My bad but, the New York Times as a relevant piece of journalism? I may only be a free subscriber however admit to being disappointed. Also, I am Cdn, who really cares about my opinion except me.
In fairness Jane, you are right. And not just one, but two stories from that rag, the NY Times, as the source of our snark. Normally we would caveat them as such, but we didn't this time against our better judgement. As dispossessed Canadians, can we just say: Sorry, eh!
I was thinking about your questions, "What's our value? What do we build? What do we become?"
It's difficult to answer when up to now it was tied up in our education and skills that don't seem to matter once machines + AI take over.
You can't be healthy if you have no value, no purpose. Humans are hardwired to be social animals and need to feel accepted, useful and needed by other humans. We're also part of the vast natural world, interdependent with the trillions of lifeforms within and without us.
We have to live in harmony with that basic truth. We need all the bacteria, fungi, viruses that keep us alive in our microbiome. We need to nourish our bodies, our unseen bugs, our soil, plants, animals... everything that has evolved to create and sustain us.
We can't be separate, we can't control all of nature including ourselves. I think we've gone so far away from that basic truth.
We could derive our value from our mutually beneficial relationships with the natural world and ourselves.
We could build healthy soil, plants, animals, microbiomes.
We could become the stewards of the planet instead of the controllers.
We could use AI to achieve these goals
I don't think it'll be easy but it's the direction we need to go eventually, if we want to survive.
My bad but, the New York Times as a relevant piece of journalism? I may only be a free subscriber however admit to being disappointed. Also, I am Cdn, who really cares about my opinion except me.
In fairness Jane, you are right. And not just one, but two stories from that rag, the NY Times, as the source of our snark. Normally we would caveat them as such, but we didn't this time against our better judgement. As dispossessed Canadians, can we just say: Sorry, eh!
I was thinking about your questions, "What's our value? What do we build? What do we become?"
It's difficult to answer when up to now it was tied up in our education and skills that don't seem to matter once machines + AI take over.
You can't be healthy if you have no value, no purpose. Humans are hardwired to be social animals and need to feel accepted, useful and needed by other humans. We're also part of the vast natural world, interdependent with the trillions of lifeforms within and without us.
We have to live in harmony with that basic truth. We need all the bacteria, fungi, viruses that keep us alive in our microbiome. We need to nourish our bodies, our unseen bugs, our soil, plants, animals... everything that has evolved to create and sustain us.
We can't be separate, we can't control all of nature including ourselves. I think we've gone so far away from that basic truth.
We could derive our value from our mutually beneficial relationships with the natural world and ourselves.
We could build healthy soil, plants, animals, microbiomes.
We could become the stewards of the planet instead of the controllers.
We could use AI to achieve these goals
I don't think it'll be easy but it's the direction we need to go eventually, if we want to survive.
human digital twins are replacing us. ask your twin to dissolve ?
https://youtube.com/@asimulatedreality547?si=Ns4xOYE6SRsNsyrP
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HTr-tqwcAXg&si=HtiEk1BmpsesTKK5