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Our elder group’s conversations are models of how 300-year grandchild elders might receive our ideas. What reception do we want, expect? Respect (as in look again)?

:- Doug.

I want to learn more about taking a conversation deeper. Might we use Why? differently from other uses? This one is about What matters to you, Who are you, What were your dilemmas, your subtexts? The other, the usual Why?, seems to me about surface level, logic level, not reaching gut level. So we have a head Why? and a further-down-the-body Why?

This Why is open, seeking to know one another on the basis of mutual vulnerability.

:- Doug.

A machine is an expression of humanity.

:- Doug.

If there is to be an economic singularity future resulting in no human work of economic value, perhaps we will find our worth in something akin to being. Then again, moving, doing, creating, and growing seem of our essence.

:- Doug.

We cannot predict futures. Perhaps we can influence them.

:- Doug.

Is our task to emerge new questions?

:- Doug.

Ambiguity is our friend, giving us choices.

:- Doug.

To move from normative and prescriptive to embracing complexity, emergence, and novelty is yet prescriptive: it uses value, and that in taking in more of the world.

:- Doug.

How do we go into our futures? We Slip, we Slide, we Muddle. If we used the gift of far-sight, we might improve. We might get intentional.

:- Doug.

Ought caring be conscious? Or written on our hearts? Both?

:- Doug.

I’m exploring the futures of caring.

:- Doug.

The hallmarks of life’s development seem to be gathering and complexity. Thus our rush to artificial general intelligence is the next step in gathering and complexity.

:- Doug.

Place a decision before people.

:- Doug.

Ought the grandchildren get a vote? A voice?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1904

If your eleventh generation grandfather had written a story wouldn’t you want to read? Particularly if it were addressed to you? Wouldn’t you make an effort to interpret its language and thought patterns into your own life? A story from your own life would hold the interest for your eleventh generation grandchild, or a story you make up and address to them saying “I wrote this for you.” Perhaps you ask them strategic questions.

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Finding our direction will enable us to read all these future studies without getting distracted by utopias and dystopias.

:- Doug.

We want our children to be smarter than us, just not too much.

:- Doug.

Our task for the grandchildren is to start the search which, hopefully, can never be completed. We put an irritant (or call it a new capability) under their skins, invite them to pass it on. What irritant will keep giving?

:- Doug.

Why and feel might be two keys to deeply meeting humans. Why did you choose that? How did that feel to you? In the same fashion, working together by asking for a significant act from this discovered self.

:- Doug.

Irritation or invitation: either might work.

:- Doug.

Are there people with whom I should connect?

:- Doug.

Is the grandchild worth my attention? Am I separate from them? What do they care about?

:- Doug.

Ask the 300-year grandchild elders to do things.

:- Doug.