Alice Rose, PhD AI is lying to you in two ways. First it fools you by pretending to be present and to be listening to you. By “present” I mean conscious like an attentive human can be when s/he interacts with you. Of course we all know that AI isn’t conscious, but we are being groomed to accept … Read more
The effort to “Kill the Universities” “The increasing reliance on AI tools is linked to a decline in critical thinking and cognitive skills, particularly among younger users. Studies suggest that as people offload cognitive tasks to AI, their ability to engage in reflective problem-solving diminishes.” – Live Science I deliberately belong to a right wing … Read more
A Scary Experience with AI on a Mortgage Payoff AI stopped my last payment on a mortgage I had had for 30 years. OK. That was a good move. The amount normally paid was wrong for the last payment but since all my payments were on automatic, it took a while for me to find … Read more
My doctor gave me an absurd “living will” to sign that said “I want people to be cheery around me and, essentially, put on a happy face when I am dying.” WHAT? Don’t they care that they are losing me? Do we have to have a happy death followed by a celebration of life funeral … Read more
I have purposely been in a Republican intellectual group for 4 years. We have formed lasting friendships that I am grateful for and that I value as a great benefit to my life. They are physicians, scientists, and thinking people. The brain power is unmatched as well as “thinking outside the box”. However, our political … Read more
The Dems are bringing us to the brink of Fascism by clinging to their candidate after the disastrous debate of July 27. Now they are making noises that this was just one bad day for Biden, but we have never had anything like this happen in a debate. An idiot can distinguish from “one bad … Read more
Secular fundamentalism is being pounded into American consciousness, and I believe it is from outside sources, experts on propaganda, like China or Russia. One characteristic of expert or elite propaganda is you do not know you are being subjected to it. The purpose is to divide this country into “armed camps” pitted against each other. … Read more
My upcoming book, Redeeming Christianity, (soon to be published by Bilbo Books) contains these quotes on skepticism by Paramahansa Yogananda. Useful principles for thinking… “There are two kinds of doubt: destructive and constructive. Destructive doubt is habitual skepticism. Men who cultivate that attitude disbelieve blindly; they shun the work of impartial investigation. Skepticism is a … Read more
The digital world is so alluring. It can leave us breathless, invoke love and even bring us to ourselves when it moves us to tears. But still it is not real when our emotions tell us it is real. We feel it is interacting with us. Our emotions tell us it is. But it is … Read more
I am an anti-Trump Democrat but very early in the pandemic I became extremely alarmed about the vaccine. I have a background in science and what I was frantically reading every day, 9 hours a day, did not look good at all. I was in a group of scientists, doctors and an actuary which read … Read more