Monthly Archives: October 2019

In strategic questioning, Fran Peavey is in a realm of conflict; in futures work, we are all in a realm of don’t know. :- Doug.

If strategic questions were the way to loosely guide, what form of question? Will it be overt questions or subtle? :- Doug.

Saw a video last night by E. O. Wilson about humanity’s “unusual genetic mutation, or “knockout gene,” that gave rise to eusociality, or the social condition that allows non-reproductive members of a species to support its reproductive members.” https://bigthink.com/videos/edward-o-wilson-on-eusociality It … Continue reading →

Do the 2-step: Take the thought further, especially when you think it’s complete. :- Doug.

Perhaps what we fear most from artificial intelligence is it unintelligibility: its to us inscrutability. And its insusceptibility to our attempts to influence it. (Might we try with bad data input—GIGO?) :- Doug.

If your eleventh generation grandfather had written a story wouldn’t you want to read? Particularly if it were addressed to you? Wouldn’t you make an effort to interpret its language and thought patterns into your own life? A story from … Continue reading →

Often the conquered people take over the conquerors by way of time and intermarriage. What might happen when the computers and humans intermarry? :- Doug.

Whether or not we attain the level of artificial general intelligence, we want this level of question, this level of thinking. Maybe we can teach it to our machines, or take it with us into the merger. :- Doug.

I have been intuiting where to go, and that has been to the more comprehensive, and into the territory of “second wind,” and “why again:” it is to truth underneath truth. :- Doug.

What shall we do if there is artificial general intelligence and an intelligence explosion? :- Doug.

Could we become intimate with the futures, and those who live in them? :- Doug.

If we could get assistance reading, say picking out the “meat” from several articles on a subject of importance, could that advance our thinking? Is there value in seeing how the writers got there? Could we get assistance with that … Continue reading →

Memory gets in the way of thinking in two ways. Something we once thought impedes current thinking. So we won’t forget, we try to hang on to something we once thought. :- Doug.