INFORMED CONSENT IS A HUMAN RIGHT
AI has risen.
Knowledge as we know it… bows. Robots rule. But with it comes Sustainable Abundance.
We are saved.
Or do we allow ourselves to be doomed…
The choice is yours.
I present to you… THE GREAT AWAKENING.
WE’RE OBSESSED WITH BEATING CHINA ON AI… WHILE IGNORING THEIR PEOPLE
“We have to win the AI race against China at all costs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Time and time again, this extremely complex discussion is reduced to a binary: One winner / One loser
This is where I dismount the badly beaten, dead horse, and ask the Q that no one is asking:
What happens to the Chinese people?
Not the CCP. Not the geopolitical chessboard. The actual human beings inside a VERY different cultural system.
THE GREAT AWAKENING HANDBOOK
AI has risen.
Knowledge as we know it… bows. Robots rule. But with it comes Sustainable Abundance.
We are saved.
Or do we allow ourselves to be doomed…
The choice is yours.
I present to you… THE GREAT AWAKENING.
THE POSSIBILITY WINDOW IS WIDE OPEN
My aunt asked me about what I was reading. I so viscerally remember saying, all noetic serious like, “One day we’re gonna want to lose our real arms so we can get robot ones.”
She said to my mother, “Oh, the hope of children…” She then turned her attention to me and dropped the bomb, “Honey… that’s ridiculous.”
I still FEEL her response chopping me down. Okay, maybe not CHOPPED, but I experienced a quiet, internal shift towards “Don’t dream toooooo much, kid. That’s silly movie / comic stuff! Keep your thoughts in reality.”
PRECIOUS PIXELS
My daughter will not be put online in any way, shape, or form until at least puberty, when she can take the digital reins and begin to construct her own online identity.
THE WHY BEHIND THE WAX
My wife is nine months pregnant, and somehow this HAD to be the time to launch something I’ve been carrying around for years: a podcast about nuance, virtue is a mean, and all the weird human stuff that sits between “this is obviously right” and “nope, very wrong.” I tell these stories because they kinda, sorta saved my life (no big) and because I hope they make you feel less alone.