliefs around the world — the idea that the world was ensouled with spirit and alive. That rocks, mountains, rivers all housed spirits.
Jeroen
Hot Stuff
Whilst we have a heatwave in England, Europe and MANY other places...
- I have the Window (not Windows) open. Not too unpleasant through the night time cooling
- I occasionally improve and update my minimalist website
- Have moved the ioniser + fan above the skylight to suck and push up heated air
- Chased a lost red admiral to exit by the skylight
- Think I may have a cup of tea (the universal panacea)
Be Kewl. Be Buddhist. Bee Happy.
https://www.private-eye.co.uk/tax-havens
lobster
Re: Sense and sillyability
You may not have dominance over thousands of other people.
But you have absolute dominance over yourself.
Only you can choose empathy, honesty, courtesy, morality.
You and you alone can choose your path, to overcome or to succumb.
Only you can choose to take the next step along your path,
or to stop, to turn around and never see what treasures abound ahead.
You are the voyager and you determine your voyage.
But you need not travel alone.
Peace to all
Lionduck
Re: The AI tsunami
@Lionduck said:
My concern is not AI. My concern is how, why where and for or against whom it will be used. AI is just another tool.
Who determines how, why, and where it us used is the question that it imperative (that) we answer correctly.
That much is obvious, it will be used in the pursuit of profit. In the first instance it will be used to replace knowledge workers, so that any job that can be done by a brainy human behind a computer can, in the future, be done by an AI agent in the cloud for the cost of a few pennies, instead of thousands of dollars of salary. In the second instance it will be used to enable autonomous robots which will run on an ‘AI operating system’ which will take over many menial tasks in people’s homes, effectively giving people embodied AI servants for the price of a small car.
The people controlling this will be the investment firms, people like BlackRock who are smart and capable of investing billions in these kinds of projects in pursuit of greater convenience for people with the money to pay for it. There is no other significant motivating factor in today’s world, everything has been made subservient to profit.
Jeroen