Category Archives: Eldering

Storytelling: Bending the Arc :- Doug.

Tell us a story about that. Can someone here find a point of divergence in that? :- Doug.

How shall we study values and humanicity?How can we narrow it to what we can foster? :- Doug

This is a thinking course, not a thought course. :- Doug.

If we assume one future is possible we can study it and our actions in relation to it. Suppose…. :- Doug.

Identifying our values challenges us to examine our integrity. :- Doug.

Ought our values transfers be only “Thou shalt nots?” Is everything permitted that’s not forbidden, or do we write our aspirations the other way around? :- Doug.

Our 300-year grandchild elders might be more silicon than biological—or even all silicon. So the values transfers might be starting from zero. :- Doug.

There comes a point where there is too much data and it must be ignored (so we get to the important). :- Doug.

All story tells us about humanicity. Everything is story. :- Doug.

This is story immersion. To learn story. Only it’s a story a minute. :- Doug.

Improv is story. :- Doug.

What’s the question nobody asks in the world but you wish they would? :- Doug.

Count how many times you respond to tech as if it were a real person—for one day this week. :- Doug.

How do we become ethically self aware so we can figure out stories for the 300-year grandchild elders? :- Doug.

With artificial general intelligence we need to include the other human characteristics, or we risk brainiac: intelligence without thinking, without context. Emphasis only on intelligence can easily create lopsided beings running amok. A ball with a bulge. :- Doug.

The aliens can come from earth as well as the stars, indeed they are already silently aborning among us: artificial general intelligence will be to us inscrutable. :- Doug.