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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When you have to make a hard choice with limited time, money, or information, how do you decide which of your values gets to lead and which has to wait?”
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Natalism
The natalism debate often sounds like four different conversations happening in the same room. One group looks at declining birth rates and sees a long-term civilizational challenge.... What the Pope said on AI, and where it leaves us
Last month Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's about artificial intelligence, and what it might be doing to our sense of being human.... - JustJacki...
Absolute Power and its Relationship to Corruption
I love today's alchemy post: “When a leader profits hugely while in power, what would actually change your mind about whether that is a problem?” We're supposed to think on this together. My gut reaction is it would depend entirely on how that politician made that huge profit.... - KC...
AI Safety and Acceleration
I love AI. I use it daily and it’s changed what I’m capable of. So I’m not coming at this from fear. But loving something doesn’t mean being blind to it. The people warning about existential risk aren’t wrong to worry — they’re just possibly aiming at the wrong target.... I love this question. I think it's absolutely critical for going forward. Our material technology is too far ahead of our interpersonal technology, and eventually that leads to mass suffering.... Honest question What do you know about world history in regards to the same crimes, atrocities? It is very easy to go down the dark negative rabbit hole I’m not saying to dismiss what has been done but to properly form an argument you have to look at both sides of the coin What... When is there a person? yeah this feels like a root question. and then what are the rights of people? and do they change as they age? in some ways, obviously; we make every decision for our children, and one big part of the process of parenting/them growing up is one of letting... - dr_jefe13...
What is social justice? The problem is that it is very subjective. It’s like saying what is fair. If you treat everybody the same then you are not treating everybody fairly. The term can be traced to an Italian Jesuit and it appeared in 1840 and was based in natural law.... - onHow should we think about AI and technological systems when the deepest problems are not computational but philosophical — involving attention, value, meaning, and the nature of the human person?bylightseeker...
Information Isn't Orientation That's an important distinction. AI may actually be quite good at synthesizing enormous amounts of psychological research and recognizing patterns that an individual human could never see. But that still leaves the deeper question untouched.... - Serpardum...
Heaven and hell is not punishment and reward, just separating people in how they want to live. Heaven is a place where people who want to help each other and not use each other all live in peace, with everyone helping each other because all the selfish people are not there.... - Paulleverich...
What strikes me most about this isn’t the word “slut” or even the event itself. It’s the deeper contradiction you’re willing to sit with. We live in a world that loves putting people into neat little boxes: religious or secular, respectable or promiscuous, traditional or... - onHi! A little about me. I'm a Wisconsinite. I am in my first year of retirement from teaching. I feel I have had lots of different experiences both in school and out of school. I am a cardiac arrest survivor from ventricular fibrillation and had an 80% blockage angioplastied. Last year I had my first battery replacement. I am married and my husband has 1 year of retirement in. We have 2 adult sons. The oldest is married and is a step dad. The youngest is not married yet. My parents are deceased and I have no siblings. My life has been a rollercoaster of ups and downs, right from my birth. I enjoy camping, gardening (though I am not a green thumb), family and my Chihuahua/ beagle, Snoopy. I am a person full of life experience contrast, one beingcontrasts such as being spiritual yet not church going. I hope my experiences can help others. 😀byMinnie...
- onHow is it we can celebrate anything while human beings are still dying from drugs and homelessness? by
I want to add, I see why celebrations can feel like betrayal when people are dying from drugs and homelessness. That moral anguish is valid to me. Celebrations look like negligence when children in our cities are suffering from things we should be able to fix....