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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1901

We were here
but cannot say
our effort mattered
do what’s right
expect to be hated

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How shall we study values and humanicity? How can we narrow it to what we can foster?

:- Doug

This is a thinking course, not a thought course.

:- Doug.

If we assume one future is possible we can study it and our actions in relation to it. Suppose….

:- Doug.

Identifying our values challenges us to examine our integrity.

:- Doug.

Ought our values transfers be only “Thou shalt nots?” Is everything permitted that’s not forbidden, or do we write our aspirations the other way around?

:- Doug.

Our 300-year grandchild elders might be more silicon than biological—or even all silicon. So the values transfers might be starting from zero.

:- Doug.

It is interesting what you can see if you stop.

:- Doug.

How’d we get from “not kill” to “caring for one another?”

:- Doug.

You’re teaching the course. I’m merely pointing to the raw materials.

:- Doug.

There comes a point where there is too much data and it must be ignored (so we get to the important).

:- Doug.

All story tells us about humanicity. Everything is story.

:- Doug.

This is story immersion. To learn story. Only it’s a story a minute.

:- Doug.

Improv is story.

:- Doug.

What’s the question nobody asks in the world but you wish they would?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1909

Speak O Elder to the grandchildren
Speak in novels and poetry
in music, dance, in things
that last and things that don’t
Speak in work and especially in play
Speak in all your voices
For the grandchildren

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Count how many times you respond to tech as if it were a real person—for one day this week.

:- Doug.

How do we become ethically self aware so we can figure out stories for the 300-year grandchild elders?

:- Doug.

With artificial general intelligence we need to include the other human characteristics, or we risk brainiac: intelligence without thinking, without context. Emphasis only on intelligence can easily create lopsided beings running amok. A ball with a bulge.

:- Doug.

The aliens can come from earth as well as the stars, indeed they are already silently aborning among us: artificial general intelligence will be to us inscrutable.

:- Doug.

When business is slow, find a way to give something to your clients.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1900

arms and legs and mouths
and loving in the garbage out
loving in the spats before the making up

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Where is story today, when?

:- Doug.