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Re: God is Comfort Food For Mind
I find the topic title interesting, because we have everything from Spinoza’s God (the whole of existence is God) to the 10.000 Hindu Gods (where being a God is like a job that a being may hold for a few thousand years). Just coming to an understanding of what the word God means to you is a tricky undertaking.
Timothy Leary eventually said about God (it took him five years of taking LSD before he was ok with saying the word “God”): “I feel very comfortable now in saying that I do talk to God and I listen to Him. He is a hipster, he is a musician, and he’s got a great beat going. You’ll never find him in an institution or in an American television stage set. He’s never legal! And he’s got a great sense of humour, too!”
Jeroen
Re: The AI tsunami
I guess I'm asking, what's your opinion because you obviously have one?
I laugh at ignorance. Including my own.
As for opinions...
They are two a penny. LOL LOL LOL
https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/what-happens-when-ai-understands-humor
lobster
Re: The AI tsunami
Well, the economic bubble has been predicted to burst by people like Warren Buffet, who has converted a lot of shares into a huge cash position this year in anticipation of a stock market crash. He, and more than a few other people, have been saying the stock market is overvalued by a significant amount.
The question is how much of this high valuation is driven by AI stocks, and will the deflating of the AI hype bubble also cause a stock market crash as investors flee? I think AI stocks will retain a high valuation for a long while — the vision of AI’s providing a willing and super fast 24/7 workforce is too tempting to walk away from.
Jeroen
Re: Hot Stuff
Well, it's about 15 C. here, colder in my den in the basement. Pity we can't split the difference. I need a new bathrobe - this one insulates poorly, maybe better if I washed it once in a while?
Fosdick
Re: Hot Stuff
In summer we sweat, in winter we shiver.
Like @lobster and @Jeroen, we sleep on the floor. The reason has little to do with the precepts, more to do with dogs. When we had 5 dogs, all of them slept on the bed and sometimes a dog would roll over and fall off the edge of the bed onto the floor, dragging all the blankets along with her. Sick and tired of having to remake the bed at 3 or 4 in the morning, we got rid of the bedframe and box springs, and put the mattress on the floor. No more problems. The tradition has persisted, despite being down to one dog who never falls off the bed but sleeps sprawled in the middle. I think if we had a bedframe, it would be us falling off the bed, not the dog. The Dharma works in mysterious ways.
Fosdick