Just wanted to mention a few themes that seem to suggest we are headed to some sort of paralysis point or points of progress and science. This is not news for most of you. Sheldrake and a few others have pointed the the idea that physical laws of the universe may be heading in the direction of more non predictability as compared to the past. Sheldrake refers to a period where the speed of light seemed to be slowing down a few years ago, but also points to a more general lack of repeated ability in many other studies
Gary Null picks up on this theme in terms of human physiology studies run by the NIH and Big Pharma where they are finding it increasingly difficult to reproduce the results of their studies as well. This of course also picks up on an economic lens where it becomes difficult to discern whether the fix is in by corporate manipulation and fraud in controlling the results of health studies.
We also have the hardware problem in computer chips where the chips have have gotten so small that it is no becoming necessary to make them at the subatomic level, and the specter of quantum uncertainty may soon make further 'progress' in this are impossible
In terms of the AI question , I have heard Eric Davis and others raise the notion that we are not only faced by the AI'ng of humans from a purely physical replacement standpoint , but also in the sense that the more humans use AI in their daily lives the more we come mentally entrained to thinking and even feeling like AI
In economics we seem to be headed towards both an apex in terms on indebtness and the inability to even pay off the interest on that debt, while concurrently facing the end of work crisis. This is perhaps the most open to rebuttal of some sort, but some sort of apex is in the making here as well
The strand duality of race and religious relations where the further we push for accepting one another may be instead crating a somewhat opposite effect. Related to this is the crisis in free speech, where again a seeming pinnacle in free speech mostly provided by the internet, seems to be again creating a countering effect where free speech faces serious, if not ultimate, threats to its very existence
And finally the question of verifiability. The old best standards of this were perhaps photographic evidence and DNA evidence Yet both of those are begging to face serious challenges from advancing technologies.
One might hope that the last bastion of identity and truth might still find sanctuary in terms of subjective experience. But as most of us are aware technology threatens both the privacy of that experience by so called mind reading devices as well as technologies that can interfere with experience itself
Sure am glad I am kind of old
Gary Null picks up on this theme in terms of human physiology studies run by the NIH and Big Pharma where they are finding it increasingly difficult to reproduce the results of their studies as well. This of course also picks up on an economic lens where it becomes difficult to discern whether the fix is in by corporate manipulation and fraud in controlling the results of health studies.
We also have the hardware problem in computer chips where the chips have have gotten so small that it is no becoming necessary to make them at the subatomic level, and the specter of quantum uncertainty may soon make further 'progress' in this are impossible
In terms of the AI question , I have heard Eric Davis and others raise the notion that we are not only faced by the AI'ng of humans from a purely physical replacement standpoint , but also in the sense that the more humans use AI in their daily lives the more we come mentally entrained to thinking and even feeling like AI
In economics we seem to be headed towards both an apex in terms on indebtness and the inability to even pay off the interest on that debt, while concurrently facing the end of work crisis. This is perhaps the most open to rebuttal of some sort, but some sort of apex is in the making here as well
The strand duality of race and religious relations where the further we push for accepting one another may be instead crating a somewhat opposite effect. Related to this is the crisis in free speech, where again a seeming pinnacle in free speech mostly provided by the internet, seems to be again creating a countering effect where free speech faces serious, if not ultimate, threats to its very existence
And finally the question of verifiability. The old best standards of this were perhaps photographic evidence and DNA evidence Yet both of those are begging to face serious challenges from advancing technologies.
One might hope that the last bastion of identity and truth might still find sanctuary in terms of subjective experience. But as most of us are aware technology threatens both the privacy of that experience by so called mind reading devices as well as technologies that can interfere with experience itself
Sure am glad I am kind of old