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ĂŠtoufĂŠe makes a strong appearance as well of course :)

the other thing, many of the people who take the buyout offer are probably the most talented with the most prospects and most to gain from moving to the private sector… and the prospects or mindset for the ones who stay, either true believers, true public servants, or… I guess we’ll soon see?

I’ve never had such delicious food in the States as in Louisiana

If you can access Criterion, don’t wait:

https://www.criterionchannel.com/documentaries-by-les-blank/season:1/videos/yum-yum-yum-a-taste-of-cajun-and-creole-cooking

Cantata "Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin" BWV 125: 2. Aria: "Ich will auch mit gebrochnen Augen" by Robin Tyson, John Eliot Gardiner & English Baroque Soloists https://www.shazam.com/track/56144617?referrer=share

meditating recently on this

where there is initially fear is the way in, a prerequisite to spiritual growth

Replying to Avatar Nela

Fractured musings on Tech, Humanity,

AI / 1 (the dark edit:))

* Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Does AI dream of humans or of being human?

* Jules Verne – I devoured his books as a child, dreaming myself into his world. Captain Nemo in his "Nautilus" - my ideal father figure. As the first author to center scientific and technological processes in his novels, he depicts a world where people live in peace and respect within a technological adventure. Technology is employed as an extension of human capability – but above all, to protect the human essence. Tech optimism as a shaping influence.

* "Paris in the Twentieth Century" - the tragic struggle of an idealistic young man for happiness within a relentlessly materialistic dystopia that the French capital has become by 1960. Jules Verne's last book, published posthumously in 1994.

* Mastering a prosthesis requires dealing with loss. My Friend in the wheelchair serves as a teacher, showing us that growth is multidimensional, and that real beauty is decouplet from standarts. How do the not constrained, handle losses: the loss of privacy, the loss of faith in liberal democracy, the loss of a naïve, utopian worldview amidst concerns for the future ? („Be more resillient!“)

* Belief in technology and AI presupposes a deterministic tech optimism

* I see a disappearance of our motivation to shape our future. Do we leave it to Technocrats to define how our world will look in the future?

* Extremism fills the void created by a lack of education – obsessive AI usage through their Fallibility can fuel new forms of extremism.

* The changing significance of technology: from industrial techniques that standardize to a technological postmodernity that reaches for singularity – the special, the spectacle, even. What remains still special for us today?

* Democracy cherishes the individual, while in a dictatorship, the individual is irrelevant. Does the same apply to technocracy?

* Technocrats want to reduce bureaucracy, but replace Huamans with *merciless AI pedants.

Thank you for sharing these thoughts. I will sit with them awhile.

designers trying things while still having to design according to building codes 🤦

₿oggles the mind 😆

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exuberant

it just occurs to me that "ex" and "in/im/en" and "trans" - indeed "ortho" and "meta" as well, could be placed in the same way as is used with other roots

the word is related to "hubris" which is self delusion and pride, the two things kinda are sides of the same coin

so you could also have words like "inhuberant", "transhuberant", "orthohuberant" and "metahuberant"

for some reason the first of these that came was "transhuberant" maybe because it rhymes with transhuman and is literally something like "moving from one delusion to another" and thinking about "orthohuberant" does that mean overwhelmingly driven delusion, like yeah, mania... and "metahuberant" could mean something like "simulating delusion"

This takes me back to a conversation I had with a philosophy professor back in university. I got into trouble in a paper because I used the word ‘of’ instead of ‘from’ and the whole argument hinged on that distinction.

Actually a great thing to have experienced. I learned a lot that day.