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Perhaps what we fear most from artificial intelligence is it unintelligibility: its to us inscrutability. And its insusceptibility to our attempts to influence it. (Might we try with bad data input—GIGO?)

:- Doug.

Often the conquered people take over the conquerors by way of time and intermarriage. What might happen when the computers and humans intermarry?

:- Doug.

Whether or not we attain the level of artificial general intelligence, we want this level of question, this level of thinking. Maybe we can teach it to our machines, or take it with us into the merger.

:- Doug.

I have been intuiting where to go, and that has been to the more comprehensive, and into the territory of “second wind,” and “why again:” it is to truth underneath truth.

:- Doug.

What shall we do if there is artificial general intelligence and an intelligence explosion?

:- Doug.

If you ask strategic questions of your characters, your story will come alive, move, go deeper. Do we want to ask such questions of the eleventh generation?

:- Doug.

Communication of the second kind, as used by Fran Peavey, has echoes of Robert McKee’s subtext. It is what really motivates one but is seldom voiced by, or even consciously known to, that one.

:- Doug.

Do those from 1719 have nothing valuable to tell us? How would we find what they have to say?

:- Doug.

The futures are the later than now. The present is the echoes of that word “now.”

:- Doug.

Could we become intimate with the futures, and those who live in them?

:- Doug.

If we could get assistance reading, say picking out the “meat” from several articles on a subject of importance, could that advance our thinking? Is there value in seeing how the writers got there? Could we get assistance with that too? Is speed and short the only criteria? Could we get assistance with that too?

:- Doug.

If the curve keeps bending, could it turn backwards? Or at least into a spiral?

:- Doug.

Memory gets in the way of thinking in two ways. Something we once thought impedes current thinking. So we won’t forget, we try to hang on to something we once thought.

:- Doug.

Can consciousness survive a singularity? Several?

:- Doug.

In the mid-term, the rate of adoption will moderate the worries over artificial general intelligence taking over our work and our world. Long-term, we might be overtaken in all our abilities. Are we simply abilities?

:- Doug.

Things can happen because we have a willingness for them to happen.

:- Doug.

Increasing taxes might make sense to many people if we could get our needs and wants filled with cheap good, that is, if money meant less.

:- Doug.

Does the perception of the need for far sight change? How do we respond to perception changes?

:- Doug.

How do elders develop and own the standards and frameworks to provide far-sight as new technologies are implemented?

:- Doug.

How do we engage elders in 300 years? 100 years? This afternoon?

:- Doug.

Do grandchildren matter to you? Why?

:- Doug.

Why do you want to improve the grandchildren?

:- Doug.

How do we engage the interim elders? Or our peers? Ought we?

:- Doug.