Thoughts of a TechnoWizard

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

Microsoft is dropping an incredible implementation of OpenAIs ChatGPT system via BingAI soon. I discuss the exciting possibilities and the scary risks of this technology.

Today I recap my weeks, talk about the problems of value-based pricing, and share ideas on how revolution could happen even amidst capitalism and nationalism via community localisation.

I share a bit about my week, my first time being drunk, and then talk about how and why so many people are lost and angry today. I share some ideas of better futures that I want to visualize to help inspire and motivate people to really build a world that improves their material conditions.

Today I talk about critical thinking and try to explain the importance of looking deeper into any subject or idea. I discuss how and why being 'unbiased', apolitical, 'central/moderate', etc is actually pretty terrible and uncritical. I show why it's important to not take our current concepts for granted and always think about how it developed and how it can be better.

I start the new year off with a long ass rambling talk about my goals for this year, what I've been up to in the last few weeks, but mostly about why and how AI is not really intelligent.

Today I try to peace together some thoughts I've been having in regards to Avatar (James Cameron), a new book I read called 'The City We Became', white 'culture', and fiction in general.

Sorry for the first 20 or 30min! I tried to podcast while gaming 😭, but overall, I get into how frustrating it is to see so much shitty housing being the only stuff accessible to impoverished folks, while big ass houses and mansions (and vacant lots) are left abandoned. I end this with my plans to share world building and other ideas about a better world.