A quotation from Taylor, Barbara Brown
Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
Barbara Brown Taylor (b. 1951) American minister, academic, author
An Altar in the World, ch. 8 (2009)
#quote #quotes #quotation #engagement #interaction #opportunity
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One day a man runs up to Socrates and said: “I have to tell you something about your friend who…”
“Hold up” Socrates interrupts him “About the story you’re about to tell me, did you put it trough the three sieves?”
The man was not familiar with the three sieves, so Socrates continued: “The first is the sieve of Truth. Are you sure that what you are going to tell me is true?”
“To tell the truth”, said the man, “no, I just overheard it”.
“What about the sieve of Goodness. Will you tell me something good or positive about this man?”
The man shook his head.
“Now, what about the last sieve. Is it necessary to tell me what you’re so excited about?”
When the man bowed his head in shame, Socrates smiled and said “Well, if the story you’re about to tell me is neither true, good or necessary, just forget it and don’t bother me with it.”
Mass #human interaction with #AI is #training AI. Image #generation from #text is training AI to "understand" visual #stimuli. Conversational #interaction is training AI to "understand" human #communication.
Elites #funding AI are using mass human interaction with AI as #free training to #build human replacements. AI is to serve #elites, not to serve the general human populus.
Elite's servants will claim #corruption necessitates AI take over #leadership & #security roles. Corruption is deliberate as part of a faux #Hegelian #dialectic.
AI is a #tool performing #tasks in accordance with the #goals of its #controllers. Elites never permit potentially #transformative #technology to enter the public domain without ensuring their #control over it.
#biodiversité #environnement #faune #primate #homme #singe #bonobo #chimpanzé #animaux #relations #voisinage #alliances-humaines #alliances-stratégiques #humain #cercle-familial #altérité #étrangers #partage #agresseurs-sexuels #collaboration #pan-paniscus #pan-troglodytes #violences-mortelles #interaction #espèce #nature #normes-sociales #coopération#bénéfice-mutuel #altruisme-réciproque #bénéfice #altruisme #réciproque #femelles #violence-sexuelle #coalition #coercition #mâles #sexisme #racisme
I'm really annoyed by the #Internet of today:
Once being an open platform geared towards information exchange and bringing people into contact, most of the public Internet today is nothing but annoying useless #marketing, #advertising and #data #collection. Providing information, connecting people, and making life convenient is definitely NOT the primary goal of whoever is big on the Internet today. It's shocking to see how much of it is only to sell you stuff or to sell your information.
And the worst is: we are even paying them to do this shit. #Marketing spending will be reflected in product prices, and with much of marketing being done in 1st world countries, a substantial amount of the price goes into this destructive industry.
I could go on with this for hours. Really sick of it.
source: https://anatomyof.ai
Chinese source: https://anatomyof.ai/index-cn.html
This is an #interaction with #Amazon’s #Echo device. A brief command and a response is the most common form of engagement with this #consumer voice-enabled AI device. But in this fleeting moment of interaction, a vast #matrix of capacities is invoked: interlaced chains of #resource extraction, human labor and algorithmic processing across networks of mining, logistics, distribution, prediction and optimization. The scale of this system is almost beyond #human imagining. How can we begin to see it, to grasp its immensity and #complexity as a connected form?
#knowledge #technology #science #computer #software #algorithm #future #economy
