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Why human intelligence is failing - and what still matters.
Today, I read an article by an American advertising guru, who believes 20 to 30% of jobs will be automated soon, and humans should focus on developing four qualities: intuition, insight, imagination, and interaction. Intelligence isn’t included in the list because AI is rapidly making IQ type intelligence (pattern recognition, analysis, and synthesis) less scarce. Some call this the “intelligence curse" because as humans we are potentially becoming less essential to GDP gr
Aug 53 min read
What would you do in a disaster? 4.5 options and the multiple uses of dandelions. 🌼
I care less. We're not very good at predicting reality, but it's often the best we can do with the brains we have. Our brains are projectors, coupled through the body with the environment in an entangled, approximate, constantly changing relationship. It's very hard to directly grasp full reality - it would be overwhelming. That's why we have senses, filters, and boundaries. Our system can only take in so much - unless trained. So evolution has given us heuristics and instinc
Jul 294 min read
I Care Less: post-retreat reflections on equanimity.
I care less. Since this year's summer silent meditation retreat - and after last year's too - I've come away with a sense of reduced entanglement with the world. In Buddhism it's called nibbida or disenchantment: the byproduct of experiencing more inner calm and joy, and the realisation that nothing external - not a career, not a relationship, not any lifestyle - can permanently provide what we long for: a sense of peace, freedom, fulfilment, wholeness. It can be tough for a
Jul 222 min read
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