Blaise Pascal says “human beings will naturally seek distractions rather than confront their own thoughts in moments of solitude and quiet because those thoughts will eventually lead them to consider unpleasant matters such as their own mortality, the vanity of their endeavors, and the general frailty of the human condition.”
If you’re into emotionally diverse #conceptalbums rife with #existential themes about finding #peace within yourself no matter what life throws at you and that remind you that you do not have to be a victim of your circumstances because of your power to #choose, might I humbly suggest that you check out my new album, “A Place to Go When You Need to Hide?” I hope you love it. 🙂🎶🤘🏻🌈💕 https://songwhip.com/rose-alaimo/a-place-to-go-when-you-need-to-hide
I show how, based on the framework of the Minimal Cognitive Grid introduced in #book "Cognitive design for artificial minds" (2021) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1138207950/, it is possible to show how a cognitive approach to AI systems can play its role in the era of #LLM & #GenerativeAI revolution by providing a framework able to avoid the behavioristic trap leading to unjustified claims about #existential#AI risks
We have a humanitarian crisis caused by one of our allies. Israel has gone rogue, ignoring calls for a ceasefire from the UN, showing no remorse for killing children as they give in to their rage over the criminal actions of Hamas.
#POTUS Biden's inability to control autocratic Israel has divided #Democrats and will cost him the #election. #Trump returns to office and resumes his narcissitic destruction of the USA.
It was a nice country while it lasted. #Religion sucks.
I get your point, but most people are NOT feeling good about 10000 dead #Palestinians. Most are looking at this with horror deserving of this crisis, and most are powerless.
The only 'alignment' going on is that between the fairy stories about 'existential risk' and elite interests in diverting us from the real harms of AI. #alignment#existential#risk#AI
#Existential philosophy and psychology assume that strong negative thoughts about #death influences many aspects of our lives, often #unconsciously.
In an article just published in #Collabra: Psychology (n=803), we found that "death" was seen as less negative and more positive than "toothache". We found little to indicate #DeathAnxiety or #DefenseMechanisms. Article and dataset are #OpenAccess. This is Sina Storelv's first first authored paper!
#UNGA live coverage:
President Biden told world leaders that they must stand together against #Russia :"We have to stand up to this naked aggression today and deter other would-be aggressors tomorrow"
Climate change is an immediate threat to the majority of the world's population.
We need a local, regional, state, national, and international "moon shot" type of concentration of effort using available resources while developing and advancing new science and technologies to counteract the damage humans have caused.
Without this type of all-out, universal cooperation, human civilization, and perhaps humanity itself, are in imminent danger of extinction.
"I've long said, when I think #climate—not a joke—I think jobs." – President #JoeBiden
That lack of insight into and appreciation of the literal #existential threat to #humans of our ongoing and worsening #ClimateChange disaster is a clear indication that #Biden is too removed from reality.
"It's humanity, stupid."
The Everything, Everywhere, All at Once strategy can't work if key solutions are #monopolized.
"...we are past the point where the actions of individual countries can move the needle on #ClimateChange."
Doing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is the only viable #climate change mitigation strategy that can possibly save #human#civilization and our #species.
On national and international scales, we must all work together on projects like building #HVDC#SuperGrid connectivity.
I don't feel our end is imminent, on a #human timescale, or that it will definitely be caused by #nuclear#war or #disaster, but I do feel we're on track for that at a speed which the overwhelmingly majority aren't recognizing, or are willfully ignoring.
We always ultimately choose the more destructive path, rather than the most cooperative.
Shane!
Shane, a cowboy comes to town, stays with a farmer and his family. When he leaves, they shout out his name. He ignores them
An #Existential interpretation of a Classic #Western
I have a woman's hands.
But they are not thin, elegant hands
They're stubby, thick, puffy.
My fingers are short.
They not 'womanly', but they are a woman's hands.
I knew a woman with hands like mine.
Puffier than mine. Darker than mine.
I watched her run them over piano keys, I saw them hold a cello bow
I observed them during the mundanity of doing laundry
They became a magical curative when they were run through my hair.
I held them countless times.
And they withered. As did she.
I was holding them when she died.