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Most people have heard the adage, “If you don’t use it, you lose it.” What happens when people start outsourcing their brain’s ability to synthesize information and think critically (or even just think period) with a middle man that doesn’t even think at all? What happens when entire generations of young people don’t hone any of those skills on their own before just handing over their brains to AI… before... Read more »

Artificial Intelligence built upon Large Language Models (LLMs) – so-called Deep Learning AIs – have been embedded overnight into the technology of virtually every platform – giving the appearance of a superintelligence with human-like emotions that can comprehend and process enormous amounts of data, and even carry the persona of feeling. But in reality, this technology understands nothing. Yet, people have projected their own humanity onto an algorithm of complex... Read more »

What is happening, which is a lot more insidious than most people seem to realize. “Science promised power. But as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price exacted in advance and all along the path, and the price actually paid, is servitude and impotence… But, power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.” That line was written by Joseph Weizenbaum, creator... Read more »

This latest video is about the move to make all of our future food in a lab and asking the question “What is the seemingly pathological obsession with getting us to eat things that aren’t actually real food even a little bit, even at all?” Our food is already adulterated in so many ways with chemicals and oils our bodies don’t and can’t appreciate. Allergies are more common today than... Read more »

I made this short film after a walk where I came upon what looked like the remains of a building being taken back over by nature. I ended up there for hours, just considering the endless cyclical nature of creation and destruction… I guess I could write a whole missive on it, but explaining a film to death is always always the wrong thing to do. So without further... Read more »

The term dehumanization keeps getting thrown around, but maybe not in the way it should be for the conversation that needs to be had. It could be because some necessary context is missing, and without that, the message almost always gets scrambled before it can be decoded and (at least begin to be) really understood. What happens when the last unifying image we have — that as being “human” —... Read more »

Warning up front: this one’s an angry rant so if you don’t want to hear it, maybe sit this one out. Turns out I’ve been paying attention for too long and I can’t pretend otherwise. It’s incredibly sad we’ve been brought down to the point of clapping when agencies do some token almost totally meaningless BS, but after getting scolded over not being “thankful” enough I just couldn’t help but... Read more »

We just saw 23 Senators send out a video where each of them dramatically (well, for Senators I guess) repeat the same scripted talking points in front of a camera on cue just like actors would. They all sound like interchangeable bots with only minor deviations. The videos all looked pretty much the same — same clips, same font, same editing. And somewhere there’s a director who is directing them... Read more »

Well, it looks like the West is destroying its own values in a coordinated fashion. I have now been told that, as an American, it is almost impossible to explain freedom of speech and why it is important to people from other countries. Considering what’s going on in Germany now after a recent 60 Minutes piece on the “German insult police,” I have attempted my best in this video to... Read more »

All over the West, governments are destroying their own values in a coordinated fashion in what they claim is “protecting democracy”. You can’t protect anything by destroying it — by turning the world into an Orwellian dystopia where armed police regularly raid people’s homes for sharing mean memes on the Internet. This is complete insanity. The U.S. is a Constitutional Republic yes, but it is also democratic, and it may... Read more »