Tag Archives: Evolution

The Singularity

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

What is the Singularity? How do you think it will affect humanity, and what can we do to prepare? [ 22/May/23 ] In mathematics, a singularity is a point at which a function takes an infinite value. In more common … Continue reading →

Posted in Ideas, Technology, understanding | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Quora – competition – cooperation

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

What if humanity lived as if it were competing with an extraterrestrial civilization instead of competing with each other? [ 27/April/23 ] Wrong question! Try – What if humanity lived as if it understood that competition is only survivable if … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature, Our Future, Philosophy, understanding | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Developing a Deeper Understanding of Life

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Daniel Schmachtenberger – Developing a Deeper Understanding of Life [ 26/April/23 ] While I align with Daniel in many dimensions of the extremely complex issues we have as a species, two things Daniel stated in this interview give me deep … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature, Our Future, understanding | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Reality, Probability, and Perception

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Reality, Probability, and Perception | Frankly #29 [ 21/April/23 ] Very well done Nate. I was the only person in my district of some 4,000 people fully prepared for the 7.8 earthquake that hit us 6 years ago. I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Ideas, Nature, understanding | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Mike – I don’t know, but really want to find out

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

I don’t know, but really want to find out [ 18/April/23 ] Agree with most of the major themes, but a few bits seem over simplified in a dangerous and misleading way. The quoted idea of “survival-enhancing range” should more … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Future | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Risk in society

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

The real battle is between people who want to be left alone and those who refuse to leave other people alone [ 6/April/23 Dirk posted a DuPage Libertarian quote:Forget ‘right’ and ‘left’ for a moment… The real battle is between … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Future, understanding | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

AI and wider risk

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368 [ 4/April/23 ] Agree with Eliezer about the seriousness of the risk of AI in current context, and about the nature of meaning, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Future, Technology, understanding | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Characteristics of the human mind

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Human Mind [ 29/March/23 Walter Kant asked:Does the human mind have the following characteristics? We are extremely complex. Far more complex than most have ever considered the possibility of. Of necessity, our brains need to simplify the information they receive … Continue reading →

Posted in Brain Science, understanding | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Platonic Ideas

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 22/March/23 Walter Kant wrote:World of platonic ideas = world of pure being and thinking; it is accessible only through reason, not through the senses.Which platonic ideas are independent of time and of the world observed with the senses? It … Continue reading →

Posted in Ideas, understanding | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Agency, cooperation, respect

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 21/March/23 ] Michael Ward,Yeah.We always have far more influences working upon us, at far more levels, than we can possibly deal with consciously, and we all have the ability to create degrees of agency and to take responsibility for … Continue reading →

Posted in Ideas, Nature, Our Future, understanding | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment