PJ @pj@qoto.org

Why would you want to "*toughen up*" a highly sensitive [precise instrument?

>1️⃣ #HSPs are naturally more empathic and caring to the needs of other people
>2️⃣ HSPs are trusted by their peers because of their honesty and conscientiousness
>3️⃣ HSPs notice little details that others might miss
>4️⃣ HSPs are very creative and can appreciate things at a deeper level
>5️⃣ HSPs have more insight into their mental and emotional processes
>6️⃣ HSPs feel more connected to the world around them
>7️⃣ HSPs feel positive emotions more deeply

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/highly-sensitive-person-7-reasons-why-being-an-hsp-is-a-strength-according-to-a-neuropsychologist

>#Fundamentalism attempts to give to non-scientific ways of #knowing the status that is given to #science, but it omits the #openness of science to new #evidence that is essential to that status.

M.C. Bateson - in *Legacy for Living Systems*, pg 22

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4020-6706-8

>For millions of viewers, “it’s just a Pavlovian response to put on Fox News at eight o’clock,” Lawrence said. “Tucker needs the eight-o’clock hour on Fox News way more than Fox News needs Tucker.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/watching-tucker-carlson-for-work

The scale of importance runs probably in this order:

1️⃣ #Health
2️⃣ #Education
3️⃣ #Defense

A healthy and educated population is better equipped for defending a society that assures those basic needs are satisfied.

As long as there is no room for economic #exploitation or political #manipulation in such a society.

Finally, someone who recognizes #Education of the general population is as (if not more) important as #Defense.

https://www.the74million.org/article/a-darpa-for-k-12-omnibus-bill-includes-substantial-new-funds-for-education-rd/

@slider7420

Nothing compares with the reality of this scene from #GalaxyQuest 😃

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hthl28SEGfk

I was wondering where #NoemaMag and Maçães got the idea about the "decline of Western liberalism":

https://www.ft.com/video/a49cfa25-610e-438c-b11d-5dac19619e08

>***The illiberal promise*** is that once we’ve dispensed with liberalism’s inconvenience, uncertainty, and constant rumbles of public dispute, you will end up empowered. Your morals will be enshrined in law. Your culture will be propagated by the government. Your friends will be rewarded and your enemies punished.
>But a litany of wars, inquisitions, and purges show that for almost everyone, this promise is a lie. Without liberalism, you probably won’t end up empowered. You’ll end up bearably oppressed, if you’re lucky, or persecuted or dead if you’re not.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-liberalism-in-us-will-only-lead-to-violence

I would not dismiss ***Western #Liberalism*** so fast as Bruno Maçães, Portugal’s former secretary of state for European affairs does in this propaganda article from #NoemaMag.

Western Liberalism was on its "deathbed" many times but somehow always managed to defeat any #Civilization #State lined up as its replacement, with either nationalist (#Fascist) or inter-nationalist (#Comunist) roots.

https://www.noemamag.com/the-return-of-civilizations/

No wonder the experiment failed

https://jacobin.com/2015/04/allende-chile-beer-medina-cybersyn/

The Future of #Democracy according to #noemamagazine is in the Chinese model of a "Civilization State" with no Italian food.🤔

https://www.noemamag.com/article-topic/future-of-democracy/

If you want to know what someone's #character **really** is, watch them when they are in a position of #power:

>Bonhoeffer’s argument is that the more someone becomes part of the establishment, the less an individual they become. A charismatic, exciting outsider, bursting with intelligence and sensible policies, becomes imbecilic the moment he takes office. It’s as if, “slogans, catchwords and the like… have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being.”

https://bigthink.com/thinking/bonhoeffers-theory-stupidity-evil

Arvind Narayanan:
>Even with something as profound as the internet or search engines or smartphones, it’s turned out to be an adaptation, where we maximize the benefits and try to minimize the risks, rather than some kind of revolution. I don’t think large language models are even on that scale. There can potentially be massive shifts, benefits, and risks in many industries, but I cannot see a scenario where this is a “sky is falling” kind of issue.

https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/01/28/decoding-the-hype-about-ai

People are needlessly concerned that the unavoidable #misuse of #AI (language and visual) tools will "break the #information landscape". The quality and quantity of "fake news" and other published BS may increase but people with the #knowledge and #tools to distinguish between #reality and #fiction will always have the upper hand.

Humanity was in this situation of "disruptive innovation" many times in the past, and it somehow managed to grow up of it a little bit better than before.

Who says #passive is bad:

https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2023-01-25/this-maine-home-can-stay-70-degrees-without-a-furnace-even-when-its-freezing-outside

***Six Misconceptions About #Misinformation***

>1. Misinformation is just a social media problem
2. The internet is rife with misinformation
3. Falsehoods spread faster than the truth
4. People believe everything they see on the internet
5. A large number of people are misinformed
6. Misinformation has a strong influence on people’s behavior

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051221150412

@mike805 @Dreamwieber

The beauty of #automation (including #ai) is in that instead of #having to do something you are doing it because you are #wanting to do it.

Interesting exercise. I've got the rabbit sitting on top of a tree wrong. 9 out of 10, not bad 😎

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-15/quiz-artwork-artificial-intelligence-human-dalle-2-open-ai/101734522

@doctorambient

Let me put it this way: I'm more concerned about the misuse of nuclear power or a(nother) virus "escaping" from some lab than I am about any damage #chatgpt or similar tools could make to society.