Thoughts of a TechnoWizard

Today, after I share my weekend, I vent about the craziness going on in the US in regards to Row v Wade and the mass shootings in America. Our entire idea of democracy today is a complete joke. It's just not possible to have a democracy or any real freedom when millions of people are forced to live under the same rules and moral codes. Anarchy allows people to be people, to be empathetic, and removes the ability to force people to do what you want. We need anarchy, because that is the only way to ensure the freedom of all people, not just some. We need anarchy because it removes the structures of power. We need anarchy because it's best, historically proven, way to allow people the freedom they desire to exist how they want to exist.

Today I give some updates on personal problems and life stuff. I've had many car problems in the last 2 weeks. I also get into a few other things I've been up to, like helping my partner with her booth at the Southern Fried Pride event and some community building events.

Today, I talk about AI and Google's LaMDA being in the news due to an engineer claiming that it is sentient. I go into a bit of depth about why we should be more concerned about how we understand sentience, why Google is building a natural language tool for general conversations in the first place, and what it might take to build a real artificial intelligence (spoiler: it would probably need to be organic, not stuck in a black box of code). https://youtu.be/2856XOaUPpg also, I can't believe I forgot to mention this, but here is a great video explaining why LaMDA is not sentient and not even AI: https://youtu.be/iBouACLc-hw

Yet another great Lex Fridman interview, this time with Richard Wolff, a professor of economics specialized in Marxism, has inspired this episode. I share some of my thoughts and takeaways from learning about Marx and what he was actually about.

Lex Fridman finally interviews Don Hoffman and his Case Against Reality!! Today, I share my thoughts on that theory.

This episode is largely inspired/in response to yet another great Lex Fridman podcast where he talks with Robin Hanson, an economist who created the Grabby Aliens theory. I share some of the great insights I learned, as well as challenge some things I disagreed with, like the assumption that competition and colonization are good ways of viewing the world or the universe at large.

Updates on work, talks about the importance of community and the destruction of said communities in the 21st century, defining love, and more metaphors about free will .. plus some stuff about ecological technologies!

Probably will delete and rerecord this lafer, but will post it now because I totally forgot to record one today!

I finally attended a meeting for radical activism/community building!! Today, I share my experiences and thoughts around the #stopcopcity movement to defend the Atlanta forest. I attended a meeting where they were discussing the week of action lessons and such.

I start today's podcast with an update about my work situation, which flows into a reflection of my own self esteem issues and so on. I then segue into how the precarious situation we are all in thanks to capitalism makes people more prone to being on edge. Unfortunately, many folks (especially cis white men) find solace in extremist or otherwise problematic content and communities. I also touch on some thoughts I've had listening to some Lex Fridman podcasts. I mention how the Bad Vegan thing shows us the problem with thinking only about accountability instead of environmental awareness. Our decisions are influenced by hundreds or even thousands of variables, and ignoring those makes us feel more 'in control' but makes us even more able to be controlled. Finally, I talk about love, and how love is often misused when we really mean infatuation or attraction or manipulation and the like. I think love requires mutual respect and a desire to help each other grow.