A forward-looking post ... in specific terms it's back to the future in Movico terms. I am cutting and keeping it.

AI is a paradox. It can be seen both as an existential threat and a silver bullet. — In 1985, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, one of the most brilliant scientists of our age, spoke about machine intelligence. When asked, “Do you think there will ever be a machine that will think like human beings and be more intelligent than human beings?” he unequivocally declared, …first of all, will…

What you wrote applies to everybody, regardless of their age, imo. While security and privacy are valid issues, they should not come in the way of an authentic user. Perhaps Apple needs to do a customer journey exercise before their product teams decide features. Great piece. Sharing now.

Thanks for this comprehensive understanding of AGI and its potential, both for good and bad effect. However, this is still clearly from a human-centric standpoint: what if Nature is using human abilities to create the next new species in its evolutionary journey? A new species that transcends the physical-chemical beings called organic life. A new inorganic life form if you please, combining AGI, robots and maybe even a few organic components for good measure (3D-printed organs for example).

Nonagenarian statesman Dr. Karan Singh reminds us of the fragility of present times and asks if the human race is programmed for destruction or for evolution. — The world, to use a Shakespearean phrase, is out of joint. There have, of course been astonishing technological and scientific achievements over the last few decades. We are now routinely travelling into space landing on the moon, and reaching out to the planets. We have been able to see the…

Ken Homer’s Goodbye to Evil — Dear friends, The revelations of Frances Haugen, aka The Facebook Whistleblower, have been devastating yet unsurprising. So too, have the responses to her mission — a lot of hand wringing and people expressing outrage, including sharing that outrage on Facebook — with little substantive change to back up the talk. …

Absolutely. The problem is the "educated middle classes" who get a business education (however paradoxical that may sound) and then strut around wearing their entitlement on their faces. Nassim Taleb has given them a fitting label—Intellectuals Yet Idiots, for they are those who won't put #skininthegame.

And focusing on the relationships between the various components and their interactions rather than looking at the parts that make the whole. From Parliament of the World’s Religions, November 1-7, 2018, in Toronto— To practice eco-dharma is to understand and experience the immanence of divine presence within Earthly creation. “We…

The only chance we have is for each of us to individually mend our ways. Our leaders have no skin in the game to care. Think regenerative. Act regenerative. Now.