Our recency-bias is to imagine, That AI will rise - Armageddon, That technology progression, Cranks our stakes up to eleven, But the stakes in fact remain break-even, Take the discovery of how to control fire way back when, Which made cooking food and warm sleep possible way back then, But also got used to destroy other’s villages - arson, Be it controlled fire or AI’s the newest innovation, This New-Improved vs. More-Effed-Up tension, Is not a question, Of volume-level one b

How do we know right from wrong? How do we know right from wrong? At first glance this might sound counterintuitive, but my guess is that one's self-interest is how one knows right from wrong. That each person's own sense of self-interest is magnetic north to the compass needle of the moral landscape, always making it very clear right where Right Street and Wrong Lane are each located. The question of why - 'why do we do the right or wrong thing?' is an entirely different q

If you could shrink small enough to live inside of one H₂O molecule, Just you and 3 atoms all contained inside the same single water particle, And if you lived on 1 electron orbiting 1 of those 3 atoms,  And if you were as small to that electron that you are now to Earth, From that electron’s surface - To your naked eye, the nucleus of the atom that you're orbiting would look strikingly like the sun,  the center of the 2 other atoms would resemble 2 stars out there dotting th

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 Conspiracy theory type thinking arrests all clear thinking and reason,  Knee-jerk conspiracy theory type thinking is the con’s piracy of reality, The con artist could be anybody, The con artist could be you or me,  The con artist is anybody that fools themself into thinking,  That all awful acts of terror always require, Deeper complexity and plotting, With wider-spread collaboration and secrecy, And the sure-fire cover-up of inside-job evidence, Plus als

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us. ...

Capitalism is the utmost least worst economic system possible. Capitalism is natural, and therefore the only sustainable economic system possible. Sustainable because it’s self-propelled. Self-propelled because of the laws of nature. The laws of nature meaning; capitalism is a direct output of the most universal and by far strongest instinct that all living things have in common, which is self-preservation, also known as survival instinct. The instinct of self-preservation is

"Paradoxical causal loops are the ultimate mind-bending concept of systems thinking, where the cause becomes the effect and the effect becomes the cause." - Donella Meadows “Take your medicine!” was a nagging command we all hated as kids, but for alcoholics this sounds like the world’s nicest invitation. With substance addiction, the medication for the treatment of its symptoms is paradoxically the very cause of the “disease” itself. Alcoholism is the “disease”; yet alcohol i

We believe in one Universe,     the  Atoms, they’re all mighty,      the makeup of matter and Earth,     and of all that is, seen and...

Our big bright sun is located eight light-minutes away, It hides from us at the end of each day. Each morning returning, Orange and burning. That faithful fiery ball of lava, Risin’ from the horizon like a fresh cup of java. The sun’s light hitting your face, Just spent eight minutes racing through space. Like the crack of the bat at the ballpark that you see, but don’t hear till one second later, Although the sunlight’s time-delay is eight minutes greater. If the sun turned

Microscopes and telescopes show you strikingly similar patterns. Microscopes show you atoms, each composed of a nucleus being orbited by electrons. Telescopes show you solar systems, each composed of a star being orbited by planets. An atom is sort of a Micro Solar System, and a solar system is kind of a Macro Atom. You and me? Each of us are an astronomically complex structure that's made up of 7 octillion (7 X 10 ²⁷ ) atoms , which is 7 billion billion billion atoms - e

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson— All plants and animals are driven by instincts, including...