Thoughts Of A Trillionaire

Today, I reflect on my self. My difficulties with self expression, self esteem, self confidence, and other aspects of my self. I also share and work through some ideas I learned about the inner Self... The core... The Omniscient, the Spirit, the Ancestors, the Source of all wisdom and consciousness or whatever we want to call it that is always (or often) right about what we should do (and so much more). We only need to listen, and engage in dialectic about what we (think we) hear, to better digest and act upon said wisdom. I reflect on the Self.

Working through my feelings of restlessness and fatigue. This is why I get so frustrated with the way things are and get so passionate about living in a better world.

I recount my trip to NYC

I finally walked the west side of the Atlanta Beltline while I had some spare time. I shared what I saw along the trail, some history, and some of the struggles going on in the area. I also share a bunch of ideas and such on how we could turn this hope and frustrations the area invokes to do better for the community. To build real community!!

I went camping for Juneteenth! A friend of mine organized a beautiful campout at a black owned farm in Villa Rica, Georgia called Kayaneh's Sunset Ranch https://www.sunsetranch.farm And it was a really fulfilling and inspiring experience! We slept in tents through a thunderstorm, ate some good locally sourced vegan foods, had some rejuvenating healing activities, met some awesome people, and learned about natural, eco-friendly farming. This has definitely motivated me and validated my desire to get back to the land!

I do a deeper dive into the pros and cons with the newly announced Apple VisionPro

Today, I have a long conversation about layoffs and the dream of how businesses could be in a post-capitalist world. I also get into the problems of AI today and how it is very much like porn. Then close out with how AI can be better, along with XR and spatial computing. I talk about the good and bad of the Apple VisionPro as well.

Today I recount my experience buying a new car!! Got a candy red 2022 Honda Civic and it has been phenomenal!

Today I finally get back to talking about spirituality. Today we delve more into my personal flavor of spiritualism in relation to my desire for technowizardry and other metaphysical magics.

I'm just complaining bout stuff. May want to skip if you don't wanna hear me be a grouch. I complain about car issues, car financing, credit, car insurance, work, my lack of skills, wanting to create, feeling inadequate, being unable to move, and how stupid AI devs can be (excuse my language.. or not, whatever).

Today I ramble a bit about some of my thoughts and activities over the past week or so. I talk mostly about economics and how it's all a bunch of hot air.

Today I share some thoughts about fermis Paradox, Aliens, the consequences of our current technological development coming due, and the potential existential upside of developing more sustainable technologies (like better AI) that can help us live lives unfathomably more epic.

Today I vent a bit about my car troubles, then share some metaphors about capitalism, and finally end up talking about AI again

Yet another dive into AI! This time I delve into the idea that we may be in the Singularity, more about the biases of AI developers, and the case for open sourcing AI development. Check out the AI Explained video (and channel) about GPT4 learning how to self correct here: https://youtu.be/5SgJKZLBrmg

Today I explore the potential implications of using the psychological 'Theory of Mind' model to test GPT4's level of consciousness. I also link together the inherent bias of AI developers and capitalist orgs that greatly influence and constrain the development of AI. Here is the video in question: https://youtu.be/4MGCQOAxgv4

Today I share what inspired me about the folks working on solarpunk as mentioned in some recent Team Human podcast episodes. It's far better to inspire people through hope than through fear. And just because we are creating a better future doesn't mean it will be perfect. Conflict is inevitable, but we can hopefully limit that conflict through ever better systems.

Today I get back into effective altruism/longtermism to talk about how many people have a default setting of how they view time, and it greatly limits their ability to think about how history and the future works. So I propose a new way to view the world.

Today, I share my ideas and reasoning behind this community building solarpunk tool/suite of tools that I want to create. We need better tools to measure, visualize, and create real communities. We should set qualitative goals instead of quantitative. And we can raise human consciousness by making easier to become measurably more aware of every aspect of humanity and the universe.

Once again I'm talking about AI. There's been yet more news about the disaster that is BingAI so I discuss some of the issues I discovered, as well what other folks have been focusing on... And why that's the wrong thing to focus on. I also get a little into why we need to be more critical about technological development.

I vent about a frustrating experience I had with some discord folks, then I get into some of the critiques with Dawn of Everything (again, sorry!, But there's new info here too:) Check out the review I am discussing here: https://libcom.org/article/wrong-about-almost-everything-review-dawn-everything-david-graeber-david-wengrow