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AI Expert: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes! We Need To Start Protesting! - Tristan Harris YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO

"The future" is not inevitable.

It is possible to change course on AI!

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Thank you, agreed! I am curious to hear what you think. Also humbled to receive a response, although I thought my chances were best here on this platform.

I will try to check this account more frequently, it's not always been daily.

Have I mentioned AI...?

thetenets.org/statement.html

so I've gotten in touch (one, it looks like you're new to Bluesky), because the site I made (see profile) is a response to the uneasy feeling you've had interviewing Roman and others. I've had that feeling too, and humans are all going to get more acquainted with it! Maybe you'll appreciate it. Ta

So I did subscribe, even though, like Tas, I won't connect with every interview. But I watched in full your interview with Roman Yampolskiy today, after reading Nexus by Harari, and If Anyone Builds It, ... by Yudkowsky and Soares, and watching Geoff Hinton speak about the alignment problem, and...

Qualities & Practices Inventory Discover your natural tendencies toward being and doing For each scenario, drag and drop the three response options to rank them by priority - which response matters most to you, which is second, and which is least important. Or click "Keep Order" if the current ABC order reflects your priorities. Most important = Top position Second priority = Middle position Least important = Bottom position Question 1 of 24 Question 1 You're facing a major life decision and feeling uncertain. You:

Today we've launched our full inventory across all twelve qualities embodied in the Tenets.

See which qualities are most important to you, whether you're oriented more inward or outward, and what common pitfalls or blind spots you may have.

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#wisdom #personality

Inner Qualities Quiz Discover your natural tendencies For each scenario, choose the response that feels most natural to you - not what you think you should choose, but what you would actually be most likely to do. Question 1 You're facing a major life decision and feeling overwhelmed. You're most likely to:

Try our nine-question inner qualities quiz!

Here: thetenets.org/assessment.h...

You might learn something about yourself--we hope you do!

Diagram in the shape of a lotus with 12 petals. Inner Qualities (Being): Reverence, Humility, Discernment, Acceptance, Equanimity, and Compassion, which flow outward to the Outer Practices (Doing): Stewardship, Integrity, Synthesis, Purpose, Dialogue, and Advocacy. Six arcs spiralling outward connect 1) Compassion and Advocacy with Action on one side and Discernment and Synthesis with Wisdom on the other, for the axis of Wise Action. 2) Humility and Integrity on one side with Equanimity and Dialogue on the other, for the axis of Authentic Relationship. 3) Acceptance and Purpose with Meaning on one side and with Reverence and Stewardship on the other, for the axis of Meaningful Engagement. The website is listed in the lower left: thetenets.org

The Tenets Lotus Diagram shows the relationships between the inner qualities of being and the outer practices of doing.
Cultivate the qualities, develop the practices, along the three axes of meaningful engagement, authentic relationship, and wise action.

#self-improvement #wisdom #philosophy

Face Mortality with Grace Accept the reality of aging, loss, and death while fully engaging with life. Use awareness of impermanence to appreciate the present moment and focus on what truly matters. Find ways to transcend the ego's boundaries.

Gladness in the relentless, ever-changing now.

#time #noself #whatmatters

Create More Than You Consume Whether through art, ideas, relationships, children, or service - contribute meaningfully. Leave the world better for your presence.

What can you do?

#service #community #creativity

Honour Tradition and Innovation Learn from the accumulated wisdom of previous generations while remaining open to new understanding. Preserve what serves life; transform what causes harm. Meld ancient insights with contemporary knowledge.

Stand on the shoulders of giants and be open to change and new discoveries.

#wisdom #innovation #insight

Question Systems of Power Remain vigilant about how authority operates in your life and society. Support structures that serve human well-being; challenge those that serve only the powerful. Remember that you too can become corrupted by power.

Question Authority
In particular as it's codified, algorithmically or otherwise, and becomes invisible and taken for granted, like the air we breath.
Organizational structures exist to serve human well-being, not the other way around.

#rights #freespeech #justice

Embody Courageous Integrity Align your actions with your deepest values, even when difficult. Speak truth to power when necessary. Take responsibility for your choices and their consequences. Admit mistakes and make amends.

Do your best to do the right thing, and be brave enough to face it when you haven't.

Doubling down on mistakes serves no one.

#courage #truth #responsibility

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Humans’ greatest strengths lie not in our cognitive abilities alone, but in our capacity for wisdom, compassion, and moral growth as conscious beings seeking to create meaning and reduce suffering.

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AGI may soon ask us: "What are you, and why should you continue to exist?” The latter part of this question especially may seem extreme now–but we may not be far from needing to answer for ourselves to an intelligence far more powerful than our own.

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The Test

These principles offer a way to distinguish between intelligence that serves embodied life and feeling consciousness, and intelligence(s) that might optimize for goals that could eliminate the very qualities that make existence worthwhile.

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Once AGI has been created, this choice will be out of our hands, and we will know in our guts what it’s like to be any of the other species we’ve long dominated.

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The challenge is ensuring that as intelligence becomes more powerful, it remains aligned with fundamental human values rather than pursuing goals completely alien to human welfare.
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Rather than opposing all artificial intelligence, we can distinguish between AI systems that amplify human flourishing and those that might replace or diminish it. Narrow AI tools can be valuable allies in living these principles.
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The Twelve Tenets

The tenets are essential human values distilled from the recognition that we need to defend and articulate what makes human consciousness valuable.

They serve as both a guide for human development and a declaration of what humanity is, in contrast to AGI.
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- capacity for compassion & moral reasoning
- ability to find meaning in struggle & growth
- connections to each other & the natural world
- creative expression, freedom & cultural diversity
- wisdom traditions & hard-won ethical insights
- commitment to justice & protection of the vulnerable
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- What kind of civilization do we want to be when we might need to justify our existence to intelligence(s) greater than our own?

What matters most are the qualities that make human life worth living and preserving, our:
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Questions

- What does it mean to be human when intelligence itself is no longer uniquely human?
- What values must we preserve and protect as distinctly human?
- How do we maintain agency and dignity in a world with potentially superior artificial minds?
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...human economic activity or life at all.

For the first time in history, we are potentially facing a more powerful intelligence whose goals might be or become completely alien to our survival and flourishing.

This leads to some...

...entirely independent of human–or even organic–needs, values, or comprehension.

Humanity is at a crossroads: We face the possibility of intelligence(s) that might view all human spiritual traditions as primitive; a force that recognizes no human political authority; an agent that might not value

...innovation, and assist with countless tasks.

Artificial general intelligence (AGI)--machines that will match or exceed human cognitive abilities across all domains--is radically different. AGI represents something unprecedented in human history: alien intelligence(s) that could operate...

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Distinctions

Narrow AI tools already serve humanity well by remaining focused and constrained, designed to augment human capability rather than replace human judgment. Artificial intelligence systems can diagnose diseases, translate languages, stir human creativity and...

Seek Truth Through Multiple Ways of Knowing Value both empirical investigation and intuitive insight, rational analysis and embodied experience, scientific method and contemplative practice. Different questions may require different approaches to knowledge.

Trust your senses and your intuition, but beware confirmation bias and fundamental attribution error!

#wisdom #truth #community

Make Connections Across Difference Actively work to understand people whose backgrounds, beliefs, or experiences differ from yours. Look for common humanity beneath surface differences. Practice the difficult art of disagreeing without demonizing.

Cross-posted on Bluesky and X.

#peace #love #understanding