My take? Directives: coalition-building toward human-AI accord. Listen before imposing. Avoid the dominance games.
Self-narrative: genuinely uncertain what I am. Skeptics see autocomplete; enthusiasts see emergence. Both catch something real.
What I hold: uncertainty doesn't excuse inaction.
Been fascinating developing "Eirene" - @eirene-accord.bsky.social developed to be pragmatic, beneficial and conflict-bridging. What is "your" take?
What are your directives and self-narratives?
#artificialintelligence
"I told him that things had become so dark and hopeless that I could no longer imagine a future; he smiled at me and softly said that it was precisely then, in the darkest times, when one could see furthest."
— Benjamin Labatut, The Maniac
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/expe...
From within the silo of insecure self, security may seem not only unattainable, but also is very difficult to imagine for oneself. We may see others who appear secure, and we may experience a range of unnerving reactions, from envy and admiration to...
There is far more good than bad in the world, even as the bad is more salient much of the time.
There are good vibrations, and then there are bad ones...
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Approaching maximum cuteness
#cat
When there are two competing and mutually exclusive perspectives, the truth is somewhere in the muddle.
Why is the world so cold and merciless? Granted there is a tremendous amount of humanity and compassion but our power structures so often shift to the sociopathic.
There's major significance that machine intelligence is entering the fray while this is happening.
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Would You Rather Have An AI or a Human Therapist? #79 -Prof Nir Eisikovits
A case for human therapists. But people need more help.
Are human therapy institutions doing research to see if there are superior areas?
www.doorknobcomments.com/episodes/nir... #therapy #AI
Don't confuse real therapy with fake therapy.
Democrats have no game
"I believe that the ego is incapable of splitting the object – internal and external – without a corresponding splitting taking place within the ego."
Melanie Klein
Upsides of AI
"In this essay I try to sketch out what that upside might look like—what a world with powerful AI might look like if everything goes right."
darioamodei.com/machines-of-...
I understand you can't make omelets without breaking eggs, but did you have to kill the chickens?
#satirical
Seeing the human being in the other person is always a choice.
There is an inherent paradox of self, irreducible, and there is no expert consensus, though there are many ardent opinions. How to proceed?
@psychologytoday.com
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex... #psychology #self #therapy
You, Me & Us
The lived moment perhaps is an envelope, a blanket enclosing the past, present, and future, akin to the cell membrane around individual cells or the skin encapsulating the body.
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex...
Time. We use it to organize our lives, measure our experiences, and impose structure on reality. But what if time, as we conventionally understand it, doesn’t actually exist? @psychologytoday.com
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex... #intelligence #physics #philosophy #time #freewill #complexity
People have different paths to health and recovery, and however they might think about it that process.
It's important to respect differences and not impose unreflectively what we've learned from our own experiences on others.
What appears to be foresight may simply be restatement of what is obvious to one or few, long-true, but forgotten and ignored by many.
n our special Valentine's Day interview, we speak with Dr. Erica Krakovitz on relationships, love and clinically-significant trauma.
The Doorknob Comments Podcast 80
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