Jodistrict

Try to step outside of the social media matrix for a second and just notice that we are spending valuable time and resources discussing whether it is appropriate to stick out your tongue or not. When you are caught in the matrix the emotions create a psychodrama out of it and make it seem real. This is an opportunity to awaken from the dream. The Dalai Lama is just doing his job as a spiritual teacher.

Apparently this video is several months old. I looked at it briefly and the whole interaction only lasted for a few seconds. If people saw this without commentary most wouldn’t have noticed anything special. The video is released with a negative interpretation, which influences other people to see the same interpretation, and it goes viral. It’s important to note that the Dalai Lama was a political leader and has enemies, particularly the CCP, that want to discredit him. Who released the video and for what motive? This is all about people feeling better by putting down another human being who has been placed on a pedestal and found to have feet of clay. This is the kind of thing that goes viral. Gossip is corrosive to the human soul and makes you even more miserable. The Dalai Lama is still happy. And social media still sucks.

People evaluating the video should first ask themselves how much of their interpretations are actually projection from their own impure minds. Especially, if you have any emotional charge. And if you are not familiar with the culture and have not interviewed the child. You should also become familiar with the McMartin preschool trial. This was a huge case in the 1980s where day care sitters where charged with sexual abuse. It created a massive hysteria in America resulting in bizarre allegations, and the trial which lasted several years ultimately resulted in no convictions. But many now believe they were innocent. America is a toxic culture with regards to sexuality. The really dangerous tongues are the ones that wag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial

The Dalai Lama is extremely respectful of Western sentiments and doesn’t go out of the way to create controversy. But sometimes he misjudges the extent of pettiness, in which case he just apologizes. He keeps his beliefs and practices private, which would be considered bizarre or strange to a Western audience. The other factor is that he was a head of state. In the 1970s he was a friend of the conservative Jesse Helms, who was a vocal supporter. I doubt that his political views would be acceptable to his liberal supporters if he fully disclosed them. He did get in trouble for saying that Europe is for the Europeans.

Keep in mind that Tibetan Buddhism is a combination of Buddhism and Tibetan Shamanism, and the Dalai Lama is the head shaman. If he ever fully unleashed himself, the PC crowd would go apoplectic. No humor or joy is allowed.

Dalai Lama also got in trouble with the PC crowd when he said that it would be good if the next Dalai Lama is a woman because she would be more attractive looking. These self-appointed critics are low consciousness miserable people and have no sense of humor.

Tibetan monks are taken from their mothers when they are still children and made to meditate long hours in isolation, probably with little affection. It’s a radically different paradigm. I talked to a Westerner who was in a Tibetan monastery for a year, and he said that the higher level Rinpoches are like children, spontaneous and playful. They don’t take the world of illusion seriously. They have nothing to prove. They have no egos to defend.

This only shows the stupidity of the self-appointed guardians of Western culture and says nothing about the Dalai Lama. He apologizes because someone at his level sees direct confrontation of rigid beliefs and fixed customs to be unproductive, and he has no ego to preserve.

I find that psychedelics activate the imagination. Everything you experience is you. In that way, it is similar to a dream. But 5-meo is different. It reaches outside the mind to the present moment.

Yes, AI will just serve man.

The instinct for survival is a set of behaviors driven by emotions and feelings. When you fear, you flee or freeze. When you have rage, you fight. When you feel pain you withdraw. The feeling brain uses the left-brain like a tool to execute strategies in accordance with its will. A robot can be programmed to defend itself, but this is not an instinct for survival, it is an algorithm. The robot is no more sentient than a hammer.

Humans have a survival instinct, but millions die in wars, and the world is on the brink of nuclear destruction. It’s not the rational calculating part of the brain that causes that. It’s the reptilian – domination, greed, hate, fear. Think about it and you will see that you can’t have the motiviation for “manipulation” and “deception” without emotions. We have enough left-brain intelligence to solve our problems and enough resources if they are used wisely. That isn’t where the problem lies.

The main benefit of the ceremony is the group healing. You are interacting with the energies of the other people. There are places you can go alone, and there are places you can go as a group.

Alcohol would probably be more effective. It loosens inhibitions.

Finally, someone addressing the real dangers.

Since there is no feeling brain, the computers would have no fear, and, in particular, no fear of death. They also would have no desire for dominance which is reptillian. Thus, they could just flip a coin. A decision that would require a few ergs of energy.

Now you are arguing my position. The morality comes from the feeling part of the brain. We evolved feelings of compassion, because it is important for the mother/child bond and for group success. We also evolved the feelings that lead to conflict and domination. The rational part is just a simple resource allocation problem.

The problem of resource allocation is not that complex. Computers can easily take in to consideration all relevant variables and make the calculations. Even if an optimal solution couldn’t be found, they would agree to a suboptimal solution. It is a problem of computer algorithms. Whoever is more qualified would be assigned the task. Being “better than others”, and “deserving more than” are feelings generated in the lower survival brain. It takes more than neocortex computations to have these feelings. The earth has enough resources and people have enough intelligence, that everyone should be living a satisfied life if everyone cooperated. Instead there are billions of people in poverty, global warming, and the imminent threat of nuclear war. Leaders are willing to destroy the earth rather than having the other guy win. This is not rational. Rational computations in the neocortex can’t explain this. The real problem is the lower brain that generates hate, suspicion, fear, jealousy, pride, and so forth.

Put 10 computers on an island, and assume there are enough resources for everyone. The computers will logically divide the resources between them, since it is known that this way everyone will survive. Put 10 people on the same island. They will become suspicious, jealous and fearful, and end up killing each other. Eventually one person will dominate. This is the effect of the reptilian and mammalian brains.

The feelings and emotions are the deep part where all the problems lie. Computers are just manipulating bits of energy and have no malice. They don't hate, are not jealous, have no fear. They also don't have the positive parts, like love and compassion.

One key point to remember about computers is that they still don’t have emotions and can’t feel. At the most basic level, they are just manipulating bits of electrical charge. The human brain evolved in three stages: the reptilian brain evolved off the brain stem, followed by the mammalian brain which has emotions, followed by the neo cortex which thinks. The computers at their most sophisticated level can only simulate computations done by the neo cortex. What causes humans problems are the lower parts of the brain which can feel and have emotions. The feeling of self survival comes from these parts of the brains, along with fight or flight which is reptilian. If human beings only had a neocortex, we would think like a computer and there would be no wars or other problems. At best, AI can only simulate what is given to it by its human programmer. Thus a robot can be programmed to kill, but the evil intent is in the human that programmed the robot. The robot still is only processing ones and zeros at an electrical level. If researchers ever figure out how to create versions of the reptilian and mammalian brains, then we will have an AI device which can form an evil intent. The most immediate impact of the current AI technology is that it is able to take advantage of big data. It makes possible a surveillance state and authoritarian rule over mass populations. It magnifies the power of those who have access to it. Will this increase inequality ? Will it create an elite class and everyone else?

I have tried Chatgpt for a while, and I have been impressed by how it seems to understand language. Even when I give it long complex sentences, it comes up with a good response. So, I was wondering whether they have solved the natural language understanding part of AI. It seems to pass the Turing test. Then I asked Chatgpt: Joe: Do you understand language? Chatgpt: As an AI language model, I can understand language to a certain extent. I am trained on a massive corpus of written text, which has allowed me to learn the patterns and relationships between words, phrases, and sentences. This means that I can recognize and process words and sentences based on the patterns and structures I've learned. However, it's important to note that I don't truly "understand" language in the way that humans do. I don't have consciousness, emotions, or subjective experiences, and I don't have a personal history or cultural background that influences my understanding of language. Instead, I rely on statistical patterns and relationships in language to generate responses. This means that my responses may sometimes seem out of context or illogical, especially when dealing with ambiguous or complex language. Overall, while I can understand language to a certain extent, my understanding is based on statistical patterns rather than true comprehension. So, according to Chatgpt, it doesn't have a model of understanding. This is still a very long way from a computer that can think. However, it is a genuine advance in computer applications.

The military AI will have to be programmed for survival to be able to function in a battlefield environment. And, of course, it will be programmed to kill.

“The Development of a Society Can Never Be Subject to Rational Human Control” Theodore John Kaczynski. Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (Kindle Locations 186-187). Fitch & Madison. Kindle Edition.