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Re: What music are you listening to?
I know @Linc likes heavy metal (this is that, Indian style)
https://vid.northbound.online/w/bLrwikZkuw1eCDNXGYK1BP
I may have to take the rest of the day off to recover from that noise. Nice and spicy though...
lobster
Re: The AI tsunami
Mind blown 🤯 but it makes sense, if holy books could spawn religions, then AI, which looks like a step at least as great, certainly could. Now where is AI Jesus? Actually I asked chatgpt to create an AI Jesus, and this is what it came up with…
Jeroen
Re: A discussion of Koyaanisqatsi
I’m slowly becoming convinced that once you go deeper with an analysis of Koyaanisqatsi the film reveals itself to be a profound philosophical work on a par with the greats of history. Because the tendencies that are revealed by the film originate from the Western mind — the search for truth begets science, science begets industry, industry leads to the encoding of behaviour in machines and ultimately computer technology.
There is a certain inevitability to this, a kind of Greek tragedy that our defining characteristics lead to a state where automation invades the human spirit, and machine virtues like efficiency and productivity take over from human virtues.
Jeroen
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.”
— Orson Welles, The Third Man
Jeroen
Re: Tonglen
That sounds like a difficult position to be in, life has not made your path easy, it seems 🙏
For your consideration:
“In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.”
— Orson Welles, The Third Man
Jeroen
Re: The AI tsunami
@lobster said:
Homo Superious is not yet available whilst the 'simian reservation' of Homo Sapiens that we live on, convinces they have the solution to a problem they are party to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhuman
I can't say I really understand your riddle. If I were to hazard a guess I'd say its a pro transhumanism statement? That the "simian reservation" is our current evolved body and mind? And a hope that a merging with technology will be our salvation?
Yes, no?
person
Re: Jubilee Surrounded : 1 Progressive vs 20 Far-Right Conservatives (ft. Mehdi Hasan)
@Shoshin1 said:
The content isn’t meant to be 'enjoyable'
Then for me it fails at being good content. No offence.
Jeroen