Morning in America, or a Dark Winter?
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Leave a CommentI’ve been playing with some GPT-3 apps the past few weeks. I have to say I’m impressed. The little AI is growing.
Imagine what GPT-18 will look like. The scene in “HER” is becoming reality.
At some point AI will create the scenarios and dialogues for books and movies.
Leave a Comment“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell, 1984
Leave a CommentWatching the recent protests and removal of statues, I can’t think but reminisce. I remember being in second grade when Communism fell.
The first day after Christmas vacation (the commies called it winter vacation) the teachers asked us to “rip out the first page of your books”.
The portrait hanging above the blackboard was taken down as well.
This is the portrait that we had to recite out pledge of allegiance to. A long pledge. Who is this comrade? “He is the leader of the socialist republic of Romania elected unanimously by the 26th party..”..
This was all gone.
Throughout the country statues of Lenin were taken down. A new era was upon us.
I was changed.
Going forward, I would trust less. I would double check any information, especially if it was coming from those in power. Iraq has WMD. Really? The UN inspectors are saying otherwise…and so on.
Once sacred cows are killed there is no going back to “trusting”. Groups seek to find consensus. Individuals seek to find the truth.
You can only find the truth if you kill the sacred cows.
Leave a CommentGoing to try to be more authentic this year. Speak my truth, as they say. How does one speak their truth? Truth changes as people change. I’m not the same person I was five or ten or twenty years ago. As Alan Watts once said: “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
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50 years ago we put a man on the moon
50 years later we have Snapchat and Instagram models
Leave a CommentLooking at future trends
Someone needs to make a target-dated ETF fund that invests in those products.
Example: Cat Lady ETF – Target Date 2030 – would invest in cat related products as more and more women will be single and live alone.
Another example: Social Security ETF – Target Date 2050 – would invest in dog food as retirees can’t afford to eat human food and resort to pet food.
Leave a CommentWe don’t speak the same language, use the same apps, watch the same TV, listen to the same music, read the same books. We’re living in the Tower of Babel.
Leave a CommentHappy New Year!
Leave a CommentIn the midst of the shutdown, it’s good to take a look at examples throughout history:
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