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Elders: live in an augmented present.

:- Doug.

Do myriad Google searches on futures studies, 300 years ahead, developing humanity: train this artificial intelligence on purpose. Set up computer programs and algorithms—and maybe our own AI—to do this work deeply.

:- Doug.

Elders ought not care what transpires with artificial intelligence nor genetics nor other technologies to the extent they are background of humanity. Humans and their development are our proper foci.

:- Doug.

Bigger makes an artificial intelligence more attractive to more users, making it bigger still. Until, perhaps, it gets so big it slows.

:- Doug.

Every time we think of the 300-year grandchild elders, we are learning, and we are reaching out. It is a similar process to learning to ride a bike, paddle a canoe, or write a journal: developing a skill. Only this time it grows a humanity. In waves.

:- Doug.

Be a sensitivist—one who practices sensitivity.

:- Doug.

We have a valuable message. We have an intended recipient group. What are our theaters?

:- Doug.

Friend
deeply into
You

:- Doug.

There are three questions:
1. What messages?
2. How to transmit?

:- Doug.

We are a Moses seeing glimpses of the promised land, but not going there ourselves. What can we send along with these grandchildren to help them?

:- Doug.

Here is the north face: We can see the pathways to futures that people are using. We do not see the other side of the mountain, nor the mountains beyond, nor the pathways down and up. We can expect people will try to traverse them and we think beyond reason they will make it…somewhere. What can we send along with these travelers to help them?

:- Doug.

The lesson to invite from the generations and the elders is that we need to be continually and constantly attending the generations, sending them our messages, developing our messages. Sharpen, grow, cultivate.

The subtext is that to do that, we need to engage one another continually, growing new messages and new paths.

The thrust of that subtext: continual reaching out, thinking about, providing assistance. Then the question of what the message is, and how we get it to the 11th generation, takes care of itself.

:- Doug.

Maybe we use 6 degrees of relation.

:- Doug.

So we cannot come to a conclusion about what the messages are we want to convey, the things we want to invite. We cannot devise the best methods and paths the messages should travel.

:- Doug.

We have yet to work a message, and a how. We need to talk about inviting others.

:- Doug.

What are some major arenas that help describe human life as it is lived today? For example, health, work, family. We can use these facets to explore a scenario of a desired humanity in 2320. What are our messages to the generations?

:- Doug.

What’s the work we want to do, and what’s a better way to invite it?

:- Doug.

What if we could use AI to enhance our efforts to converse with the generations? We do not need to be enemies of artificial intelligence but could be friends. AI could help us plant our seeds ubiquitously, keep our stories alive.

:- Doug.

When we arrive near an all-seeing, all-knowing cognitive artificial intelligence, we will have to rework our definition of God.

:- Doug.

A rich life I enjoy
Family, friends,
depth of spirit

:- Doug.

We don’t sit still
We don’t repeat pathways
We think unthought strange attractors

:- Doug.

Humans are incomplete
This is our strength
Proposed: computers ought to be incomplete

:- Doug.

Life is infinitely
More varied
Than mathematics
Or politics
Or your imagination

:- Doug.