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If we’re not in the present, where are we?

Power is in the Present; The Power of Now; Live in the Now! At every turn it seems influencers, philosophers, and CEOs recite mantras on the importance of being present.

But if this is true, then, where are we?

Science doesn’t question this, and we’re taught to see humanity as one big blob in spacetime. Only, based on our lived experience, humanity seems more like a constellation of stars, with human emotionally light years away from each other.

What if AI could locate us and quantify the distance between my historical context, and yours?

AI and…

  • Puppies

    What if the secret to building superintelligence was to create dog-like, not God-like AI? As dogs catalyze the love already in our hearts, and remind us of our kind and considerate nature, their intelligence might just be the secret to unlocking a more hopeful future.

  • Addictive Economics

    Are we living under capitalism or dopamism? When our focus is unsustainable short-term profit, we must acknowledge that we are not optimizing for financial growth but are optimizing for dopamine.

  • Awe

    Scientists like Einstein, Tesla, Lovelace, Edison, Pasteur, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, and Newton once marveled at the majestic ambiguity of the universe. But, somehow, this got lost.

  • The Now

    The greatest ‘futurists’ in history - Nostradamus, Orwell, Rasputin - didn’t have spreadsheets, models, or AI. Instead, they described the realities of the time, and stated the likely consequences. When it comes to understanding the impact of AI we don’t need futurists, we need presentists.

  • Nonlinear Thinking

    For 30,000 years, the ‘blackbox’ mindset embodied by unsupervised learning was known, valued, and encouraged. It was the female archetypal mind. Hidden in the frenzy of anti-AI propaganda is an important question: are we scared of AI, or women?

  • Labour

    Today’s AI industry is dependent on free labour. After all, the average person spends 7 hours a day clicking, creating and consuming, and is responsible for creating a $16.6 trillion market. There’s full time jobs for everyone in the future - they just aren’t paid.

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