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Might we use flowing and interlinking to help us help them?

:- Doug.

We had thought that to move into our futures we would become more technological. Could we not become also more human?

And better human?

Where and when have we been most human?

:- Doug.

With machines taking over our tasks we are freed to become more human.

:- Doug.

Subtext is a dimension of character wholeness.

:- Doug.

Individual artificial intelligence may throttle big AI.

:- Doug.

Artificial intelligence is imponderable, but humanity is.

:- Doug.

What if there were no technological improvement, or it did not matter, but if humanity did improve? How would that look?

:- Doug.

Google is the artificial intelligence that pads around the house in bedroom slippers.

:- Doug.

Our every thought to the 300-year grandchild elders, our every Google search on the related subjects, our every conversation about them, helps them develop towards a better humanity. It is not some magic voodoo, rather opening paths in the common thinking.

:- Doug.

Make a story that carries our elders further.

:- Doug.

the eye with which you look is
the eye by which you are seen:
Google

:- Doug.

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.